Chicago wizard Harry Dresden is enjoying booming business, but he begins to wish things would slow down just a bit when he becomes involved in a duel with a vampire, finds himself the target of professional hit men, and is sought by police to identify a corpse--all the while dealing with the return of his semi-vampiric ex-girlfriend.
In 1941 Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby, a Polish-American girl from the slums, leaves her meat-packing plant job to be a "taxi" dancer, paid a dime apiece to dance with men in a dance hall, and becomes entangled with the mob.
A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.
The death of Leah's beloved older brother, and her parents' reactions to the tragedy, raise questions for Leah about the meaning of family and about her place in her own.
Nineteen-year-old Wilson Ravan is caught between his father's struggle to defeat union organizers at his printing business, yellow journalism at the newspaper where he has a summer job, routine corruption in city government, and the secret past of a renowned psychiatrist whose daughter Wilson happens to be in love with.
Traces the life of Michelle Obama, focusing on her personal and professional accomplishments, approach to the role of First Lady and marriage to President Barack Obama.
A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.
