Literature
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'Kitchen Counter Cooking School' inspires, informsOct 05, 2011 6:00 am - If you are going to read one book to change your diet and your life, “The Kitchen Counter Cooking School” is it. The second book by Le Cordon Bleu graduate Kathleen Flin...
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Child's latest details how Reacher became a drifterOct 04, 2011 10:00 am - Readers of the popular Jack Reacher thrillers have faced from the start the perplexing question of why the protagonist ended a 13-year career with the military police to...
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Book notes: Stan Mikita signs books in Downers GroveSep 29, 2011 11:00 pm - Ÿ Award-winning Irish playwright and novelist Sebastian Barry reads from and signs copies of his new work of literary fiction, “On Canaan's Side,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, S...
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No debating quality of Jim Lehrer's bookSep 28, 2011 5:45 am - Presidential debates are subject to as much Monday morning quarterbacking as, well, a big-time football game. A candidate's every phrase and physical movement is dissect...
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Local authors visit Rolling Meadows H.S.Sep 28, 2011 12:00 am - All Rolling Meadows High School students, regardless of academic level or year in school, were required to read one of two books for their summer reading assignment this...
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Cultural council hosts poetry workshop in PalatineSep 27, 2011 12:00 am - The Northwest Cultural Council has moved its poetry workshop back a week, rescheduling the event to 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 15 at the Palatine Public Library Distr...
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Brandman's prose doesn't measure up to Parker'sSep 26, 2011 11:00 pm - The late Robert B. Parker once said that readers liked his books “for the same reason that they like certain songs.” They may say that they like the characters and the p...
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Archie's 70th looks at childhood cancer, help for familiesSep 26, 2011 11:00 pm - PHILADELPHIA — For families of ill children, a night or two or even more at the Ronald McDonald House is one way to help focus on their ailing kids without having to sho...
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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...