Literature
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Riveting 'Triple Agent' a must-read for spy junkiesJul 29, 2011 11:00 am - When I first learned the title of a new book that details a botched CIA operation in Afghanistan that claimed the lives of seven agency employees, I worried that the aut...
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Book notes: 'St. Charles Tall Tale' author hosts signing in GenevaJul 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Ÿ Local author Faly Colaizzi signs copies of her book “Haunted Nights at Drumheller Castle, a St. Charles Tall Tale” from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, July 29, at Villa Ver...
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Famed Little City book fair moves closer to foundation’s Palatine campusJul 27, 2011 12:00 am - The nationally renowned used book sale that’s been a North Shore fixture since 1958 is entering a new era, and organizers acknowledge it’s a risky move. Little City Foun...
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Arlington Heights Army officer sets e-book thriller in the burbsJul 27, 2011 12:00 am - Roger Blakely is an Army officer in his late-40s, stationed in Arlington Heights, living with his cat, and training soldiers in the final weeks before they ship out over...
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Readers will be talking about 'Paradise Prophecy'Jul 24, 2011 11:00 pm - Robert Browne produces a novel that reads like an amalgam of Jim Butcher and Dan Brown in “The Paradise Prophecy.” In this thriller, the War in Heaven has come to Earth,...
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Naperville bookseller named trade association presidentJul 23, 2011 6:00 am - Becky Anderson, co-owner of Anderson’s Bookshops in Naperville and Downers Grove, recently was elected president of the American Booksellers Association. As president o...
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Book notes: 'Civil War Road Trip' author at Lisle libraryJul 22, 2011 12:00 am - • Author Ginny Clarke discusses and signs copies of her book, "Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work," at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 22, at Barnes an...
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Naperville bookshop offers tech petting zoo for digital ageJul 22, 2011 12:00 am - E-readers, tablets, PCs, laptops, netbooks, smart phones — all are capable of giving you access to the books you can’t wait to read. But if the procedure is new to you, ...
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Gene Hackman's Western novel a good yarnJul 19, 2011 3:00 pm - While some of his fellow actors were busy writing memoirs, Gene Hackman was working on his first solo novel. We know from movies like "Unforgiven" and "Bite the Bullet" ...
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'Shock Value' exhumes source of modern horror filmJul 15, 2011 12:00 am - Rack up another dubious achievement for the 1960s. That's the decade when scary movies went from hoary to gory. Schlocky monsters and Edgar Allan Poe rip-offs were aimed...