Literature
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Review: 'Driving While Black' opens road to civil rights
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...
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Review: `Broken Faith' looks inside Word of Faith Fellowship
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...
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Review: Wayne does good job building suspense in `Apartment'
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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`The Warsaw Protocol' is thrilling, timely novel
Feb 25, 2020 6:00 am - 'œThe Warsaw Protocol,'ť Minotaur, by Steve Berry Poland becomes a battleground between several other countries and only a former agent for the United States has a chan...
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Review: A look at civil rights cases in `Race Against Time'
Feb 25, 2020 6:00 am - "Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era,'ť Simon and Schuster, by Jerry Mitchell As the court reporter for the Clarion-L...
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What's the difference between a president and a king?Feb 25, 2020 5:00 am - Countries worldwide vary in their government systems, with the heads of governments going by various titles. Nine-year-old Miles was visiting the Little Free Library on...
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McHenry High grad and author encourages students to be persistentFeb 24, 2020 10:00 pm - Jessica Stilling Sticklor, 2001 McHenry High School graduate and author, traces her early interest in writing back to being a student at Riverwood Elementary School in M...
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Women of Bethel United Church of Christ to host annual Spring Tea April 25 in ElmhurstFeb 24, 2020 10:00 pm - On Saturday, April 25, the Women of Bethel will hold their 22nd annual Spring Tea at 12:30 p.m. in the Bethel United Church of Christ's Welcome Center, 315 E. St. Charle...
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Book review: Pinborough's 'Dead to Her' has myriad unusual twistsFeb 24, 2020 5:00 am - "Dead to Her" by Sarah Pinborough; Morrow; 400 pages Sarah Pinborough skirts the edge of a soap opera as her third novel delves into a morass of marital ...
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Writers gathering at Vernon Area Public LiraryFeb 23, 2020 12:00 am - The Vernon Area Public Library will host a support group for writers on March 12. You can share work, meet fellow writers, get constructive feedback and discuss the publ...