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Toya Wolfe’s debut novel, Last Summer on State Street, is set at the Robert Taylor Homes, a public housing project in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood that housed 27,000 people at its peak. The book focuses on the lives of four young Black girls as they come of age while watching the buildings around their home get knocked down.
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Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy.
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After a 24-year career as a Wisconsin administrative law judge, Jeffrey D. Boldt steps into literature. His first novel Blue Lake blends Boldt's passion for the environment, Wisconsin's natural areas and challenges to the rule of law.
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Theresa Brown’s new memoir called, “Healing: How a Nurse Becomes a Patient” shares her story about struggling with cancer treatments while taking an honest look at what it's like to navigate our healthcare system through the unique lens of both a patient and practitioner.
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A new novel by Mary Helen Stefaniak explores how a virtual reality game impacts the lives of nursing home residents and their young caregivers.
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The complex world of carbon trading and energy speculation might not seem, at first blush, to be fertile ground for a suspense novel. But it's familiar…
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There is a lot in Tom Miller's fantastical new novel that will feel sort of, but not exactly, familiar. The Philosopher's Flight is set in the United…
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Environmental issues have stirred up many emotions throughout the years. Global warming, rainforest preservation, and oil drilling, to name a few.One…
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When you are a kid, a lot of the world seems like a mystery in need of figuring out. And probably the most obvious example of that is figuring out your…