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Novel finds drama in admissions frenzy

Associated Press
Apr 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Over the past few months, high school seniors have been finding out whether they've been accepted or rejected by the colleges to which they'd applied. There's plenty of ...
Ford's 'Dead Silence' action packed

Associated Press
Apr 22, 2009 11:00 pm - "Dead Silence" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 354 pages, $25.95), by Randy Wayne White: Doc Ford is in his 50s now, no longer the young man we first met 16 books ago in "Sanibel F...
'Empire Of The Sun' author J.G. Ballard dies at 78

Associated Press
Apr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - LONDON -- Author J.G. Ballard, a survivor of a Japanese prison camp whose vision was so dark and distinctive it was labeled "Ballardian" and who reached a wide audience ...
New Dan Brown novel coming in September

Associated Press
Apr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- At last, a new Dan Brown novel is coming. Six years after the release of his mega-selling "The Da Vinci Code," the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group announced...
First-time author scores unexpected best seller

Associated Press
Apr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - JACKSON, Miss. -- Good thing Octavia Spencer is an actress. She needed all her stagecraft to hide a horrified look when her friend, Kathryn Stockett, asked her to read h...
'Two Towers' via cell towers? Digital Tolkien arrives

Associated Press
Apr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A major new name has been added to the digital library: J.R.R. Tolkien. E-versions of the late author's multimillion-selling "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of th...
Sheepshearing event planned for Kline Creek Farm in Winfield

Daily Herald Staff Report
Apr 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Freebie! Shear delight Find out how wool sheared from a sheep is made into a sweater or coat during the sheepshearing event at Kline Creek Farm. The farm's resident shee...
Harlan Coben pens most suspenseful thriller yet

Associated Press
Apr 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Myron Bolitar, sports agent and accidental detective, has returned in what is perhaps Harlan Coben's best-written and most suspenseful thriller yet. The story begins whe...
'Playing with the Enemy' author in Bolingbrook

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Apr 16, 2009 11:00 pm - • Meet "Playing with the Enemy" author Gary Moore as he discusses and signs copies of his book at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 18, at Barnes and Noble at the Promenade Bolingb...
Amazon 'glitch' removes sales rank from gay books

Associated Press
Apr 12, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A "glitch" on Amazon.com has caused the sales rank to be removed from gay- and/or lesbian-themed books by James Baldwin, Gore Vidal and others. "There was a ...

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