Barbara’s Book Store UIC
1218 S. Halsted St.
Chicago, 312-413-2665
1. A Long Way Home
By Ishmael Beah
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $22
Ishmael Beah recounts the horrors of being a boy soldier in Sierra Leone and his subsequent struggles to redeem his life.
2. The Road
By Cormac McCarthy
Knopf, $14.95 paper
This post-apocalyptic journey of a father and son won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
3. Suite Francaise
By Irene Nemirovsky
Knopf, $14.95 paper
A novel about life under Nazi occupation, by a Jewish writer who died at Auschwitz.
4. Taylor Street: Chicago’s Little Italy
By Kathy Catrambone and Ellen Shubart
Arcadia, $19.99
A nostalgic look at Chicago’s Little Italy.
5. Defending the Damned
By Kevin Davis
Atria, $25
A look at a team of lawyers in the Cook County Public Defender’s office.
