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Coming-of-Age Near the 1940s Chicago Baseball Scene

Ernie’s Bleachers was clearly a passion project for author Tim Pareti, whose family owned the Ernie’s Bleachers tavern in Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood just across from Wrigley Field. It’s the tavern that became Ray’s Bleachers, home of the 1969 Bleacher Bums, and then Murphy’s Bleachers, which is still going strong eight decades…
Dennis Hetzel
August 17, 2022
Thrillers

Detective Team Unveils Mystery in 1930s Chicago

Michelle Cox suspects she may have once lived in the 1930s. Perhaps that is why she writes about the period so adeptly. Chicago is the setting for her award-winning Henrietta and Inspector Howard series, engaging plots that charm us with modern-minded characters enmeshed in a world full of social expectations,…
Anne Eliot Feldman
June 12, 2019
Romance

Offerman + Mullally in “Greatest Love Story Ever Told”

In the whirring world of crazy TV production schedules, a constantly hungry public eye, and the normal pressures of married life, it's a wonder any celebrity couple can keep their marriage intact. "Parks and Recreation" star Nick Offerman and "Will & Grace" star Megan Mullally have been together for 20…
Rebecca Proulx
October 5, 2018
FictionThrillers

Tana French’s Standalone Stunner Follows Chicago Cop’s Search for Missing Irish Teen

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/TheSearcher.jpg "Taught, chiseled and propulsive." — Vogue "Crime fiction fans won't want to miss this one." — Publishers Weekly "A slow-burn stunner that will keep readers turning the pages late into the night." — Library Journal —∞— Old habits die hard. Especially if you’re a middle-aged ex-cop from Chicago who’s specialized…
Jodé Millman
October 6, 2020
FictionRomance

Rekindle the Flame (Hot In Chicago series)

Cuddle up by the fire with the irresistible prequel to KATE MEADER’s smokin’ Hot in Chicago series — originally published in the sizzling holiday anthology Baby, It’s Cold Outside — a superhot e-novella that will warm you from your head to your heart and all the way to your toes! Chicago…
BookTrib
December 11, 2015
Fiction

Set in a Post-COVID-19 Chicago, “Seismic Sedition” Is an Absurdly Hilarious Sci-Fi Satire

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/seismic-sedition.jpg Crimes against volcanic pizza stones, verbal violence, dissent against Siberian-American reindeer herders, people stealing other people's voices by agreeing with them — these are just some of the absurdities and hilariously extreme forms of political correctness to be found in Seismic Sedition: The Heinous Crimes of Professor Terry Joyner,…
Gevera Bert Piedmont
November 23, 2020