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Book Review: Novelist Amy Tan shares love of the natural world in ‘The Backyard Bird Chronicles’

By ANITA SNOW
May 06, 2024 10:33 am - Birdwatching has become a cherished pastime for many since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when people stuck at home for months looked out their windows for entertain...
Book review: Rachel Khong’s novel ‘Real Americans’ explores race, class and cultural identity

By ANN LEVIN
Apr 29, 2024 1:02 pm - Rachel Khong’s “Real Americans” wrestles with issues of class, race and the genetic component of disease. Though largely a work of social realism, it has a touch of science fiction.
Book review: ‘Nothing But the Bones’ is a compelling noir novel at a breakneck pace

By BRUCE DESILVA
Apr 29, 2024 7:05 am - Nelson “Nails” McKenna isn’t very bright, stumbles over his words and often says what he’s thinking without realizing it. We first meet him as a boy reading a superhero c...
Book review: Emily Henry is still the modern-day rom-com queen with ‘Funny Story’

By SOPHIA ROSENBAUM
Apr 23, 2024 9:41 am - “Funny Story” isn’t a funny story at all. But it is a good one. Emily Henry's new romance novel starts with dueling breakups that have rocked the two main characters’ worlds — and forced them to bond over their shared broken hearts.
Book review: Hampton Sides revisits Captain James Cook, a divisive figure in the South Pacific

By JEFF ROWE
Apr 15, 2024 5:01 pm - Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. He set out to find a westward ocean passage from Europe to Asia but instead, with the maps he created and his reports, Cook revealed the Pacific islands and their people to the world.
Batavia’s Books Between Bites welcomes author Marnie Mamminga April 18

By Becky Hoag, Books Between Bites
Apr 12, 2024 9:40 pm - Batavia's popular monthly noontime book program, “Books Between Bites,” continues Thursday, April 18, with a third visit by Batavia author Marnie Mamminga. She has coll...
Book review: Short story anthology ‘The Black Girl Survives in This One’ challenges the horror canon

By DONNA EDWARDS
Apr 08, 2024 3:39 pm - Ahh, the Final Girl — a point of pride, a point of contention. Too often, the white, virginal, Western ideal. But not this time. “The Black Girl Survives in This One,” a ...
Third place winners in 2024 District 214, Daily Herald Community Art & Writing Contest

Apr 08, 2024 1:07 pm - Visual art, poetry and prose: We share the work of the third place winners in the Arts Unlimited District 214 and Daily Herald Community Art & Writing Contest.
Children’s book author shows support for Palatine school’s PTA

By Steve Zalusky
Apr 07, 2024 2:35 pm - When children’s book author and motivational speaker Randi Moxi heard about the financial plight of a parent-teacher organization in Palatine Township Elementary District...
‘You can’t accept life if you can’t accept death’: Hands of Hope offers book club for grief and loss

By By Brenda Schory
Apr 05, 2024 5:24 am - Imagine a book club focused on death and grief. That’s what Hands of Hope began this year with its Turning the Page Book Club.

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