Literature
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GPS partners with College of DuPage for Great Read SeriesOct 17, 2024 10:52 pm - The GPS Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will partner with College of DuPage to host Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of “Gods of Jade and Shadow” on Monday, Oct. 28.
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Book Review: Cop cold case unit pursues a rapist, foils a terrorist plot and tackles a 1947 murder in Michael Connelly’s ‘The Waiting’Oct 15, 2024 9:35 am - It’s early morning in Southern California, and Renee Ballard, director of the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit, is where she most loves to be. She’s surfing, and she’s darned good...
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Tori Amos’ first children’s book is an ode to inspirationOct 15, 2024 8:17 am - Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Tori Amos is working on a children's book — her first — that she hopes will help young people follow their own paths of inspiration. “Tori and the Muses” will be published March 4.
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Book Review: ‘The Book of George’ is a witty novel in lively episodes like a first-rate TV sitcom
Oct 14, 2024 9:29 am - “The Book of George” is a novel of many finely crafted, often funny moments that arrive episodically as the title character grows older. At first he’s a millennial kid, t...
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Books Between Bites to feature more Batavia history in literature by mayorOct 12, 2024 12:48 am - Batavia's popular monthly noontime book program, “Books Between Bites,” continues on Thursday, Oct. 17, when they welcome Mayor Jeff Schielke for his annual presentation.
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Riley Keough felt a duty to finish Lisa Marie Presley’s book on Elvis, grief, addiction and loveOct 10, 2024 4:42 pm - Riley Keough was quick to agree to help complete her mother’s memoir. She thought they’d write it together, reflecting on her extraordinary upbringing and life, but it became a much greater responsibility after Lisa Marie Presley’s sudden death in 2023.
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Trump secretly sent covid tests to Putin during 2020 shortage, new book says
Oct 08, 2024 1:41 pm - As the coronavirus tore through the world in 2020, and the United States and other countries confronted a shortage of tests designed to detect the illness, then-President Donald Trump secretly sent coveted tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his personal use.
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Book Review: ‘Countdown 1960’ shows parallels with this year’s presidential election season
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Oprah Winfrey selects Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir as her next book club selectionOct 08, 2024 7:36 am - Oprah Winfrey has chosen Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown," as her new book club pick.
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Book Review: Paula Hawkins returns with psychological thriller ‘The Blue Hour’