Literature
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Book review: Everyone's a suspect in 'The Paris Apartment'
Feb 26, 2022 6:20 am - "The Paris Apartment" by Lucy Foley (HarperCollins) It seems the pandemic has altered the publishing calendar as well. That's at least one plausible expl...
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Review: 'This Might Hurt' a tonic for readers of thrillers
Feb 24, 2022 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - 'œThis Might Hurt'ť by Stephanie Wrobel (Berkley) In 'œThis Might Hurt'ť we meet first meet Natalie, an executive living in Boston. She focuses most of h...
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Review: 'Scoundrel' is a portrait of a con-man killer
Feb 23, 2022 6:00 am - 'œScoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free," by Sarah Weinman (Ecco) In 1957...
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Anderson's Bookshop presents thriller author Brad Meltzer in NapervilleFeb 23, 2022 12:00 am - Author and TV host Brad Meltzer is coming to Naperville to promote the release of his latest thriller "The Lightning Rod." Meltzer's appearance is sponsored by Anderson'...
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Review: Everyone's a suspect in 'The Paris Apartment'
Feb 22, 2022 6:00 am - 'œThe Paris Apartment'ť by Lucy Foley (HarperCollins) It seems the pandemic has altered the publishing calendar as well. That's at least one plausible explanation for wh...
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Review: 'Funny Farm' a warm memoir of rescue in many forms
Feb 22, 2022 6:00 am - 'œFunny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals'ť by Laurie Zaleski (St. Martin's Press) As its title promises, Laurie Zaleski's memoir about how she came to fo...
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Book review: Journey to the origins of the Earth
Feb 22, 2022 4:58 am - "Otherlands: Journeys in Earth's Extinct Ecosystems" by Thomas Halliday (Random House) If there is one uncertainty that has persisted since the beginning...
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Family creates app with authors, illustrators to help pediatric cancer patients get through chemoFeb 22, 2022 4:00 am - From the moment Jenna Brown gave birth to her daughter Sydney in February 2020, she called her “Love.” As with most new parents, Jenna and her husband, Jeremy, of Oswego...
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Book review: 'Smile and Look Pretty' a girl-power rallying cry
Feb 20, 2022 6:15 am - "Smile and Look Pretty" by Amanda Pellegrino (Park Row) Enter Cate's office. It's where she thought she'd be vetting out the next Great American Novel. I...
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Book review: Tessa Hadley pens subtle, seductive novel of '60s
Feb 19, 2022 6:20 am - "Free Love" by Tessa Hadley (HarperCollins) The 1960s are an easy punching bag. In her 1968 essay collection "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," Joan Didion b...