Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life. Left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and a hard-charging assistant district attorney out for blood, Billy miraculously survives. But he remembers nothing about the events leading up to the shootout. Charged with...
2) Hardball
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hired to track down a man who has been missing for forty years, V.I. Warshawski inadvertently unearths old skeletons from Chicago's history and her own family, a situation marked by a young cousin she has never met and the untimely death of a nun.
3) Unspoken
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Graham's never spoken about her kidnapping. Sixteen years later, she's back in Chicago and she is the only one who knows the truth. But, even now, can she risk sharing it?"--Provided by publisher.
4) The jungle
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
The horrifying conditions of the Chicago stockyards are revealed through this narrative of a young immigrant's struggles in America.
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Wizard Harry Dresden's faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. It comes with the territory when you're the only professional wizard in the Chicago-area phone book. But in all Harry's years of supernatural sleuthing, he's never faced anything like this: the spirit world has gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble--and not just of the door-slamming, boo-shouting...
7) Brush back
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly agreeing to help when an old boyfriend asks her to exonerate his mother for the murder of his sister, V.I. Warshawski is forced to confront ugly politics and violent elements in her hometown.
Author
Series
Chicago Stars volume 6
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anabelle Granger endeavors to promote her grandmother's matchmaking business by landing sports agent Heath Champion as a client, an effort that is challenged by Heath's arrogant nature and Annabelle's own unexpected feelings.
10) Storm front
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
A modern-day mage and consultant to the police finds his stale life suddenly enlivened by the presence of a rival in the black arts.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"Chicago, 1944: twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, the California concentration camp where they have been "interned" by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled in Chicago, where Aki's older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier as a forerunner of the...
12) The hidden man
Author
Series
Jason Kolarich novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"A tale rich in color, character, and vivid historical detail, When we were strangers chronicles the tumultuous life journey of a young immigrant seamstress, as she travels from her isolated Italian mountain village through the dark corners of late nineteenth century America."--from publisher's description.
Author
Series
Hot in Chicago novels volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Public relations specialist Kinsey Taylor is given the assignment of rehabilitating the reputation of Chicago's Engine Company 6. Firefighter Luke Almeida hates the idea of running around half-naked for the Men on Fire calendar scheme cooked up by Kinsey. But if he's going to be driven mad by this media circus, he's going to drive Kinsey crazy too--for him.
Author
Series
Hot in Chicago novels volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As the only female firefighter at Engine Company 6, Alexandra Dempsey gets it from all sides: the male coworkers who think she can't do the job, the wives and girlfriends who see her as a threat to their firefighter men, and her overprotective foster brothers who want to shelter their baby sister at all costs. So when she single-handedly saves the life of Eli Cooper, Chicago's devastatingly handsome mayor, she assumes the respect she's longed for...
Author
Series
Chicagoland vampires volume 7
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
"At the tender age of twenty-seven, Merit became a sword-wielding vampire. Since then, she's become the protector of her House, watched Chicago nearly burn to the ground, and seen her Master fall and rise. Now she'll see her mettle--and her metal--tested like never before. It starts when two Rogues vanish without a trace. Someone is targeting Chicago's vampires, and anyone could be next. With their House in peril, Merit and her Master, centuries-old...
Author
Series
Chicagoland vampires volume 9
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Since Merit was turned into a vampire and became the protector of Chicago's Cadogan House, it's been a wild ride. She and Master vampire Ethan Sullivan have helped make Cadogan's vampires the strongest in North America, and forged ties with paranormal folk of all breeds and creeds, living or dead--or both. But now those alliances are about to be tested. A strange and twisted magic has ripped through the North American Central Pack, and Merit's closest...
Author
Series
Chicagoland vampires volume 8
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Merit has been a vampire for only a short while, but she's already seen a lifetime's worth of trouble. She and her Master, centuries-old Ethan Sullivan, have risked their lives time and again to save the city they love. But not all of Chicago is loving them back. Anti-vampire riots are erupting all over town, striking vampires where it hurts the most. A splinter group armed with Molotov cocktails and deep-seated hate is intent on clearing the fanged...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"In this haunting, lyrical fantasy set in 1930s Chicago, a talented ballerina finds herself torn between her dreams and her desires when she's pursued by a secretive patron who may be more than he seems. Grace Dragotta has always wanted to be a ballerina, ever since she first peeped through the windows of the Near North Ballet Company. So when Grace is orphaned, she chooses the ballet as her home, imagining herself forever ensconced in a transcendent...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request