Literature
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Book review: Rachel Khong’s novel ‘Real Americans’ explores race, class and cultural identityApr 29, 2024 1:03 pm - Rachel Khong’s “Real Americans” wrestles with issues of class, race and the genetic component of disease. Though largely a work of social realism, it has a touch of science fiction.
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Book review: ‘Nothing But the Bones’ is a compelling noir novel at a breakneck paceApr 29, 2024 7:05 am - Nelson “Nails” McKenna isn’t very bright, stumbles over his words and often says what he’s thinking without realizing it. We first meet him as a boy reading a superhero c...
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Book review: Emily Henry is still the modern-day rom-com queen with ‘Funny Story’Apr 23, 2024 9:41 am - “Funny Story” isn’t a funny story at all. But it is a good one. Emily Henry's new romance novel starts with dueling breakups that have rocked the two main characters’ worlds — and forced them to bond over their shared broken hearts.
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Book review: Hampton Sides revisits Captain James Cook, a divisive figure in the South PacificApr 15, 2024 5:01 pm - Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. He set out to find a westward ocean passage from Europe to Asia but instead, with the maps he created and his reports, Cook revealed the Pacific islands and their people to the world.
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Batavia’s Books Between Bites welcomes author Marnie Mamminga April 18Apr 12, 2024 9:41 pm - Batavia's popular monthly noontime book program, “Books Between Bites,” continues Thursday, April 18, with a third visit by Batavia author Marnie Mamminga. She has coll...
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Book review: Short story anthology ‘The Black Girl Survives in This One’ challenges the horror canonApr 08, 2024 3:39 pm - Ahh, the Final Girl — a point of pride, a point of contention. Too often, the white, virginal, Western ideal. But not this time. “The Black Girl Survives in This One,” a ...
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Third place winners in 2024 District 214, Daily Herald Community Art & Writing ContestApr 08, 2024 1:08 pm - Visual art, poetry and prose: We share the work of the third place winners in the Arts Unlimited District 214 and Daily Herald Community Art & Writing Contest.
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Children’s book author shows support for Palatine school’s PTAApr 07, 2024 8:06 pm - When children’s book author and motivational speaker Randi Moxi heard about the financial plight of a parent-teacher organization in Palatine Township Elementary District...
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‘You can’t accept life if you can’t accept death’: Hands of Hope offers book club for grief and lossApr 03, 2024 12:25 pm - Imagine a book club focused on death and grief. That’s what Hands of Hope began this year with its Turning the Page Book Club.
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Second place winners in 2024 District 214, Daily Herald Community Art & Writing ContestApr 04, 2024 10:51 am - Visual art, poetry and prose: We share the work of the second place winners in the Arts Unlimited District 214 and Daily Herald Community Art & Writing Contest.
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