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Santa, friends coming to town courtesy of Rankin/Bass historian

Submitted by Kurt Begalka
Dec 16, 2024 1:02 am - Learn about the history of your favorite Rankin/Bass holiday specials, such as “The Year Without a Santa Claus,” when historian and author Rick Goldschmidt appears Thursday, Dec. 19, at the Des Plaines Public Library.
Chef Bobby Flay looks back at the dishes that made him a star in new cookbook, ‘Chapter One’

By MARK KENNEDY
Dec 13, 2024 9:54 am - Bobby Flay’s latest cookbook is really a sort of recipe for how Bobby Flay was made.
Heun: Columnist coauthors book about St. Charles Country Club’s centennial

By Dave Heun
Dec 13, 2024 6:00 am - Daily Herald columnist Dave Heun and his friend Tim Triplett recently completed a two-year project in writing “No Lovelier Place Possible … St. Charles Country Club at 100.”
Hundreds of bookstore staffers receive holiday bonuses from author James Patterson

Associated Press
Dec 10, 2024 11:22 am - NEW YORK — Staffers at Thank You Books in Birmingham, Alabama, San Francisco’s City Lights Books and The Nook in Cedar Falls, Iowa, are among 600 booksellers receiving $5...
Book Review: Weike Wang’s 'Rental House' finds humor in marriage of opposites

By ANN LEVIN
Dec 10, 2024 10:13 am - Vacation rental with the in-laws — for many, it’s a setup for disaster. In Weike Wang’s “Rental House,” it’s certainly that. It’s also an opportunity for Wang to explore the upside and downside of education, marriage and family.
Indian Trails library kicks off ‘One Book, One Community’ program Sunday

Daily Herald report
Dec 04, 2024 8:02 am - Wheeling’s Indian Trails Public Library will host an open house Sunday to mark the start of a new “One Book, One Community” program. The event will run from noon to 2 p.m...
Book Review: Robin Cook sets his latest thriller in the iconic Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital

By ROB MERRILL
Dec 03, 2024 9:21 am - The building on New York’s East Side that used to house Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital has inspired tales of horror. For novelist Robin Cook, who interned there in the 1960s, it’s the perfect setting for his latest medical thriller, “Bellevue.”
Winfrey announces new book club pick and launches ‘The Oprah Podcast’

By HILLEL ITALIE
Dec 03, 2024 8:00 am - Oprah Winfrey has a new book club pick and a new platform to talk books and other topics of the day.
New chapters: Biking books serve up armchair adventures

By Ralph Banasiak, Along for the Ride
Dec 01, 2024 4:00 am - Inclement weather keeping you indoors? Recent biking books, co-reviewed with others, serve up armchair adventures and thoughts on safety as potential stocking stuffers for yourself and others.
‘Dead Air’ tells history of night Orson Welles unleashed fake Martian invasion

By ANDREW DeMILLO
Nov 27, 2024 6:37 pm - Long before Donald Trump used the term “fake news,” Orson Welles mastered the art of actual fake news. Welles’ 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds” is the focus of William Elliott Hazelgrove’s “Dead Air: The Night That Orson Welles Terrified America.”

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