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Review: John Grisham's 'Camino Island' is fine beach read

By JONATHAN ELDERFIELD
Jun 19, 2017 7:00 am - "Camino Island: a Novel" (Doubleday), by John Grisham The tale opens with a robbery and closes with a reconciliation. In between these bookends, "Camino Island" by John ...
Review: 'House of Names' is family drama on a mythic stage

By CARLA K. JOHNSON
Jun 19, 2017 7:00 am - "House of Names: a Novel" (Scribner), by Colm Toibin In the days before the gods lost interest in human folly, King Agamemnon summoned his daughter Iphigenia to wed Achi...
Authors: Marcus Pfister fetes 25 years of 'Rainbow Fish' at Skokie event

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Jun 17, 2017 7:26 am - • On Tuesday, June 20, the Authors Group welcomes Sherry Lansing, former CEO of Paramount Pictures and former president of production at 20th Century Fox, to discuss her...
Marie Kondo transforms into a comic book character to sell you KonMari

By Everdeen Mason Washington Post
Jun 16, 2017 6:00 am - The Life Changing Manga of Tidying Up: A Magical Story By Marie Kondo Illustrated by Yuko Uramato. Ten Speed. 192 pp. $14.99 --- Marie Kondo will simplify and declutter ...
Review: 'The Book of Henry' loses sight of its own plot

By MARK KENNEDY
Jun 15, 2017 7:00 am - When film students in the future search for terrible movies in 2017, they'll have a hard time locating "The Book of Henry." Not because it's good - trust us, it isn't - ...
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...

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