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/PRNewswire/ -- Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce the Winners for the 2021 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction,...

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Nominations for the 75th Annual Edgar Awards are out

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/PRNewswire/ -- Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce, as we celebrate the 212th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, the nominees for the...

From "Leave the World Behind" by Rumaan Alam to "The Cold Millions" by Jess Walter, Biblioracle columnist John Warner picks his favorite fiction of 2020.

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Atmospheric, beautifully written, and heart-wrenchingly realistic, Please See Us is a chorus of women’s voices demanding to be heard.

18 books by Jersey authors we’re toting everywhere from our backyards to the beaches.

Fenwick High School senior Craig Butler, 17, of Bellwood was named a 2020 Posse Foundation Scholar, providing him with a full-tuition scholarship to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In Marilyn Stasio’s latest column, the body count is high and the murderers more cunning than ever.

You’ve had enough TV and the pantry’s as clean as it’ll ever get, so maybe it’s time to find something to read. Why not try one of these great books?

Tim McDonald, 37, an adapted physical education teacher for Oak Park Elementary School District 97, was the February recipient of the Making MyD97 Better Award.

Tim Hunter of Oak Park volunteers with the Ladder Up nonprofit organization to help lower-income people prepare their tax returns.

Charlie Thomas of Western Springs, who combines genealogy with family stories to get more depth, will give a talk Jan. 12 at the River Forest Library.

Fenwick High School graduate Dan Dinello, 72, of Oak Park is the author of the new book, “Children of Men,” based on Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 dystopian, science fiction film of the same name. Dinello, a journalist and filmmaker who has written two other books and contributed chapters to several others.

Holly Blakeley has opened Full Circle Fitness and Social Club this year, and has a holistic vision.

Amy Maglio, 49, of Oak Park is the founder of Oak Park-based nonprofit Women’s Global Education Project, which recently launched a campaign called Movement Makers. WGEP works to help girls at risk of female genital mutilation delay marriage and stay in school.

Peter Kahn, an English teacher and spoken word educator at Oak Park and River Forest High School, works with Davis and the other OPRF students recognized. Kahn, 52, of Chicago — who’s approaching publishers soon about an anthology featuring work from 25 current students and 50 alumni — answered a fe…

Construction started this week on a renovation project at the River Forest Public Library. As the lobby and staff offices of the library, 735 Lathrop Ave., River Forest, undergo renovations, the public entrance has been temporarily moved.