Literature
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Activist's memoir a poignant voice for incarcerated women
Jun 04, 2018 7:00 am - "A Little Piece of Light" (Hachette Books), by Donna Hylton with Kristine Gasbarre. Donna Hylton opens her memoir, "A Little Piece of Light," with an admission of guilt ...
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Vivid 'Florida' stories are edgy, potent
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Bill Clinton, James Patterson premiere new, dramatic novelJun 04, 2018 6:00 am - WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - The book is officially fiction: the story of a president who disappears as he tries to prevent an apocalyptic cyberattack. The authors, Bill Clinton...
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Author events: Meet Andrea Thome, Bret Baier, Renee Ahdieh this weekJun 03, 2018 7:31 am - Ruth Ware: 7 p.m. Monday, June 4, at Anderson's Bookshop, 26 S. La Grange Road, La Grange, (708) 582-6353, andersonsbookshop.com/. Meet British author Ruth Ware when she...
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David Sedaris seeks catharsis in 'Calypso'Jun 02, 2018 7:25 am - "Calypso" by David Sedaris; Little, Brown and Co.; 272 pages "Though there's an industry built on telling you otherwise, there are few real joys to middle age." So ...
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'Matchmaking for Beginners' is romantic summer read
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Review: 'See Her Run' has sophisticated plotting
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Pastor of Elgin's oldest church to retire, take up writingMay 31, 2018 11:00 pm - In 1991, the Rev. Paris Donehoo resigned from the church denomination he grew up in - and had been pastoring churches in - because, he says, it had been taken over by fu...
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Elgin pastor working on book decrying a 'polarized' AmericaMay 31, 2018 11:00 pm - Paris Donehoo's first post-retirement writing project is a book about the possibility of Americans getting along despite having opposing opinions in the age of Donald Tr...
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Action is fast-paced in Laird Barron's 'Blood Standard'