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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...
Stephen and Evie McGee Colbert collaborate on cookbook ‘Does This Taste Funny?’

Feb 15, 2024 8:05 am - Stephen Colbert's next book is very much about stirring the pot. Celadon Books announced Thursday that “The Late Show” host and his wife, Evie McGee Colbert, have collaborated on the cookbook “Does This Taste Funny: Recipes Our Family Loves," to be published on Sept. 17.
Book review: Richard Roper charms and surprises with ‘This Disaster Loves You’

By ROB MERRILL
Feb 12, 2024 5:04 pm - Richard Roper, whose debut novel “Something to Live For” (2020) featured a character seeking the aspiration of the title, is back with “This Disaster Loves You,” about an...

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