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Her latest book Reflections & Echoes is out now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a2daccc36ee2303b8ee1aa/1622181243933-1TE1UTVPIX2OZLLZ8R7L/52126788_299810860681304_5380548330495410176_n.jpg Home - CWA Presents Sandra was a board member of the Chicago Writers Association. She moderates CWA Presents, where she's had the opportunity to interview Chicago area writers and bookstore owners. https://authorsandracolbert.com/about daily 0.75 2021-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a2daccc36ee2303b8ee1aa/1622060571231-03E6HWSKLBSSCM8GK559/Sandy%27s+Portrait+2014.JPG About - Growing up in the Back of the Yards, made me want to leave the Back of the Yards. If you wanted any form of culture, you took the bus downtown. If you wanted to go anywhere with trees and flowers, you took the bus or walked a long distance. If you wanted to see a baseball game, you took the bus. If you wanted impressive, ornate Catholic Churches, you just had to look around. If you wanted a shot and a beer, just look down your block. If you wanted to be surrounded by strong, hard working people clinging to their way of life, look around. After being away for so many years, I return. The roots run deep. So I find I am bound to Chicago and this neighborhood, regardless of where I live. Those people who surrounded me, those mostly poorly educated, unsophisticated people, who were my grandparents, uncles, aunts and neighbors ended up inspiring me. So many were bound for Chicago for a life that they couldn't have imagined. The courage of these people amazes me. This is Chicago Bound. This is me. https://authorsandracolbert.com/books daily 0.75 2021-05-28 https://authorsandracolbert.com/books/the-reason monthly 0.5 2021-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a2daccc36ee2303b8ee1aa/1622166455433-1IIXTWEBGOFKCR6PB23Z/51ngpybw8FL.jpg Books - The Reason (The Kate Harrison Detective Series Book 1) - The Reason Windy City Publishers “The guys working on the new fence just found a body.” Home improvement just took an unexpected twist for Kate Harrison and her family. Nothing in her experience as a private investigator prepared her for the journey that she was about to take. She needed her home back. She needed her life back. But when the truth is discovered, will it forever taint her home and her life? What demons are released when memories unfold? Thus begins the first in the Kate Harrison detective series. Genre: Private Investigator Mysteries Publish Date: October 4, 2016 Format(s): Paperback, Ebook, Audiobook Page Count: 152 ISBN-10: 194147831X ISBN-13: 978-1941478318 https://authorsandracolbert.com/books/reflections-echoes monthly 0.5 2021-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a2daccc36ee2303b8ee1aa/1622063094126-0CVRYO1IM26NP5TA6BEM/41WxyAUUUvL._SX322_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Books - Reflections & Echoes - Reflections & Echoes Windy City Publishers This is the third collection of short stories by Sandra Colbert ~ the first two being Chicago Bound and Chicago Bound 2-Time and Again. She is also the author of the Kate Harrison crime series. Genre: Short Stories Publish Date: January 30, 2021 Format(s): Paperback Page Count: 170 ISBN-10: 1953294065 ISBN-13: 978-1953294067 https://authorsandracolbert.com/books/chicago-bound-2 monthly 0.5 2021-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a2daccc36ee2303b8ee1aa/1622140772529-HFOI142ARC9702T494PC/51Xajwo1xxL._SX331_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Books - Chicago Bound 2: Time and Again - Chicago Bound 2: Time and Again Windy City Publishers “Sandra Colbert portrays working-class life in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood in the immediate postwar era. Her stories tell the trials of young people growing up amidst the wooden frame tenements, packinghouses, and streets of a part of the city rarely visited by outsiders. With Chicago Bound 2 she takes her place among Chicago’s long line of realistic writers. The joy, grit, and heartbreak of the city make this collection especially vivid.” —Dominic A. Pacyga, Author of Chicago: A Biography Genre: Short Stories Publish Date: October 1, 2019 Format(s): Paperback Page Count: 92 ISBN-10: 1941478875 ISBN-13: 978-1941478875 https://authorsandracolbert.com/books/extradition monthly 0.5 2021-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a2daccc36ee2303b8ee1aa/1622154291920-6AWI9X632JCO239CAXNI/41ETmmDOhBL._SX331_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Books - Extradition (A Kate Harrison Novel) - Extradition (A Kate Harrison Novel) Windy City Publishers Extradition takes place after the killer from Damaged Souls is arrested in Phoenix. Since the crime took place in Illinois, the prisoner must be brought back to Arizona for the trial. What should be a standard extradition turns into a nightmare, not only for Kate, but for Paul and others. Genre: Private Investigator Mysteries Publish Date: October 19, 2018 Format(s): Paperback Page Count: 192 ISBN-10: 1941478735 ISBN-13: 978-1941478738 https://authorsandracolbert.com/books/damaged-souls monthly 0.5 2021-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a2daccc36ee2303b8ee1aa/1622169650977-HB113OK3EAJJH5PG3G2J/3110JVgIXJL._SX331_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Books - Damaged Souls (A Kate Harrison Novel) - Damaged Souls (A Kate Harrison Novel) Windy City Publishers Kate’s deepest fears were realized…she had no choice. It was time. Time to return to Phoenix and face the demons that drove her away. Time hadn’t eased the pain or erased the memories. …and the killer was still out there. Genre: Private Investigator Mysteries Publish Date: October 11, 2017 Format(s): Paperback Page Count: 234 ISBN-10: 1941478506 ISBN-13: 978-1941478509 https://authorsandracolbert.com/books/chicago-bound monthly 0.5 2021-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a2daccc36ee2303b8ee1aa/1622170411284-UR5H4NCQVHDGGG165RPW/51vhqSLVtDL._SX322_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Books - Chicago Bound - Chicago Bound McIver Publishing “Sandra Colbert’s Chicago Bound, a collection of stories about the first generation of immigrant experience in Chicago was a pleasure to read. By turns charming, eloquent, or sad, each story was honed to a sharp edge, exposing an underlying darkness I didn’t expect. Most are populated with ordinary individuals who may not recognize their flaws but deal with both joy and sorrow in a way that reinforces the humanity in us all. Colbert is definitely a writer to watch.” ―Libby Fisher Hellmann, author of Nobody’s Child Genre: Short Stories Publish Date: May 1, 2015 Format(s): Mass Market Paperback Page Count: 137 ISBN-10: 0991622766 ISBN-13: 978-0991622764