Holly Baxter: 2 books

To think of Chicago in the 1930s is to conjure up pictures of the Chicago Outfit and its earlier crime lords like Capone. Even the storied history of the Cubs or of the city's merchant princes and philanthropists can't quite shake the city's gritty image. It's time for a new look. And here...

Ella Fine has never seen the moon. She has never seen the stars, or the silhouettes of trees at dusk. She, like every other member of Humankind, has been locked inside her home, behind metal shutters and thick walls, to be safe from the NightKind, unimaginable beasts who screech and howl through the...