Literature
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Local Cary author publishes debut mystery novelSep 22, 2022 11:00 pm - Local Cary author Patricia Childers has published her debut novel, "Don't Call Me Daughter." The book is a mystery involving Chicago Police Detective, Ella Flynn, who is...
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This year's One Book, One Village selection in Arlington Heights has local tiesSep 21, 2022 5:30 am - There are a few local ties that led to the Arlington Heights Memorial Library's choice of “Clark and Division” as its One Book, One Village selection this year. Yes, the...
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Night Writers Workshop to host afternoon reading Oct. 15 in GenevaSep 20, 2022 11:00 pm - Members of Night Writers Workshop, a group sponsored by the Geneva Public Library, will hold a reading on Saturday, Oct. 15. Several writers have published books that w...
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Review: Coming up for air in Strout's pandemic voyage
Sep 20, 2022 7:00 am - 'œLucy by the Sea," by Elizabeth Strout (Random House) Returning to characters of previous novels, Elizabeth Strout folds them into COVID-19's twist of fate in 'œLucy by...
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Book review: Dick Ebersol recalls his outsized TV role in memoir
Sep 20, 2022 6:00 am - "From Saturday Night to Sunday Night: My Forty Years of Laughter, Tears and Touchdowns in TV" by Dick Ebersol (Simon & Schuster) Anyone who's followed th...
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Review: A war story, 'Mosquito Bowl' defines courage, duty
Sep 19, 2022 7:00 am - 'œThe Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II,'ť by Buzz Bissinger (Harper) U.S. Marines training for the invasion of the Japanese island of Okinawa didn...
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Review: Dick Ebersol recalls his outsized TV role in memoir
Sep 19, 2022 7:00 am - 'œFrom Saturday Night to Sunday Night: My Forty Years of Laughter, Tears and Touchdowns in TV,'ť by Dick Ebersol (Simon & Schuster) Anyone who's followed the TV industr...
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Review: 'Less Is Lost,' a funny and affecting U.S. road trip
Sep 19, 2022 7:00 am - 'œLess Is Lost,'ť by Andrew Sean Greer (Little, Brown) Andrew Sean Greer's 'œLess Is Lost'ť is the highly anticipated follow up to his 2018 Pulitzer Prize winning novel ...
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Book review: Joel Dicker's latest thriller ambitious but flawed
Sep 18, 2022 7:00 am - “The Enigma of Room 622” by Joel Dicker (HarperVia) In Joel Dicker's fat new thriller, a famous novelist named Joel, vacationing in room No. 623 of the H...
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Book review: Ian McEwan returns with masterful book 'Lessons'
Sep 17, 2022 7:20 am - "Lessons" by Ian McEwan (Alfred A. Knopf) "Roland occasionally reflected on the events and accidents, personal and global, minuscule and momentous that h...