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Book Review: Following a vicious attack, a woman solves her own murder in Holly Jackson novel

By BRUCE DESILVA
Aug 07, 2025 10:44 am - After the shattering conclusion of “Not Quite Dead Yet,” author Holly Jackson addresses her readers this way: “... and breathe. Sorry. I know that was intense.”
The ‘courageous decision’ that links an Arlington Heights high school to the Hiroshima bombing

By Christopher Placek
Aug 05, 2025 7:43 pm - The head librarian of John Hersey High School reflects on the significance of the school's namesake and his seminal work, “Hiroshima,” which chronicled the aftermath of the first atomic bomb that was dropped 80 years ago.
Oprah Winfrey picks Richard Russo’s ‘Bridge of Sighs’ for her book club

By HILLEL ITALIE
Aug 05, 2025 8:22 am - Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo is the latest author to be welcomed into the inner circle of Oprah Winfrey book club picks. Winfrey announced Tuesday that she had selected Russo’s “Bridge of Sighs,” a 2007 novel centered in a rural New York community.
Book Review: Jason Mott’s ‘People Like Us’ explores the struggles of semi-fame and American identity

By CLARE SOLLY
Aug 04, 2025 10:40 am - How does one follow up writing “A Hell of a Book” that wins the National Book Award? If you’re Jason Mott, you write a sort-of, not-really, by all legal terms fictionalized — according to the forward — autobiographical story about what life is like as a semi-famous writer.
Geneva creator of Finn the Frog to sign copies of new children’s book Saturday

By David Petesch
Aug 01, 2025 9:55 am - Young readers of Kane County can meet a local author, get their books signed and possibly hear a live reading this Saturday in the Geneva Commons.
Julia Whelan has narrated 600 audiobooks and counting. So why isn’t she paid like it?

By ALICIA RANCILIO
Aug 01, 2025 8:06 am - Chances are, you’ve heard Julia Whelan’s voice. She’s the award-winning narrator behind more than 600 audiobooks by a long list of bestselling authors. Whelan’s first novel, 2018’s “My Oxford Year,” has been adapted to a Netflix film starring Sofia Carson.
Book Review: ‘The Sleep Room’ is the harrowing story of psychiatric care in the 1960s

By FERNANDA FIGUEROA
Jul 31, 2025 3:03 pm - In “The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him,” Jon Stock tells the harrowing history of the British doctor who subjected a ward full of women with mental disorders to medical abuse and gives voice to those who survived him.
Book Review: ‘Gwyneth’ is a portrait of a pioneering and polarizing ‘It girl’ and wellness mogul

By MAE ANDERSON
Jul 28, 2025 11:57 am - “Gwyneth: The Biography,” Amy Odell’s thorough portrait of Gwyneth Paltrow, splits her life and career into two distinct periods: the rise (and fall) of the quintessentia...
Winfield Historical Society seeks sponsors for revised edition of history book

By Kevin Davis, Winfield Historical Society
Jul 16, 2025 11:32 am - The Winfield Historical Society is seeking sponsors for the new revised edition of the history book detailing town's past. Donations start at $100, with perks like book copies and name listings.
Local author explains ‘The Long Lost Lingo of Agatha Christie’ at Club 120

Submitted by Pat Szpekowski
Jul 15, 2025 2:58 pm - Kate Gingold, a local author and historian, and her husband Don Gingold, a publisher, will present "The Long Lost Lingo of Agatha Christie" at Club 120 in Elgin on July 24.

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