Literature
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Movie pushes Julia Child book back on best-seller list
Aug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- On paper and on screen, "Julia" is stealing the show from "Julie." Meryl Streep's performance as Julia Child in "Julie & Julia," which opened last weekend, h...
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Cast drives 'Best of Times'
Aug 06, 2009 11:00 pm - An ordinary Friday afternoon becomes a nightmare when a truck driver loses control of his vehicle on a London highway and causes a multicar pileup. In her latest novel, ...
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Kinsella's 'Twenties Girl' heavy on fun, light on real life
Aug 06, 2009 11:00 pm - In "Twenties Girl," chick-lit queen Sophie Kinsella introduces readers to Lara Lington, a 27-year-old Brit who sees something no one else can see: a ghost. Lara's great-...
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Streamwood comic-book artist, writer hooks fans with 'Tiny Titans'Aug 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Art Baltazar loved superheroes as a child. He read all the Spider-Man, X-Men and Batman comics he could yank off drugstore spinner racks, and he never missed an episode ...
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Local author appearancesAug 03, 2009 11:00 pm - • Author Julie Kramer discusses and signs copies of her book "Missing Mark & Stalking Susan" at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, at Centuries and Sleuths bookstore, 7419 W. Madiso...
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New book celebrates the joys of seeing redAug 02, 2009 11:00 pm - As the home of President Barack Obama, Illinois has a reputation as a blue state. But not for author Nicole Giladi. "Illinois was my reddest state," say Giladi, author o...
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Greg Iles weaves a story full of twists and turns
Jul 30, 2009 11:00 pm - Riverboat casino manager Jonathan Sands has a refined English accent that reverts to a coarse, working-class Irish manner of speech in situations where he reveals his tr...
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Author appearances and book signingsJul 30, 2009 11:00 pm - • Meet author Richard C. Lindberg as he discusses and signs copies of his books "The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael C. McDonald & the Rise of Chicago's Democratic...
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Dolan's debut 'Bad Things' is mostly good
Jul 27, 2009 11:00 pm - David Loogan, a man with a mysterious past, settles in Ann Arbor, Mich. He gets a job as an editor and befriends his boss, Tom Kristoll, publisher of Gray Streets, a mys...
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Radio reporter turned teacher learns lessons from the kidsJul 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Former radio reporter Dave Berner started a new career while his father was dying from cancer and his marriage was falling apart. The saving grace to that troubled time ...