chicago (ill.)

It's been a year since stepsiblings Eden Munro and Tyler Bruce have spoken to each other, but when Eden picks up and heads to Chicago for college, ultimately finding a new boyfriend, Tyler is determined to rekindle what they once had.

When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.

When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan wakes to find herself tied up in a small, dark, enclosed space and tries to think back over her most recent activities--accompanying the remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue, and battling an accusation of mishandling an autopsy--in an attempt to figure out where she is and who is responsible.

Megan's new friend Luna has a mystery for the Chicagoland Detective Agency to solve, who's been following her and stealing the notes for her science fair experiment about potions?.

Through archival photographs and informational text, highlights gangsters in Chicago during the 1920s and the politicians who allowed organized crime to thrive in the city.

When wealthy Chicago philanthropist Elliot Rosenzweig is accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, he hires attorney Catherine Lockhart to take his case, and to her he reveals his Polish families history involving an abandoned child named Otto Piatek.

Fifteen-year-old Seamus O'Grady thinks his life would be much better if he could just move to London like his punk-rock idol Johnny Rotten, and a horrible day that starts with his being late for school again and ends with his getting beat up by his brother, puts him on the path to realizing his goal.

"It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination, Chicago's corrupt political leaders fraternized with gangsters, and yellow journalism only contributed to the excesses. The frenzy of stock market gambling was rampant. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people (who should have known better) to invest as much as $30 million--upwards of $400 million today--in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama, close to the new Canal Zone. When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923, he vanished, and the Chicago state's attorney, a man whose lust for power equaled Leo's own lust for money, began an international manhunt that lasted almost a year. When finally apprehended, Leo was living a life of luxury in Nova Scotia under the assumed identity of a book dealer and literary critic. His mysterious death in a Chicago prison topped anything in his almost-too-bizarre-to-believe life. Empire of Deception is not only an incredibly rich and detailed account of a man and an era; it's a fascinating look at the methods of swindlers throughout history. Leo Koretz was the Bernie Madoff of his day, and Dean Jobb shows us that the dream of easy wealth is a timeless commodity"--Provided by publisher.

Told in alternating voices, Jodi and Todd's marriage has reached a violent dissolution due to jealousy, lies, and infidelity.