Literature
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Review: 'The Quiet Child' by John Burley is engrossing novel
Aug 07, 2017 7:00 am - "The Quiet Child: a Novel" (William Morrow), by John Burley "The Quiet Child" is 6-year-old Danny McCray, who is indeed quiet. He doesn't speak, though doctors have said...
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Book review: The horrific night that changed a family's life foreverAug 07, 2017 6:00 am - The Good Daughter By Karin Slaughter Morrow. 500 pp. $27.99 --- Karin Slaughter's new thriller,"The Good Daughter," is not for the squeamish. All of Slaughter's books - ...
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Author events: Food Network's Addie Gundry talks new cookbooks at Lake Forest Book StoreAug 05, 2017 7:19 am - • "Mrs. Fletcher" author Tom Perrotta signs copies of his book at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 7, at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville. For a place in the si...
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Book Review: 'The Blinds' moves at brisk pace
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Book Review: Rob Reid's 'After On' is intriguing story
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A runner's call to get off the treadmill and into the wildJul 30, 2017 7:09 am - "Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human" By Vybarr Cregan-Reid St. Martin's. 334 pp. $26.99 --- Early in the morning, after finishing Vybarr Cregan-Reid's hard-to-categor...
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AuthorFest book festivalJul 30, 2017 1:00 am - Gail Lukasik, award-winning author of the Leigh Girard mystery series, will be one of the featured authors at the AuthorFest book festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturda...
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Author events: Daryl Gregory signs 'Spoonbenders' at Naperville's Anderson'sJul 29, 2017 7:23 am - • Laurie Kahn discusses hew new book, "Baffled By Love: Stories of the Lasting Impact of Childhood Trauma Inflicted by Loved Ones," at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 30, at The Boo...
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'Harry Potter world' to come alive again in downtown NapervilleJul 27, 2017 1:00 am - The shops and streets of downtown Naperville transformed so well into the magical world of Harry Potter last year that they're doing it again this weekend during The Ret...
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Novel takes energetic look at life of ambitious news anchor