Catalog Search Results
21) Breakdown
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 15
Thorndike Press large print basic
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 15
Thorndike Press large print basic
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 15
Language
English
Description
When the teenage daughters of some of Chicago's most influential families discover the body of a ritually murdered victim, investigator Warshawski explores theories that the killing is linked to a hostile media campaign against a senatorial candidate or a wealthy patriarch's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.
22) Guardian angel
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
“The best of the Warshawski novels!”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
Underneath V. I. Warshawski’s wisecracking P.I. exterior lies a real pushover. When elderly neighbor Mr. Contreras asks her to look into a fellow union retiree’s sudden disappearance, she says “yes” from her heart, not her head. And when a crotchety eighty-year-old dog owner starts wrangling with a Yuppie-Come-Lately...
Underneath V. I. Warshawski’s wisecracking P.I. exterior lies a real pushover. When elderly neighbor Mr. Contreras asks her to look into a fellow union retiree’s sudden disappearance, she says “yes” from her heart, not her head. And when a crotchety eighty-year-old dog owner starts wrangling with a Yuppie-Come-Lately...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boone Drake has it made. He's a young cop rising rapidly through the ranks of the Chicago Police Department. He has a beautiful wife and a young son, a nice starter house, a great partner, and a career plan that should land him in the Organized Crime Division within five years. Everything is going right. Until everything goes horribly, terribly wrong. His personal life destroyed and his career and future in jeopardy, Boone buries himself in guilt...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Boone Drake has successfully conducted an operation to bring down street gangs and crime bosses. A leak somewhere in the Chicago PD, however, threatens the life of his key witness, and Drake must figure out who the betrayer is before it's too late.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Conflating her own childhood experiences with those of a celebrated Wagnerian soprano of her day, Willa Cather here introduces Thea Kronborg, a Scandinavian-American singer who rises from a one-story town in Colorado to the Metropolitan Opera House. Along the way she learns her own capacity for the rigorous demands of artistic excellence, and how few of her colleagues are willing to sacrifice ordinary vanities for exacting professional standards....
26) The black book
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Brushstroke Legacy by Gold Angel-winning author Lauraine Snelling highlights a modern woman's journey of self-discovery. When Chicago native Ragni Claussen grudgingly agrees to take her sullen niece with her to spruce up the family's old North Dakota cabin, she uncovers long-hidden secrets about how her great-grandmother, in 1903, learned to live and paint and love in this very place.
28) Stand by me
Author
Series
SouledOut sisters volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Avis Douglass and her husband, Peter, have dreamed of a two-year mission to South Africa. But when the economy crashes, they're suddenly faced with the real possibility of bankruptcy. When one of the co-pastors of SouledOut Community Church passes away suddenly, Avis and Peter are asked to step in and assist with the leadership of the church in the interim.
29) The harvester
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a young man who lives by collecting and selling medicinal herbs he has learned to harvest from the woods and how he uses this knowledge to free the womman he loves from oppression in Chicago. In volume II, he has saved and married the woman of his dreams, but she does not yet love him.
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 12
Language
English
Description
“A can’t-miss entry in one of the best urban-fantasy series currently being published.”—Booklist (starred review)
As Chicago’s only professional wizard, Harry Dresden has faced demons, vampires, werewolves, dark sorcerers, and hosts of horrors from beyond the mortal realm. But nothing could have prepared him for this…
Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry's Dresden’s lover—until...
As Chicago’s only professional wizard, Harry Dresden has faced demons, vampires, werewolves, dark sorcerers, and hosts of horrors from beyond the mortal realm. But nothing could have prepared him for this…
Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry's Dresden’s lover—until...
32) Where do I go?
Author
Series
Yada Yada House of Hope volume 1
Language
English
Description
Gabby Fairbanks moves with her family to Chicago, where she finds a fulfilling job working at a women's shelter, but when her husband threatens her with divorce unless she quits, Gabby must call on her faith to get her through a difficult time.
33) The real mother
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Judith Michael is beloved around the world for powerful stories of love and family. Now this renowned author returns with a richly emotional tale of the many kinds of love and the collision of good and evil that threatens to tear a family apart.
Sara Elliott has been forced to give up the life she's dreamed of to return home to Chicago and take charge of her sisters and brother. She finds a job and settles into the house she grew up in, building...
Author
Series
O'Malley series (Dee Henderson) volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sara's terrified. She's falling in love with a famous man. In the witness protection program, her safety depends on staying invisible -- and loving Adam could get her killed. Hidden away in the witness protection program, she's falling in love with former pro football player Adam Black. FBI agent Dave Richman has his hands full keeping her safe from her sister's killer. When events bring Sara face-to-face with terror, will she rely on God for protection....
35) Scritch scratch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Haunted after helping her father on his ghost-themed Chicago bus tour, twelve-year-old Claire must discover what the spectral boy from the bus wants before it is too late.
36) Mercy Falls
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still troubled by an ambush that leaves his deputy lingering near death, Sheriff Cork O'Conner must investigate the mutilation murder of a Chicago businessman. Soon Cork finds himself distracted by the lovely female shadowing him and the handsome man stalking his wife.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.
Maya Aziz is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy, and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil. In the aftermath of a terrorist attack hundreds...
38) The savage heart
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The love of Tess Meredith,the orphaned suffragette daughter of a frontier doctor, for Raven Following, theSioux warrior she befriended as a child, seems doomed when he abandons his heritage and builds a new life for himself as a detective in turn-of-the-century Chicago. Then she arrives back into his world, bringing the past with her.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her cheating fiancé steals her inheritance, ex-heiress Genevieve Patchett has to get a job-fast! She secures an audience with Chicago's most belligerent boss, Lucas McDowell, but his disarmingly attractive presence leaves her tongue-tied! Lucas is confident that Genevieve's passion and talent are what he needs to get his women's shelter off the ground. And it's personally important to him that it's a success. Genevieve could be the perfect colleague...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request