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How do you give a good wedding toast? How do you fix a clogged drain? How do you bowl without hurting anyone? Questions like these—some highly practical, others wildly funny—make up this engaging do-it-yourself guide. Collected from the pop… more

Good Eating’s Seasonal Salads is a collection of 90 delicious recipes from the Chicago Tribune’s Good Eating section that are perfect as exciting side dishes or full, healthy meals. Making use of fresh in-season ingredients, this eclectic a… more

A recapitulation of his earlier work Seeds of Contemplation, this collection of sixteen essays plumbs aspects of human spirituality. Merton addresses those in search of enduring values, fulfillment, and salvation in prose that is, as always… more

Beginning with the premise that there is no other rivalry in team sports like that between the Cubs and the White Sox this work traces the history of the antagonism (and, at times, open hostility) between the fans of the two clubs. Of speci… more

In this, it’s first new cookbook in more than a decade, the Chicago Tribune offers 50 of the very best recipes from the pages of the paper’s weekly Good Eating section. The Tribune remains one of the few newspapers in this country with its … more

A training manual for women so they can understand what makes guys guys. Why we leave the toilet seat up, why we will do anything on a dare … essentially, what makes us tick. Fun stuff previously published in the Chicago Tribune, Cynic Ma… more

Fifteen Montana cowboys sail into Vladivostok with a herd of five hundred longhorns, ready to cross a thousand miles of Siberian wilderness. When a band of Cossacks, Russia’s elite horsemen and warriors, shows up to escort these rough and … more

“Her graphically detailed pictures of tribal life make the novel memorable.”—Chicago TribuneThe Slave Girl follows the fortunes of Ogbanje Ojebeta, a Nigerian woman who is sold into slavery in her own land after disease and tragedy leave he… more

Roth tells of her own experiences with a non-blink frankness cushioned by the gracefulness of her prose.—Chicago Tribune. “Just the right mix of confession, sass, and style.”—Publishers Weekly.

“A book of stories, a book of prayer, a book to be read meditatively and well,” DAKOTA offers a timeless tribute to a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh and forgiving, steeped in history and myth. Fr… more

“Spare and haunting tales that ask ordinary questions about that extraordinary emotion: love.”—Chicago TribuneThe novella and five stories that make up this collection reveal the lives of immigrant families haunted by lost loves: a ghost se… more

A major testament by an essential 20th century writer composed of five strikingly elegant “memory exercises” about his life and work—now available in paperback. With visionary passion, the author traces pieces of his childhood and adolesce… more

Compiled directly from the Chicago Tribune’s restaurant reviews, Good Eating’s Global Dining in Chicago is an expansive and diverse collection of the best international cuisine throughout the city and suburbs. The featured restaurants featu… more

Fierce authentic action, masterful storytelling and a touchingly moving friendship combine in this gripping novel of suspense and revenge, set in an Italy plagued by kidnapping.Washed-up, a near alcoholic, ex-mercenary Creasy takes on the j… more

Here is the story of three gifted women trained by the famed Louis Leakey. This book, “a sensitive and revealing contribution to the legend of a unique sisterhood” (Chicago Tribune), tells of three women who each gave her mature life to the… more

“This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced,” (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Two Fates Sybilla Corbuc has an uncommon understanding of the horses she cares for, but there are men who distrust such wisdom in a woman. Forced to become a nobleman’s servant to avoid prison, Sybilla finds herself bound by chains that are… more

Things are really smoking on the island of El Tiparillo when the Holy Land’s superest, secretest agent Israel Bond is called to wield his weaponized mezuzah to save innocent lives and formerly-innocent beautiful lasses in the midst of rebel… more

J. H. Whigham, a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, writes about the beginning actions of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Included are observations on mobilizing the troops, the first captured Spanish ship, and the beginning of the blo… more

From Gold Pen Award-winner and master storyteller Brandon Massey come fourteen darker-than-night tales of sheer terror that will make your blood run cold… A man driving home from a Halloween costume party suddenly comes face to face wi… more