Literature
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Nora Roberts is happily defying genres with 250 books written
Jan 30, 2025 5:09 pm - Nora Roberts is so prolific she had to take up a pen name so her publisher could release more books by her each year. “I’m a fast writer,” Roberts said. She typically releases four books a year, and has for more than four decades.
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Book Review: Hunted by the FBI and Russian Oligarch, a hedge fund manager flees into the wilderness
Jan 27, 2025 11:34 am - Paul Brightman, a former hedge fund manager, has been keeping a low profile, changing his name to Grant Anderson and making a modest living as a boat builder in a small N...
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Batavia’s Books Between Bites hosts local author, illustrator for new book launchJan 24, 2025 10:51 pm - Batavia's Books Between Bites hosts children's book authors presenting a new book and torn paper art demo on Jan 30. Additional author talks continue through May.
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Birding expert aims to make gull identification less intimidatingJan 22, 2025 7:36 am - Gull expert Amar Ayyash of Orland Park seeks to make gull identification less intimidating through his new guide covering North America's 36 species.
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Book Review: A tour de force of a novel about a celebrated actor in the throes of a midlife crisis
Jan 21, 2025 11:28 am - Have you ever woken up on Thanksgiving morning to a house full of company and just wanted to flee? In Mischa Berlinski’s extravagantly brilliant and darkly funny new novel, “Mona Acts Out,” the eponymous heroine does just that.
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Book Review: Robert Crais spins the tale of a hard-boiled private eye who uncovers a conspiracy
Jan 17, 2025 12:12 pm - Traci Beller was 13 when her father went out on some service calls and never returned home. Ten years later, she turns to Elvis Cole, the self-declared world’s greatest detective, to help find him in Robert Crais’ “The Big Empty.”
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Cook like a grandmother with ‘The League of Kitchens Cookbook’
Jan 17, 2025 8:16 am - Lisa Kyung Gross was so convinced that everyone should learn dishes from an elder that she founded The League of Kitchens in 2014, a network of culinary workshops hosted by immigrant home cooks. Last fall the League released a cookbook featuring 75 family recipes.
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Artists, writers living in Dist. 214 invited to enter Arts Unlimited contestJan 15, 2025 11:13 am - District 214 has announced its call for submissions to the annual Daily Herald and District 214 Arts Unlimited Art and Writing Contest. Submissions will be accepted through March 3.
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Book Review: Kyle Paoletta’s ‘American Oasis’ offers lessons for a hotter, drier world
Jan 14, 2025 10:13 am - As cities worldwide grapple with drought and rising temperatures from climate change, author Kyle Paoletta describes how the Southwest developed a resilience that he says other regions will need as the globe grows hotter and drier.
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Side Street Studio Arts hosts multidisciplinary artist Ramona Rotten for interactive poetry workshop and Winter Fringe Festival performanceJan 13, 2025 11:36 pm - Ramona Rotten, the 2025 Going Dutch artist-in-residence, will lead a Blackout Poetry Workshop and perform at the annual Winter Mini Fringe Festival at Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin.