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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

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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

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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...
Post 9-11 novel wins PEN/Faulkner prize

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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