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Book Review: ‘Glorious Exploits’ turns classical history into an endearing comedy about tragedy

By DONNA EDWARDS
Mar 25, 2024 9:59 am - If the googly eyes on the cover didn’t make it apparent, Ferdia Lennon’s knockout debut novel “Glorious Exploits” is hilarious. In fact, it’s loaded with dark humor literally from page one. Never before has history been such a riot, and so indelibly endearing.
Q&A: Author Rebecca Serle shares what’s behind her ‘magical realism’ and new book ‘Expiration Dates’

By ALICIA RANCILIO
Mar 22, 2024 10:58 am - In Rebecca Serle’s new book “Expiration Dates: A Novel,” the protagonist, Daphne, knows when her relationships will end. A slip of paper always shows up with a name and a...
Best Bets: Adam Ant, Beatles tribute, ‘The Choir of Man’

By Barbara Vitello
Mar 19, 2024 12:58 pm - Adam Ant and British ska band The English Beat headline Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre, Abbey Road brings the Beatles to life at the Metropolis, the CSO performs in Wheaton and more.
Book Review: ‘Newshawks in Berlin’ illustrates tough choices news organizations face in wartime

By ANDREW DeMILLO
Mar 19, 2024 8:49 am - “Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany” explores the challenges the world's largest news organization faced in trying to balance journalistic ethics with the ability to cover World War II within the confines of a dictatorship.
Book Review: Debut novel ‘Headshot’ gives us head shots of the psyches of teenage girl boxers

By ANN LEVIN
Mar 12, 2024 7:08 am - Rita Bullwinkel knows a thing or two about the human body and the abuse it can take. In an interview with The Paris Review, the author, who played water polo in college, ...
‘You can get through this’: Mount Prospect woman’s book shines light on invisible injury

By Steve Zalusky
Mar 10, 2024 5:15 am - High school sweethearts Chase and Katianne Olson were raising a family in Mount Prospect when their lives changed in an instant on May 18, 2020. Chase was doing maintenan...
Downers Grove’s One Book, One Town event focuses on compassion, hope

By Erin Sauder, Shaw Local News Network
Mar 05, 2024 4:43 pm - Library, EQuality Downers Grove collaborate on communitywide reading event If you live in the Downers Grove community and are looking for a book to read, there is a...
Book Review: ‘The Hunter’ is a dark and lyrical tale of revenge, friendship and loyalty in collision

By BRUCE DESILVA
Mar 05, 2024 6:45 am - Cal Hooper fled a failing marriage, quit his exhausting job with the Chicago Police Department, and settled down in Ardnakelty, a fictional village nestled in the mountai...
Book review: Elizabeth Brooks’ Austen-esque World War II novel has romance, betrayal and a touch of macabre

By DONNA EDWARDS
Mar 04, 2024 10:56 am - In a chance meeting in 1934, Nina hosts a dinner party. She’s 14, trying on womanhood for the first time, and even the drunken foolery of Guy Nicholson and his friend can...
Book review: Thomas Mullen’s portrayal of a divided nation in 1943 draws parallels to today

By BRUCE DESILVA
Feb 27, 2024 7:08 am - Thomas Mullen’s “The Rumor Game” is a disturbing yarn about a divided, rumor-riddled nation that offers apt but unstated parallels to present-day America.

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