Literature
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John Grisham explores student loan debt in latest novel
Oct 24, 2017 7:00 am - "The Rooster Bar" (Doubleday), by John Grisham John Grisham explores student loan debt and the sharks that profit from it in his latest novel, "The Rooster Bar." Mark, T...
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Oakton to offer film, lecture on Anne FrankOct 23, 2017 11:00 pm - To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first publication of the memoirs of a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust, Oakton Com...
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'Quick and Dirty' returns to Barrington's detective roots
Oct 23, 2017 7:00 am - "Quick & Dirty" (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Stuart Woods Stone Barrington's newest "adventure," and that is, really, what this sophisticated, smart and well-heeled guy seek...
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Book Review: 'Way It Was' taps aging Sinatra's highs,
Oct 23, 2017 7:00 am - "The Way It Was: My Life with Frank Sinatra" (Hachette Books), by Eliot Weisman and Jennifer Valoppi Frank Sinatra's prime years as a singer were long behind him when El...
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Quiet on the set and elsewhere with Woody Allen
Oct 23, 2017 7:00 am - "Start to Finish: Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking" (Knopf), by Eric Lax If we had been allowed to watch God create the heavens and the Earth, we probably wouldn't...
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What John Grisham gets right about lawyers, the law in his latest novelOct 23, 2017 6:00 am - "The Rooster Bar," by John Grisham Doubleday, 368 pages, $28.95 --- One of one the things I didn't expect when I became a lawyer was just how much it would ruin leg...
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One day job, seven plays and 'Thirty-three Cecils'Oct 22, 2017 11:00 pm - The industrial linear motion control products HIWIN Corporation manufactures and distributes from Huntley seem a world away from Hollywood's motion picture industry - un...
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Boo! The best ghost stories you probably haven't heard yet
Oct 22, 2017 7:00 am - As the March sisters of “Little Women” might have said, “It wouldn't be Halloween without any ghost stories.” Below are six recent books to help you get in the holiday s...
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Authors: Gabrielle Union, Valerie Bertinelli sign books in the suburbsOct 21, 2017 7:25 am - • "All the Rivers" author Dorit Rabinyan discusses her book at 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 22, at Temple Beth Israel, 3601 W. Dempster, Skokie. The public is welcome. (847) 446...
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Follow a family in quarantine in 'Seven Days of Us'
Oct 17, 2017 7:00 am - "Seven Days of Us" (Berkley), by Francesca Hornak Going home for the holidays can be a heartwarming occasion for some. For others, the thought of spending even an aftern...