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"In this book Lynn Smentek shares her personal story of how the Lord Jesus Christ became became not only her Savior and Friend, but her Healer as well. Suffering from a chronic debilitating disease of the immune system she sought the 'Great Physician' who did what no man could do. She explains how she discovered that we truly can take the Lord at His Word!"

A collection of photographic portraits of and stories about guests at the Olive Branch Mission shelter and rehabilitation center.

A comic novel about a divorced architect who continually dates younger women. He brings himself out of his romantic slump by taking on a project building an invisible wall around Chicago (a symbolic Jewish Eruv).

An anthology of works published in THE2NDHAND, a Chicago broadsheet and online magazine for new writing.

This biography carefully traces the events and influences of Eugene V. Debs who started out as an organizer for railroad unions and ended as the charasmatic leader of the Socialist Party. During his lifetime no other leader in either the labor or Socialist movements consistently attracted such large audiences.

Emergency Tacos is a collection of poetry from the Hispanic community in Chicago. Included are Beatriz Badikan, Sandra Cisneros, Carlos Cortez, Carlos Cumpian and several others. This collection details the Latin-American experience with poems about topics as divergent as cultural identity and mundane everyday struggles.

"... voice of a Mexicana, Chicana, Latina and Americana, a culturally transplanted soul whose word portraits vividly color her childhood, family friends and enemies on both sides of the Mexican-United States border."

This book is a compilation of comic artists involved with Shortpants Press. Included are Amy Davidson, Corrine Mucha, Becca Taylor and Jeremy Tinder. The collection embodies the breadth of artistry in the Mid-western comic community.

A bilingual collection of poetry dealing with the city of Chicago, otherness, the Hispanic experience, sexuality and what it means to be American. It includes five sections considering everything from the role of Chicago as a seat for musical expression to the inevitability of death.

This is a story of medicine as it moved from the pioneer care-giving era of the early 1800s to the sophisticated health settings of today. It is the story of the many colorful, caring physicians whose vision helped spawn new ways to educate caregivers and new methods to heal the sick...and of the generations of dedicated health professionals and civic leaders who, over the past 150 year, shaped one of the nation's leading academic health centers. It is the story of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.