Author: Norbert Blei
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780944024102
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This collection of true-life tales evokes a city of gritty and colorful neighborhoods and people. With stories from famous Chicagoans like Mike Royko and Studs Terkel and from everyday people like Petros, the owner of a restaurant in Greek Town, Chi Town is Norbert Blei's love letter to the city that has meant so much to him. Book jacket.
Chi Town
Author: Norbert Blei
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780944024102
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This collection of true-life tales evokes a city of gritty and colorful neighborhoods and people. With stories from famous Chicagoans like Mike Royko and Studs Terkel and from everyday people like Petros, the owner of a restaurant in Greek Town, Chi Town is Norbert Blei's love letter to the city that has meant so much to him. Book jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780944024102
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This collection of true-life tales evokes a city of gritty and colorful neighborhoods and people. With stories from famous Chicagoans like Mike Royko and Studs Terkel and from everyday people like Petros, the owner of a restaurant in Greek Town, Chi Town is Norbert Blei's love letter to the city that has meant so much to him. Book jacket.
Chi-Town
Author: William E. Wilson
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480898740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Alfonso Lewis goes by the name of “Sunshine.” After serving twelve years in Illinois State Prison on drug related charges, he is released and returns to the south side of Chicago to pick up where he left off. White Chocolate, Sunshine’s partner in the illicit drug trade, kept things operating while Sunshine was away, but now, it’s back to business as usual. While on a trip to the Grand Caymans, Sunshine and White Chocolate meet Leroy and Shirley Smith. The unassuming Smiths just happen to be known transporters who move drugs from Columbia to the United States. Things are looking up—until authorities search the Smiths’ hotel and find an illegal stash of drugs. The Smiths are arrested, and Sunshine and White Chocolate’s lives are forever altered. Chi-Town is a gritty tale of power, corruption, and suspense driven by a compelling sense of realism. Chicago has been a place of unrest and turmoil since its inception. Now, take a fictionalized look into its cruel lawlessness through the eyes of a criminal fighting to make his way.
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480898740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Alfonso Lewis goes by the name of “Sunshine.” After serving twelve years in Illinois State Prison on drug related charges, he is released and returns to the south side of Chicago to pick up where he left off. White Chocolate, Sunshine’s partner in the illicit drug trade, kept things operating while Sunshine was away, but now, it’s back to business as usual. While on a trip to the Grand Caymans, Sunshine and White Chocolate meet Leroy and Shirley Smith. The unassuming Smiths just happen to be known transporters who move drugs from Columbia to the United States. Things are looking up—until authorities search the Smiths’ hotel and find an illegal stash of drugs. The Smiths are arrested, and Sunshine and White Chocolate’s lives are forever altered. Chi-Town is a gritty tale of power, corruption, and suspense driven by a compelling sense of realism. Chicago has been a place of unrest and turmoil since its inception. Now, take a fictionalized look into its cruel lawlessness through the eyes of a criminal fighting to make his way.
Chi Town
Author: Norbert Blei
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810120402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A rollicking tour of Chicago, courtesy of the city's legends and everymen.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810120402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A rollicking tour of Chicago, courtesy of the city's legends and everymen.
The Town
Author: Shaun Prescott
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374719268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
"A powerfully doomy debut" (The Guardian), Shaun Prescott’s The Town is a novel of a rural Australian community besieged by modern day anxieties and threatened by a supernatural force seeking to consume the dying town. This is Australia, an unnamed, dead-end town in the heart of the outback—a desolate place of gas stations, fast-food franchises, and labyrinthine streets: flat and nearly abandoned. When a young writer arrives to research just such depressing middles-of-nowhere as they are choked into oblivion, he finds something more sinister than economic depression: the ghost towns of Australia appear to be literally disappearing. An epidemic of mysterious holes is threatening his new home’s very existence, and this discovery plunges the researcher into an abyss of weirdness from which he may never escape. Dark, slippery and unsettling, Shaun Prescott’s debut resurrects the existential novel for the age of sprawl and blight, excavates a nation’s buried history of colonial genocide, and tells a love story that asks if outsiders can ever truly belong anywhere. The result is a disquieting classic that vibrates with an occult power.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374719268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
"A powerfully doomy debut" (The Guardian), Shaun Prescott’s The Town is a novel of a rural Australian community besieged by modern day anxieties and threatened by a supernatural force seeking to consume the dying town. This is Australia, an unnamed, dead-end town in the heart of the outback—a desolate place of gas stations, fast-food franchises, and labyrinthine streets: flat and nearly abandoned. When a young writer arrives to research just such depressing middles-of-nowhere as they are choked into oblivion, he finds something more sinister than economic depression: the ghost towns of Australia appear to be literally disappearing. An epidemic of mysterious holes is threatening his new home’s very existence, and this discovery plunges the researcher into an abyss of weirdness from which he may never escape. Dark, slippery and unsettling, Shaun Prescott’s debut resurrects the existential novel for the age of sprawl and blight, excavates a nation’s buried history of colonial genocide, and tells a love story that asks if outsiders can ever truly belong anywhere. The result is a disquieting classic that vibrates with an occult power.
Chi-Town Coyote
Author: Heather Augustyn
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411633652
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The story of how one coyote saved Chicago's most treasured possession.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411633652
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The story of how one coyote saved Chicago's most treasured possession.
Shy-Town Girls
Author: Mg Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988347137
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Four Shy Girls, Four Big Dreams, One Awesome City Book 1 in the Shy-Town Girls Quartet Series When beautiful, but shy 24-year-old, Bobbie Bertucci, arrives at her new digs, an elegant brownstone in Chicago's historic Gold Coast neighborhood, she has no idea what her new life will be like. Between balancing her job as a modeling agent and escaping a bad relationship, she's hit rock bottom. But things change when she moves into the same building as her close friend Meryl. Additionally, her two new twenty-something roommates, Ivy and Ella, help bring Bobbie out of her shell. Barbara, landlady and mother-hen of the house, watches out for the girls while sharing wisdom, sage advice, and guidance along better paths. Bobbie, Meryl, Ivy, and Ella, all variations of shy girls, brave the city of Chicago together, forming a powerful bond of friendship. Their nighttime roof deck conversations over glasses of wine instigate laughter and even some tears. Bobbie takes a bold step to redesign her life completely to ensure she doesn't fall into the romantic trap she fell into before. But there's a new suitor in the picture, and she will have to decide between an old flame or a new one, taking a risk, something hard for any girl--even harder for a shy girl.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988347137
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Four Shy Girls, Four Big Dreams, One Awesome City Book 1 in the Shy-Town Girls Quartet Series When beautiful, but shy 24-year-old, Bobbie Bertucci, arrives at her new digs, an elegant brownstone in Chicago's historic Gold Coast neighborhood, she has no idea what her new life will be like. Between balancing her job as a modeling agent and escaping a bad relationship, she's hit rock bottom. But things change when she moves into the same building as her close friend Meryl. Additionally, her two new twenty-something roommates, Ivy and Ella, help bring Bobbie out of her shell. Barbara, landlady and mother-hen of the house, watches out for the girls while sharing wisdom, sage advice, and guidance along better paths. Bobbie, Meryl, Ivy, and Ella, all variations of shy girls, brave the city of Chicago together, forming a powerful bond of friendship. Their nighttime roof deck conversations over glasses of wine instigate laughter and even some tears. Bobbie takes a bold step to redesign her life completely to ensure she doesn't fall into the romantic trap she fell into before. But there's a new suitor in the picture, and she will have to decide between an old flame or a new one, taking a risk, something hard for any girl--even harder for a shy girl.
Amazing Spider-Man By Nick Spencer Vol. 14
Author: Nick Spencer
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302938983
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Collects Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #66-69, Giant-Size Amazing Spider-Man: Chameleon Conspiracy (2021) #1. One of Spider-Man's deadliest and most deceptive enemies returns! The master of disguise known as the Chameleon is about to make the biggest play of his villainous career - and to get to the bottom of this conspiracy, Spidey will need to team up with his super-spy sister, Teresa! But with two sets of Parker luck working against them, will they stand a chance against the anarchic alliance the Chameleon has formed with the Foreigner, Chance and Jack O' Lantern? Prepare for an unpredictable, revelatory tale that fans of the web-slinger dare not miss as Nick Spencer's high-octane saga takes its next dramatic twist!
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302938983
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Collects Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #66-69, Giant-Size Amazing Spider-Man: Chameleon Conspiracy (2021) #1. One of Spider-Man's deadliest and most deceptive enemies returns! The master of disguise known as the Chameleon is about to make the biggest play of his villainous career - and to get to the bottom of this conspiracy, Spidey will need to team up with his super-spy sister, Teresa! But with two sets of Parker luck working against them, will they stand a chance against the anarchic alliance the Chameleon has formed with the Foreigner, Chance and Jack O' Lantern? Prepare for an unpredictable, revelatory tale that fans of the web-slinger dare not miss as Nick Spencer's high-octane saga takes its next dramatic twist!
The Sprawl
Author: Jason Diamond
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566895901
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties and these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566895901
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties and these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Vol. 2
Author: Tom Taylor
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 130251752X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Collects Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2019) #7-14. Has one of Spider-Man’s closest allies returned to his criminal beginnings? Aunt May is reopening the F.E.A.S.T. Center to help the homeless and needy of New York City! But things are rarely simple in the Marvel Universe — so it’s no surprise when F.E.A.S.T. and May’s new funding comes under attack by…the Prowler?! Can Spider-Man help bring Hobie Brown back to the side of the angels? Peter Parker has many skills, but he’s no Sherlock Holmes. So the world’s worst detective calls on his new ally, the Rumor, to help him uncover the truth! But what’s the Rumor’s secret history? And what does it all have to do with a villain who’s been secretly plaguing the MU since World War II?! Plus: The Fantastic Four guest star — and Mary Jane saves the day!
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 130251752X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Collects Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2019) #7-14. Has one of Spider-Man’s closest allies returned to his criminal beginnings? Aunt May is reopening the F.E.A.S.T. Center to help the homeless and needy of New York City! But things are rarely simple in the Marvel Universe — so it’s no surprise when F.E.A.S.T. and May’s new funding comes under attack by…the Prowler?! Can Spider-Man help bring Hobie Brown back to the side of the angels? Peter Parker has many skills, but he’s no Sherlock Holmes. So the world’s worst detective calls on his new ally, the Rumor, to help him uncover the truth! But what’s the Rumor’s secret history? And what does it all have to do with a villain who’s been secretly plaguing the MU since World War II?! Plus: The Fantastic Four guest star — and Mary Jane saves the day!
Shadow City
Author: Taran Khan
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9781784708023
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9781784708023
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description