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Family tales: Huntley writer publishes mom’s memoir of Chicago childhood, wartime love story

By Dave Heun
Sep 05, 2025 4:28 am - A Huntley man has published his mother’s memoir about growing up in Chicago in the 1920s and 30s and marrying a World War II veteran.
Mount Prospect Library catalog grows with consortium expansion

Submitted by Mount Prospect Public Library
Sep 03, 2025 11:25 am - Vernon Area Public Library in Lincolnshire joins Cooperative Computer Services catalog consortium, giving Mount Prospect Public Library cardholders access to over 180,000 additional items starting Sept. 3.
Palatine Public Library District celebrates The Spinnaker Cove Book Club

Submitted by Leslie Perez
Sep 03, 2025 2:09 am - The Spinnaker Cove Book Club, a group of neighbors united by their passion for reading, marks its 15th anniversary this year.
Stephen King reimagines ‘Hansel and Gretel’ with Maurice Sendak’s unpublished drawings

By HILLEL ITALIE
Sep 02, 2025 10:08 am - When representatives for the late author-illustrator Maurice Sendak asked Stephen King to collaborate on a special project — a retelling of “Hansel and Gretel” using Sendak’s drawings — of course he said yes.
Book Review: A novelist on a book tour is stalked by a stranger in ‘All This Could Be Yours’

By BRUCE DESILVA
Sep 01, 2025 7:13 pm - Author Hank Phillippi Ryan has written a crime novel titled “All This Could Be Yours” about an author on tour to promote a crime novel titled “All This Could Be Yours.” As Ryan says in an endnote, it’s very meta.
Book Review: Wife digs into husband’s past and finds unsettling things in ‘I Become Her’

By BRUCE DESILVA
Aug 25, 2025 4:59 pm - Imogene is returning from a restaurant bathroom break when she sees her new husband, Lev, sitting at their table and appearing to flirt with a beautiful waitress. Is he? So begins “I Become Her,” the latest psychological thriller by veteran author Joe Hart.
Book Review: Icelandic detective stars in ‘The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer’

By BRUCE DESILVA
Aug 25, 2025 4:25 pm - Ragnar Jónasson is a devoted fan of puzzle mysteries and has given an Icelandic police detective the same obsession, so the young detective is thrilled to investigate the sudden disappearance of a best-selling crime novelist in “The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer.”
Book Review: Elaine Hsieh Chou dazzles in short story collection ‘Where Are You Really From’

By ANITA SNOW
Aug 25, 2025 4:16 pm - Author Elaine Hsieh Chou dazzles with rich, highly original and sometimes shocking stories in her collection of fiction, “Where Are You Really From.” Chou wanders in and out of a kind of magic realism, exploring our capability for self-deception and cruelty.
St. Charles library hosts William Hazelgrove for book talk on massive Gilded Age scam

By Denise Blaszynski, St. Charles Public Library
Aug 21, 2025 3:48 pm - On Wednesday, Sept. 10, author William Hazelgrove will discuss his book "Greed in the Gilded Age: The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick" at the St. Charles Public Library.
Book Review: A gang of hatchet-wielding women try to take over the meth business in rural Texas

By BRUCE DESILVA
Aug 18, 2025 12:52 pm - A poor country woman and her kids are being terrorized by Porky, a rampaging hog that keeps breaking out of a neighbor’s pen. For help, she turns to Hap Collins and Leonard Pine in Joel R. Lansdale’s 14th darkly comic novel about the duo, “The Hatchet Girls.”

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