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'My Penguin Year' works best as companion to nature series

By ROB MERRILL
Nov 11, 2019 6:00 am - "My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors," William Morrow, by Lindsay McCrae It's an odd thing to write in a book review, but "My Penguin Year" is better seen than read...
Author makes readers care about boys about to become men

By OLINE H. COGDILL
Nov 11, 2019 6:00 am - "Nothing More Dangerous," Mulholland, by Allen Eskens Nothing is more dangerous, says one character quoting the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., than "sheer ignorance." That...
Book review: Mitch Albom's 'Finding Chika' is a bittersweet memoir about family

By Rasha Madkour Associated Press
Nov 10, 2019 6:29 am - "Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family" by Mitch Albom; Harper; 256 pages The author of "Tuesdays With Morrie" has a ne...
Poet Kevin Coval will give reading at Oakton

Daily Herald report
Nov 10, 2019 12:00 am - Northbrook native and Glenbrook North High School alumnus Kevin Coval will read selections from his collection of poetry 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, at Oakton Community C...
Book review: Lucy Ellmann's 'Ducks, Newburyport' is brilliant, addictive

By Donna Liquori Associated Press
Nov 09, 2019 6:26 am - "Ducks, Newburyport" by Lucy Ellmann; Biblioasis When you mention to people that you're reading a nearly 1,000-page book that's mostly one sentence, the ...
Book by anonymous Trump official portrays a presidency on the brink

Philip Rucker The Washington Post
Nov 08, 2019 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Senior Trump administration officials considered resigning en masse last year in a "midnight self-massacre" to sound a public alarm about President Donald T...
Glenbard Parent Series to host author of 'I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter' Nov. 20

By Peg Mannion Glenbard District 87
Nov 06, 2019 10:00 pm - On Wednesday, Nov. 20, the Glenbard Parent Series Navigating Healthy Families will host an author event with Erika Sánchez. The author of the bestseller “I Am Not Your P...
Review: Fine biography focuses on Brando's internal struggle

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
Nov 06, 2019 6:00 am - "The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando," Harper, by William J. Mann Marlon Brando made no apologies for being an iconoclast and living and loving as he chose, even s...
Lucy Ellmann's 'Ducks, Newburyport' is brilliant, addictive

By DONNA LIQUORI
Nov 06, 2019 6:00 am - "Ducks, Newburyport," Biblioasis, by Lucy Ellmann When you mention to people that you're reading a nearly 1,000-page book that's mostly one sentence, the reaction is odd...
Author believes Dist. 200 canceled Wheaton school visit due to LGBTQ content; officials cite procedural issue

By Katlyn Smith
Nov 06, 2019 12:00 am - A children's book author is upset and disappointed that Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 abruptly canceled her visit to an elementary school for what she believes a...

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