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Action is fast-paced in Laird Barron's 'Blood Standard'

By BRUCE DESILVA
May 30, 2018 7:00 am - "Blood Standard: a Novel" (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Laird Barron Isaiah Coleridge, muscle for the Chicago mob's Alaska subsidiary, isn't your typical Mafia hit man. He's ...
David Sedaris seeks catharsis in 'Calypso'

By ROB MERRILL
May 29, 2018 7:00 am - "Calypso" (Little, Brown and Co.), by David Sedaris "Though there's an industry built on telling you otherwise, there are few real joys to middle age." So begins David S...
'Gray Ghost' by Cussler and Burcell is rip-roaring story

By JEFF AYERS
May 29, 2018 7:00 am - "The Gray Ghost: A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure" (Putnam), by Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell In 1906, automaker Rolls-Royce created a groundbreaking car called the Gray...
Review: 'The Great Revolt' offers insight into Trump support

By WILL LESTER
May 29, 2018 7:00 am - "The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics" (Crown Forum), by Salena Zito and Brad Todd People struggling to understand what is happeni...
Review: New novel fleshes out Jean Rhys' troubled life

By JENNIFER KAY
May 29, 2018 7:00 am - "A View of the Empire at Sunset" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Caryl Phillips Novelist Jean Rhys is best known for her lyrical masterpiece "Wide Sargasso Sea," in whic...
Cohen hilariously tackles work-life balance in 'The Glitch'

By LINCEE RAY
May 29, 2018 7:00 am - "The Glitch" (Doubleday), by Elisabeth Cohen Shelley Stone is a hard-working CEO of a Silicon Valley tech company that sells a small device called a Conch, which helps i...
Two couples navigate infidelity, chaos in 'Little Disasters'

By Christina Ledbetter Associated Press
May 28, 2018 7:00 am - “Little Disasters” by Randall Klein; Viking; 352 pages The shared birthday of their sons initially connects Michael and Rebecca to Paul and Jenny. While the women l...
Author events: Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham stops in Naperville Sunday

By Caroline Linden
May 27, 2018 7:31 am - Jon Meacham: 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 27, at Ratio Hall, Science Center, 131 S. Loomis St., on the campus of North Central College in Naperville. Pulitzer Prize-winning bio...
'Reading Takes You Everywhere' this summer at the Algonquin library

Submitted by Algonquin Area Public Library District
May 24, 2018 11:00 pm - Let reading take you everywhere this summer, as the Algonquin Area Public Library District presents its annual summer reading program June 1 through July 31. Cardholder...
He overcame a horrific childhood. Now his story is a movie.

By Burt Constable
May 24, 2018 5:00 am - YouTube #8220;I was trying to write a story not of tragedy, but of triumph,#8221; says Pemberton, 50, whose first, foggy memory of life is the day he was taken from his ...

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