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Vernon Area Public Library will use state grant for digital resources

Daily Herald report
Jul 01, 2026 12:19 pm - The Vernon Area Public Library District in Lincolnshire will use a $75,150 state grant to help keep up with the cost of e-books and other digital resources, officials sai...
‘Prairie Pause’ to offer ‘Little House’ experience in downtown Chicago

By Susan Klovstad
Jun 26, 2026 12:42 pm - Inspired by a new Netflix adaptation of “Little House on the Prairie,” an upcoming pop-up in downtown Chicago will offer visitors a chance to immerse themselves in the 1870s.
‘One-woman show’: Barrington resident brings home-grown business to historic Ice House mall

By Steve Zalusky
Jun 25, 2026 8:44 am - Montana Bellagamba is bringing her passion for books to the town where she grew up, filling a need in her hometown.
A Jenna Bush Hager imprint release is now in Oprah’s book club

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jun 16, 2026 7:54 am - Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick also has the blessing of a second literary tastemaker, Jenna Bush Hager. Winfrey announced Tuesday that she had selected Sophie Chen Keller's “Little Wonder.”
Author Amy Griffin sues woman who alleged she stole her stories of sexual abuse in memoir ‘The Tell’

By ANDREW DALTON
Jun 16, 2026 6:48 am - Author Amy Griffin sued a former classmate for defamation on Monday, saying the woman’s statements in a New York Times story and a subsequent lawsuit alleging Griffin appropriated her stories of sexual abuse for her bestselling 2025 memoir “The Tell” are false in “every element.”
A rare first edition of 'Wuthering Heights' complete with spelling mistakes is up for auction

By JILL LAWLESS
Jun 16, 2026 6:42 am - A rare first-edition copy of “Wuthering Heights,” complete with spelling mistakes, is up for auction for the first time in more than a century, as Emily Brontë’s tragic, tempestuous romance gains new fans through a big-screen adaptation.
JD Vance writes of journey to Catholicism in ‘Communion,’ his first book since ‘Hillbilly Elegy’

By MEG KINNARD and MIKE CATALINI
Jun 15, 2026 11:49 am - Vice President JD Vance, a convert to Catholicism whose faith has been central to his adult life, writes about his religious journey in “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” out Tuesday, that could ultimately serve as a sort of origin story for a future presidential campaign.
Des Plaines Public Library launching reading program with party

Daily Herald report
May 29, 2026 2:44 pm - The Des Plaines Public Library will launch its summer reading challenge with an all-ages party Tuesday, June 9.
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes on aliens and how we should greet them in ‘Take Me to Your Leader’

By MARK KENNEDY
May 15, 2026 8:39 am - Neil deGrasse Tyson has had a lifelong fantasy of being abducted by aliens. That’s right, he actually wants to be taken. America’s favorite astrophysicist has turned that lifelong fascination into a book, “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter.”
Corleone crime family returns in a new ‘Godfather’ novel

By HILLEL ITALIE
May 13, 2026 7:50 am - Decades after the last “Godfather” movie and more than 10 years since the last “Godfather” novel, the story of the Corleone crime family has a new chapter, presented for the first time from a woman’s point of view.

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