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  • THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW
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    THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW
    CORY FRANKLIN
    A physician discusses topics from robot dentistry to TV doctors to epidemics past and future: “A book you should make an appointment with.” —The Philadelphia Tribune   Is it smart to skip your annual physical? Should you put your trust in medical research? Is “low T” an actual disease?   This book examines these questions and others you’ve wondered about, in over fifty essays o...

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  • THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW
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    THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW
    CORY FRANKLIN
    A physician discusses topics from robot dentistry to TV doctors to epidemics past and future: “A book you should make an appointment with.” —The Philadelphia Tribune   Is it smart to skip your annual physical? Should you put your trust in medical research? Is “low T” an actual disease?   This book examines these questions and others you’ve wondered about, in over fifty essays o...

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  • ACCIDENTAL ANARCHIST
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    ACCIDENTAL ANARCHIST
    WALTER ROTH / JOE KRAUS
    It was a bitter cold morning in March, 1908. A nineteen-year-old Jewish immigrant traversed the confusing and unfamiliar streets of Chicago–a one-and-a-half-hour-long journey–from his ghetto home on Washburne Avenue to the luxurious Lincoln Place residence of Police Chief George Shippy. He arrived at 9 a.m. Within minutes after knocking on the front door, Lazarus Averbuch lay d...

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  • AVENGERS AND DEFENDERS
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    AVENGERS AND DEFENDERS
    WALTER ROTH
    Walter Roth delves deep into the archives of Chicago’s Jewish past, and provides a new collection of illuminating essays on its various aspects. Booklist said of his previous collection, Looking Backward: True Stories from Chicago’s Jewish Past, ‘Roth writes about the well-known and the not-so-well-known, bringing to life the peOut of Printle, events and institutions that shape...

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  • CUTTER'S ISLAND
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    CUTTER'S ISLAND
    VINCENT PANELLA
    Most of us are familiar with the Caesar of Shakespeare and Shaw. We know him primarily as the manipulative warlord and statesman. But what about the Caesar of Plutarch and Suetonius – historians who dealt with Caesar as a young man? Here, in this stunning novel, written with all the excitement and eloquence of an epic poem, we find Caesar at the age of twenty-five captured by p...

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  • ALPANA POURS
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    ALPANA POURS
    ALPANA SINGH
    “A primer on everything the wine-phobic woman needs to know . . . Probably the only wine book out there that could be excerpted in Cosmo.” —Chicago Reader   Alpana Singh is uniquely qualified to talk about wine, contemporary women and relationships. At age twenty-six, she became the youngest woman to be inducted into the world’s most exclusive sommelier organization, the Court ...

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  • LOOKING BACKWARD
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    LOOKING BACKWARD
    WALTER ROTH
    The history of Jews in Chicago is a fascinating, complex and largely unknown story. Thanks to the unstinting efforts of Walter Roth, much of this history has been preserved. Now, for the first time, this material has been distilled into a single volume, chronicling events and people from the late nineteenth century to the end of World War II. There are six broad themes, each of...

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  • NOTES FROM NETHERS
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    NOTES FROM NETHERS
    SANDRA LEE EUGSTER
    This memoir of being raised on a commune in the late 1960s and early 1970s is “a fascinating, evenhanded view of counterculture life” (Booklist). Sandra Eugster’s idealistic, headstrong mother created a commune in rural Virginia that came to be known as Nethers, and it was here that Sandra spent much of her childhood. This unique, honest memoir strives to accurately depict comm...

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  • A THEORY OF GREAT MEN
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    A THEORY OF GREAT MEN
    DANIEL GREENSTONE
    A Theory of Great Men is the humorous, fast-paced story of an irreverent, flawed man who has a talent for accumulating both proteges and enemies.  George Cavaliere, a veteran high school history teacher, has many attributes of a brilliant educator. He's a vibrant classroom performance artist, his colleagues respect his knowledge of history, and he's popular with many students. ...

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  • NIBBLE & KUHN
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    NIBBLE & KUHN
    DAVID SCHMAHMANN
    A young lawyer in a pretentious law firm loves a girl that he can't have and is forced to try a major case that he can't win, and must do both under the critical scrutiny of senior lawyers who will soon decide whether to promote him to partnership. ...

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  • EMPIRE SETTINGS
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    EMPIRE SETTINGS
    DAVID SCHMAHMANN
    Danny Divin is a young white man in South Africa who enters into an illicit romance with a mixed race schoolgirl, the daughter of a black domestic servant. When social constraints force Danny to end the romance, he travels to America with the hOut of Printes of starting a new life. There he meets Tesseba, a curious and trusting artist who takes him in and marries him to save hi...

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  • QUEEN ELIZABETH I
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    QUEEN ELIZABETH I
    J.E. NEALE
    A scholarly and immensely readable, award-winning biography of the monarch known as the “Virgin Queen.” This has long been considered the classic biography of the great Tudor Queen. It is one of the first works of history to receive both scholarly and popular acclaim—testimony, indeed, to both its authority and readability. It has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Bio...

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  • FAREWELL TO DEJLA
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    FAREWELL TO DEJLA
    TOVA MURAD SADKA
    Cleverly elucidating the somber diaspora of Iraqi Jews, this collection of stories explores the little-publicized migration of a people escaping oppression, only to be confronted with the difficult realities of new nations and customs. Sadka's work spans Iraq, Israel and the U.S. with beautiful, laconic prose, magnifying the everyday adversity of immigrants. These moving, impre...

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  • A SHIP IN THE HARBOR
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    A SHIP IN THE HARBOR
    JULIAN PADOWICZ
    In this powerful and absorbing sequel to Mother and Me: Escape from Warsaw 1939 (ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Autobiography 2006), the author recalls his flight from the Nazis in Hungary as an 8-year-old boy with his resourceful and determined mother, Barbara. ...

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  • PECULIAR PEOPLE
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    PECULIAR PEOPLE
    AUGUSTUS HARE
    These days hardly anyone remembers Augustus John Curthbert Hare (1834-1903). But in his prime, the late Victorian age, his name was on the lips of anyone who mattered. He was a travel writer, a storyteller and a memoirist of the first order, and his work is a fascinating record of a lost way of life amongst the strangest upper classes of English society. ...

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  • THE HONEYWOOD SETTLEMENT
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    THE HONEYWOOD SETTLEMENT
    H.B. CRESWELL
    A sequel to The Honeywood File (originally published in 1929, and reissued by Academy Chicago in 2000), it takes the form of an epistolary novel. Some of the great comic characters inhabit the pages of this book, and like all comedy, they contain more than a grain of truth. The book tells, in the form of letters gleaned from an architect's files, the excitments and and disaster...

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  • APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN GIRL
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    APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN GIRL
    RHODA BAILEY WARREN
    One woman’s “affecting and well-written” memoir of growing up with twelve siblings in rural Kentucky, and returning as an adult (Kirkus Reviews). Appalachian Mountain Girl is a sensitive and beautifully written autobiographical account of a childhood in the coalmine district of Depression-era Kentucky. With humor and warmth—but without sentimentality—Rhoda Warren recounts the l...

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  • IRELAND
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    IRELAND
    PAUL JOHNSON
    From the New York Times–bestselling author of Intellectuals: “All the highlights of Irish history . . . useful and informative.” —Irish Echo Drawing from a wealth of historical and scholarly sources, Paul Johnson, acclaimed for such works as A History of the Jews and A History of Christianity, traces the important social, religious, and political development of Ireland’s strugg...

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  • MURDER AT THE MOVIES
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    MURDER AT THE MOVIES
    A.E. EDDENDEN
    Once more we meet the inimitable Inspector Albert V. Tretheway and his colleague, Constable Jonathan (Jake) Small, in the Canadian city of Fort York in 1939. Pranks begin when Tretheway's beloved bowler hat disappears. Three weeks later Tretheway and Jake investigate a nervous neighbor's report about an anonymous phone tip that her long-dead husband is in her garage. They find ...

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  • BLUE TROUT AND BLACK TRUFFLES
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    BLUE TROUT AND BLACK TRUFFLES
    JOSEPH WECHSBERG
    There were, and still are, great restaurants all over Europe, but the greater part of Blue Trout and Black Truffles is devoted to the eatingplaces and vineyards of France. It is a vicarious experience to read about the culinary wonders of the notable establishments of another era that have become the last epicurean haven in this materialistic, mechanized world of fastfood chain...

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  • THE CHILDREN'S SHAKESPEARE
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    THE CHILDREN'S SHAKESPEARE
    EDITH NESBIT
    The acclaimed children’s author shares vibrant retellings of the Bard’s timeless tales in this classic, illustrated collection for young readers.   As both a writer and a mother, E. Nesbit wanted an engaging way to share the great works of Shakespeare with children. In The Children’s Shakespeare, she adapted eleven of his plays—including Hamlet, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night...

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  • AESTHETES AND DECADENTS OF THE 1890S
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    AESTHETES AND DECADENTS OF THE 1890S
    KARL BECKSON
    The Aesthetic and Decadent Movement of the late 19th century spawned the idea of "Art for Art's Sake," challenged aesthetic standards and shocked the bourgeosie. From Walter Pater's study, "The Renaissance to Salome, the truly decadent collaboration between Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, Karl Beckson has chosen a full spectrum of works that chronicle the British artistic ach...

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  • WHEN THE DIAMONDS WERE GONE
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    WHEN THE DIAMONDS WERE GONE
    JULIAN PADOWICZ
    After a grueling and dramatic escape from occupied Poland in 1939, at age eight, Julian and his mother arrive in America in 1941 with big plans. Julian's beautiful, former socialite mother Barbara wants to write a memoir and regain her former social position. Julian just wants to fit his war-damaged psyche into the American way of life. As Barbara climbs her social ladder, she ...

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  • ALONE ON THE SHIELD
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    ALONE ON THE SHIELD
    KIRK LANDERS
    Former lovers driven apart by the Vietnam War reunite decades later in the Canadian wilderness: “Absorbing from beginning to end . . . a page-turner.” —Booklist Eric Hoffer Book Award Honorable Mention I hope you get drafted and you go to Vietnam and you get shot and you die there! Those words, spoken in the anger of youth, marked the end of the torrid 1960s college romance of ...

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  • FIRE ANGELS
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    FIRE ANGELS
    ELIZABETH KERN
    This “heartbreakingly engrossing” novel explores the true events surrounding the Our Lady of the Angels school fire in 1958 Chicago (Foreword Reviews). Three weeks before Christmas, on December 1, 1958, one of the most horrific fires in American history broke out at Our Lady of the Angels elementary school in Chicago, claiming the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns. Fi...

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  • THE INSURRECTIONIST
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    THE INSURRECTIONIST
    HERB KARL
    The Insurrectionist is a captivating historical novel that follows the militant abolitionist John Brown from his involvement in Bleeding Kansas to the invasion of Harpers Ferry and the dramatic conclusion of his subsequent trial. Herb Karl carefully blends historical detail with dramatic personal descriptions to reveal critical episodes in Brown's life, illuminating his charact...

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  • MIGUEL'S GIFT
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    MIGUEL'S GIFT
    BRUCE KADING
    In late 1980s Chicago, Nick Hayden, a rookie INS field agent, is eager to make his mark in the unit responsible for picking up illegal immigrants around the city. Hayden excels, whether he's raiding factories or busting Colombian drug dealers. Seen as a rising star by supervisors, over time the green, idealistic Hayden evolves into what one veteran agent terms a "gladiator," an...

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  • THE IRON GATES OF SANTO TOMAS
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    THE IRON GATES OF SANTO TOMAS
    EMILY VAN SICKLE
    When Manila fell to the Japanese in January, 1942, the Van Sickles were among the enemy aliens taken by the victors to the campus of Manila's University of Santo Tomas, where they were to remain unwilling "guests" for more than three years. This is a fascinating, detailed and insightful account of life in a civilian concentration camp as gripping and readable as any tale of adv...

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