Literature
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Why read what everyone else is reading? A guide to this season's hidden gems.
Dec 07, 2020 5:00 am - Come the holiday gift-giving season, remember that you don't need to buy the same books that everyone else is buying. If you're going online anyway, take a few minutes t...
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The 10 best books of 2020
Dec 06, 2020 6:30 am - "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" By Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, Nonfiction The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of "The Warmth of Other Suns" (201...
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5 thrillers that will have you on the edge of your seat
Dec 05, 2020 6:28 am - If, after the election, you aren't completely exhausted by the very idea of suspense, try any of these five late-in-the-year top-notch mysteries and thrillers, which are...
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10 books to read in December
Dec 05, 2020 6:00 am - If you're planning to give a lot of books this holiday season, save a bit of space on your list for one or more of this month's best reads, which include a manifesto for...
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Constable: Mom and 7-year-old spin a bedtime tale, then see it published as a bookDec 05, 2020 12:00 am - The bedtime story is a tradition played out nightly between kids and parents across the suburbs, the nation and the globe. In the Woodridge home of Hafsa Naz Mahmood, he...
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Book review: Excellent 'Dolly Parton, Songteller' shows her workhorse life, with show-pony frills
Dec 03, 2020 5:00 am - "Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics" by Dolly Parton and Robert K. Oermann (Chronicle Books) Dolly Parton doesn't remember if she actually wrote...
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Constable: Childhood fun in nature inspires Geneva writer's poetryDec 03, 2020 4:30 am - Growing up on Chicago's Gold Coast as the son of a prestigious doctor, Rick Holinger of Geneva had his “epiphany” on the edge of the Catskill Mountains while he was a st...
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Review: Hitman hiding out in England stars in 'Eddie's Boy'
Dec 01, 2020 6:00 am - 'œEddie's Boy,'ť by Thomas Perry (Mysterious Press) The hitman known as the butcher's boy is back, forced out of retirement at age 61 to confront an implacable old enemy...
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Book review: Retired hit man can't outrun his lethal past
Dec 01, 2020 5:00 am - "Eddie's Boy" by Thomas Perry (Mysterious Press) For nearly 40 years, Thomas Perry has been steadily building one of the most impressive bodies of work in contempor...
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'We all need a break from screens': Barrington school librarian gets creative to deliver booksDec 01, 2020 4:30 am - If students can't go to the library, the library will go to the students. That was the thinking of Taryn Parise, a teacher librarian at Hough Street Elementary in Barrin...