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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.
Fine Line hosts Art Book Sale March 2

Submitted by Fine Line Creative Arts Center
Feb 25, 2024 10:55 pm - The Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St. Charles is holding a one-day used book sale on Saturday, March 2, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All the books in the sale will be art...
Addison Center for the Arts to host fourth annual ‘Expressions: Art and Verse’ exhibit

Submitted by Julie Mars
Feb 23, 2024 11:49 pm - The Addison Center for the Arts is hosting its fourth collaboration between visual artists and the Illinois State Poetry Society. Participating poets will read poems ins...
Book Review: New collaborative novel ‘Fourteen Days’ proves the pandemic couldn’t curb creativity

By ROB MERRILL
Feb 23, 2024 10:07 am - Almost four years since COVID-19 became a household term, a new work of fiction proves that even a global pandemic can’t curb creativity. “Fourteen Days” is billed as a “...
Book review: Melissa Albert’s ‘The Bad Ones’ is a gripping story of friendship and the supernatural

By DONNA EDWARDS
Feb 20, 2024 11:12 am - Melissa Albert’s fifth young adult novel, “The Bad Ones,” is both chilling and heartwarming — a story of limitless friendship clashing with fantastical supernatural power in the cold winter of a little Illinois town.
EQDG announces ‘One Book, One Town’ March 11-14

Submitted by Jodi Harap
Feb 17, 2024 7:44 pm - The EQDG and the Downers Grove Public Library invites you to join in the second annual “One Book, One Town — Downers Grove.” This community-wide reading initiative is des...
Award-winning author visits McHenry High School

By Amy Maciaszek, McHenry High School District 156
Feb 15, 2024 6:46 pm - Matt de la Peña, a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Newbery Medal for his book “Last Stop on Market Street,” never would have imagined he’d be speaking...

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