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Good or evil?: How owls have been depicted in folklore and history

By Mark Spreyer, Stillman Nature Center
Oct 31, 2024 6:00 am - Nature columnist and owl enthusiast Mark Spreyer takes a look at how owls have fascinated humans for centuries, and how they’ve been depicted in folklore, fiction and history.
COD launches Great Read Series events featuring ‘Gods of Jade and Shadow'

By Leo Boshardy, COD News Bureau
Oct 28, 2024 2:54 pm - College of DuPage is launching the Great Read Series this fall with a series of free events inspired by Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “Gods of Jade and Shadow,” culminating with a talk and book signing by the author on Monday, Oct. 28.
Book Review: A man searches for meaning in Mike Fu’s unnerving debut novel, ‘Masquerade’

By DONNA EDWARDS
Oct 28, 2024 12:27 pm - Meadow is coming up on 10 years living in New York, and he’s still adrift. His boyfriend ghosted him, his current residence is actually a house-sitting gig, and his barte...
Book review: 70-year-old psychiatrist takes to the road in Anna Montague’s beguiling new novel

By ANN LEVIN
Oct 21, 2024 1:03 pm - Americans love road trips. Or at least American writers love them as metaphors of self-discovery. In Anna Montague’s beautiful, beguiling and slightly bonkers debut novel...
Book Review: Richard Chizmar tells a creepy occult tale in ‘Memorials’

By ROB MERRILL
Oct 21, 2024 11:20 am - Richard Chizmar’s “Memorials” is set in 1983 as three students embark on a road trip through Appalachia, documenting roadside memorials for their American Studies 301 class at York College. We soon learn that this trip turns out to be both educational and personal for the three students.
GPS partners with College of DuPage for Great Read Series

By Peg Mannion, Glenbard Township High School District 87
Oct 17, 2024 10:52 pm - The GPS Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will partner with College of DuPage to host Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of “Gods of Jade and Shadow” on Monday, Oct. 28.
Book Review: Cop cold case unit pursues a rapist, foils a terrorist plot and tackles a 1947 murder in Michael Connelly’s ‘The Waiting’

By BRUCE DESILVA
Oct 15, 2024 9:35 am - It’s early morning in Southern California, and Renee Ballard, director of the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit, is where she most loves to be. She’s surfing, and she’s darned good...
Tori Amos’ first children’s book is an ode to inspiration

Oct 15, 2024 8:17 am - Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Tori Amos is working on a children's book — her first — that she hopes will help young people follow their own paths of inspiration. “Tori and the Muses” will be published March 4.
Book Review: ‘The Book of George’ is a witty novel in lively episodes like a first-rate TV sitcom

By KENDAL WEAVER
Oct 14, 2024 9:29 am - “The Book of George” is a novel of many finely crafted, often funny moments that arrive episodically as the title character grows older. At first he’s a millennial kid, t...
Books Between Bites to feature more Batavia history in literature by mayor

Submitted by Kristen Zambo
Oct 12, 2024 12:48 am - Batavia's popular monthly noontime book program, “Books Between Bites,” continues on Thursday, Oct. 17, when they welcome Mayor Jeff Schielke for his annual presentation.

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