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Stephen King reimagines ‘Hansel and Gretel’ with Maurice Sendak’s unpublished drawings

By HILLEL ITALIE
Sep 02, 2025 10:08 am - When representatives for the late author-illustrator Maurice Sendak asked Stephen King to collaborate on a special project — a retelling of “Hansel and Gretel” using Sendak’s drawings — of course he said yes.
Book Review: A novelist on a book tour is stalked by a stranger in ‘All This Could Be Yours’

By BRUCE DESILVA
Sep 01, 2025 7:13 pm - Author Hank Phillippi Ryan has written a crime novel titled “All This Could Be Yours” about an author on tour to promote a crime novel titled “All This Could Be Yours.” As Ryan says in an endnote, it’s very meta.
Book Review: Wife digs into husband’s past and finds unsettling things in ‘I Become Her’

By BRUCE DESILVA
Aug 25, 2025 4:59 pm - Imogene is returning from a restaurant bathroom break when she sees her new husband, Lev, sitting at their table and appearing to flirt with a beautiful waitress. Is he? So begins “I Become Her,” the latest psychological thriller by veteran author Joe Hart.
Book Review: Icelandic detective stars in ‘The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer’

By BRUCE DESILVA
Aug 25, 2025 4:25 pm - Ragnar Jónasson is a devoted fan of puzzle mysteries and has given an Icelandic police detective the same obsession, so the young detective is thrilled to investigate the sudden disappearance of a best-selling crime novelist in “The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer.”
Book Review: Elaine Hsieh Chou dazzles in short story collection ‘Where Are You Really From’

By ANITA SNOW
Aug 25, 2025 4:16 pm - Author Elaine Hsieh Chou dazzles with rich, highly original and sometimes shocking stories in her collection of fiction, “Where Are You Really From.” Chou wanders in and out of a kind of magic realism, exploring our capability for self-deception and cruelty.
St. Charles library hosts William Hazelgrove for book talk on massive Gilded Age scam

By Denise Blaszynski, St. Charles Public Library
Aug 21, 2025 3:48 pm - On Wednesday, Sept. 10, author William Hazelgrove will discuss his book "Greed in the Gilded Age: The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick" at the St. Charles Public Library.
Book Review: A gang of hatchet-wielding women try to take over the meth business in rural Texas

By BRUCE DESILVA
Aug 18, 2025 12:52 pm - A poor country woman and her kids are being terrorized by Porky, a rampaging hog that keeps breaking out of a neighbor’s pen. For help, she turns to Hap Collins and Leonard Pine in Joel R. Lansdale’s 14th darkly comic novel about the duo, “The Hatchet Girls.”
Book Review: A private eye investigates whether her husband sent an innocent man to prison

By BRUCE DESILVA
Aug 15, 2025 10:57 am - “Gone in the Night” is Joanna Schaffhausen’s fifth novel featuring Annalisa, and fans of the series already know that the protagonist’s family life is complicated.
Book Review: Debut novelist Aisha Muharrar deftly explores love and loss in ‘Loved One’

By ROB MERRILL
Aug 12, 2025 6:32 am - I picked up a copy of “Loved One” based solely on the fact that its first-time author, Aisha Muharrar, was involved in three television comedies that made me laugh: “Hacks,” “Parks and Recreation” and “The Good Place.”
Elmhurst Public Library hosts over 50 writers for Local Author Fair Aug. 23

By Carol Pavlik, Elmhurst Public Library
Aug 11, 2025 5:35 pm - Elmhurst Public Library hosts its eighth annual Local Author Fair on Aug. 23, featuring over 50 authors selling and signing books across all genres.

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