Chicago Review Press: 838 books
Case with 4 Clowns
A Sergeant Beef Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
One of the rarest mysteries in the author's Sergeant Beef series, Case with Four Clowns, which has only been published once in the US—more than fifty years ago - is now available in paperback for the first time.
It is regarded by critics as one of Leo Bruce's most baffling mysteries. ...
An Accidental Anarchist
How the Killing of a Humble Jewish Immigrant by Chicago's Chief of Police Exposed the Conflict Between Law & Order and Civil Rights in Early 20th Century America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
It was a bitter cold morning in March, 1908. A nineteen-year-old Jewish immigrant traversed the confusing and unfamiliar streets of Chicago–a one-and-a-half-hour-long journey–from his ghetto home on Washburne Avenue to the luxurious Lincoln Place residence of Police Chief George Shippy. He arrived...
Miguel's Gift
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In late 1980s Chicago, Nick Hayden, a rookie INS field agent, is eager to make his mark in the unit responsible for picking up illegal immigrants around the city. Hayden excels, whether he's raiding factories or busting Colombian drug dealers. Seen as a rising star by supervisors, over time the green,...
My Midnight Years
Surviving Jon Burge's Police Torture Ring and Death Row
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Ronald Kitchen was 21, on his way to buy milk for his four-year-old, when he was picked up by the Chicago police, brutally tortured, and coerced to confess to five counts of heinous murder. He spent 22 years in prison, 13 of those on death row, labeled as a monster. Kitchen was only one of the many...
The Doctor Will See You Now
Essays on the Changing Practice of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Is it smart to skip your annual physical? Should you put your trust in medical research? Is "low T" an actual disease? This book examines these questions and more you've always wondered about in more than fifty essays on the practice of medicine. The Doctor Will See You Now is a quirky and...
Fire Angels
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Three weeks before Christmas on December 1, 1958, one of the deadliest fires in America took place at Our Lady of the Angels school in Chicago, claiming the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns. Fire Angels is a fictional account of that fire. Fire is a central character in this story, a cunning...
Hey, Liberal!
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In this honest novel set in the racial tinderbox of Chicago in 1969, Simon Fleming, the white son of an activist minister, is sent to a predominately African American high school, feeling charged to carry out the family's commitment to school integration. He is dropped into a world where gang warfare,...
One Man's War
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
One Man's War is a gripping novel that follows the journey of one man, Bob Kafak, through World War II. It takes you where he fought, what he saw, what he did, and how he felt. The story focuses on this single man and his experiences as a rifleman in a frontline company during the war and it makes...
Iron Gates of Santo Tomas
A Firsthand Account of an American Couple Interned by the Japanese in Manila, 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
When Manila fell to the Japanese in January, 1942, the Van Sickles were among the enemy aliens taken by the victors to the campus of Manila's University of Santo Tomas, where they were to remain unwilling "guests" for more than three years. This is a fascinating, detailed and insightful...
All the Dreams We've Dreamed
A Story of Hoops and Handguns on Chicago's West Side
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams. In January of 2014, Marshall's struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player. Everything changed,...
The Assassination of Fred Hampton
How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Uncovering a cold-blooded execution at the hands of a conspiring police force, this engaging account relentlessly pursues the murderers of Black Panther Fred Hampton. Documenting the entire 14-year process of bringing the killers to justice, this chronicle also depicts the 18-month court trial in...
Radical Disciple
Father Pfleger, St. Sabina Church, and the Fight for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Revealing the story of a white Catholic priest serving a black Chicago parish who has been criticized as a trouble-making maverick, a renegade cleric, and a publicity hound, this book is a fascinating look at the inner workings of the Catholic Church, the traditions of the black pulpit, and what it...
All the Clean Ones Are Married
and Other Everyday Calamities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
In 1991, Lori Cidylo shocked her Ukrainian Polish-born parents when she told them she was leaving her reporter's job on an upstate New York newspaper to live and work in the rapidly dissolving Soviet Union.For six years she lived on a shoe-string budget in Moscow, in tiny, run-down apartments, struggling...
by J.E. Neale
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Long cosidered the definitive biography of the great Tudor Queen, this scholarly and immensely readable book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography and hs been translated into nine languages.