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By: Patricia Sutton
ISBN: 9781613739433
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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On July 24, 1915, the SS "Eastland, " filled to capacity with 2,500 passengers and crew, capsized in the Chicago River, taking more passenger lives than "Titanic." Here, Sutton details the events leading up to the fateful day and provides a nail-biting, minute-by-minute account of the ship's capsizing. Photos.
(Paperback)
By: Gwen Bristow
ISBN: 9781556527876
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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When the king's army captures Charleston and sweeps through the Carolina countryside in a wave of blood, fire, and debauchery, the rebel cause seems all but lost. But when Francis Marion, a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army known as 'The Swamp Fox', recruits Celia Garth as a spy, the tides of war begin to shift.
(Hardback)
By: Graham Vickers
ISBN: 9781556526824
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Offering a consideration of not only "the Lolita effect" but shifting attitudes toward the mix of sex, children, and popular entertainment, this study explores the movies, theatrical shows, literary spin-offs, artifacts, fashion, art, photography, and tabloid excesses that have distorted Lolita's identity.
(Paperback)
By: Owen Hurd
ISBN: 9781556526541
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Suitable for ages 9 and upwards, this title serves as both a guide to kids and their parents and an engaging tool for teachers. It details the first Chicagoan Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the Fort Dearborn Massacre, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the building of the world's first skyscraper, and the hosting of two World's Fairs.
(Paperback)
By: Linda Waide
ISBN: 9781556523915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2001
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
By: Linda Lutton
ISBN: 9781556523946
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2001
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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(Hardback)
By: John Blake
ISBN: 9781556525377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Profiling 24 of the adult children of the most recognisable figures in the civil rights movement, this title collects the intimate, moving stories of families who were pulled apart by the horrors of the struggle or brought together by their efforts to change America.
(Paperback)
By: Ronald A. Reis
ISBN: 9781613746745
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2013
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Learn about the explorer Christopher Columbus and his four voyages to the New World.
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By: Mark Lane
ISBN: 9781613740019
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Lane has been inspiring social consciousness, influencing history makers, and inciting controversy for more than six decades. Icons of the American political and social landscape appear throughout his autobiography as cohorts and companions and as opponents.
(Paperback)
By: Darla Worden
ISBN: 9781641608985
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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(Hardback)
By: Darla Worden
ISBN: 9781641603676
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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(Paperback)
By: Pearl Witherington Cornioley
ISBN: 9781613731581
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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(Paperback)
By: Yamma Brown
ISBN: 9781613735442
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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"Yamma Brown was one of James Brown's daughters. The struggles she went through, both as a child and as an adult, provide a profound examination of the nature of celebrity, violence, and survival"--
(Paperback)
By: Laurie Carlson
ISBN: 9781556523229
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Nov 1997
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Intended for ages 9-12, this work teaches young adventurers about the settling of America while providing activities like stitching a sampler, pitching horseshoes, making an almanac, churning butter, and more.
(Paperback, Fourth Edition, Fourth edition)
By: Gerry Roach
ISBN: 9781641607759
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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(Hardback)
By: Samantha Barbas
ISBN: 9780912777542
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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(Paperback)
By: Peter Eichstaedt
ISBN: 9781613736654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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(Paperback)
By: Tammy Mal
ISBN: 9781613739792
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jam Donaldson
ISBN: 9781556527807
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Explores what is wrong with black culture and what needs to be done to fix neighbourhoods and improve lives. This title provides a window into the complex, contradictory perspectives that exist within every member of the black community while also offering comic anecdotes.
(Hardback)
By: Denver Nicks
ISBN: 9781613738337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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(Paperback)
By: M. R. Cordell
ISBN: 9780897333306
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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(Hardback)
By: Kathryn J. Atwood
ISBN: 9781613730744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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"[In this book] readers meet ... brave women and girls who served in life-threatening roles as medics, journalists, resisters, and revolutionaries in the conflict in Vietnam"--Amazon.com.
(Paperback)
By: Ned Sublette
ISBN: 9781556526329
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Presents the history of Cuba and its music, beginning with the collision of Spain and Africa and continuing through the era of Miguelito Valdes, Arsenio Rodriguez, Benny More, and Perez Prado. This book offers an examination of music from a Cuban point of view, making the case that Cuba was fundamental to the evolution of music in the New World.
(Paperback)
By: Ty Kolstedt
ISBN: 9781613731505
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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