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Old-fashioned reporting most compelling aspect of 'She Said'

By DONNA LIQUORI
Sep 17, 2019 7:00 am - "She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement" (Penguin Press), by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey "She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment...
Lisa Unger's 'The Stranger Inside' is psychological thriller

By JEFF AYERS
Sep 17, 2019 7:00 am - "The Stranger Inside," Park Row, by Lisa Unger A woman is forced to confront her past in Lisa Unger's latest psychological thriller, "The Stranger Inside." When Rain was...
Review: Linwood Barclay's 'Elevator Pitch' is vivid story

By JEFF AYERS
Sep 17, 2019 7:00 am - "Elevator Pitch: a Novel" (William Morrow), by Linwood Barclay It first seems like an accident when a Manhattan office tower elevator smashes to the basement below, kill...
Heroine yearns to build meaningful life in 'Single Thread'

By GENINE BABAKIAN
Sep 17, 2019 7:00 am - "A Single Thread: a Novel," Viking, by Tracy Chevalier Violet Speedwell seems an unlikely heroine at the opening of Tracy Chevalier's "A Single Thread." She's moved 12 m...
Actor Henry Winkler to discuss new book in Naperville Oct. 4

By Candace Purdom Anderson's Bookshop
Sep 17, 2019 6:00 am - New York Times bestselling author, actor, producer and director Henry Winkler will be in Naperville next month to discuss his new "Alien Superstar" middle-grade series o...
Local author shares story of how a coach potato became a marathon runner

Submitted by Shawn Tegtmeier
Sep 16, 2019 11:00 pm - Crystal Lake, Ill. - How does a woman go from thinking a breakfast of champions is a half a pack of cigarettes and a pot of black coffee to running two or three marathon...
Review: 'Letters from Hollywood' is a movie nerd's dream

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
Sep 16, 2019 7:00 am - "Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking," published by Abrams, compiled and edited by Rocky Lang and Barbara Hall Paul Newman p...
Atwood's 'The Testaments' takes readers on wild ride

By DONNA LIQUORI
Sep 16, 2019 7:00 am - "The Testaments" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), by Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood wrote her much-anticipated sequel to "The Handmaid's Tale" in a number of places, like "th...
Review: 'Red at the Bone' is Woodson's dazzling new novel

By ANN LEVIN
Sep 16, 2019 7:00 am - "Red at the Bone" (Riverhead Books), by Jacqueline Woodson Jacqueline Woodson begins her dazzling new novel, "Red at the Bone," with an afterthought, in the middle of th...
Foner writes timely new book on Reconstruction amendments

By ANN LEVIN
Sep 16, 2019 7:00 am - "The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution" (W.W. Norton and Co.), by Eric Foner It took the United States two tries to get the C...

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