Literature
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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...
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’Fifty Shades’ makes list of challenged booksApr 15, 2013 6:00 pm - NEW YORK — Here’s a list “Fifty Shades of Grey” was destined to make: The books most likely to be removed from school and library shelves. On Monday, E L James’ multimil...
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'All That Is' is masterpiece for writersApr 13, 2013 6:00 am - James Salter is a brilliant writer. He's perhaps among the greatest American writers alive today. But “All That Is,” his latest work and his first full-length novel sinc...
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'No Way Back' is suspenseful taleApr 12, 2013 6:00 am - “No Way Back” is the latest high-octane thriller from Andrew Gross, the best-selling author of “15 Seconds.” One woman's life is destroyed and another hides a secret fro...
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Sports guy shows sensitive side in novelApr 10, 2013 6:00 am - ESPN radio host Mike Greenberg makes his living on guy talk, but who knew he had a gift for girl gab, too? The best-selling author creates three authentic female voices ...