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Book Review: Critic Maris Kreizman charts her political awakening in smart, funny essay collection

By ANN LEVIN
Jun 30, 2025 1:21 pm - In her debut essay collection, “I Want to Burn This Place Down,” 40-something book critic, columnist for Lit Hub and erstwhile podcaster Maris Kreizman recalls a series of mini-awakenings in college and the New York publishing world in the 2000s that shook her faith in the American dream of her boomer parents.
Geneva teacher’s novel inspired by Texas education law

By Brenda Schory, Shaw Local News Network
Jun 30, 2025 11:59 am - Ellen Jo Ljung, a retired teacher from Geneva, wrote her first novel "Caught in the Crossfire" based on real events faced by public school teachers in Texas and other states due to restrictive laws on classroom discussions.
‘A place of community’: Keith’s Komix in Schaumburg to shutter after 30 years

By Russell Lissau
Jun 27, 2025 10:25 am - After 30 years as a beloved destination for comic book fans and memorabilia collectors, Keith’s Komix in Schaumburg will shutter this fall.
Book Review: ‘The Tiny Things Are Heavier’ is a reflection on young adulthood and migration

By ANITA SNOW
Jun 23, 2025 5:14 pm - “The Tiny Things Are Heavier,” by author Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, is a reflection on young adulthood, migration, cultural misunderstanding and family relationships.
Book Review: A new biography goes long and deep on the rise and fall of rock band Talking Heads

By ANN LEVIN
Jun 23, 2025 4:46 pm - Talking Heads fans, rejoice! In “Burning Down the House,” Jonathan Gould has published a comprehensive biography of the seminal band that injected an art school vibe into popular music and forever changed rock ’n’ roll.
Elmhurst AAUW sale to feature thousands of used books, music

By Susan Pingitore, AAUW Elmhurst Area Branch
Jun 20, 2025 4:43 pm - AAUW Elmhurst is holding its used book sale June 26-29. Thousands of books and more for sale to fund scholarships and programs for women.
From the murders to manhunt: New book examines ‘human elements’ of Brown’s Chicken killings

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Jun 20, 2025 4:30 am - A suburban native who was just a kid when the Brown's Chicken murders in Palatine shocked the nation has written a new book he hopes offers new insight into the killings. “It’s focused more on the human elements of the case, and not the gore of the crime itself,” said author Patrick Wohl.
Book Review: A fingerprint expert obsessed with learning the fate of her missing sister

By BRUCE DESILVA
Jun 17, 2025 6:21 am - Sixteen years have passed since Shaw Connolly’s teenage sister slipped out of their family home in Maine to party with friends and never came home. In author Gillian French’s “Shaw Connolly Lives To Tell,” Shaw isn’t the only one who is obsessed with finding her sister. Someone is obsessed with her.
Book Review: An aging widow’s European river cruise turns deadly in ‘Murder Takes a Vacation’

By BRUCE DESILVA
Jun 16, 2025 12:24 pm - Muriel Blossom began her fictional career as a minor character in 2008, serving as an assistant to private detective Tess Monaghan, the protagonist in 12 of Laura Lippman’s fine crime novels. In “Murder Takes a Vacation,” Mrs. Blossom, as she is always called, gets her star turn.
Geneva author turns real school headlines into poignant fiction

Submitted by Ellen Jo Ljung
Jun 12, 2025 2:00 pm - Ellen Jo Ljung draws on real-life tensions pushing teachers out of classrooms to pen timely fiction debut "Caught in the Crossfire.

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