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Post 9-11 novel wins PEN/Faulkner prize

Associated Press
Feb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Joseph O'Neill's "Netherland," an acclaimed post-Sept. 11 novel bypassed for the National Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle prize, has finally...
Mystery ends: Agatha Christie's country home opens

Associated Press
Feb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - LONDON -- The house has everything an Agatha Christie fan could want -- except a body in the library. The stuccoed Georgian villa in southwest England where the writer s...
'Law & Order' star's memoir to be featured at Starbucks

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Feb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A memoir by Isabel Gillies, who plays Kathy Stabler on NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," will be the next book featured at Starbucks stores around t...
'Renegades' is a stylish, clever crime yarn

Associated Press
Feb 18, 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...
South's first lady believed right side won war

Associated Press
Feb 18, 2009 10:00 pm - "First Lady of the Confederacy/Varina Davis's Civil War" (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 403 pages, $18.95), by Joan E. Cashin: During the four years...
'L.A. Ink' star Kat Von D in Schaumburg

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Feb 12, 2009 10:00 pm - • Kat Von D, star of The Learning Channel's "L.A. Ink," signs copies of her book "High Voltage Tattoo" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16 at Borders, 1540 E. Golf Road, Schaum...
Scientists debate possibility of a robot war

Associated Press
Feb 10, 2009 10:00 pm - In the 1921 play that invented the word "robot" -- Czech writer Karel Capek's "Rossum's Universal Robots" -- mechanical, highly intelligent slaves mount a revolt and kil...
Engaging 'Eve' offers fresh look at first woman

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Feb 09, 2009 10:00 pm - Tossed from the Garden of Eden for a seemingly insignificant act -- eating a piece of fruit -- Eve is adrift. What did it mean? Why was the punishment so harsh? And then...
Bulls assistant coach turns love of mob flicks into book

By Matt Arado
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - When Chicago Bulls assistant coach Bob Ociepka says "nice shot" in his free time, you can bet he's not talking about basketball. Ociepka, who lives in Arlington Heights,...
Behind scenes in infamous eminent domain case

Associated Press
Feb 08, 2009 10:00 pm - Neighbors, a city and lawyers fight over a plan for eminent domain evictions to make way for development. The story line here is familiar from headlines after the U.S. S...

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