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Review: 'Mrs. Houdini' offers readers a rollicking ride

By KIM CURTIS
Mar 21, 2016 7:00 am - "Mrs. Houdini" (Atria), by Victoria Kelly Set in the first half of the 20th century, Victoria Kelly's debut novel, "Mrs. Houdini," is a marvel that gallops through time ...
Review: Batman's life as a night stalker, dancing machine

By MICHAEL HILL
Mar 21, 2016 7:00 am - "The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture" (Simon & Schuster), by Glen Weldon Batman is a brooding night stalker, grim and remorseless. Also, he's a guy wh...
Author appearances: NYT best-selling Jacquelyn Mitchard comes to Naperville's Anderson's

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Mar 19, 2016 7:23 am - • Children's book author Aaron Reynolds signs copies of his newest title, "President Squid," at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 20, at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., N...
C2E2 brings comics, costumes and celebrities to Chicago

By Matt Arado
Mar 16, 2016 6:00 am - This year's Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo, better known as C2E2, promises to cover everything on the pop-culture nerd's checklist. The massive three-day event, h...
Friendship students make books their legacy to Northwest Community Hospital

By Eileen O. Daday
Mar 16, 2016 6:00 am - In a corner of Kristin Hahn's eighth-grade classroom is what she calls a legacy wall. On it are framed stories of previous classes and their signature project completed ...
Best-selling author Jesse Andrews to visit Arlington Hts. library

Daily Herald report
Mar 16, 2016 1:00 am - Author and screenwriter Jesse Andrews ("Me and Earl and the Dying Girl") will be discussing his second novel, "The Haters," at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, at the Arlington ...
Review: 'Baseball's No-Hit Wonders' is fascinating book

By JEFF AYERS
Mar 15, 2016 7:00 am - "Baseball's No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching's Greatest Feats" (Unbridled Books), by Dirk Lammers Spring is almost official, and that means the other seas...
'Deep Blue' by Randy Wayne White is fast-paced thriller

By BRUCE DESILVA
Mar 14, 2016 7:00 am - "Deep Blue" (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Randy Wayne White Since he first appeared in "Sanibel Flats" in 1990, Doc Ford, the hero of a series of thril...
Constable: New book aims to give one-armed Civil War general from Illinois his due

By Burt Constable
Mar 13, 2016 7:30 am - By Burt Constable bconstable@dailyherald.com A July Fourth celebration with his family in a cemetery ignited a spark in young James T. Huffstodt. In a corner of the Utic...
Author appearances: Kristin Cavallari signs new book in Lake Forest, Naperville

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Mar 12, 2016 6:23 am - • Television personality, fashion designer and businesswoman Kristin Cavallari signs copies of her new book, "Balancing in Heels," at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, at t...

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