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A local history of Bloomingdale, Illinois illustrated through black and white photojournalism.

Written with her trademark lyricism, in these signature pieces the acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street shares her transformative memories and reveals her artistic and intellectual influences. Poignant, honest, and deeply moving, A House of My Own is an exuberant celebration of a life lived to the fullest, from one of our most beloved writers. *

En El Arroyo de la Llorona, Sandra Cisneros le da voz y vida a un curioso desfile de personajes, desde una nina que revelando secretos como solo una criatura de once anos puede hacerlo, hasta una bruja cuyo vuelo antes del alba la lleva a revolotear sobre un pequeno poblado. *

"La variedad es una de las características de Vocesueltas, variedad que encontramos tanto en el origen de los autores, que va de México a la Argentina, como en la temática, los asuntos tratados y los estilos. A partir de los ochenta el Medioeste, y principalmente Chicago, se ha convertido en otra de las regiones productoras de literatura en español. Es en Chicago precisamente donde un grupo de escritores lanzan esta antología de cuentos, que mucho prestigio ha de dar tanto a los autores y a la literatura en español de esa metrópolis como al español que se escribe en los Estados Unidos." *

An anthology of poems written between 2011 and 2016 by the Chicago-based typewriter-poetry collective Poems While You Wait.

A collection of mostly short poems by a writer and experimental educator from Chicago Heights.

The journey begins in the suburbs of Chicago. An impulsive act of theft coincides with a gentle and inexplicable death. A long drive south to Louisiana follows the trail of an obscure folk singer, drowned years back in trusted waters. And before all the connections between the two deaths can be revealed, a series of hunches will lead Tom to some dark and depressing truths about the nature of fandom and the fallibility of instincts. [from publisher's description]

When a second drowned homeless man is pulled from flooded Boulder Creek, Tom’s sense of unease kicks in again with a vengeance. In this sequel to Permafrost, the precarious world of the Colorado mountain town’s homeless population becomes a focus for the semi-retired businessman and a victim pool for a driven killer. [from publisher's website]

Two friends grew up together in Scotland. Now one is missing in Northern Michigan and the other, a successful businessman, has time on his hands. The hunt for the lost man begins as a mystery and evolves into an act of redemption. [from publisher's description]

artXposium 2.0 is a book chronicling the development of an annual multimedia art experience in the city of West Chicago. The event artXposium is the brainchild of local resident and internationally shown artist Anni Holm and former registrar of the West Chicago City Museum, Brian Reis. Together with assistant organizer Irene Pérez, many volunteers, and over sixty artists, they created a three-day event in the former Grobe's True Value store, a large space which lent itself to works ranging from painting, sculpture, and photography to interactive installations and video screenings. [from Amazon.com]