Agate Digital: 43 books
Turn It Up
A Guided Tour Through the Worlds of Pop, Rock, Rap and More
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
For nearly 25 years, Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune has been reviewing all parts of the popular music world: from indie up-and-comers and underground hip-hop artists to arena-filling rock-and-rollers and celebrity pop superstars. Turn It Up: A Guided Tour Through the Worlds of Pop, Rock, Rap and More...
by Maxine Clair
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
In Rattlebone, a "fictional" black community north of Kansas City, the smell of manure and bacon from Armour's Packing House is everywhere; Shady Maurice's roadhouse plays the latest jazz; the best eggs are sold by the Red Quanders; and gospel rules at the Strangers Rest Baptist Church.This is the black...
Chicken 101
Master Cooking Chicken with 101 Great Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The 101 series expands with an all-new, everything-you-need-to-know guide to making delicious chicken-based dishes. This cookbook features 101 delicious, diverse, and accessible recipes, all of which have been thoroughly kitchen tested. Chicken 101 also features a simple, contemporary-looking design...
The Chicago Tribune Guide to Chicago
Restaurants, Bars, Theaters, Museums, Festivals, Sports and More
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
The Chicago Tribune Guide to Chicago is a quick and easy travel guide for the Chicago area, with recommendations from knowledgeable insiders at the Chicago Tribune. Featuring the extensive expertise of the city's most prominent newspaper, this guide is perfect for tourists and locals alike. Whether readers...
The Perfect Croissant
Step-by-Step Instructions Plus Fabulous Fillings
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
From French cuisine to American brunches, croissants are a staple of many sumptuous meals. But few home cooks understand how to create the perfect balance of light, buttery dough with delicately flaky layers. Culinary instructor Dee Coutelle has been specializing in croissants for over 30 years, and...
Speaking of Murder
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
After a divorce and an early retirement from newspaper reporting, Hank Fowler’s life is back on track-he has a girlfriend, steady freelance work, a teaching job-that is, until he gets a call from his old pal Chris Beckwith. Beckwith, his college roommate and a former drug-addict turned motivational...
Only in Chicago
How the Rod Blagojevich Scandal Engulfed Illinois; Embroiled Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, and Jesse Jackson, Jr.; and Enthralled the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
"As the circus of the Blagojevich saga unfolded, Natasha Korecki was right at the center.... It was a seriocomedy suited to her enterprise and imagination, and she’s the one to write the book." -**Roger Ebert**
"Natasha Korecki's chronicle of the Blagojevich saga was a cutting-edge lesson...
by Moni Basu
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
The U.S. mission in Iraq ended Dec. 18, 2011, as the last American soldiers climbed into trucks and headed south through the desert towards Kuwait. Nearly 4,500 American troops died in the Iraq war. More than 30,000 others were physically wounded. Countless others live with scars that can't be seen....
by Maxine Clair
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
It is 1950 and October Brown is a twenty-three-year-old first-year teacher thanking her lucky stars that she found a room in the best boardinghouse for Negro women teachers in Wyandotte County, Kansas. October falls in love with an unhappily married handyman, James Wilson, but when she becomes pregnant,...
by Mike Royko
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 19841997 is an expansive new volume of the longtime Chicago news legend’s work. Encompassing thousands of his columns, all of which originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune, this is the first collection of Royko work to solely cover his time at the...
Capone
A Photographic Portrait of America's Most Notorious Gangster
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
A visual retelling of the rise and eventual fall of Chicago's most notorious gangster: Alphonse "Scarface" Capone. Comprised of many never-before-published photographs from the Chicago Tribune's vast archives, Al Capone is a look back in time to the Roaring Twenties and the early days of organized crime....
The Best of Mary Schmich
Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Over the last two decades, Mary Schmich’s biweekly column in the Chicago Tribune has offered advice, humor, and discerning commentary on a broad array of topics including family, milestones, mental illness, writing, and life in Chicago. Schmich won the 2012 Pulitzer for Commentary for her down-to-earth...
Century of Progress
A Photographic Tour of the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Between 1933 and 1934, over 48 million visitors attended "A Century of Progress Exposition," the world's fair located in Chicago, Illinois. Conceived of during the Roaring Twenties and born during the Great Depression, this was a sprawling event celebrating Chicago's 100th anniversary with industrial...
Public Art in Chicago
Photography and Commentary on Sculptures, Statues, Murals and More
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Public Art in Chicago collects writings published in the Chicago Tribune about more than 40 of Chicago's most famous and memorable installations of public art: sculptures, statues, fountains, mosaics, murals, and more. The articles included here were published between 1887 and the present and include...