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Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists
Call it the case of the disappearing sculpture for that’s what started Donna Seaman on her quest to chronicle the lives and works of the seven female artists featured in her just released book, Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists (Bloomsbury 2017; $35). “I remember going to the Chicago Art Institute and seeing this…
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Blissful Basil: Over 100 Plant-Powered Recipes to Unearth Vibrancy, Health & Happiness
Finding a sense of peace and contentment in her life by eating healthier and follow a menu of plant based of Vegan meals, Ashley Melillo began blogging while earning her graduate degree in school psychology. Eating whole food helped Melillo deal with the anxiety and stress of her life. And she shares her food philosophy…
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The Restoration of the Calumet Region by Kenneth Schoon
In a time when so many issues seem insurmountable, Dr. Kenneth Schoon, professor emeritus of science education at Indiana University Northwest, has written a book about how community activists, government entities and corporations have all worked together to turn around the once vastly polluted lands and waters of Northwest Indiana. “It’s nothing short of miraculous,”…
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Munster resident Kimberly Kay Day is a wildlife advocate.
“This may be the last chance we have to save the elephants,” says Kimberly Kay Day, a wildlife advocate who lives in Munster and is author of The Journey of Timbo: The Indomitable Elephant, which she wrote as a way to raise money for organizations actively working to protect wildlife. Setting a goal of…
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Author Peter Cozzens Discusses The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
For most of us who learned about the Wild West from movies, novels and TV shows both old and new, we’ve seen the concept of Native Americans go from persecutors to persecuted. But neither reality is true says Peter Cozzens, author of 16 books on the American Civil War and the Indian Wars that followed.…
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Books & Brunch with Molly Yeh at the Chicago City Winery
A graduate of Julliard, Molly Yeh was a percussionist as well as a food blogger living in New York who fell in love with trombonist. But he also happened to be a 5th generation farmer and before long, in kind of a Green Acres sort of way, they packed up and headed to his family…
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HOME by Harlan Coben
Patrick and Rhys, two young boys from wealthy families went missing ten years before the night that Win, a relative of Rhys who prides himself on keeping his emotions under control but has no trouble with violence when provoked, spots Patrick in near the tracks at Kings Crossing, a seedy area where prostitution and drugs…
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Nathan Hill: Author of The Nix
600 pages and eight years ago, Nathan Hill started writing a short story. “I guess I gave myself permission to keep going,” says Hill, about The Nix (Knopf 2016; $27.95), his recently published—to rave reviews—novel that covers a lengthy time period and numerous geographic locations as he tells the story of Sam Andresen-Anderson, a disgruntled…
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YA SENSATION SABAA TAHIR TO VISIT CHICAGO ON SEPTEMBER 14th
A Torch Against the Night, Sabaa Tahir’s second Young Adult novel continues the saga of Elias and Laia as they journey north through the treacherous Martian Empire in their quest to save Laia’s brother from prison. Trying to elude the Empire’s Commandant Helen, their once great friend who is now following orders from the Emperor…
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American Heiress By Jeffrey Toobin
On February 4, 1974, Patricia Hearst was engaged and living with a man who had previously been her high school teacher. Though the times reflected social change and a rethinking of traditional gender roles, for Hearst, an heiress to the Hearst fortune and Steven Weed life was humdrum and she felt stifled, emotionally unfulfilled and…
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