Literature
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Review: Expect the unexpected in 'The Never Game'
May 20, 2019 7:00 am - "The Never Game" (Putnam), by Jeffery Deaver In Jeffery Deaver's "The Never Game," Sophie doesn't fit the profile of a runaway, and her father believes she's been abduct...
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Review: In Owen Laukkanen's latest, a dog unites strangers
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Book review: Dustin Lance Black's memoir hooks readers quicklyMay 20, 2019 6:00 am - “Mama's Boy: A Story From Our Americas” by Dustin Lance Black; Knopf; 416 pages Dustin Lance Black's new memoir hooks readers right off the bat by descri...
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Book review: Jill Biden's memoir - like Michelle Obama's - is not meant to be politicalMay 19, 2019 7:28 am - "Where the Light Enters" by Jill Biden; Flatiron; 210 pages Recently, Jill Biden was in a nail salon getting a manicure when a woman approached her and started to c...
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Book review: Tense 'If She Wakes' moves to a surprising finaleMay 18, 2019 7:26 am - "If She Wakes" by Michael Koryta; Little, Brown; 401 pages Multi-award-winning author Michael Koryta again shows his affinity for smoothly melding sophisticated action w...
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Book review: How to protect women from domestic violence - before it's too lateMay 18, 2019 7:20 am - "No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us" by Rachel Louise Snyder; Bloomsbury; 307 pages Rachel Louise Snyder got so deeply immer...
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How Waubonsee's literary magazine creates a community through writingMay 15, 2019 11:00 pm - I sent out the text message to the team after the delivery. "It's here!" Very soon my small office of bookshelves and an oversized desk was flooded with six students who...
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Review: Peggy Townsend delivers outstanding second novel
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Review: Dustin Lance Black's memoir hooks readers quickly
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Review: Tense 'If She Wakes' moves to a surprising finale