Literature
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Best-selling author Elmore Leonard dies at 87Aug 20, 2013 9:00 am - DETROIT - He was the master of his genre, the Dickens of Detroit, the Chaucer of Crime. Pretty much every novel Elmore Leonard wrote from the mid-1980s on was a best-se...
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'Coming Clean' is a window into hoardingAug 20, 2013 6:00 am - What's it like to live with hoarder parents? In Kimberly Rae Miller's memoir, “Coming Clean,” the writer doesn't minimize the destruction the disorder causes families. B...
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Original Skinnygirl scoop on living life wellAug 19, 2013 6:00 am - Many women ask if they can have it all. In her new book, “Skinnygirl Solutions: Your Straight-Up Guide to Home, Health, Family, Career, Style, and Sex,” Bethenny Frankel...
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'Last Hundred Days' brings JFK's final days to lifeAug 18, 2013 6:00 am - For a blunt-titled book with a tragic conclusion that every reader knows from the start, Thurston Clarke's “JFK's Last Hundred Days” manages to surprise and even occasio...
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Book notes: Meet Derek Sherman Aug. 23 in Lake ForestAug 18, 2013 6:00 am - Ÿ Meet author John Hanley as he reads from and signs copies of his book “W is for Wrigley: The Friendly Confines Alphabet Book” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21, at Anderson...
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Leotta returns with new legal thrillerAug 17, 2013 6:00 am - Allison Leotta's latest novel, “Speak of the Devil,” pits prosecutor Anna Curtis against Diablo, a villain believed to be the devil himself. Diablo and his gang att...
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St. Charles man shares love of reading with free libraryAug 16, 2013 8:00 am - Like many older adults, Mike Hill knew what he didn't want for his birthday this year: More stuff. Hill, 70, has a comfortable life and home at 418 S. Sixth St. in St. C...
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'Tap on the Window' is worth answeringAug 13, 2013 6:00 am - Private detective Cal Weaver makes a simple mistake and destroys everything he holds dear in Linwood Barclay's new thriller, “A Tap on the Window.” Weaver and his wife ...
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Conspiracies abound in ‘Hidden Order’Aug 12, 2013 1:00 pm - An organization more secretive than the FBI, the CIA or the NSA takes center stage in Brad Thor’s latest adventure featuring former Secret Service agent Scot Harvath. Ha...
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'Massacre Pond's a tense and clever mysteryAug 11, 2013 5:00 am - Associated Press Elizabeth Morse, who made her fortune selling worthless herbal remedies to the gullible, is buying up huge parcels of timberland in eastern Maine with t...