Literature
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Pope Francis biography expected next yearOct 10, 2013 8:21 am - NEW YORK — A leading Roman Catholic commentator and founder of a pro-Catholic media organization has landed a deal to write a “full-scale” biography of Pope Francis. Pub...
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Canada’s Alice Munro wins Nobel literature prizeOct 10, 2013 6:20 am - STOCKHOLM — Short story master Alice Munro, who captured everyday lives and epiphanies in rural Canada with elegant and precise prose, won the Nobel Prize in literature ...
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Malcolm Gladwell book cheers underdogsOct 09, 2013 6:00 am - Here are some facts to chew on: About one in three highly successful entrepreneurs — including the founders of JetBlue, Charles Schwab and Kinkos — are dyslexic. Two-thi...
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Author traces harrowing U.S. nuclear near-missesOct 08, 2013 6:00 am - Three days after John. F. Kennedy's inauguration, a B-52 went into an uncontrolled spin above North Carolina, sending a pair of fully operational hydrogen bombs plunging...
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Author Maggie Anton to speak at Beth JudeaOct 07, 2013 1:08 pm - At 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, the Sisterhood of Congregation Beth Judea will welcome author Maggie Anton for a discussion of her books “Rav Hisda’s Daughter: Book 1-Appr...
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Elizabeth Smart details kidnapping in new memoirOct 07, 2013 7:13 am - SALT LAKE CITY — Minutes after 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was snatched from her bedroom in the dead of night, a police cruiser idled by along a neighborhood street as s...
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'The October List' is a small but powerful bookOct 05, 2013 6:00 am - A story told backward has been done in film and print, but Jeffery Deaver gives it his own unique spin in “The October List.” A 6-year-old girl named Sarah has been kid...
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Book notes: Buffalo Grove’s Elkeles hosts readingOct 05, 2013 6:00 am - Ÿ Young adult author and Buffalo Grove resident Simone Elkeles reads from and signs copies of her latest title, “Wild Cards,” at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, at Anderson’s Boo...
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‘Red October’ novelist Tom Clancy dies at 66Oct 02, 2013 6:22 pm - NEW YORK — In 1985, a year after the Cold War thriller “The Hunt for Red October” came out, author Tom Clancy was invited to lunch at the Reagan White House, where he wa...
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Terry McMillan does it again with new novelOct 02, 2013 6:00 am - Terry McMillan treads familiar territory in her latest novel, “Who Asked You?” Four sisters and their families struggle through life, love and real-world crises. On...