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Water Street Writers gather for an evening of stories and community

Submitted by Water Street Writers
Feb 12, 2025 6:33 pm - The next Water Street Writers event on Feb. 23 will feature four local authors: Heidi Bell, Margot McMahon, A.D. Nauman, and Sandra Wilcoxon.
Book Review: In ‘You Didn’t Hear This From Me,’ Kelsey McKinney wants you to reconsider gossip

By CURTIS YEE
Feb 11, 2025 9:57 am - Kelsey McKinney bookends her new collection of essays on gossip with a word from Emily Dickinson: “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” As the co-creator of the runaway...
Downers Grove Public Library Foundation celebrates National Library Week with special screening

Submitted by Downers Grove Public Library Foundation
Feb 10, 2025 10:57 pm - Downers Grove Public Library Foundation hosts a 21-and-older event with a screening of "Banned Together" to celebrate National Library Week.
Book Review: Chris Hayes’ ‘Sirens’ Call’ is a thorough look at the fight for attention in modern age

By ANDREW DeMILLO
Feb 07, 2025 5:23 pm - With “The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource,” MSNBC host Chris Hayes is exploring how we got to this point, and the result is a fascinating history of what he calls the attention age.
Ian McEwan’s next novel, ‘What We Can Know,’ is science fiction ‘without the science’

By HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 07, 2025 8:20 am - The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar’s immersion into a poem written during happier times.
Geneva Public Library to give away 1,295 books Saturday for One Book, One Community

By Brenda Schory
Feb 05, 2025 1:52 pm - In beginning its fourth year of One Book, One Community, the Geneva Public Library will give away 1,295 copies of “No Two Persons” by Erica Bauermeister.
Book Review: Susan Barker returns with ‘Old Soul,’ a thrilling horror story that defies description

By ROB MERRILL
Feb 03, 2025 12:02 pm - Described in marketing materials as “literary horror,” Susan Barker’s “Old Soul” is a supernatural mystery that culminates in an old-fashioned chase scene in the Badlands of New Mexico that almost leaves readers with a sense of justice.
Nora Roberts is happily defying genres with 250 books written

By SOPHIA ROSENBAUM
Jan 30, 2025 5:09 pm - Nora Roberts is so prolific she had to take up a pen name so her publisher could release more books by her each year. “I’m a fast writer,” Roberts said. She typically releases four books a year, and has for more than four decades.
Book Review: Hunted by the FBI and Russian Oligarch, a hedge fund manager flees into the wilderness

By BRUCE DESILVA
Jan 27, 2025 11:34 am - Paul Brightman, a former hedge fund manager, has been keeping a low profile, changing his name to Grant Anderson and making a modest living as a boat builder in a small N...
Batavia’s Books Between Bites hosts local author, illustrator for new book launch

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Jan 24, 2025 10:51 pm - Batavia's Books Between Bites hosts children's book authors presenting a new book and torn paper art demo on Jan 30. Additional author talks continue through May.

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