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Former Dodgers' boss O'Malley gets sympathetic bio

Associated Press
Mar 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Crowds cheered along the streets of Brooklyn on Oct. 4, 1955. Children leaned out windows to clang on pots and men took turns whacking an effigy hanging from a lamppost ...
Book signings and other events

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Mar 12, 2009 11:00 pm - • Bryan Gruley, the Chicago bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, signs copies of his debut novel, "Starvation Lake," at 7 p.m. Monday, March 16, at the Book Stall, 8...
First edition Harry Potter sells for $19,120

Associated Press
Mar 08, 2009 11:00 pm - DALLAS -- A softcover copy of the first Harry Potter book has sold for just over $19,000, according to a Dallas auction house. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"...
A desert patrol turns deadly in 'Renegades'

Associated Press
Mar 05, 2009 10:00 pm - The Antelope Valley is a vast stretch of high desert north of Los Angeles, where thousands of affordable homes have been thrown up and where urban gangs are already star...
Porn or literature? Nazi monster explains himself

Associated Press
Mar 04, 2009 10:00 pm - The narrator of Jonathan Littell's "The Kindly Ones" is a devil who wants a little empathy. Max Aue, a former officer in Hitler's paramilitary SS, would like to explain ...
'Hunting Eichmann' a fantastic true spy story

Associated Press
Mar 04, 2009 10:00 pm - In the confusion following the fall of Nazi Germany to the Allied forces in 1945, SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann vanished, leaving behind millions of dead includin...
Gruley to discuss his novel 'Starvation Lake'

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Mar 04, 2009 10:00 pm - • Meet author Bryan Gruley as he discusses his book "Starvation Lake: A Mystery" at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 8, at Centuries and Sleuths bookstore, 7419 W. Madison St., Fore...
Bio celebrates FDR labor secretary Perkins

Associated Press
Mar 04, 2009 10:00 pm - Reading the biography of FDR's labor secretary, Frances Perkins, brings to mind the old saying about how Ginger Rogers had to do everything Fred Astaire did, except back...
'Night and Day' latest Stone adventure

Associated Press
Mar 01, 2009 10:00 pm - Robert Parker's protagonists do not merely fall in love. They become obsessed with the objects of their affections, and they stay that way for a long time. Sunny Randall...
New book a novel attempt to resurrect Sam Spade

Associated Press
Feb 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Breathing new life into an iconic character created by a long-dead author is a risky business that requires both skill and daring. John Gardner pulled it off rather nice...

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