Literature
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Book review: 'Island of Sea Women' pits friendship versus tragedyApr 16, 2019 6:00 am - "The Island of Sea Women" by Lisa See; Scribner; 384 pages Ten years ago, Lisa See was sitting in a doctor's office leafing through magazines when she came across a...
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District 214/Daily Herald Community Art & Writing Contest winnersApr 15, 2019 11:00 pm - Art, poetry and fiction writing aren't talents that are supposed to fade away after high school. But adult life often intrudes. The annual Arts Unlimited District 214/Da...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' to be staged in ElginApr 15, 2019 11:00 pm - "The Yellow Wallpaper," a play documenting one woman's descent into mental illness amid a backdrop of conventional 19th century treatment for "nervous hysteria," will be...
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Review: An undiagnosed illness haunts D.J. Palmer novel
Apr 15, 2019 7:00 am - "Saving Meghan" by D.J. Palmer (St. Martin's Press). A teenage girl seems to have an illness that doctors cannot diagnose in D.J. Palmer's psychological thriller. Fourte...
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Review: 'The Peacock Emporium' reminds us to live in the now
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Book Review: Gorgeous novel explores adopting a foster child
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Book review: Rachel Howzell Hall writes a breakout novelApr 15, 2019 6:00 am - "They All Fall Down" by Rachel Howzell Hall; Forge; 320 pages After four well-received novels about LAPD homicide cop Elouise "Lou" Norton, Rachel Howzell Hall conf...
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Book review: 'The Eighth Sister' is a gripping thrillerApr 14, 2019 7:24 am - "The Eighth Sister" by Robert Dugoni; Thomas and Mercer; 500 pages Charles Jenkins has left his time in the CIA far behind and now lives with his family on a farm o...
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Book review: T.C. Boyle spins a family drama from the LSD eraApr 13, 2019 7:26 am - "Outside Looking In" by T.C. Boyle; Ecco; 400 pages Just as he did in his last novel about scientists inhabiting Arizona's Biosphere 2 in the 1990s ("The Terranauts...
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Glen Ellyn library has a little kiosk that spits out short stories, and patrons love the surprisesApr 12, 2019 5:00 am - Mim Eichmann approaches the kiosk in the lobby of the Glen Ellyn Public Library, presses a button and waits for the machine to spit out the surprise. The anticipation is...