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681) A matter of honor
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
There are two Chicagos: One, a bustling center of commerce, vibrant and alive, with spacious lakeside dwellings for the affluent and comfortable ... and the other, a gray and crumbling hotbed of rage and resentment. No walls or law can truly separate them. During the hottest summer on record, the ruthless politics of hatred and fear are driving a giant metropolis to the edge of the abyss. The assassination of Chicago's first black woman mayor three...
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Chicago, Balki Bartokomous! The professional sheepherder from the tiny Mediterranean island of Mypos comes to America to live with his cousin. Balki won't find many woolly quadrupeds in the Windy City, but he will find pop-top soda cans, singles bars, color TV, mobsters, game shows, pink lemonade and many more oddities sure to amaze him.
685) The banks
Author
Publisher
TKO Studios LLc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For fifty years the women of the Banks family have been the most successful thieves in Chicago by following one simple rule: never get greedy. But when the youngest Banks stumbles upon the heist of a lifetime, the potential windfall may be enough to bring three generations of thieves together for one incredible score and the chance to avenge a loved one taken too soon."--Amazon.
686) Ghoul goblin
Author
Series
Publisher
Dynamite Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It has been several months since Chicago's only wizard for hire, Harry Blacksone Copperfield Dresden, barely survived a case involving several packs of werewolves. And while he ultimately was able to prevent the Windy City from being completely engulfed in a bloodbath, it was no triumphant victory. The case began with the murder of his protege, saw Detective Ron Carmichael torn apart before his eyes, and ended with Harry estranged from Lt. Karrin...
687) Road to perdition
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Michael Sullivan, a professional hit man for organized crime in the 1930s, embarks on a journey of revenge and self-discovery after his wife and youngest son are killed."--
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The Chicago Organized Workers League once stood as a beacon of hope against an epidemic of organized crime and an unbeatable "brotherhood" of Super-Villains. Now, in 1962, the union faces a disillusioned public, scandal, and a new era of threats" --
Author
Publisher
Dynamite Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A war is raging between the vampire forces of the Red Court and the White Council - a war that the wizards are losing. So desperate are the Council that they've dragooned the experienced and the outcast to reinforce their thinning ranks of Wardens. One of these draftees is one Harry Dresden, Chicago's only wizard-for-hire and a guy who's long been looked upon with suspicion by the supernatural authorities. Now, he's one of them, and his first big...
690) KISS: Volume 1
Publisher
IDW
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Dressed to kill: Four ordinary humans in 1920s Chicago are caught in an epic battle, reverberating through time and space." --
"World without heroes: Can Demon, Starchild, Catman, and Celestial save a world of swords and sorcery, or is this land of dragons and wizards, warriors and maidens irreversibly divided?" --
Author
Publisher
Dynamite Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Harry Dresden's life is a mess. His top client (and close friend), Lt. Karrin Murphy, no longer trusts him. Chicago's underworld and the cops alike think he's mobster Johnny Marcone's supernatural enforcer. And the enigmatic White Council continues to view him with suspicion. If all that weren't enough, a pack of werewolves have unleashed a wave of terror on the Windy City. But as is always the case when it comes to the creatures of the Nevernever,...
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