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Polydoros, Aden

Summary: "Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he'll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POL

Patterson, James

Summary: "To Detective Billy Harney, the newest member of Chicago PD's elite strike force--Special Operations Section-- getting shot in the head, stalked by a state's attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is all part of breaking a case. So when a drive-by shooting on the Chicago's west side turns political, he leads the way to a quick solve. But Harney's instincts--his father was once chief...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC PAT

Paretsky, Sara

Summary: For V. I. Warshawski, saving a friend's nephew from a murder arrest turns into a tangle with the Russian mob, ISIS backers, and shady thieves, proving the only one you can trust is yourself.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PAR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PAR

Sánchez, Erika L.

Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018

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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH SAN

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH SAN

Ahmed, Samira

Summary: After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHM

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC AHM

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Summary: Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CLI

Phillips, Susan Elizabeth

Summary: Thaddeus Walker Bowman Owens, backup quarterback for the Chicago Stars, is a man with a low tolerance for divas. Oliva Shore, international opera superstar, has a monumental grudge against the egotistical, lowbrow jock she's stuck with for a nationwide tour promoting a luxury watch brand. When threatening letters, haunting photographs, and a series of dangerous encounters complicate their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PHI

Patterson, James

Summary: Launching an investigation of his own when his instincts tell him that more is behind a political shooting on Chicago's west side, SOS Detective Billy Harney uncovers a spate of murders connected to his troubled past.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAT

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PAT

Margolin, Phillip

Summary: "Joe Lattimore, homeless and trying desperately to provide for his young family, agrees to fight in a no-holds-barred fight, only to have his opponent die. Lattimore now finds himself at the mercy of the fight's organizers who blackmail him into burglarizing a house. When he breaks in he finds a murdered woman on the floor-- and the police have received an anonymous tip naming him for the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Margolin 2021

Paretsky, Sara

Summary: Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy network of international criminals. As V.I. investigates, the detective soon finds herself tangling with the Russian mob, ISIS backers, and a shady network of stock scams and stolen art that stretches from Chicago to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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Rajurkar, Anuradha D.

Summary: Rani Kelkar never lied to her parents-- until she meets Oliver. The same qualities that draw her in-- his tattoos, his charisma, his passion for art-- make him her mother's worst nightmare. When Oliver's troubled home life unravels, he starts to ask more of Rani than she knows how to give. When a twist of fate leads Rani from Evanston, Illinois to Pune, India for a summer, she has a reckoning...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RAJ

Janovsky, Timothy

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Wren Roland has never been kissed, let alone been in love, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic on the eve of his twenty-first birthday, he sends emails to all the boys he (ahem) loved before he came out. He didn't expect a response from Derick Haverford, Wren's #1 pre-coming-out-crush...but now that they're working together at their hometown's vintage...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2022

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Monroe, Mary

Summary: "With mysterious serial murders putting peaceful Lexington, Alabama, on edge, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins' steadfast calm and devotion to each other reassures everyone that faith will see them through. But Jessie and Hubert have paid a terrible hidden cost to maintain their devout facade and respectable standing. Nothing can allay the guilt they feel--or stop the growing distrust between them ..."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MON

Noble, Trinka Hakes

Summary: "An original legend explaining the origin of sea glass, those small pieces of colored glass found and collected on beaches. This tale attributes it to the tears of mermaids, weeping for lives lost at sea"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2016

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Newson, Rasheed

Summary: "A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story, following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s NYC, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl 'Trey' Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC NEW

Cline, Emma

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLI
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

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