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Read author's letter to Wheaton Warrenville District 200 after her school visit was canceled

Daily Herald report
Nov 06, 2019 12:00 am - Author Robin Stevenson wrote an open letter to Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 after officials canceled her school visit. Here's what it said, edited for newspaper...
'Mighty Justice' chronicles life of civil rights activist

By JENNIFER FORKER
Nov 05, 2019 6:00 am - "Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights," Algonquin Books, by Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe Some life stories are too important to be relegated to dusty hist...
Review: Martin Cruz Smith's latest novel disappoints

By GENINE BABAKIAN
Nov 05, 2019 6:00 am - "The Siberian Dilemma: An Arkady Renko Novel," Simon & Schuster, by Martin Cruz Smith It's been 38 years since Martin Cruz Smith's "Gorky Park" was released, introducing...
Review: Is this the end for Juan Cabrillo and his team?

By JEFF AYERS
Nov 04, 2019 6:00 am - "Final Option," Putnam, by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison Readers of this ongoing "Oregon Files" series will recognize the standard opening of a Clive Cussler novel, bu...
Review: 'Finding Chika' is bittersweet memoir about family

By RASHA MADKOUR
Nov 04, 2019 6:00 am - "Finding Chika: a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family" (Harper), by Mitch Albom The author of "Tuesdays with Morrie" has a new memoir in which he agai...
Sample a bit of Jenny Slate's imagination in 'Little Weirds'

By LINCEE RAY
Nov 04, 2019 6:00 am - "Little Weirds" (Little, Brown and Co.), by Jenny Slate Jenny Slate is an artist in the broadest sense of the word. You may know her as a comedian, an actress, or a co-c...
Jack Reacher is in deep trouble in Lee Child's 'Blue Moon'

By Jeff Ayers Associated Press
Nov 03, 2019 7:28 am - "Blue Moon: A Jack Reacher Novel" by Lee Child; Delacorte Press; 359 pages The narrative in "Blue Moon," the latest Jack Reacher novel by author Lee Chil...
Why your old comic books might not be worth much, according to Graham Crackers Comics

By Dave Heun
Nov 03, 2019 7:00 am - Why your old comic books might not be worth much, according to Graham Crackers Comics
Snowden memoir: The spy who came out and told

By Frank Bajak AP Technology Writer
Nov 02, 2019 7:29 am - "Permanent Record" by Edward Snowden; Metropolitan Books; 352 pages Edward Snowden is mostly self-invented, the fruit of his own ingenuity. If hacking, purely defin...
After beating cancer, Eddie Olczyk continues the fight

By STEPHEN WHYNO
Nov 01, 2019 7:00 am - Eddie Olczyk was ready to give up. The NHL player turned broadcaster was on his second round of chemotherapy for stage 3 colon cancer, and the effects were so severe tha...

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