Download the guide here: Educator's Guide.

Buy the books here: High Flyers, and Thrill Seekers.

Read More »

SUSAN B. ANTHONY VOTES

by Bill Greer

 

Women’s suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony died sixteen years before the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed women across the United States the right to vote. Yet a century after women won that right, Anthony has a legitimate claim to being the first New …

Read More »

An Election Year in the Mirror

by Bill Greer

When I started writing A Dirty Year, a woman was running for president of the United States, and the polls projected Hillary Clinton to win. The parallels with my story of 1872 New York were clear. One of the leading characters was Victoria Woodhull. By…

Read More »

In honor of National Encourage a Young Writer Day, we reached out to our authors to get their advice for aspiring writers. So whether you have a case of writer’s block or you’re just not sure where to go next, below are some helpful tips to get you on your way to being the best writer you can …

Read More »

A Stranger Among Saints by Jonathan Mack traces the life of Stephen Hopkins, a colonist who spent 10 months stranded in Bermuda by a storm before eventually making it to Jamestown, where he spent six years before returning to England. He later signed on to another colonial venture, t…

Read More »

 

Home Is a Stranger is the new nonfiction travel title from the break-out novelist and recipient of a PEN Emerging Voice fellowship Parnaz Foroutan. Her memoir is about the meaning of desire, the transcendence of boundaries, and the journey to find home. 

With this being th…

Read More »

Matthew Algeo is a longtime Chicago Review Press author, having published six titles with us. He is an award-winning journalist who has reported from four continents, and his stories have appeared on public radio's All Things Considered, Marketplace, and Morning Edition.

With the release of his n…

Read More »

 

An incredible true tale, More than Marmalade: Michael Bond and the Story of Paddington Bear is the first biography about the writer behind the beloved series. Author Rosanne Tolin reveals how world history, Bond's life, and 1950s immigrant culture were embedded into Paddington's creati…

Read More »

A Comparative Analysis of Liminal Fairy-Human Literary Works, Complete with Jargon and an Unnecessarily Long Title to Indicate its Scholarly Nature by Jon Etter, M.A., B.A., B.S., P.U., X.O.X.O.

Since A Dreadful Fairy Book, Book 1 of Those Dreadful Fairy Books, was published, many people have bee…

Read More »

Better Days Will Come Again by Travis Atria tells the true story of Arthur Briggs, whose life was a whirlwind of music, triumph, and tragedy. During the legendary Jazz Age in Paris, Briggs’s trumpet provided the soundtrack to the Lost Generation. By the 1930s, Briggs was considered “the Louis Ar…

Read More »