I'll Take Everything You Have by James Klise

53 minutes The Sleep Prescription with Dr. Sixteen-year-old Joe Garbe leaves the family farm, finding trouble and romance in Chicago during the Great Depression.

His newest book, I’LL TAKE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE, is a queer coming-of-age crime novel set in 1930s Chicago. James Klise’s acclaimed novels for teens include the Edgar Award-winning THE ART OF SECRETS and the ALA Stonewall Honor-winning LOVE DRUGGED. I’ll Take Everything You Have is a vivid portrayal of queer coming of age in Depression-era Chicago, and a timeless story of trying to make your future bright when the rest of the world is dead set on keeping it hidden in the dark. I’ll Take Everything You Have with James Klise James Klise’s acclaimed novels for teens include the Edgar Award-winning THE ART OF SECRETS and the ALA Stonewall Honor-winning LOVE. I’ll Take Everything You Have with James Klise.

But before he can figure out where to go, he has to decide who he wants to be. I'll Take Everything You Have by James Klise 4.0 Hardcover 17.99 Hardcover 17.99 eBook 11.99 Audiobook 0.00 Audio CD 46.

When danger closes in-from gangsters, the police, and people he thought were friends-Joe needs to pack up and get lost. A make-or-break summer in 1930s Chicago takes a turn into noir in this riveting coming-of-age novel by award-winning author James Klise. Joe’s exposure to the surface of criminal Chicago pulls him into something darker than he could have imagined. While running his con, Joe finds himself splitting time between Eddie, a handsome flirt on a delivery truck, and Raymond, a carefree rich kid who shows Joe the eye-opening queer life around every corner of the big city. Joe’s cousin sets him up with a hotel job, then proposes a sketchy scheme to make a lot more money fast.

In the summer of 1934, Joe Garbe arrives in Chicago with one goal: Earn enough money to get out of debt and save the family farm. From an Edgar Award-winning author, this historical noir novel follows the life-changing summer of sixteen-year-old Joe Garbe as he discovers queer community in 1930s Chicago and gets caught up in the city's crooked underbelly.