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Learn about pioneering cryptanalyst’s life and local ties at Batavia’s Books Between Bites

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Feb 12, 2025 9:33 pm - On Thursday, Feb. 20, the next Batavia Books Between Bites tells of codebreaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman, who broke Nazi codes in World War II.
Water Street Writers gather for an evening of stories and community

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Feb 12, 2025 6:33 pm - The next Water Street Writers event on Feb. 23 will feature four local authors: Heidi Bell, Margot McMahon, A.D. Nauman, and Sandra Wilcoxon.
Book Review: In ‘You Didn’t Hear This From Me,’ Kelsey McKinney wants you to reconsider gossip

By CURTIS YEE
Feb 11, 2025 9:57 am - Kelsey McKinney bookends her new collection of essays on gossip with a word from Emily Dickinson: “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” As the co-creator of the runaway...
Downers Grove Public Library Foundation celebrates National Library Week with special screening

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Feb 10, 2025 10:57 pm - Downers Grove Public Library Foundation hosts a 21-and-older event with a screening of "Banned Together" to celebrate National Library Week.
Book Review: Chris Hayes’ ‘Sirens’ Call’ is a thorough look at the fight for attention in modern age

By ANDREW DeMILLO
Feb 07, 2025 5:23 pm - With “The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource,” MSNBC host Chris Hayes is exploring how we got to this point, and the result is a fascinating history of what he calls the attention age.
Ian McEwan’s next novel, ‘What We Can Know,’ is science fiction ‘without the science’

By HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 07, 2025 8:20 am - The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar’s immersion into a poem written during happier times.
Geneva Public Library to give away 1,295 books Saturday for One Book, One Community

By Brenda Schory
Feb 05, 2025 1:52 pm - In beginning its fourth year of One Book, One Community, the Geneva Public Library will give away 1,295 copies of “No Two Persons” by Erica Bauermeister.
Book Review: Susan Barker returns with ‘Old Soul,’ a thrilling horror story that defies description

By ROB MERRILL
Feb 03, 2025 12:02 pm - Described in marketing materials as “literary horror,” Susan Barker’s “Old Soul” is a supernatural mystery that culminates in an old-fashioned chase scene in the Badlands of New Mexico that almost leaves readers with a sense of justice.
Nora Roberts is happily defying genres with 250 books written

By SOPHIA ROSENBAUM
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.
Book Review: Hunted by the FBI and Russian Oligarch, a hedge fund manager flees into the wilderness

By BRUCE DESILVA
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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