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"Meet John Nichols. He's 50-something years old, an ex-basketball player, ex-author, ex-philanderer, ex-husband, ex-high school English teacher. And he's father to three: two overachieving adult daughters, and 19 year-old Ethan, who will never be an adult. John's oldest daughter is getting married, and as the whole family travels from their homes in New York and the Chicago area, John is secretly preparing for a life-change that will alter his family's...
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"David William Vancil is a forty-four-year-old itinerant degenerate from Chicago with a constant juxtaposed repine and appreciation for life. With barely a grade-schooler's command over the English language, he has somehow traveled to China, Japan, Mexico, Korea, and all over the continental United States. He attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa, International Christian University in Mitaka, Japan, and countless other colleges while mixing concoctions...
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When the Casey's move into affluent RIdgeport, Ill. in search of a better life for their newborn son, Scott, they are suprised to find a book entitled, Ridgeport Welcomes You : Procedures and Guidelines for Happy Living. The book is full of rules and ordinances that the citizens must abide by in order to live in their happy neighborhood. Although mom Loretta Casey is hesitant to live by Ridgeport's strict rules, that all changes when she meets her...
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"Many layers are intertwined in this novel: the historical past of Lithuania--German colonization, wars with the Russians, bending, the first enlightenments--educators and pastors of the dark people; fairy tales, tales, superstitions, spells, incantations and witchcraft; even older-echoing the myths of the matriarchal community; Fragments and Postulates of Scripture ..."--Goodreads.
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"Do you struggle to forgive others, or do you struggle to forgive yourself? Does anger and animosity creep into your heart after you have forgiven? Have you been told to just forgive and forget? Forgive and forget is the world's standard that we have been taught but God's standard is for us to forgive and remember how he forgives us. Often times we feel as if our forgiveness is a gift to others, when in actuality it is the gateway to the first steps...
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In a world as fast paced and crazy as this one, it is easy to lose perspective on what s really happening and even more importantly, what really matters. Sidney Lament never learned those things during his busy life as a college professor, but upon his death Fate has decided to give him another chance to understand the meaning of life. There is only one problem - this time he has to do it as a female dog. This hilarious, but often poignant book is...
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"So where do I begin with my story? Introductions are difficult at best. -- This fun, heartful, and sometimes sorrowful account of growing up with anxiety, depression, and social awkwardness is a journey that might reveal secrets about ourselves The author's humor and randomness bring light to her darkest struggles in a way that's so human it resonates as you read her words. As an anxious child trying to navigate her way through the odd instance...
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"A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face with a school shooter in this searing debut. A uniquely American story told in powerful, evocative prose, The Beauty of Your Face navigates a country growing ever more divided. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter -- radicalized...
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"In The entrepreneurial spirit lives : 25 tales to help entrepreneurs start, grow, and succeed in small business, life-long entrepreneur and educator, Cavanaugh L. Gray, and founder of the web consultancy The Entrepreneur Café, LLc brings his passion for the discipline of entrepreneurship and his decades of business development to the forefront. The book offers practical advice on addresing and overcoming common management, marketing and financial...
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"When a Chicago attorney receives a terminal diagnosis, he ignores his wife's pleas and embarks on a solitary odyssey, visiting people who have influenced his life, to thank them and to say goodbye. For 30 days and 6,000 miles he drives through the Western U.S., each night making entries in a journal about the day's events, chronicling the trip and revealing to us how it morphs from the purpose he had intended into something else entirely. He encounters...
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The story of the ways, both subtle and brutal, that a family falls apart and the intimate struggle to put what remains back together. It asks provacative questions about the nature of love, the corrosive effects of envy and guilt, and the limits of forgiveness. This story is for anyone who has ever slammed out a door with the vow to never return, only to find his or her way back home again--Cover p. [4].
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Sentient bog bodies, living marionettes, deranged tramp clowns, fairies turned human, tooth fairies gone bad, shadowy figures on stilts... these and many other strange characters haunt the pages of this unique collection of fantasy and horror-- Amazon.com
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"A Life Without Grace dissects a tense few days in the life of Grayson Eilers, a successful baby-boomer. Grayson, a freelance speechwriter, receives an urgent message from his sister that their mother has suffered a severe heart attack. She is alive, but her condition remains critical. For more than three decades, Grayson has compartmentalized his life, distancing himself physically and emotionally from the modest origins that his mother, his sister...
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"Gina Frangello is a long-married fortysomething devoted mom when her life is turned upside down by the sudden death of her closest friend. Worn down from years of caregiving both her elderly parents and three kids, Gina starts to interrogate her own mortality and what she once longed for as a younger woman : a kind of sexual, romantic and artistic intensity radically at odds with her comfortable but emotionally stagnant marriage. Falling into a...
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How does an undrafted free agent and two-sport college walk-on end up in a Chicago White Sox uniform? With a college football career derailed by mononucleosis and a college baseball career shattered by rotator cuff surgery, Brian Kent's narrative will motivate any athlete. Follow the journey from high school to college(s); from the dojo to the independent leagues; and from personal training to a White Sox contract. While the ultimate goal -- playing...
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"In the Chicago suburb of Iske Park, a U-shaped street curves around a greenway. Nine houses line this parkway. In April 2020, as the COVID pandemic spreads, the residents adapt to new regimens. Their reactions to isolation vary as widely as their personalities, reinforcing existing affinities and tensions. The cast of characters includes: a retired public relations professional; a retired law professor; a theatrical lighting designer; a grocery store...
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Chronicles Chicago's architectural tradition for the nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries of the finest buildings from the viewpoint of interior architecture, including Tribune Tower, Harold Washington Library, and State of Illinois building.