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Friends of Wheaton Library to hold Holiday Book and Art Sale Nov. 11-14

Submitted by Carolyn DeAre
Oct 11, 2021 4:23 PM - The Friends at the Wheaton Public Library are busy preparing for the return of the popular Holiday Book and Art Sale running Nov. 11-14.
Sue Grafton's alphabet novels headed to television

By Hillel Italie
Oct 9, 2021 6:00 AM - A TV adaptation of the late Sue Grafton's million-selling Kinsey Millhone mystery novels, a prospect the author once swore she would return from the dead to prevent, is now the works.
Date With History's Oct. 7 program to focus on 'J.R.R. Tolkien and the World Wars'

Submitted by First Division Museum
Oct 5, 2021 1:18 PM - The First Division Museum at Cantigny Park continues its acclaimed Date with History series with an online program featuring author Janet Brennan Croft. She will discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's personal experience with war and how it manifested in his legendarium.
Review: Franzen dreams big, and goes deep, with 'Crossroads'

By ROB MERRILL
Oct 5, 2021 9:28 AM - From Jonathan Franzen, the writer regarded by many as America's pre-eminent novelist, comes the first book in a trilogy titled 'œThe Key to All Mythologies.'
Review: History, adventure collide in 'The Lincoln Highway'

By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH
Oct 5, 2021 11:12 AM - If you like history with a healthy dose of adventure, Amor Towles' new novel may be for you
Review: Soyinka writes a crime thriller and political satire

By MOLLY SPRAYREGEN
Oct 4, 2021 8:49 AM - In 'œChronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth,' high-ranking leaders in a fictionalized Nigeria are part of a vast underground business selling human body parts, which are believed to hold supernatural qualities
Book review: Anthony Doerr dreams big with 'Cloud Cuckoo Land'

By Rob Merrill
Oct 4, 2021 6:00 AM - How do you follow up a Pulitzer Prize-winning work of fiction? If you're novelist Anthony Doerr ("All the Light We Cannot See") you write a story that consists of five separate stories, spans millennia, and all ties together with a fictional manuscript attributed to the ancient Greek novelist Antonius Diogenes called "Cloud Cuckoo Land."
Book review: 'Voices' richly illustrates pandemic's impact on lives

By Andrew DeMillo
Oct 3, 2021 7:30 AM - Eli Saslow's "Voices From the Pandemic" draws attention to the people who have been affected by coronavirus. Originally a series that ran in The Washington Post, the book offers numerous examples of the heartbreaking, infuriating and even inspiring ways COVID-19 has changed our world.
Book review: Anita Hill urges us all to battle gender violence

By Tracee M. Herbaugh
Oct 2, 2021 7:10 AM - When Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas in 1991, her life changed forever. Despite everything that's happened since then, the famed women's rights advocate remains hopeful about the future, which she covers in her new book, "Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence."
Wednesdays @ One kicks off Oct. 6 with 'The Essential Great Chicago Fire' author

Submitted by Norris Cultural Arts Center
Oct 1, 2021 10:00 PM - On Oct. 6, the Norris Cultural Arts Center in St. Charles is launching its fall season of "Wednesdays @ One" events when author William Pack presents a program based on his 2015 book, "The Essential Great Chicago Fire."

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