Chicago Review Press: 838 books
Trials of Walter Ogrod
The Shocking Murder, So-Called Confessions, and Notorious Snitch That Sent a Man to Death Row
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The horrific 1988 murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn shocked the citizens of Philadelphia. Plucked from her own front yard, Barbara Jean was found dead less than two and a half hours later in a cardboard TV box dragged to a nearby street curb. After months of investigation with no strong leads,...
I Wish Someone Had Told Me
A Realistic Guide to Early Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
There's no shortage of "expert" advice for the new mother: books, doctors, and well-meaning grandmothers liberally give opinions on what you should be doing and how you should be feeling. But I Wish Someone Had Told Me is not a book of shoulds: it is a book about how women really handle...
Death in the Pines
An Oakley Tyler Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
After closing his private investigation firm and moving to a small cabin in the Vermont woods, Oakley Tyler can finally begin his retirement. But his peace is interrupted when Jeremiah Smith visits and asks the ex-PI to help him stop unidentified men from killing his grandson, a local newspaper reporter....
by Roger Sherman Loomis
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
King Arthur was not an Englishman, but a Celtic warrior, according to Loomis, whose research into the background of the Arthurian legend reveals findings which are both illuminating and highly controversial. The author sees the vegetarian goddess as the prototype of many damsels in Arthurian romance,...
by Fern Kupfer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
The heart-wrenching story of one couple's courageous decision to have their severely brain-damaged son cared for in a residential facility.
Blue Jesus
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2009
This is a compelling story of two boys, one white and one blue, who live in the tiny Georgia hamlet of Comfort Corners. Trouble starts when the boys find a dead baby whose body has been thrown onto the town garbage dump. As the narrator of the tale, the boy Buddy scrambles for help. The other boy,...
Caroline Norton's Defense
English Laws for Women in the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1982
This account of the author's experience at the hands of an "imperfect state of law" in early 19th-century England makes a passionate plea for equal justice for women. Largely as a result of this book the passage of the Married Women's Property Act and reform of the English Marriage and Divorce Laws occurred some years later.
Ready, Set, Read
Building a Love of Letters and Literacy Through Fun Phonics Activities
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
An interactive program for teaching kids phonics and other key literacy skills, this book provides instructions for constructing hands-on alphabets for literacy lessons and play. Activities include drawing letters in applesauce, sand, nuts, and finger paint; experimenting with vocal sounds and feelings;...
by Terri Paul
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
A remarkable first novel that centers around Serene, a young girl whose father has vanished from their small Hungarian village just before World War I, leaving his beleaguered Jewish family to fend for themselves. Serene is 5 1/2 years old when we meet her in 1913. For the next six years, she seeks...
by Jack Lazebnik
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Early in the twentieth century, Itkeh leaves her home in Russia for America, her innocent heart slowly developing passion as she navigates the traveler's troubles en route to the new world. Lazebnik's story is turbulent, tender, dramatic, and timeless.
The Art of the Catapult
Build Greek Ballistae, Roman Onagers, English Trebuchets, and More Ancient Artillery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Whether playing at defending their own castle or simply chucking pumpkins over a fence, wannabe marauders and tinkerers will become fast acquainted with Ludgar, the War Wolf, Ill Neighbor, Cabulus, and the Wild Donkey-ancient artillery devices known commonly as catapults. Building these simple yet...
by Arthur Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
These stories are a brilliant evocatin of a narrow, close-knit community—that of the streets of London's East End in the 1890s. Having lived and worked there, he knew that his East Enders were not a race apart, but ordinary men and women, scraping by perhaps, but neither criminals nor paupers. He...
Not So Fast
Parenting Your Teen Through the Dangers of Driving
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Providing fully updated advice to parents, guardians, and other adults who supervise teen drivers, this second edition of Not So Fast will help to guide and empower readers. Parents will learn priceless information in teaching teenagers how to evaluate the circumstances of every driving trip, how...
Case Without a Corpse
A Sergeant Beef Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1992
This is one of Sgt. Beef's most interesting and perplexing cases. It involves a murder, but one in which no body can be found. Young Rogers announces to Beef and others assembled in a local pub that he has committed a murder-then takes his own life. But where is the victim? How did it happen? "I...