Literature
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Author makes readers care about boys about to become men
Nov 11, 2019 4:08 PM - The resentment over a black man being in charge, and demoting a local resident, has violent ramifications in 'Nothing More Dangerous' by Allen Eskens
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Fans and newcomers alike will enjoy 'Twisted Twenty-Six'
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Author endeavors to show how animals relate to humans
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Poet Kevin Coval will give reading at OaktonNov 10, 2019 4:31 PM - Northbrook native and Glenbrook North High School alumnus Kevin Coval will read selections from his collection of poetry 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, at Oakton Community College's Student Center (Room 1530), 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines.
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Book review: Mitch Albom's 'Finding Chika' is a bittersweet memoir about family
Nov 10, 2019 7:29 AM - Mitch Albom, the author of "Tuesdays With Morrie," has a new memoir in which he again shares lessons learned from someone dear to him who dies. This time, though, instead of an old professor, his teacher is a young girl from the orphanage he runs in Haiti. -
Book review: Lucy Ellmann's 'Ducks, Newburyport' is brilliant, addictive
Nov 9, 2019 7:26 AM - Lucy Ellmann's "Ducks, Newburyport," which is shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is brilliant and addictive. It's a nearly 1,000-page book that's mostly one sentence. The main character is an unnamed woman who is a mom, cancer survivor, wife and baker, who's trying to hold it together after her family is hit with numerous challenges. -
Book by anonymous Trump official portrays a presidency on the brink
Nov 8, 2019 7:51 AM - In "A Warning" by Anonymous, a writer described only as "a senior official in the Trump administration" paints a chilling portrait of the president as cruel, inept and a danger to the nation he was elected to lead.
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Glenbard Parent Series to host author of 'I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter' Nov. 20
Nov 9, 2019 5:50 PM - On Wednesday, Nov. 20, the Glenbard Parent Series Navigating Healthy Families will host an author event with Erika Sánchez, author of "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter." -
Author believes Dist. 200 canceled Wheaton school visit due to LGBTQ content; officials cite procedural issue
Nov 7, 2019 8:50 AM - A children's book author is upset and disappointed that Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 abruptly canceled her visit to an elementary school for what she believes are parental objections to LGBTQ content in her collection of stories about prominent activists. -
Read author's letter to Wheaton Warrenville District 200 after her school visit was canceled
Nov 6, 2019 7:32 PM - Read the full letter author Robin Stevenson sent Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 after officials canceled her school visit.
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