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Melania Trump to tell her story in memoir, ‘Melania,’ scheduled for this fall

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jul 25, 2024 7:06 am - Former first lady Melania Trump has a memoir coming out this fall, “Melania,” billed by her office as “a powerful and inspiring story of a woman who has carved her own path, overcome adversity and defined personal excellence.”
Meet Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss at next ‘Date With History’ on Aug. 1

By Jeff Reiter, Cantigny
Jul 24, 2024 2:22 pm - “Date with History” series on Aug. 1 features two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss on his book, “They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967.”
Anderson’s Bookshop to host Aug. 16 event with author of ‘The Maid and the Crocodile’

Submitted by Mary Marolla
Jul 23, 2024 11:54 am - Jordan Ifueko, a Nigerian American writer of fantasy and young adult fiction, will be coming to Anderson's Bookshop in Downers Grove.
Book Review: Call the script doctor! ‘Feh’ explores the toxic storyline of a religious education

By ANN LEVIN
Jul 22, 2024 12:02 pm - Shalom Auslander’s “Feh” is a poignant, profane and scabrously funny exploration of the way that organized religion, but also scientists and philosophers, conspire to teach us that we are “feh,” a Yiddish expression of contempt.
Book Review: The Knights of Camelot search for a new king in Lev Grossman’s ‘The Bright Sword’

By SHARON LURYE
Jul 16, 2024 7:16 am - A rudderless nation, lost in uncertainty, searches for its next commander in chief. Such is the uneasy world of Arthurian England in “The Bright Sword,” the new novel by Lev Grossman.
Book Review: East Texas P.I. turns vigilante in funny and savage ‘Sugar on the Bones’

By BRUCE DESILVA
Jul 15, 2024 10:21 am - In Joe R. Lansdale’s “Sugar on the Bones,” the quirky characters are well drawn, the prose is tight, the pace is furious, the surprises keep coming and the violent climax is nothing less than savage.
Viola Davis, James Patterson to collaborate on novel set in the contemporary, rural South

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jul 09, 2024 3:49 pm - An upcoming thriller about a female judge in the contemporary, rural South will have two very famous, and very different, authors: Oscar winner Viola Davis and mega-selling novelist James Patterson.
Book Review: Kate Quinn returns with ‘The Briar Club,’ a murder mystery during the 1950s Red Scare

By ROB MERRILL
Jul 09, 2024 8:17 am - If you’ve never read a Kate Quinn novel, there’s no time like the present. Or like the 1950s in Washington, D.C. That’s the setting for Quinn’s “The Briar Club,” which is a murder mystery wrapped up in the stories of multiple women who rent rooms at a boarding house during the height of Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Red Scare.
Book Review: ‘Loving Sylvia Plath’ attends to polarizing writer’s circumstances more than her work

By KRYSTA FAURIA
Jul 09, 2024 7:52 am - In “Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation,” author Emily Van Duyne rejects the trope that Plath was nothing more than a bad mother who struggled with mental illness and a morbid poet, whose life was merely a preface to her infamous self-inflicted death.
Book Review: ‘John Quincy Adams’ gives the sixth president’s life the sweep and scope it deserves

By ANDREW DeMILLO
Jul 01, 2024 11:43 am - To be clear, Randall Woods’ “John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People” is not a leisurely read. Clocking in at more than 700 pages, Woods’ biography of the sixth president is massive in both length and scope. But that’s the type of book Adams deserves.

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