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Book Review: Ta-Nehisi Coates visits Senegal, South Carolina and the Middle East for ‘The Message’

By ROB MERRILL
Oct 07, 2024 7:55 am - Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose, so naming his latest collection “The Message” is nothing if not on-brand. But what’s the actual message? Consisting of ...
Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, looks back in memoir ‘Be Ready When the Luck Happens’

By MARK KENNEDY
Oct 04, 2024 9:36 am - Long before Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa mini-empire of bestselling cookbooks and TV shows ever took off, she found herself at an airport, wanting to learn to fly. The story of how she refused to budge is included in her memoir, "Be Ready When the Luck Happens."
Book Review: ‘Revenge of the Tipping Point’ is fan service for readers of Gladwell’s 2000 book

By ANDREW DeMILLO
Oct 04, 2024 9:23 am - In “Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering,” Malcolm Gladwell is rehashing and rebuilding on the concepts that he first wrote about in 2000. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it wasn’t really necessary either.
Reese Witherspoon is teaming with bestseller Harlan Coben on her first suspense novel

By HILLEL ITALIE
Oct 02, 2024 1:48 pm - Grand Central Publishing announced Wednesday that Reese Witherspoon is teaming with the bestselling thriller writer and Netflix producer-creator Harlan Coben on a suspense novel, her first work of adult fiction.
St. Charles library celebrating ‘One Book, One Community’ with the author of ‘The Music of Bees’

By Denise Blaszynski, St. Charles Public Library
Oct 01, 2024 10:07 pm - Throughout the month of October, the St. Charles Public Library will celebrate “One Book, One Community,” a shared, community-wide reading experience.
After playing Weird Barbie, Kate McKinnon’s new children’s book also celebrates being uniquely you

By ALICIA RANCILIO
Oct 01, 2024 12:44 pm - If you find it odd that Kate McKinnon chose her first book to be for middle-grade kids, the former “Saturday Night Live” star says, think again. Find out why when she hosts a sold-out author event Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Tivoli Theatre in Downers Grove.
Book Review: Louise Erdrich writes about love and loss in North Dakota in ‘The Mighty Red’

By ROB MERRILL
Sep 30, 2024 6:27 pm - Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich returns with a story close to her heart, “The Mighty Red.” Set in the author’s native North Dakota, the title refers to the river that serves as a metaphor for life in the Red River Valley. It also carries a secret central to the story’s plot.
Book Review: ‘The Last Dream,’ short stories scattered with the seeds of Pedro Almodovar films

By ANITA SNOW
Sep 30, 2024 6:18 pm - The seeds of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s later cinematic work are scattered throughout the pages of “The Last Dream,” his newly published collection of short writings.
‘I’m just a storyteller’: Meet the St. Charles retiree turned murder mystery author

By Dave Heun
Sep 27, 2024 3:30 am - Glynn Amburgey of St. Charles has written three murder mysteries since retiring from his job at the city of St. Charles in 2012.
Kim Porter’s children say she didn’t write bestselling memoir about Diddy

By KAITLYN HUAMANI
Sep 25, 2024 2:48 pm - Although it’s a bestseller on Amazon, the late Kim Porter did not write a tell-all memoir detailing an abusive relationship with her longtime partner Sean “Diddy” Combs, her children said in a statement Tuesday.

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