Awards search:Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Adults

The Iliad

by Homer
Paperback, 1990
Tags
literature - epic, mythology, mythology - Greek, war, quest, classical studies, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Root Religions
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Barcode
BK-06388
Call number
Epic / Homer

The Iliad, the story of Achillè‚s

by Homer
Paperback, 1938
Tags
literature - epic, mythology, mythology - Greek, war, quest, classical studies, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Root Religions
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Barcode
BK-01573
Call number
Epic / Homer

The Iliad : a new translation

by Homer
Paperback, 2016
Tags
literature - epic, mythology, mythology - Greek, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Root Religions
Series
Homer's Epic Cycle (1)
Barcode
BK-08299
Call number
Epic / Homer

The lightning thief

by Rick Riordan
Paperback, 2005
Tags
literature - fiction, mythology, mythology - Greek, New York, coming of age, quest, intended audience - juvenile
Collections
Your library, Children's Materials
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (1)
Barcode
BK-08067
Call number
Juv-Fic / Riord

The invention of wings

by Sue Monk Kidd
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
literature - fiction, 19th century, South Carolina, women writers, race relations, equality, Quaker, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Arts and Letters
Barcode
BK-07411
Call number
Fiction / Kidd

I'll give you the sun

by Jandy Nelson
Paperback, 2015
Tags
literature - fiction, coming of age, California, grief, relationships, lgbtq, death and dying, intended audience - ya
Collections
Your library, Young Adult Materials
Barcode
BK-08101
Call number
YA-Fic / Nelso

Smoke gets in your eyes : and other lessons from the crematory

by Caitlin Doughty
Paperback, 2014
Tags
practice - death and dying, autobiography, 21st century, California, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Engaged Practices
Barcode
BK-08351
Call number
Death / Dough

Seven brief lessons on physics

by Carlo Rovelli
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
history of science, physics, time, physics - quantum mechanics, introduction, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, New Arrivals Being Processed, Adult Materials, Philosophy and Science
Barcode
BK-08622
Call number
Physics / Rovel

Lincoln in the bardo : a novel

by George Saunders
Paperback, 2017
Tags
literature - fiction, eschatology, death and dying, grief, Washington D.C., United States, 19th century, Buddhism, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Arts and Letters
Barcode
BK-08103
Call number
Fiction / Saund

How to change your mind : what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence

by Michael Pollan
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
psychology, mind science, consciousness, practice - recovery, healing, psychology - depression, entheogens, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Philosophy and Science
Barcode
BK-08262
Call number
Psy / Polla

How to change your mind : what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence

by Michael Pollan
Paperback, 2018
Tags
psychology, mind science, consciousness, practice - recovery, healing, psychology - depression, entheogens, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, New Arrivals Being Processed, Adult Materials, Philosophy and Science
Barcode
BK-08617
Call number
Psy / Polla

They called us enemy

by George Takei
Paperback, 2019
Tags
literature - graphic novel, autobiography, history, United States, 20th century, war, intended audience - adult, intended audience - ya
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Young Adult Materials, Arts and Letters
Barcode
BK-08245
Call number
Graphic / Takei
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