Literature
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Book notes: Brad Thor to sign books in GurneeAug 05, 2011 1:00 am - Ÿ Meet author Saswati Dasas she discusses and signs copies of her book of poetry, #8220;Fragrant Flute of Fire,#8221; at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 7, at Centuries and Sleuths ...
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Grayslake author puts kids to sleep with best-sellerAug 05, 2011 12:00 am - With a career in graphic design, two children and a household to run, Sherri Rinker never saw herself as a New York Times Bestselling author, but the Grayslake native ad...
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Follow-up to 'Push' provokes, disappointsAug 03, 2011 3:00 pm - At the end of “Push,” the heartbreaking 1996 novel that introduced the character of Precious, baby Abdul represents a glimmer of hope amid the grim landscape of the main...
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'Wanted' targets U.S. military's strategic manhuntsAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - When U.S. Navy SEALs last spring ended a seemingly endless manhunt by killing Osama bin Laden in his hide-out in an affluent suburb north of Pakistan's capital, the worl...
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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...