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'The Cracked Ceiling' examines women in politics

Associated Press
Dec 30, 2009 10:00 pm - If you thought the 2008 election was a triumph in the cause of getting a woman closer to the White House, political reporter Anne E. Kornblut begs to differ. In her retr...
Fossil hunter is subject of Chevalier's new novel

Associated Press
Dec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - LONDON -- Tracy Chevalier sits in the Victorian grandeur of London's Museum of Natural History next to the skeletal remains of a giant eye, the shape and size of a pinea...
'Becoming Jane Eyre' shows spirit's triumph

Associated Press
Dec 28, 2009 10:00 pm - Charlotte Bronte was a dutiful daughter of the Victorian age. Her best-known character, Jane Eyre, endures as a woman who transcends time and social order. How Charlotte...
'Friendly Fire' author Bryan dies in Conn. at 73

Associated Press
Dec 17, 2009 10:00 pm - HARTFORD, Conn. -- C.D.B. Bryan, whose 1976 book "Friendly Fire" about the accidental death of a soldier in Vietnam struck a chord with disillusioned Americans, has died...
Critic says to 'trust your eye' on architecture

Associated Press
Dec 17, 2009 10:00 pm - Not long after completing his iconoclastic Glass House in 1949, architect Philip Johnson traded barbs as revealing as the see-through walls. "Very nice, but I couldn't l...
SNCC chronicle is deft history of era

Associated Press
Dec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - Even after nearly 50 years, the names bear repeating: Franklin McCain, David Richmond, Ezell Blair and Joseph McNeil. They were freshmen at North Carolina A&T on Feb. 1,...
'Nanny Diaries' authors return with new Nanny tale

Associated Press
Dec 15, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- When we last saw Nanny, she was screaming into a spy camera hidden in a teddy bear. The put-upon heroine of 2002's "The Nanny Diaries" had unleashed a stern ...
'Nanny Diaries' sequel lampoons wealthy

Associated Press
Dec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Seven years ago, the best-selling novel "The Nanny Diaries" introduced us to Nan Hutchinson, an intelligent and compassionate nanny. Through her eyes, readers watched we...
Naperville author signing Scalia retrospective

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Dec 10, 2009 10:00 pm - • Naperville native and Supreme Court historian Joan Biskupic reads from and signs copies of her new book, "American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court...
Barbara Kingsolver's new book robust

Associated Press
Dec 09, 2009 10:00 pm - With her love for sprawling, complicated plots and colorful detail, no wonder it took Barbara Kingsolver 10 years to write her latest novel. Kingsolver has followed up h...

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