Literature
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Oprah picks 'best love story ever'
Nov 01, 2021 1:12 pm - Oprah Winfrey has picked "Love in the Time of Cholera," the epic love story by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as her next book club selection. "If you love love,...
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Best SellersNov 01, 2021 1:04 pm - Fiction 1. You've Been Warned, James Patterson, Howard Roughan 2. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini 3. Dead Heat, Dick Francis, Felix Francis 4. Making Money, Te...
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Family solidityNov 01, 2021 1:04 pm - This fifth novel by the author of the much-admired "Bel Canto" is engaging, surprising, provocative and moving. Its force is diminished somewhat by a couple of extended ...
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Author appearancesNov 01, 2021 1:02 pm - • Karen Abbott, author of "Sin in the Second City," signs copies of her book at 7 p.m. Oct. 5 at Borders, 1500 16th St., Oak Brook. (630) 574-0800. • Meet veteran sports...
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Manage data, people in an organized mannerNov 01, 2021 12:26 pm - "The Rise of the Project Workforce - Managing People and Projects in a Flat World" by Rudolf Melik, John Wiley & Sons, $34.95. Much of today's supposed enterprise-solut...
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Doing things 'The Chicago Way'Nov 01, 2021 10:53 am - It is a measure of the ambition of Michael Harvey's first novel, "The Chicago Way," that we start it thinking about Dashiell Hammett and end it pondering Aeschylus. Here...
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Author appearancesNov 01, 2021 10:59 am - • Author Sherman Alexie reads and signs copies of his first book for young adults, "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian," at 7 p.m. Sept. 28 at Anderson's Bo...
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Best sellersNov 01, 2021 10:52 am - Fiction 1. You've Been Warned, James Patterson, Howard Roughan 2. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini 3. Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor 4. The ...
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Books: Best-sellersNov 01, 2021 9:55 am - Fiction 1. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini 2. The Wheel of Darkness, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child 3. Bones to Ashes, Kathy Reichs 4. Dark Possession, Christi...
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Author appearancesOct 31, 2021 10:00 pm - • Children's book author and illustrator Mark Teague is featured at 7 p.m. Sept. 21 at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville. Teague will read from and ...