Literature
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Life lessons come to life on Judson stage with 'Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten'Oct 21, 2019 11:00 pm - "Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" is a book made popular in the 1980s, but some are unaware of the play of the same name - or that it contains music....
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'The Man Who Saw Everything' is haunting and effective
Oct 21, 2019 7:00 am - "The Man Who Saw Everything," Bloomsbury Publishing, by Deborah Levy In 1988, Saul Adler is a narcissistic historian who is grazed by a car at a famous London crosswalk....
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Review: Pulitzer winner Weingarten tells story of "One Day"
Oct 21, 2019 7:00 am - "One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America," Blue Rider Press, by Gene Weingarten A college student is found strangled beneath a bridge, a baby...
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Review: The New York Times celebrates women in power
Oct 21, 2019 7:00 am - "The Women of the 116th Congress: Portraits of Power," Abrams, by The New York Times, foreword by Roxane Gay, portraits by Elizabeth D. Herman and Celeste Sloman The 201...
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Prose is crisp, compelling in 'Agent Running in the Field'
Oct 21, 2019 7:00 am - "Agent Running in the Field: a Novel," Viking, by John le Carre With his 25th novel, "Agent Running in the Field," John le Carre drops the reader into the current moment...
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Genre-bending bio of Thomas Edison is highly illuminating
Oct 21, 2019 7:00 am - "Edison," Random House, by Edmund Morris The late Edmund Morris, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer known for his willingness to brush aside the norms of his genre if i...
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Local author releases book of 'Darkly Fantastic' talesOct 17, 2019 11:00 pm - Sentient bog bodies, living marionettes, deranged tramp clowns, fairies turned human, tooth fairies gone bad, shadowy figures on stilts, and many other strange and beaut...
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One book unites students at District 301's Prairie Knolls Middle SchoolOct 17, 2019 11:00 pm - What does home mean to you? Students at Prairie Knolls Middle School participated in a read-aloud book study of "Other Words for Home" by Jasmine Warga, a realistic fic...
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For Bruce Springsteen, 'Western Stars' made sense after book, playOct 17, 2019 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - “Western Stars” was just the change of pace that Bruce Springsteen needed after baring his soul over the past few years. First, he shared his darkest secrets ...
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Palatine library hosting book discussion on 'The Ninth Hour'Oct 17, 2019 1:00 am - The Palatine Public Library District will host a book discussion for adults focused on "The Ninth Hour" by Alice McDermott, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Nov. 1. The book is a po...