Literature
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'Heroes for My Daughter' is deeply personal bookApr 11, 2012 6:00 am - Brad Meltzer's follow-up to his amazing “Heroes for My Son” features more talented individuals who prove one person truly can change the world. From the introduction...
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Bike Snob returns with 'The Enlightened Cyclist'Apr 10, 2012 2:00 pm - “The Enlightened Cyclist” aspires to be a kind of bible for bicycle commuters, who will read it, laugh, weep and identify with almost every detail. It's also the kind of...
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Library of America to release 'Little House' booksApr 08, 2012 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Laura Ingalls Wilder, who already holds a special place in the hearts of millions of parents and children, soon will be added to the country's official litera...
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Holocaust survivor, 108, shines in bookApr 06, 2012 6:00 am - The strength of Alice Herz-Sommer's advice lay in its simplicity. Generosity above all, she says. Gratitude is essential for happiness. Complaining never helps. As if h...
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Book notes: Ebert signs his two new books at Anderson'sApr 05, 2012 6:00 am - Ÿ Meet children's book author and illustrator Jules Feiffer from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 7, at the Jean Albano Gallery, 215 W. Superior, Chicago. Feiffer is perha...
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Survivor of North Korean labor camp tells his storyApr 04, 2012 6:00 am - Hitler's death camps, Stalin's gulag and Pol Pot's killing fields are now the stuff of history, but the unspeakable horrors they evoke still endure in the labor camps of...
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Memoir provides fitting glimpse into reporter's lifeApr 03, 2012 6:00 am - It's nearly impossible to read Anthony Shadid's memoir, “House of Stone,” without thinking about the author's recent death, which occurred prematurely and tragically in ...
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Hemingway shows soft side in newly public lettersMar 31, 2012 6:53 am - BOSTON — Ernest Hemingway shows a tenderness that wasn’t part of his usual macho persona in a dozen unpublished letters that became publicly available Wednesday in a col...
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Des Plaines Marine honored for poetryMar 29, 2012 5:16 pm - Robert A. Hall of Des Plaines has been awarded the 2012 Robert A. Gannon Award, given for a distinguished volume of original verse by a Marine poet dealing with Marine C...
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'Truth' is intense historical thriller'Mar 29, 2012 6:00 am - Kieran Shields creates a pitch-perfect atmosphere in “The Truth of All Things,” a tale set in Portland, Maine, during the summer of 1892. Two hundred years earlier in Sa...