Literature
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Review: Lee Child has delivered another winner
Nov 06, 2018 6:00 am - "Past Tense: a Jack Reacher Novel" (Delacorte Press), by Lee Child While Jack Reacher is exploring the United States, he stumbles on a rural area in New Hampshire and sp...
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Bosch reluctantly takes on a partner in 'Dark Sacred Night'
Nov 06, 2018 6:00 am - "Dark Sacred Night" (Little, Brown and Co.), by Michael Connelly Los Angeles Police Department detective Renee Ballard was introduced in Michael Connelly's popular "The ...
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Review: 'Sea of Greed' will have readers turning the pages
Nov 06, 2018 6:00 am - "Sea of Greed" (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown "Sea of Greed," the latest entry in the NUMA Files series, pits Kurt Austin and his colleagues aga...
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Author Liane Moriarty serves up laughs, thrills, surprises
Nov 06, 2018 6:00 am - "Nine Perfect Strangers" (Flatiron Books), by Liane Moriarty Life is good for Liane Moriarty. The "Big Little Lies" novelist who partnered with actress Nicole Kidman to ...
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'Evening in Paradise': more stories by Lucia Berlin
Nov 05, 2018 6:00 am - "Evening in Paradise: More Stories" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Lucia Berlin: In 2015, the posthumous publication of the short story collection "A Manual for Cleanin...
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Reese Witherspoon is selling frilly Southern womanhood, and I've been sucked in, y'allNov 04, 2018 7:27 am - Pretend you're a supervillain. Your goal is to lure a bunch of middle-class white women to an arena for a nefarious plot. I have gamed this out for you, and your best op...
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Your favorite album has the perfect cocktail match, according to 'Booze and Vinyl'Nov 04, 2018 7:26 am - Do you know what drink would pair well with Pink Floyd's iconic record "The Dark Side of the Moon"? Or Prince's landmark album "Purple Rain"? Brother-and-sister authors ...
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Book review: Author offers retrospect of TV show 'Friends'Nov 04, 2018 7:00 am - “I'll Be There for You: The One About ‘Friends'” by Kelsey Miller, Hanover Square Press, kelseymiller.com/ Kelsey Miller has written the quintesse...
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Book review: Jasmine Guillory delivers another fun romance in 'The Proposal'Nov 03, 2018 7:28 am - "The Proposal" by Jasmine Guillory, Berkley, 336 pages There are some women who dream of extravagant proposals full of heartfelt romance. Nikole Paterson...
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Friends plan fall book sale Nov. 8-11 in AlgonquinOct 31, 2018 11:00 pm - The Friends of the Algonquin Area Public Library District will hold its Fall Book Sale Thursday, Nov. 8, through Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Eastgate Branch Library, 115 Eas...