Literature
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Book Review: Debut novel ‘Headshot’ gives us head shots of the psyches of teenage girl boxersMar 12, 2024 7:08 am - Rita Bullwinkel knows a thing or two about the human body and the abuse it can take. In an interview with The Paris Review, the author, who played water polo in college, ...
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‘You can get through this’: Mount Prospect woman’s book shines light on invisible injuryMar 08, 2024 9:03 pm - High school sweethearts Chase and Katianne Olson were raising a family in Mount Prospect when their lives changed in an instant on May 18, 2020. Chase was doing maintenan...
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Downers Grove’s One Book, One Town event focuses on compassion, hopeMar 05, 2024 5:15 pm - Library, EQuality Downers Grove collaborate on communitywide reading event If you live in the Downers Grove community and are looking for a book to read, there is a...
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Book Review: ‘The Hunter’ is a dark and lyrical tale of revenge, friendship and loyalty in collisionMar 05, 2024 6:46 am - Cal Hooper fled a failing marriage, quit his exhausting job with the Chicago Police Department, and settled down in Ardnakelty, a fictional village nestled in the mountai...
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Book review: Elizabeth Brooks’ Austen-esque World War II novel has romance, betrayal and a touch of macabreMar 04, 2024 10:57 am - In a chance meeting in 1934, Nina hosts a dinner party. She’s 14, trying on womanhood for the first time, and even the drunken foolery of Guy Nicholson and his friend can...
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Book review: Thomas Mullen’s portrayal of a divided nation in 1943 draws parallels to todayFeb 27, 2024 7:09 am - Thomas Mullen’s “The Rumor Game” is a disturbing yarn about a divided, rumor-riddled nation that offers apt but unstated parallels to present-day America.
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Fine Line hosts Art Book Sale March 2Feb 25, 2024 10:56 pm - The Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St. Charles is holding a one-day used book sale on Saturday, March 2, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All the books in the sale will be art...
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Addison Center for the Arts to host fourth annual ‘Expressions: Art and Verse’ exhibitFeb 23, 2024 11:50 pm - The Addison Center for the Arts is hosting its fourth collaboration between visual artists and the Illinois State Poetry Society. Participating poets will read poems ins...
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Book Review: New collaborative novel ‘Fourteen Days’ proves the pandemic couldn’t curb creativityFeb 23, 2024 10:07 am - Almost four years since COVID-19 became a household term, a new work of fiction proves that even a global pandemic can’t curb creativity. “Fourteen Days” is billed as a “...
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Book review: Melissa Albert’s ‘The Bad Ones’ is a gripping story of friendship and the supernaturalFeb 20, 2024 11:12 am - Melissa Albert’s fifth young adult novel, “The Bad Ones,” is both chilling and heartwarming — a story of limitless friendship clashing with fantastical supernatural power in the cold winter of a little Illinois town.
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