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Schaumburg Library hosts 'The Colorism Project' exhibit

Submitted by Schaumburg Township District Library
Jan 04, 2022 12:00 am - The exhibit "The Colorism Project: Looking Outside the Paper Bag" is on display through Feb. 24 at the Schaumburg Township District Library, as part of the library's One...
Book review: 'Garbo' a mesmerizing look at film's greatest enigma

By Douglass K. Daniel Associated Press
Jan 03, 2022 5:00 am - "Garbo" by Robert Gottlieb (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Coming a century after the Swedish actress' film debut, Robert Gottlieb's biography of Greta Garbo...
Lisle Library District hosts bestselling author Silvia Moreno-Garcia Jan. 26

Submitted by Joy Davis
Jan 02, 2022 10:00 pm - Bestselling and award-winning author Silvia Moreno-Garcia will discuss her books and writing style virtually at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26, with the Lisle Library Distric...
Book review: Boy band drama meets romance in 'If This Gets Out'

By Donna Edwards Associated Press
Jan 01, 2022 6:30 am - "If This Gets Out" by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich (Wednesday Books) Saturday is the hot, new American boy band getting ready to do their first over...
Amanda Gorman writes end-of-year poem, 'New Day's Lyric'

By HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press
Jan 01, 2022 6:30 am - NEW YORK - Amanda Gorman is ending her extraordinary year on a hopeful note. The 23-year-old poet, whose reading of her own "The Hill We Climb" at President Joe Biden's ...
Book review: Amanda Gorman offers inventive collection of poems

By Amancai Biraben Associated Press
Dec 29, 2021 5:00 am - "Call Us What We Carry" by Amanda Gorman (Viking Books) Asserting that "our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation" in "The ...
2021 in books: 'Everything feels magnified'

By Hillel Italie Associated Press
Dec 25, 2021 6:30 am - Books and authors mattered in 2021, sometimes more than the industry wanted. A 22-year-old poet became a literary star. The enthusiasms of young people on TikTok helped ...
Meteorologist Ginger Zee set for virtual Anderson's Bookshop event

Daily Herald report
Dec 23, 2021 12:00 am - Ginger Zee, ABC-TV's chief meteorologist, will discuss her new book "A Little Closer to Home" in a virtual event copresented locally by Anderson's Bookshop at 7 p.m. Thu...
Peoria's Downstate Story literary magazine releases Vol. 30, featuring Midwestern authors

Submitted by Laura McPherson
Dec 14, 2021 10:00 pm - Nine new short stories by Illinois and Midwestern writers are featured in the 2021 edition of Downstate Story, Peoria's only literary magazine for fiction. Downstate St...
Review: Ragan captivates with new thriller '~Count to Three'

By DONNA EDWARDS
Dec 14, 2021 6:00 am - 'œCount to Three'ť by T.R. Ragan (Thomas & Mercer) T.R. Ragan's alluring new thriller, 'œCount to Three,'ť centers around private investigator Dani Callahan after her da...

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