Literature
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Review: Lee Goldberg scores again with vivid 'Movieland'
Jun 21, 2022 11:48 AM - In 'Movieland,' Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Duncan Pavone believes a would-be serial killer is behind several non-fatal shootings in a state park
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Review: 'Cabin Fever' captures the horror of COVID cruise
Jun 21, 2022 11:19 AM - More than two years after the world first learned about a new deadly disease with a five-letter name, it's time for the first books to come out and add to the historical record
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Review: 'The House on the Lake' is a wild, improbable ride
Jun 21, 2022 11:07 AM - In 'The House Across the Lake' a woman staying in a cottage on a remote Vermont lake spends hours drinking heavily and spying on her neighbors with a pair of binoculars
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Constable: Trailblazing rabbi retires from Deerfield temple but not from spiritual pursuits
Jun 21, 2022 10:02 AM - Trailblazing Rabbi Karyn Kedar says she isn't retiring from B'nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim in Deerfield but merely shifting positions as she uses faith, courage and wisdom to continue working on matters of the spirit.
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Book review: Tracy Flick is back in dark, comic 'Election' sequel
Jun 18, 2022 7:20 AM - Tracy Flick, the character created by Tom Perrotta in his 1998 novel "Election" and immortalized by Reese Witherspoon in the film version a year later, is back. Perrotta has set his darkly comic sequel, "Tracy Flick Can't Win," in a different New Jersey high school some 20 years after Tracy's notorious bid to become student body president.
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Review: Hardboiled detective novel meets modern-day issues
Jun 16, 2022 8:25 AM - Seventeen-year-old Jesse is breaking into a house in Sandy Lake, Minnesota
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Geneva poet to read from first published book 'Thunder Inn'
Jun 15, 2022 10:09 AM - Collin Callahan will read from his newly published book of poems, 'Thunder Inn,' on Saturday at Harvey's Tales in Geneva. Callahan grew up in Geneva.
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Review: Whips and quips in comedian Tom Segura's new book
Jun 14, 2022 1:24 PM - Comedian and podcaster Tom Segura is constantly on the verge of going too far, straddling the line for the laughs
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Review: Take a trip to 'Vacationland' for a family drama
Jun 14, 2022 11:44 AM - 'Vacationland' by Meg Mitchell Moore is a 'Lifetime movie on the page,' writes Associated Press reviewer Rob Merrill
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Book review: Emily Giffin marries romance and history in 'Meant to Be'
Jun 12, 2022 7:30 AM - "Meant to Be" by Emily Giffin is a sweet and sensible romance firmly placed in the real world. The classic tale of unlikely lovers reimagines American history through the alternating voices of Joe and Cate from their childhood in the '60s up to their fateful meeting in the '90s.
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