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From the Dust Returned From the Dust Returned Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury, America's most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilarating and dangerous places, from dark street comers in unfamiliar cities and towns to the edge of the… OL103193W
Under the wolf, under the dog Under the wolf, under the dog Adam Rapp Sixteen-year-old Steve struggles to make sense of his mother's terminal breast cancer and his brother's suicide. OL103507W
Barn Blind Barn Blind Jane Smiley Written with the grace and quiet beauty of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *Barn Blind* is a spellbinding story on the classic American themes of work, love, and duty, and the lengths we will go to… OL108537W
Life after genius Life after genius M. Ann Jacoby Theodore Mead Fegley has always been the smartest person he knows. By age 12, he was in high school, and by 15 he was attending a top-ranking university. And now, at the tender age of 18, he's on th… OL11903314W
Before I wake Before I wake Dee Henderson Tracking down a killer who is murdering tourist women in their sleep for no apparent motive, the sheriff of Justice, Illinois, is discouraged by the arrival of new detective Rae Gabriella, who is als… OL15133909W
Disobedience Disobedience Jane Hamilton A young man awaits the consequences of his mother's extramarital affair with a violin-maker, information he discovers when he accidentally stumbles across her e-mailbox. From Jane Hamilton, author of… OL15137937W
A knife to remember A knife to remember Jill Churchill The popular mystery series continues as single mom Jane Jeffry allows a film crew to use her backyard as a location, and soon finds herself on the track of the killer of a blackmailing prop man. OL15212922W
Hard time Hard time Sara Paretsky PI V.I. Warshawski of Chicago experiences the harrowing world of women's prisons when she is incarcerated after being falsely arrested. It happens while she is probing the murder of an illegal immigr… OL15697353W
The Pale King The Pale King Michael Pietsch,David Foster Wallace The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfi… OL15701417W
Catch Catch Will Leitch Teenager Tim Temples must decide if he wants to leave his comfortable life in a small town and go to college. OL15835202W
The distance between us The distance between us Bart Yates "Hester Parker resides in an elegant Victorian house in the town of Bolton, Illinois. At seventy-one, she is as brilliant and sharp-tongued as ever, capable of inspiring her music students to soaring… OL16070566W
You will call me Drog You will call me Drog Sue Cowing Unless eleven-year-old Parker can find a way to remove the sinister puppet that refuses to leave his hand, he will wind up in military school or worse but first he must stand up for himself to his be… OL16114223W
The shadow society The shadow society Marie Rutkoski Sixteen-year-old Darcy Jones knows little about her past except that she was abandoned outside a Chicago firehouse at age five, but when the mysterious Conn arrives at her high school she begins to d… OL16215129W
An Echo of Death An Echo of Death Mark Richard Zubro **From Amazon.com:** *Book 5 of 12 in the Tom and Scott Mystery Series* Tom Mason and his lover, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, go on the run when they find an ex-teammate and fr… OL16605W
Another Dead Teenager Another Dead Teenager Mark Richard Zubro **From Goodreads:** ***Book #3 in the Paul Turner series*** When two suburban high-school students are found murdered--both boys who were well respected and liked, with solid family lives and n… OL16606W
Happy Are the Peacemakers Happy Are the Peacemakers Andrew M. Greeley ***Father Greeley's fictional detective, the Most Reverend John Blackwood Ryan, auxiliary bishop of Chicago and amateur sleuth par excellence, becomes involved in another mystery with both theologica… OL17890W
Roller girls Roller girls Megan Sparks When Annie moves from London to small town Illinois, she struggles to fit in until she joins the roller derby team. OL18177868W
Summer of night Summer of night Dan Simmons It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds that a lifetime of changes will never erase. But then a dark cloud threatens the bright promise of … OL1963292W
The nurse's secret suitor The nurse's secret suitor Cheryl Wyatt Trauma nurse Kate Dalton can handle any challenge--except love. The combat veteran dreams of settling down, but heartbreak is one risk she won't take. Then a chance encounter opens her heart to a mas… OL19870255W
A ring of truth A ring of truth Cox, Michelle (Historical fiction writer) "Newly engaged, Clive and Henrietta now begin the difficult task of meeting each other's family. "Difficult" because Clive has neglected to tell Henrietta that he is in fact the heir to the Howard es… OL20058658W
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