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Review: 'One Italian Summer' is a magical trip worth taking

By ALICIA RANCILIO
Mar 03, 2022 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - 'œOne Italian Summer'ť Rebecca Serle (Atria Books) Readers of Rebecca Serle are well-aware she often infuses her novels with touches of magic. In her las...
Review: Twists arrive at a dizzy pace in 'The Night Shift'

By BRUCE DESILVA
Mar 01, 2022 6:00 am - 'œThe Night Shift'ť by Alex Finlay (Minotaur) New Year's Eve, 1999. Four teenage girls working late at a video store in Linden, New Jersey, are savagely attacked. Only o...
Book review: Naperville native Bob Odenkirk sketches a showbiz life in memoir

By Douglass K. Daniel Associated Press
Mar 01, 2022 5:00 am - "Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir" by Bob Odenkirk (Random House) Perseverance with a heavy dose of luck has propelled Bob Odenkirk's ascent from fringe sketch ...
Review: 'The Heights' by Louise Candlish is a delight

By MOLLY SPRAYREGEN
Feb 28, 2022 6:00 am - 'œThe Heights,'ť by Louise Candlish (Atria) Louise Candlish's 'œThe Heights'ť opens with Ellen Saint spotting a man she knows standing in an apartment window. His presen...
Book review: Bob Odenkirk sketches a showbiz life in memoir

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
Feb 28, 2022 6:00 am - 'œComedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir'ť by Bob Odenkirk (Random House): Perseverance with a heavy dose of luck has propelled Bob Odenkirk's ascent from fringe sketch co...
Review: Margaret Atwood's writings both funny, frightening

By ANITA SNOW
Feb 28, 2022 6:00 am - 'œBurning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021,'ť by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday) Canadian poet, novelist and literary critic Margaret Atwood's diverse a...
Book review: Everyone's a suspect in 'The Paris Apartment'

By Rob Merrill Associated Press
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...
Review: 'This Might Hurt' a tonic for readers of thrillers

By ALICIA RANCILIO
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...
Review: 'Scoundrel' is a portrait of a con-man killer

By MAE ANDERSON
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...
Anderson's Bookshop presents thriller author Brad Meltzer in Naperville

By Scott C. Morgan
Feb 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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