Chicago Review Press: 838 books
Saga
A Novel of Medieval Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
This retelling of the ancient Saga of the People of Eyri is a modern classic. Absolutely gripping and compulsively readable, Booklist said this book, "does what good historical fiction is supposed to do: put a face on history that is recognizable to all." And medieval expert Tom Shippey,...
Odyssey to Ushuaia
A Motorcycling Adventure from New York to Tierra del Fuego
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
What makes a man sell all he owns and ride a motorcycle 22,000 miles from his hometown in upstate New York to the southernmost tip of South America? Some call it craziness; Latinos call it “cojones.” This funny, fast-paced narrative follows a young man in his search for meaning, adventure, and...
On Stage
Theater Games and Activities for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Lights, camera, play! With this second edition of On Stage: Theater Games and Activities for Kids, budding thespians will have fun under the footlights as they choose from more than 125 theater games that spark creativity, boost confidence, and encourage collaboration. They’ll learn all about how...
Blue Trout and Black Truffles
The Peregrinations of an Epicure
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
There were, and still are, great restaurants all over Europe, but the greater part of Blue Trout and Black Truffles is devoted to the eatingplaces and vineyards of France. It is a vicarious experience to read about the culinary wonders of the notable establishments of another era that have become...
Weather Projects for Young Scientists
Experiments and Science Fair Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
From the everyday phenomena of wind and clouds to the awesome, destructive power of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes, children can explore weather in detail with this fascinating science activity book. Throughout the text instructions for building weather-measuring tools-barometers, psychrometers,...
The Voice Book
Caring For, Protecting, and Improving Your Voice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Written to save careers one voice at a time through scientifically proven methods and advice, this resource teaches people how to protect and improve one of their most valuable assets: their speaking voice. Simple explanations of vocal anatomy and up-to-date instruction for vocal injury prevention...
by Arthur Doyle, McSherry Frank D
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
These horror stories -- never before compiled in one volume -- are carefully crafted, compelling and believable. Written in about the same decade as the Sherlock Holmes series, they will convince you that Arthur Conan Doyle was a master of more than just the detective story.
Soledad Brother
The Prison Letters of George Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1994
A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion...
My Bloody Life
The Making of a Latin King
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and then sex, and was left to fend for himself before age 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became his refuge and his world, but its...
by Elswyth Thane, Leila Meacham
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Elswyth Thane is best known for her Williamsburg series, seven novels published between 1943 and 1957 that follow several generations of two families from the American Revolution to World War II. Dawn's Early Light is the first novel in the series.
In it, Colonial Williamsburg comes alive. Thane centers...
Cold Sweat
My Father James Brown and Me
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Being the child of a global superstar is never easy, but being the daughter of the "Hardest Working Man in Show Business"—that's a category unto itself. Like every little girl, Yamma Brown wanted her father's attention, but fame, drugs, jail, and the complicated women in James Brown's...
by Kathleen Winsor
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16-year-old Amber St. Clare manages, by using her wits, beauty, and courage, to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England—that of favorite mistress of the Merry Monarch, Charles II. From whores and...
by Rosemary Sutcliff, Scott O'Dell
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
"There was a smell of blood mingling with the smell of burning that still clung about scorched timber and blackened thatch, and a great wailing rose from the watching crowd. The old High Priest dipped a finger in the blood and made a sign with it on Phaedrus's forehead, above the Mark of the...
The Fury
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Gillian Bellaver's family is one of the wealthiest in the world. Robin Sandza's father Peter is a government assassin. The two teenagers seem to have nothing in common. Yet they are spiritual twins, possessing a horrifying psychic energy that threatens humanity. While dangerous and fanatical men vie...