Literature
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Best bets this week: Soccer star Abby Wambach speaks in NapervilleApr 08, 2019 6:00 am - Cervantes & Gilliam After many filming mishaps and years of budgetary collapses, director Terry Gilliam's "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" finally makes it to the big sc...
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Celebrate National Bookmobile Day with Aurora Public LibraryApr 07, 2019 11:00 pm - Did you know that April 10 is National Bookmobile Day? On Wednesday, April 10, libraries across the country will celebrate National Bookmobile Day, a time to remember t...
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Book review: 'Ladies Who Punch' offers inside look at 'The View'Apr 07, 2019 7:29 am - "Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of 'The View'" by Ramin Setoodeh; Thomas Dunne Books; 336 pages Chances are, if you've never tuned into the...
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Oakton Great Books Speaker Series features April 9 presentation on Shakespeare classicApr 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"...
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Book review: Novelist explores the secular and religious divide in 'kaddish.com'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...
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Friends of the Batavia Library offer special priced book sale April 13Apr 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...
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Review: 'Ladies Who Punch' offers inside look of 'The View'
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...
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Review: 'Island of Sea Women' pits friendship versus tragedy
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Palatine library hosting discussion on 'The Radium Girls'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...
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AAUW branch to host 40th annual Creative Writing Awards April 4Apr 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...