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Sophie Kinsella, author of the millions-selling ‘Shopaholic’ novels, dies at 55

Dec 10, 2025 7:44 am - Sophie Kinsella, the author behind the popular “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” died Monday from complications of brain cancer. She was 55.
Her family spied for Germany in WWII. She tried to learn the truth.

By Rebecca Brenner Graham
Dec 08, 2025 12:43 pm - In 1994, a suburban wife, mother and journalist named Christine Kuehn received a mysterious letter in the mail from a filmmaker. Its message? A suggestion that her grandparents were Nazi spies who facilitated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Eric Dane’s emotional memoir, including his life with ALS, to be published in April

By HILLEL ITALIE
Dec 08, 2025 12:05 pm - A memoir by Eric Dane, the “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Euphoria” actor who has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, will be published next year.
Proud to be an American: St. Charles author publishes book celebrating 250 years of America

By Ryan Cole
Dec 06, 2025 5:00 pm - Jay Payleitner of St. Charles recently published a book celebrating 250 things that make America worth celebrating.
‘Lightbreakers’ is a moving, inventive novel about physics, time and love

By Andrew Ervin
Dec 02, 2025 2:52 pm - The term “scientific fiction,” a subtle adjustment to science fiction, is often used to describe weighty literary novels about cutting-edge technologies and big ideas, and it’s an apt way to describe Aja Gabel’s riveting second novel, “Lightbreakers.”
Along for the ride: Judson in Elgin named Bicycle Friendly University

By Ralph Banasiak, Along for the Ride
Dec 01, 2025 9:49 am - With holidays approaching, my annual book reviews offer suggestions for biking gift lists, your own or others. First, however, positive bicycling news: League of American Bicyclists recently awarded official Bicycle Friendly University status to three Illinois institutions on Nov. 13, including Elgin’s Judson University.
The 10 best thrillers of 2025

By Washington Post Editors and Reviewers
Nov 21, 2025 9:20 am - The year’s best thrillers whisk readers to vast wildernesses and haunted houses, small-town Virginia and the tony Hamptons. Danger, it turns out, lurks everywhere.
At 81, Joy Williams is as good as she’s ever been

By Jake Cline
Nov 20, 2025 2:48 pm - “The demands of living have consequences,” a haunted young mother says in Joy Williams’ 1978 novel, “The Changeling,” “and that is called fate.” The woman’s brother-in-la...
Scrooge revisited: MCC professors to present a new take on ‘A Christmas Carol’

By Katie Van Dyne, McHenry County College
Nov 19, 2025 9:43 am - McHenry County College invites the community to get in the holiday spirit with a thought-provoking twist on a timeless classic. “A Christmas Carol Revisited: Scrooge’s Reclamation” will take place at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, in the college’s Black Box Theatre, with festive pre-show music beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Patti Smith is more candid than ever in her book ‘Bread of Angels’

By Maureen Corrigan
Nov 17, 2025 9:48 am - If Patti Smith’s “Bread of Angels” lacks the strong coming-to-New York plot line of “Just Kids,” it feels more intimate than either of its predecessors, which are both graced and obscured by Smith’s enigmatic writing style.

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