Literature
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On the cheap: Soap box derby raceApr 14, 2011 12:00 am - ="breakhead">Free Start your soapbox engines! The Greater Chicago Soap Box Association invites youths ages 8 to 17 to take part in the free All-American Soap B...
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Best-sellers: 'Land of Painted Caves' in top spotApr 13, 2011 11:00 pm - Publishers Weekly's best-sellers list for the week of April 11 Fiction 1. “The Land of Painted Caves” by Jean Auel (Crown) 2. “Lover Unleashed” by J.R. Ward (N...
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Book notes: Caroline Kennedy stops at Old OrchardApr 12, 2011 11:00 pm - Ÿ Evanston writer Jay Ambergdiscusses and signs copies of his thriller #8220;America's Fool#8221; at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 15, at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, 811...
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'Bottom of the 33rd' remembers longest gameApr 12, 2011 11:00 pm - As any disciple of baseball knows, the sport is much more than a game, much more than nine men tossing a ball on an emerald diamond. It is a connection to the divine, a ...
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Kate Atkinson's latest doesn't disappointApr 11, 2011 11:00 pm - “For want of a nail the shoe was lost,” an old adage about the unanticipated consequences of minor events, has been a major theme in all four of Kate Atkinson's crime no...
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Best-sellers: Coben's 'Live Wire' at No. 1Apr 06, 2011 11:00 pm - Publishers Weekly's best-sellers list for the week of April 4: Fiction 1. “Live Wire” by Harlan Coben (Dutton) 2. “Toys” by James Patterson and Neil McMahon (Little...
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Book notes: Niffenegger to speak at Aurora UniversityApr 06, 2011 11:00 pm - Ÿ Meet “Galway Bay” author Mary Pat Kelly as she reads from and signs copies of her novel at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Nap...
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Coben's 'Live Wire' is a rich, compelling thrillerApr 04, 2011 11:00 pm - Harlan Coben is one of the best thriller writers in the business, and sports agent — and occasional sleuth — Myron Bolitar has always been a great character. In the rich...
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Henning Mankell retires beloved detectiveApr 03, 2011 11:00 pm - The widely heralded return of Henning Mankell's fictional but fallible and humane police detective Kurt Wallander is also a poignant farewell. In this latest Wallander ...
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Weekend picks: Wildlife art exhibitMar 31, 2011 11:00 pm - Flowers and wildlife View a collection of wildlife, landscape and seascape drawings and paintings by artist Donna Lewis in the Wildlife Artwork Exhibit at the Galle...