Literature
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Best-selling book 'The Fault in Our Stars' banned from middle schoolsSep 24, 2014 1:01 am - RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The best-selling book "The Fault in Our Stars," narrated by a 16-year-old cancer patient, has been banned from Riverside Unified School District midd...
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Hulu to make Stephen King's '11/22/63' into a miniseriesSep 23, 2014 10:15 am - LOS ANGELES — Stephen King's time-travel novel about the Kennedy assassination is being adapted as a small-screen miniseries. Streaming service Hulu said Monday that the...
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Book series explores the supernatural in ElginSep 22, 2014 11:00 pm - The Elgin Area Historical Society Museum, located in Old Main on the campus of Elgin Academy, 316 Park St., will be the setting for the formal launch of a six-volume com...
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Women in politics: Gillibrand and Davis memoirsSep 20, 2014 6:45 am - Two prominent women in politics, New Yorker Kirsten Gillibrand, who replaced Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate, and Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, who shot ...
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Book notes: Jim Peterik signs new book in Glen EllynSep 20, 2014 6:15 am - • Photographer/author Seth Casteel discusses and signs copies of his new book of photos, "Underwater Puppies," at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W....
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Book of Barbra Streisand pics out in DecemberSep 19, 2014 6:00 am - NEW YORK - How obsessive are Barbra Streisand's fans? A coffee-table book may provide an answer. Publisher Taschen announced recently that "Barbra: Streisand's Early Yea...
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Book on Jewish food features intro by Joan RiversSep 17, 2014 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - A few months before she died, Joan Rivers agreed to contribute to a book about Jewish food. She began with some old family stories and some old Jewish jokes. ...
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'Golem of Hollywood' disappointsSep 16, 2014 10:00 am - "The Golem of Hollywood" - the first collaboration by father-and-son Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman - tries to showcase the best that each author brings to his individual ...
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Wisecracking blogger doesn't pull punchesSep 16, 2014 6:00 am - It's not easy to endear yourself to readers when you write a book called “People I Want to Punch in the Throat,” yet somehow author Jen Mann manages to do just that in h...
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Suburban Mosaic author meets readers in Mt. ProspectSep 16, 2014 5:30 am - Mundelein author Leslie Stella greeted readers at the Mount Prospect Public Library on Monday night and discussed her novel "Permanent Record," a selection for this year...