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Holiday historian shares lore about popular Christmas movies

By Dave Heun
Dec 22, 2022 5:00 am - Gathering the family to go to the movie theater or park in front of the TV to munch on treats and watch Christmas movies has been a popular holiday tradition for decades...
Book review: 'The Good Country' revives Midwest's history

By Stephen Groves Associated Press
Dec 20, 2022 5:00 am - "The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest 1800-1900" by Jon K. Lauck (The University of Oklahoma Press) Dismissed as Flyover Country. Romantic...
Book launch set for 'Two Floors Above Grief'

Submitted by Elgin History Museum
Dec 19, 2022 10:00 pm - A book launch party for Kevin O'Connor's book "Two Floors Above Grief: A Memoir of Two Families in the Unique Place We Called Home" from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec...
Book review: A story of polar exploration and women's suffrage

By DONNA EDWARDS Associated Press
Dec 18, 2022 6:00 am - “Terra Nova” by Henriette Lazaridis (Pegasus Books) Hunger takes many forms. While Viola becomes fascinated with London's suffragette hunger strikers, he...
Some recent biking books that make great holiday gifts for cyclists

By Ralph Banasiak Along For the Ride
Dec 16, 2022 5:00 am - Need holiday gift ideas for a cyclist? Maybe you're so busy cycling you missed these recent biking books. Don't let these pass you by. You'll be disappointed if you expe...
Book review: Smiley visits Wild West in 'A Dangerous Business'

By Rob Merrill Associated Press
Dec 12, 2022 10:00 pm - "A Dangerous Business" by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) After a fall publishing season filled with Big Books by John Irving, Cormac McCarthy and Barbara ...
Book review: Thief forced to steal a vital U.S. defense secret in 'Three-Edged Sword'

By Bruce DeSilva Associated Press
Dec 09, 2022 10:00 pm - “Three-Edged Sword” by Jeff Lindsay (Dutton) After the Cold War, former Soviet spy Ivo Balodis built himself a fortress in an abandoned missile site on a...
Book review: The digital sleuths who demystified cryptocurrency

By Frank Bajak AP Technology Writer
Dec 07, 2022 5:00 am - "Tracers In The Dark" by Andy Greenberg (Doubleday) The year was 2011. Cryptocurrency was a little-understood novelty, and Sen. Chuck Schumer called a ne...
Book review: Hurricane-force novel with a hint of magical realism

By DONNA EDWARDS Associated Press
Dec 06, 2022 5:00 am - "The Light Pirate" by Lily Brooks-Dalton (Grand Central) Wanda is named after the hurricane she was born in. It's also the hurricane that changes the tra...
Book review: New novel explores the life-changing power of art

By Ann Levin Associated Press
Dec 04, 2022 6:30 am - “Now Is Not the Time to Panic” by Kevin Wilson (Ecco) For the past 25 years the best-selling author Kevin Wilson has repeated to himself a semi-poetical,...

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