Literature
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'Circus' stuffed with 3 rings of wonderSep 26, 2011 2:00 pm - Let's go ahead and get the obvious adjectives for Erin Morgenstern's debut novel, “The Night Circus,” out of the way: Magical. Enchanting. Spellbinding. Mesmerizing. Mo...
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Parenting author to visit Arlington Heights ThursdaySep 26, 2011 12:00 am - Our Lady of the Wayside School presents award-winning journalist and author Susan FitzGerald at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29. The public is invited to this free talk. Fi...
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Book pushes new theory on Tylenol poisoningsSep 26, 2011 12:00 am - New book suggests cyanide was put into pills at distribution facility
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Stalemate in Poland over work of a Yiddish authorSep 25, 2011 5:00 am - WARSAW, Poland — Free after a decade in Soviet labor camps, Yiddish author Naftali Herts Kon believed he was entering the free world when in 1959 he took his wife and da...
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Book notes: Molly Shannon debuts kids' book in NapervilleSep 22, 2011 6:00 am - Ÿ “The Underdogs” author Mike Lupica reads from and signs copies of his new novel for middle readers at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson...
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Lynch's memoir 'Happy Accidents' heartfelt, funnySep 21, 2011 5:45 am - Unlike the conniving, feisty — and hilarious — character on megahit “Glee” that has catapulted her to fame, Jane Lynch does have a heart. The deliciously evil Sue Sylves...
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'The Rogue' paints tough portrait of PalinSep 20, 2011 3:30 pm - NEW YORK — Joe McGinniss' “The Rogue,” the “investigative chronicle” of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, will be catnip for Palin haters hoping to see her discredited...
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Sandra Brown delivers her best with fast-paced 'Lethal'Sep 19, 2011 11:00 pm - Sandra Brown delivers a Hitchcockian thriller that reads like a bullet with her new novel, “Lethal.” Honor Gillette and her 4-year-old daughter live near the Louisia...
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Levi Johnston writes of Bristol's pregnancy and moreSep 19, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Levi Johnston writes in his upcoming book that his ex-girlfriend Bristol Palin was so angry about her mother's pregnancy with son Trig that she wanted to get ...
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Kennedy book-signing postponedSep 19, 2011 12:00 am - Caroline Kennedy has postponed her scheduled book-signing appearance on Wednesday at North Central College’s Pfeiffer Hall in Naperville to attend the funeral of her cou...