Academy Chicago Publishers imprint: 34 books
Chicago by Gaslight
A History of Chicago's Netherworld: 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book revises the picture of the glittering Chicago of impressive mansions and museums; it exposes the city's corrupt underbelly and the realities of life in an age which is often assumed to have been simpler and more moral than ours. Includes chapters on the Haymarket riot, the gamblers' wars, the notorious levee red-light district and institutionalized graft.
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,...
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 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.
Box Wine Sailors
Misadventures of a Broke Young Couple at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The true story of a young couple who quit their jobs and set sail for a year on the ocean with no boating experienceAmy and Jimmie were not sailors and their experience on the seas included reading a few books, watching a couple of instructional videos, and boating once a week each year. They were...
Life for a Life
A DCI Gilchrist Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Set in the middle of winter in St. Andrews, this Scottish noir mystery is written by one of the UK's best crime writers, T. Frank MuirWhen a young woman's half-naked body is found on Fife's coastal path, frozen and with the remnants of a rope manacle around her wrist, DCI Gilchrist is given the case....
In a Dark Wood Wandering
A Novel of the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
In this novel, set in the 15th century during the Hundred Years War between France and England, Hella Haasse brilliantly captures all the drama of one of the great ages of history.
But You Scared Me the Most
And Other Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This collection of twenty-six dark but often humorous short stories features a pantheon of disturbed and disturbing characters, human and otherwise. Many of the stories are modern takes on classic monsters crafted with twisted plots and Twilight Zone-esque endings. For example, "Wolfman and Janice"...