Literature
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2-time Pulitzer winners tackle the economyAug 10, 2012 6:00 am - The highly decorated investigative team of Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele return in their eighth book to their core topic, U.S. economic policy. But “The Betrayal...
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'Black List' is intense, but unevenAug 10, 2012 6:00 am - Scot Harvath works as a counterterrorism operative — and he's very good at what he does. His methods are harsh, but they produce results. He's also used to being targete...
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Book notes: 'Bullied' author discusses title at Skokie's B&NAug 09, 2012 11:00 pm - Ÿ Young-adult authors Amanda Hocking and Julie Cross team up for an author event at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10, at Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville, at 123 W. Jefferson Ave...
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Tana French delivers another winnerAug 07, 2012 6:00 am - “Broken Harbor,” the fourth novel in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series, takes its name from the former seaside resort where Mick “Scorcher” Kennedy (the by-the-bo...
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Books celebrate Marilyn Monroe, 50 years after her deathAug 05, 2012 11:00 pm - Marilyn Monroe died 50 years ago on Aug. 5, 1962, at age 36. Timed to the anniversary of her death — ruled a probable suicide from acute barbiturate poisoning — are a ho...
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Book notes: Meet 'Gone Girl' author at Skokie's B&NAug 02, 2012 6:00 am - Ÿ Meet “The Skeleton Box” author Bryan Gruley as he discusses his book at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3, at Barnes and Noble, 720 Hawthorn Center, Vernon Hills. (847) 247-115...
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Doggett's book on Bowie meticulously researchedAug 01, 2012 6:00 am - Peter Doggett's “The Man Who Sold the World” is not so much a book as it is a project — meticulously documenting the whole of David Bowie's oeuvre during the 1970s, ...
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Celebrated author, playwright Gore Vidal diesAug 01, 2012 12:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional...
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Bohjalian does it again with 'Sandcastle Girls'Jul 31, 2012 6:00 am - It takes a talented novelist to combine fully ripened characters, an engrossing storyline, exquisite prose and set it against a horrific historical backdrop — in this ca...
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‘Circle of Friends’ author Binchy dies at 72Jul 30, 2012 11:58 pm - LONDON — Bestselling author Maeve Binchy, who was known for her depictions of small-town Irish life, has died in Dublin after a brief illness, according to Irish media r...