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Review: 'Lola' is tough, gritty, graphic crime thriller

By JEFF AYERS
Mar 28, 2017 7:00 am - "Lola" (Crown), by Melissa Scrivner Love Melissa Scrivner Love's "Lola," her first novel, utilizes her television background and familiarity with law enforcement to craf...
'The Wanderers' is mission-to-Mars fiction with a twist

By CARLA K. JOHNSON
Mar 27, 2017 7:00 am - "The Wanderers" (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Meg Howrey In "The Wanderers," a private corporation called Prime Space is financing the first crewed mission to Mars and traini...
'Conviction' has believable characters, intriguing twists

By OLINE H. COGDILL
Mar 27, 2017 7:00 am - "Conviction" (Minotaur), by Julia Dahl Julia Dahl's examination of the myriad communities that exist - sometimes not so harmoniously - in Brooklyn, New York, fuels her t...
Author events: Musician John Oates performs, discusses book in Naperville

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Mar 25, 2017 7:21 am - • "Bad Blood" author Demitria Lunetta signs copies of the teen horror/fantasy title at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 26, at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville...
Carol Stream writer, 109, working on her 12th book

Chicago Sun-Times
Mar 25, 2017 1:00 am - When the ideas clatter and claw inside Merle Phillips' head in the dark of night, there's no point trying to get back to sleep. So she eases out of bed and shuffles over...
Feast for the soul: Jim Harrison on wine and food

By ANN LEVIN
Mar 23, 2017 7:00 am - "A Really Big Lunch" (Grove), by Jim Harrison In 2004, Jim Harrison wrote an article for The New Yorker about a 37-course lunch he ate in France "that likely cost as muc...
Elk Grove Village author to speak about Alaska panhandle book

Daily Herald report
Mar 22, 2017 1:00 am - A former Elk Grove Village resident will be at the public library Monday to talk about his book "Spirits of Southeast Alaska: The History and Hauntings of Alaska's Panha...
'Inferno' brings insight and humanity to Ebola outbreak

By CHRISTINA LEDBETTER
Mar 20, 2017 7:00 am - "Inferno" (St. Martin's Press), by Steven Hatch In 2014, Dr. Steven Hatch, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, flew into a...
Review: Didion revisits the past to illuminate the present

By ROB MERRILL
Mar 20, 2017 7:00 am - "South and West: From a Notebook" (Knopf), by Joan Didion What is it they say about famous writers? They could publish their grocery list and it would be a best seller? ...
Greg Iles brings his 'Natchez Burning' trilogy to an end

By KENDAL WEAVER
Mar 20, 2017 7:00 am - "Mississippi Blood" (William Morrow), by Greg Iles "Mississippi Blood," the concluding novel by Greg Iles in a trilogy featuring lawyer Penn Cage, is part fast-paced cri...

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