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Cheers to Wendt's 'Drinking With George'

Associated Press
Oct 21, 2009 11:00 pm - "Drinking With George" isn't an autobiography, memoir or tell-all. It has elements of all three, but in the end, it's about one thing: beer. George Wendt's alter ego, th...
Book combines ghost story and coming-of-age drama

Associated Press
Oct 20, 2009 11:00 pm - If Audrey Niffenegger's debut novel, "The Time Traveler's Wife," was based on love, her follow-up calls on much darker fare: jealousy, possessiveness, immaturity and dis...
'9 Dragons' reveals new side of detective Harry Bosch

Associated Press
Oct 19, 2009 11:00 pm - The epigram on the matchbook says "Happy is the man who finds refuge in himself." Harry Bosch has been carrying it for 12 years, since he picked it up during a robbery i...
60 years of the arts at Elgin Community College

Daily Herald Staff Report
Oct 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Freebie 60 years of the arts Help celebrate the 60th anniversary of Elgin Community College at the Fall for the Arts event. Dozens of performances run througho...
'Faith' follows 'Tuesdays' blueprint, but with a spiritual tone

Associated Press
Oct 14, 2009 11:00 pm - In his latest book, Mitch Albom returns to the wise-man-shares-life-lessons-before-he-dies blueprint that made his "Tuesdays With Morrie" such a hit. "Have a Little Fait...
Andy Williams to discuss autobiography

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Oct 13, 2009 11:00 pm - • Legendary performer Andy Williams will present his new autobiography, "Moon River and Me," in a program at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, at the historic Tivoli Theatre, 5021...
Grayslake author tackles economic issues

By Anna Marie Kukec
Oct 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Author John Wasik of Grayslake looks at writing in different ways. "Writing a column is like a sprint, you do it in a specific period of time," he said. "But writing a ...
'Pomegranates': How life's events affect a family

Associated Press
Oct 08, 2009 11:00 pm - A daughter graduates from college and plunges into depression as she searches for her true calling. A mother struggles to accept her own mortality, and wonders how to he...
'Change in Altitude' shows trust-less love

Associated Press
Oct 06, 2009 11:00 pm - "A Change in Altitude" (Little, Brown and Company, 320 pages, $26.99), by Anita Shreve: No one is better at gently, but thoroughly probing the interior life of her chara...
Burciaga anthology among American Book Awards

Associated Press
Oct 06, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A critical work on black intellectuals and an anthology of the late Chicano poet Jose Antonio Burciaga are among this year's winners of American Book Awards....

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