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Caldecott-winning author/illustrator Matthew Cordell to launch new book at Lake Villa library

Daily Herald report
Dec 30, 2024 1:58 pm - Award-winning author and illustrator Matthew Cordell will unveil his latest picture book, “To See an Owl,” at Lake Villa District Library, 140 N. Munn Road, Lindenhurst, at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12.
Book Review: Pip Drysdale’s new Hollywood thriller ‘The Close-Up’ weighs legacy against love

By DONNA EDWARDS
Dec 23, 2024 11:30 am - “The Close-Up” is Australian author Pip Drysdale’s fifth book. In this fictional world, it’s written as author Zoe’s overdue sophomore book, inspired by the things she sees and experiences now that she has access to celebrity life via an old flame who’s now an action star.
Book Review: ‘The Rivals’ is Jane Pek’s fine new mystery novel of online dating, love and death

By KENDAL WEAVER
Dec 16, 2024 4:13 pm - Claudia Lin, an online dating detective in the age of AI, is hunting once again through a dark cybersphere of tech systems in “The Rivals,” the second novel in a new mystery series by Jane Pek.
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.”

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