Literature
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Sizemore book details actor's battle with drugsMay 03, 2013 6:00 am - “By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There” by Tom Sizemore, with Anna David (Atria Books) The cover photo of Tom Sizemore's autobiography, “By Some Miracle I Made It ...
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Book notes: Jim Gaffigan signs 'Dad is Fat' in NapervilleMay 03, 2013 6:00 am - Ÿ Author Michael Black discusses and signs “Pope's Last Case & Other Stories” and “To Hell in a Fast Car: On the Road to Death and Destruction” and is joined by author Z...
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Doors drummer protects Jim Morrison legacy in bookMay 01, 2013 5:00 am - NEW YORK — Former Doors drummer John Densmore keeps the spirit of Jim Morrison alive in his new book, “The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial.” The 68-...
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'The Hit' is a winner from David BaldacciApr 30, 2013 6:00 am - Will Robie, a government assassin seen in last year's “The Innocent,” returns in a bigger and bolder adventure in David Baldacci's new novel, “The Hit.” Robie's superior...
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'Sleight of Hand' will shock, misleadApr 27, 2013 6:00 am - Private investigator Dana Cutler returns in “Sleight of Hand,” Phillip Margolin's best book in years. Deception is prominent, and the villain is truly vile. Charles Ben...
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T. Jefferson Parker concludes Charlie Hood seriesApr 24, 2013 6:00 am - “The Famous and the Dead” is billed as the final installment in T. Jefferson Parker's six-volume saga about Charlie Hood, an earnest young Los Angeles lawman hellbent on...
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Book notes: Meet Gabby Douglas at Skokie’s B&NApr 24, 2013 6:00 am - Ÿ Chicago-area writer Amy Timberlake celebrates the release of her new novel for children, “One Came Home,” with a reading and book-signing event at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Ap...
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'Fangs Out' is suspenseful taleApr 23, 2013 6:00 am - After 10 years on California's death row, Dorian Munz is finally about to be executed for murdering the daughter of a Vietnam War hero named Hub Walker. Does Munz have a...
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Mary Higgins Clark active as ever at age 85Apr 20, 2013 4:49 am - SADDLE RIVER, N.J. — The desk of Mary Higgins Clark looks remarkably ordered for one of the world’s most popular novelists. But the upkeep can be explained by spring cle...
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Rita Moreno's memoir is survivor's storyApr 16, 2013 6:00 am - The award-winning actress Rita Moreno opens up — way, way up — in a memoir driven less by recollections from her career than by her effort to overcome crippling self-dou...