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March 13, 2017 • Behind the Scenes
Lt. Col. Michael Zacchea, USMC (ret.) and Ted Kemp, senior editor in charge of CNBC Digital’s foreign desk collaborated to tell Michael’s story of his time in Iraq in The Ragged Edge:
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From his involvement in Bleeding Kansas to the invasion of Harpers Ferry, John Brown has gone down in American history as one of the most dogmatic and influential abolitionists in the years leading up to the Civil War. The Insurrectionist: A Novel by Herb Karl presents a fictionalized account of Joh…
This November Chicago Review Press welcomed Ashley Alfirevic as our new publicity associate. A native of the south suburbs, Ashley headed west for college and majored in english literature and communication studies at Colorado State and earned a graduate certificate from the Denver Publishing Instit…
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Born into dire poverty and raised in the projects of Chicago, Curtis Mayfield went on to become a musical prodigy and an iconic voice of the 1960s civil rights era, with hits like “People Get Ready” and “Keep On Pushing.” Yet, no great biography has ever been written about the musician until…
Kathryn J. Atwood has written several books for our Women of Action series: Women Heroes of World War II, Code Name Pauline, and Women Heroes of World War I. Although these titles are categorized as YA, they also attract a range of adult readers. Booklist says her newest book, Women Heroes of World…