Search Results: Returned 16 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 16
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2022., Adolescent, Feiwel and Friends Call No: MYSTERY F GOO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Sixteen-year-old Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she's grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister's name by finding the only witness to the murder; Katia's no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what really happened, Katia's death will be ignored, like the deaths of so many other Black women who are wrongfully killed. With the help of her friend, Sonnet, Beau sets up a Twitter account to gather anonymous tips. But the more that Beau finds out about her sister's death, the more danger she finds herself in. And with a new relationship developing with her childhood friend, Champion, and the struggle to keep her family together, Beau is soon in way over her head. How much is she willing to risk to clear her sister's name and make sure she's not forgotten?"--From the publisher's web site.
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-- James Patterson presents2020., Juvenile, Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company Call No: Historical Fic Maniscalco Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1889 Audrey Rose Wadsworth and Thomas Cresswell arrive in America and attend the World's Fair in Chicago. There they find a mysterious string of missing persons and murders and begin to investigate. Their search leads them to a grisly Murder Hotel run by a serial killer who built the great structure as his ultimate torture device. Audrey, finally with her true love, must face the toughest opponent ever when she battles with the notorious H.H. Holmes.
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[2013]., Juvenile, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: REALISTIC F AVA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: When two girls lose their fiend to a killer, they each respond in different ways and discover what it means to stand by each other in a time of crisis--and whether it is possible to hold on too tightly.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Inkyard Press Call No: HISTORICAL FIC POL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1893 Chicago, after his best friend becomes the latest victim in a long line of murdered Jewish boys, Alter Rosen is plunged into a nightmare where he is thrown back into the arms of a dangerous boy from his past.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Inkyard Press Call No: HISTORICAL FIC POL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1893 Chicago, after his best friend becomes the latest victim in a long line of murdered Jewish boys, Alter Rosen is plunged into a nightmare where he is thrown back into the arms of a dangerous boy from his past.
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By Larson, Erik2004., Vintage Books Call No: B Mudgett Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Details the preparations for and attractions of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago including information on the man who ran the World Fair Hotel, a building he used to lure young women to their deaths.
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By Larson, Erikc2003., Crown Publishers Call No: HI-INT B MUD Edition: 1st ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Details the preparations for and attractions of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago including information on the man who ran the World Fair Hotel, a building he used to lure young women to their deaths.
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2022., Adolescent, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: SUSPENSE FIC AHM Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "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"--OCLC.
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[2022]., Anne Schwartz Books Call No: CRIME NF FLE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Taking readers back to 1924, this shocking true crime story follows two eighteen-year-old college students who kidnapped and murdered a child they both knew, their trial, and how a renowned defense attorney enabled them to avoid the death penalty.
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[2022]., Anne Schwartz Books Call No: CRIME & PUNISHMENT NF FLE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Taking readers back to 1924, this shocking true crime story follows two eighteen-year-old college students who kidnapped and murdered a child they both knew, their trial, and how a renowned defense attorney enabled them to avoid the death penalty.
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[2022]., Adolescent, Holiday House Call No: MYSTERY F KUL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1928 Chicago, eighteen-year-old Ruby, daughter of the state attorney, uses her ability to read minds as a vigilante to hunt out murderers and kill them even if they have not yet committed the crime; Guy works in the morgue, and wants to understand the human body, because maybe then he will learn how it is that he is able to shapeshift into other people--something Ruby plans to use because someone is out to get her father and she is pretty sure it is the police, not the gangsters.
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1987, c1968., Perennial Library Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Trapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side, a young black man finds release only in acts of violence.
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1998, c1997., Anchor Books Call No: REALISTIC F TRI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Even though her family has been chosen to "move on up" to Lakeland, an upscale part of Chicago for professional blacks, 11-year-old Tempestt Saville is drawn to the world outside the fence, populated by colorful, often dangerous, characters.
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By Moore, Bryce[2021]., Adolescent, Sourcebooks Fire Call No: MYSTERY FIC MOO Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Zuretta Palmer travels to Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair to find her missing sister, but when the police and the Pinkertons refuse to help her, Zuretta begins her own investigation by becoming a maid at the notorious Castle.
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By Moore, Bryce[2021]., Adolescent, Sourcebooks Fire Call No: Horror Fic Moore Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Zuretta Palmer travels to Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair to find her missing sister, but when the police and the Pinkertons refuse to help her, Zuretta begins her own investigation by becoming a maid at the notorious Castle.
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-- Saint Valentine's Day Massacrec2004., Cumberland House Call No: 364.1 06077311 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Challenges the commonly held belief that Al Capone order the hit on George "Bugs" Moran's gang on Valentine's Day in 1929, discusses the cover-up by law enforcement officials, and analyzes the political reforms that helped Capone rise to power.