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Oakton Great Books Speaker Series features April 9 presentation on Shakespeare classic

Daily Herald report
Apr 07, 2019 1:00 am - Jeffrey Gore, scholar of the English Renaissance from the University of Illinois at Chicago, will discuss the role of race in Shakespeare's "Othello, the Moor of Venice"...
Book review: Novelist explores the secular and religious divide in 'kaddish.com'

By Ann Levin Associated Press
Apr 06, 2019 7:00 am - “kaddish.com” by Nathan Englander; Alfred A. Knopf; 224 pages It's 1999, and Larry, a lapsed Jew from Brooklyn, is at his sister Dina's house in Memphis for their f...
Friends of the Batavia Library offer special priced book sale April 13

Submitted by Elizabeth Larson
Apr 03, 2019 11:00 pm - There will be special discounts at the Friends of the Batavia Public Library's regular used book sale on Saturday, April 13. Paperbacks will be 10 for $1 and all CDs wi...
Review: 'Ladies Who Punch' offers inside look of 'The View'

By LINCEE RAY
Apr 02, 2019 7:00 am - "Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of 'The View'" (Thomas Dunne Books), by Ramin Setoodeh Chances are, if you've never tuned into the talk show "The View," yo...
Review: 'Island of Sea Women' pits friendship versus tragedy

By JOHN ROGERS
Apr 02, 2019 7:00 am - "The Island of Sea Women (Scribner), by Lisa See. Ten years ago, Lisa See was sitting in a doctor's office leafing through magazines when she came across a brief article...
Palatine library hosting discussion on 'The Radium Girls'

Daily Herald report
Apr 02, 2019 1:00 am - The Palatine Public Library District will host an adult book discussion on "The Radium Girls" from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Friday, April 5. Written by Kate Moore, "The Radium Gi...
AAUW branch to host 40th annual Creative Writing Awards April 4

Submitted by AAUW-Batavia-Geneva-St. Charles
Apr 01, 2019 11:00 pm - The American Association of University Women Batavia-Geneva-St. Charles branch will host its 40th annual Creative Writing Awards ceremony on Thursday, April 4, in the Ne...
How ComicBooks for Kids! brings cheer to hospitalized children and teens

By Eileen O. Daday
Apr 01, 2019 11:00 pm - A grass-roots charity that started in St. Charles has a unique mission: to provide comic books to children in hospitals and cancer centers across the country, as a way t...
Review: Novel revisits culture wars, AIDS crisis

By KENDAL WEAVER
Apr 01, 2019 7:00 am - "The Spectators" (Random House), by Jennifer duBois A deadly school shooting serves as a pivotal event in "The Spectators," a novel that revisits American cultural wars ...
Review: After a slow start, Max Allan Collins' novel soars

By BRUCE DESILVA
Apr 01, 2019 7:00 am - "Girl Most Likely" by Max Allan Collins (Thomas & Mercer) For a novel with a grisly murder in the short first chapter, Max Allan Collins's new mystery, "Girl Most Likely...

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