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Characters get better with age in 'The Accomplished Guest'

By CHRISTINA LEDBETTER
Jun 13, 2017 7:00 am - "The Accomplished Guest: Stories" (Scribner) by Ann Beattie A woman drinks iced tea on the veranda with her weary parents. A husband and wife select attire for an out-of...
Review: 'Daring to Drive' illuminates Saudi woman's life

By KEVIN BEGOS
Jun 13, 2017 7:00 am - "Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening" (Simon & Schuster)), by Manal Al-Sharif Beset by traffic, smog and other distractions, it's easy to forget that driving a ca...
Characters are well-drawn in Paul Doiron's 'Knife Creek'

By BRUCE DESILVA
Jun 13, 2017 7:00 am - "Knife Creek" (Minotaur), by Paul Doiron Maine's backcountry is being invaded by feral hogs. Hordes of drunken, half-naked college students are partying up and down the ...
Roxane Gay's memoir of living in a large body

By ANN LEVIN
Jun 12, 2017 7:00 am - "Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body" (Harper), by Roxane Gay At her heaviest, Roxane Gay weighed 577 pounds. In her powerful, at times harrowing, new memoir, "Hunger," Gay ex...
Review: Interstellar virus makes trouble in new sci-fi novel

By CARLA K. JOHNSON
Jun 12, 2017 7:00 am - "The Space Between the Stars" (Berkley), by Anne Corlett. Jamie Allenby, veterinary scientist on the planet Soltaire, has a lot on her mind in "The Space Between the Sta...
Geneva bookstore hosts Dad-themed story time

By Amy E. Williams
Jun 11, 2017 11:00 pm - Just in time for Father's Day, you can grab your dads and head to the Barnes and Noble along the Randall Road corridor in Geneva for a special dad-themed story time. At ...
Author events: David Axelrod discusses 'Believer' at Brookfield Zoo

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Jun 10, 2017 7:25 am - • David Kaplan of CSN Chicago and ESPN Radio signs copies of his book "The Plan: Epstein, Maddon and the Audacious Blueprint for a Cubs Dynasty" at 11 a.m. Sunday, June ...
Learn about Gaslight Era murderers June 25 at Gail Borden

Submitted by Gail Borden Public Library
Jun 08, 2017 11:00 pm - Get to know some Gaslight Era serial killers as well as scoundrels and murderers when true crime author Rich Lindberg brings tales of terror to Gail Borden Public Librar...
'Indecent Exposure' plays up Stone Barrington's softer side

By SAMANTHA CRITCHELL
Jun 06, 2017 7:00 am - "Indecent Exposure'(G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Stuart Woods As a longtime reader of Stuart Woods' Stone Barrington books, I took a moment in "Indecent Exposure" to marvel a...
Maum suggests we put down our digital screens in 'Touch'

By LINCEE RAY
Jun 06, 2017 7:00 am - "Touch" (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Courtney Maum We live in a generation where we view the world through a screen. Most of our professional and social lives are dominated ...

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