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The official guide to the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.

Pictures of the Chicago 1933 World's Fair

"The shores of Lake Michigan, with towering bluffs and heavily wooded ravines, have attracted many to Lake Bluff during the past two centuries. The Potowatomis were the first to come, using the ravines for their tribal council meetings. The German and Irish came in 1830s, drawn by the cheap land prices. The 1870s brought the Methodists, who, seeing the beauty of the lake and ravines, purchased 200 acres and formed the Lake Bluff Camp Meeting Association. The summer chatauqua brought thousands of visitors every year to its quaint cottages and hotels. It was in Lake Bluff where Frances Willard, president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, brought together other temperance leaders to form the national Prohibition party, which led to the ill-fated 18th Amendment. In the 20th century, Lake Bluff had retained its charming cottages and tree-lined village streets. It remains today a picturesque and historic northern suburb of Chicago, nestled along the shores of Lake Michigan."

Pictures from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.

"This is a story about relationships, between father and son, friends, and most importantly between two newly formed couples. Following the lives and thoughts of four people in their mid-twenties, already experienced in dating but starting wonder if that one one person is out there. Taking a look inside the thoughts and conversations on both sides of the fragile world romance and pain, friendship and fear, and life in New York, Most Likely ... is filled with culture, laughter, quasi-advice, and the idea of wanting everything but knowing nothing. As the characters seek advance, theior confusion mounts, emotions break down and get rebuilt, and the reader is left to wonder if men and women will ever really learn how to love."

The Modern Wing: Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago is a book of photography and essays documenting the construction of the modern wing.

Daily Differences is a book of poetry collecting the works of Loraine Edwalds, Carol L. Gloor, Joyce Goldenstern, Stephanie Harris, Penny Pixler, Margie Skelley, Michele Marie White, and S.L. Wisenberg.

"Revolution As an Eternal Dream: the Exemplary Failure of the Madame Bihn Graphics Collective" examines the political practice and visual propaganda of a now-obscure women's poster, printmaking, and street art collective based in New York City between 1975 and 1983. For a brief, intense period of time, the MBGC collaborated on projects against racism and in solidarity with national liberation movements, producing many beautiful multicolored silkscreen prints, note cards, banners, posters and other print ephemera before withdrawing into the isolation of a sectarian and militaristic political line. By 1982 its core members were in prison or underground. "Revolution As an Eternal Dream" calls up the perpetual desire for revolution, but also the frailty of such dreams.

"Halo of the Damned"is a suspenseful horror novel.

*A Survey of My Failures This Far is a mammoth book, but it is really seven distinct books. Each of these is inter-related in odd little ways, such as a character in one is actually the author of another, et cetera, but each is also its own distinct universe." *