Literature
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Review: Atkins delivers engrossing thriller 'The Fallen'
Jul 18, 2017 7:00 am - "The Fallen" (Putnam), by Ace Atkins Ace Atkins' novels about Quinn Colson, a former Army Ranger turned sheriff, takes place in Mississippi's rural Tibbehah County, wher...
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Little Lending Library coming to Palatine schoolJul 18, 2017 1:00 am - Installation of a Little Lending Library is set for Thursday afternoon outside a Palatine Township Elementary District 15 school. Jane Addams Elementary School in Palati...
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Garwood delivers another suspenseful romance with 'Wired'
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Review: 'Afterlife' is mind-bending thriller
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What libraries lost when they threw out the card catalogJul 17, 2017 6:00 am - "The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures" By Library of Congress Chronicle. 224 pp. $35 --- This book about card catalogs, written and published in cooper...
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Author events: Meet Chris Colfer, Michael Connelly in Naperville this weekJul 15, 2017 7:28 am - • "Who's That Girl" author Blair Thornburgh signs copies of her book at 7 p.m. Monday, July 17, at Anderson's Bookshop, 26 S. La Grange Road, La Grange. For a place in t...
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Comic book mania breaks out at Gail Borden libraryJul 15, 2017 1:00 am - More than 20 comic book artists and writers met with guests Saturday at the Comic Book Mania Convention at the Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin. Artists sold some of...
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Constable: Author still walks with angels 25 years laterJul 15, 2017 1:00 am - A deeply religious Arlington Heights housewife with five kids, Joan Wester Anderson hung a clothesline in the Kroch's & Brentano's bookstore at Randhurst Mall in Mount P...
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'Ancient Brews' reveals tasty history of alcohol
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Review: 'The Almost Sisters' tests bonds of family & friends