Literature
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Book Review: Chris Hayes’ ‘Sirens’ Call’ is a thorough look at the fight for attention in modern age
Feb 07, 2025 5:23 pm - With “The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource,” MSNBC host Chris Hayes is exploring how we got to this point, and the result is a fascinating history of what he calls the attention age.
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Ian McEwan’s next novel, ‘What We Can Know,’ is science fiction ‘without the science’
Feb 07, 2025 8:20 am - The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar’s immersion into a poem written during happier times.
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Geneva Public Library to give away 1,295 books Saturday for One Book, One Community
Feb 05, 2025 1:52 pm - In beginning its fourth year of One Book, One Community, the Geneva Public Library will give away 1,295 copies of “No Two Persons” by Erica Bauermeister.
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Book Review: Susan Barker returns with ‘Old Soul,’ a thrilling horror story that defies description
Feb 03, 2025 12:02 pm - Described in marketing materials as “literary horror,” Susan Barker’s “Old Soul” is a supernatural mystery that culminates in an old-fashioned chase scene in the Badlands of New Mexico that almost leaves readers with a sense of justice.
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Nora Roberts is happily defying genres with 250 books written
Jan 30, 2025 5:09 pm - Nora Roberts is so prolific she had to take up a pen name so her publisher could release more books by her each year. “I’m a fast writer,” Roberts said. She typically releases four books a year, and has for more than four decades.
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Book Review: Hunted by the FBI and Russian Oligarch, a hedge fund manager flees into the wilderness
Jan 27, 2025 11:34 am - Paul Brightman, a former hedge fund manager, has been keeping a low profile, changing his name to Grant Anderson and making a modest living as a boat builder in a small N...
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Batavia’s Books Between Bites hosts local author, illustrator for new book launchJan 24, 2025 10:51 pm - Batavia's Books Between Bites hosts children's book authors presenting a new book and torn paper art demo on Jan 30. Additional author talks continue through May.
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Birding expert aims to make gull identification less intimidatingJan 22, 2025 7:36 am - Gull expert Amar Ayyash of Orland Park seeks to make gull identification less intimidating through his new guide covering North America's 36 species.
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Book Review: A tour de force of a novel about a celebrated actor in the throes of a midlife crisis
Jan 21, 2025 11:28 am - Have you ever woken up on Thanksgiving morning to a house full of company and just wanted to flee? In Mischa Berlinski’s extravagantly brilliant and darkly funny new novel, “Mona Acts Out,” the eponymous heroine does just that.
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Book Review: Robert Crais spins the tale of a hard-boiled private eye who uncovers a conspiracy
Jan 17, 2025 12:12 pm - Traci Beller was 13 when her father went out on some service calls and never returned home. Ten years later, she turns to Elvis Cole, the self-declared world’s greatest detective, to help find him in Robert Crais’ “The Big Empty.”
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