chicago (ill.)

Photographs and text, along with personal accounts of actual survivors tell the story of the great fire of 1871 in Chicago.

Presents Upton Sinclair's classic novel, which depicts the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young Lithuanian immigrant struggling in early-twentieth-century America, and includes a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, critical analyses, and other study tools.

Describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America.

Petra and Calder are drawn into another mystery when unexplained accidents and ghostly happenings occur in Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House.

Supernatural sleuth Harry Dresden, the only professional wizard in the Chicago area telephone book, finds himself with a major problem on his hands when something or someone decides to stir up the usually mild-mannnered ghosts that inhabit the spirit world.

"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--Provided by publisher.

". . . the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in love after forty years--match wits, harbor grudges,and recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they've built"--Provided by publisher.

"When aspiring performer Madelaine finds a poem that helps her finish a song she is writing, she decides to find the author in hopes of starting a collaboration."--Provided by publisher.

A novel of about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago, a neighborhood of harsh realities and harsh beauty.

"Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father"--Provided by publisher.