Literature
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Book Review: Indigenous author explores charged issue of blood lines in his debut novel ‘Fire Exit’
Jun 07, 2024 2:23 pm - Morgan Talty has followed up on the success of his prize-winning story collection “Night of the Living Rez” with a poignant first novel that explores the charged question of what constitutes identity — family or tribe?
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Book Review: From Crichton and Patterson, ‘Eruption’ is poised to be seismic publishing event
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A new ‘Hunger Games’ book — and movie — is comingJun 06, 2024 12:08 pm - Inspired by an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and the modern scourge of misinformation, Suzanne Collins is returning to the ravaged, post-apocalyptic land of Panem for...
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Book review: ‘When the Sea Came Alive’ expands understanding of D-Day invasion
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Elmhurst Public Library seeks submissions for Local Author FairJun 03, 2024 9:42 pm - Submissions are now being accepted for Elmhurst Public Library’s Local Author Fair on Saturday, Aug. 24.
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Book Review: Twin brothers go on a wacky road trip through South
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Ta-Nehisi Coates returns to nonfiction and explores the power of stories in upcoming ‘The Message’May 30, 2024 7:38 am - For his first all-new book of nonfiction in nearly a decade, Ta-Nehisi Coates traveled the world. One World announced Thursday that Coates' “The Message” will be published Oct. 1.
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Book Review: A dark secret exposed about a World War II internment camp in ‘First Frost’May 28, 2024 1:26 pm - Walt Longmire and his deputy are poking around in his basement when she spots a relic of his youth, a hundred-pound Bob Simmons-model surfboard. “You’re too big to surf,”...
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Book Review: ‘Ascent to Power’ studies how Harry Truman overcame lack of preparation in transition
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Book Review: ‘Cujo’ character returns as one of 12 stories in Stephen King’s ‘You Like It Darker’May 20, 2024 4:58 pm - In Stephen King’s world, “It” is a loaded word. It’s hard not to picture Pennywise the Clown haunting the sewers of Derry, Maine, of course, but in the horror writer’s ne...