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Best-selling author Madeline Miller visits Vernon Hills March 8

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Feb 27, 2020 12:00 am - Best-selling author Madeline Miller will wrap up the One Book, One Community series at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 8, at Vernon Hills High School, 145 Lakeview Parkway, Vernon ...
Review: P.I. Leonid McGill returns in `Trouble Is What I Do'

By BRUCE DESILVA
Feb 26, 2020 6:00 am - 'œTrouble Is What I Do,'ť Mulholland Books, by Walter Mosley Many years ago, a Mississippi bluesman named Catfish Worry had an affair with the daughter of a wealthy whit...
Review: Wayne does good job building suspense in `Apartment'

By ANN LEVIN
Feb 26, 2020 6:00 am - 'œApartment,'ť Bloomsbury, by Teddy Wayne Teddy Wayne has written another campus novel. Coming on the heels of his well-received 'œLoner'ť (2016), 'œApartment'ť also se...
Review: Author tells story of overcoming perfectionism

By ANN LEVIN
Feb 26, 2020 6:00 am - 'œScratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism,'ť Harper, by Elizabeth Tallent In the 1980s, Elizabeth Tallent was a rising star in the literary world, publishing short stories ...
Review: Gardiner weaves horrifying tale in `Dark Corners'

By JEFF AYERS
Feb 26, 2020 6:00 am - 'œThe Dark Corners of the Night,'ť Blackstone Publishing, by Meg Gardiner A terrifying killer that targets families by attacking them in the middle of the night tests t...
Review: A poet is revealed through 10 key days of her life

By ANN LEVIN
Feb 25, 2020 6:00 am - 'œThese Fevered Days,'ť W.W. Norton & Company, by Martha Ackmann Once again, Emily Dickinson is having a moment. The reclusive 19th-century poet was the central figure ...
Review: Little's 'Pretty as a Picture' is captivating novel

By OLINE H. COGDILL
Feb 25, 2020 6:00 am - 'œPretty as a Picture,'ť Viking, by Elizabeth Little A film set located on a small remote island off the coast of Delaware evolves into an exciting locked-room mystery t...
Review: 'Driving While Black' opens road to civil rights

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS
Feb 25, 2020 6:00 am - 'œDriving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights,'ť Liveright/W.W. Norton, by Gretchen Sorin Chuck Berry had his Cadillac. Scholar W.E.B. Du B...
Review: `Broken Faith' looks inside Word of Faith Fellowship

By JEFF ROWE
Feb 25, 2020 6:00 am - "Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults,'ť Hanover Square Press, by Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr Few religious leaders...
Review: Wayne does good job building suspense in `Apartment'

By ANN LEVIN
Feb 25, 2020 6:00 am - 'œApartment,'ť Bloomsbury, by Teddy Wayne Teddy Wayne has written another campus novel. Coming on the heels of his well-received 'œLoner'ť (2016), 'œApartment'ť also se...

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