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Best-sellers for Feb. 5

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Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012

Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012

Our weekly round-up of new children's media.

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Best-sellers for Jan. 29

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New book on social media explores Internet privacy issues

New book on social media explores Internet privacy issues

At first glance, the title of Lori Andrews's latest book reads like a mystery — one where someone saw a crime committed and attempts to blackmail the culprit. But the premise of her book, "I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy" (Free Press 201…

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Author recounts Octave Chanute flights over Miller Beach at the beginning of modern aviation

Author recounts Octave Chanute flights over Miller Beach at the beginning of modern aviation

In May 1899, Wilbur Wright who with his brother Orville had become interested in manned flight, wrote a letter to the French–born civil engineer Octave Chanute who lived in Chicago, asking advice on aviation.

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Best-sellers for Jan. 22

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Best-sellers for Jan. 15

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Living the pirate life in the 21st century

Living the pirate life in the 21st century

Sara Levine, chair of the graduate writing program at the School of the Art Institute, received her doctorate from Brown with a focus on essays from the 16th century to the present. But her first work of fiction, the exceedingly funny  "Treasure Island!!!" (Europa 2011; $15) tells the sto…

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Book review: Marine dog handler's book hard to put down

Book review: Marine dog handler's book hard to put down

"Sergeant Rex: The Unbreakable Bond Between a Marine and His Military Working Dog" (Atria), by Mike Dowling with Damien Lewis: Every armed conflict that featured an American military presence has inevitably been followed by a cavalcade of books written about the exploits of those who foug…

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Elton John to write book about the AIDS crisis

Elton John is writing his first book, a personal account of the AIDS crisis.

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Best-sellers for Jan. 8

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Comic novel has heroine finding romance on reality show

Comic novel has heroine finding romance on reality show

What's a 39–year old single woman with a daughter, a failing business and penchant for Jane Austen and Regency romance to do to get her life back on track? Well, in the case of Chloe Parker, the heroine of the  funny "Definitely Not Mr. Darcy" by Karen Doornebos (Berkeley 2011; $15), the …

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Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

Our weekly round-up of new children's media.

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Best-sellers for Jan. 1

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The joy of reading: Warm up this winter with a great book

The joy of reading: Warm up this winter with a great book

It can hardly be argued that the world lost one of its great technological innovators when Steve Jobs passed away in October.

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Best-sellers for Dec. 25

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Top Chef winner, Chicago restaurateur talks about her new cookbook

Top Chef winner, Chicago restaurateur talks about her new cookbook

Stephanie Izard has used her knowledge and creativity to write "Girl in the Kitchen: How a Top Chef Cooks, Thinks, Shops, Eats and Drinks."

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Local trio welcomes holidays and 'ugly' sweater season with new book

Local trio welcomes holidays and 'ugly' sweater season with new book

When Adam Paulson was contacted earlier this year by a literary agent pitching a book project about ugly sweaters and themed parties dedicated to the worst of the worst in wool, he was skeptical.

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Best-sellers for Dec. 11

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A foodie in the family? There's a book for that

A foodie in the family? There's a book for that

In 2011, even cookbooks by high-end and celebrity chefs went all homey and nostalgic.

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Book aims to help kids cope with loss of a pet

Book aims to help kids cope with loss of a pet

First there was Marley, the rambunctious Labrador retriever whose death brought readers to tears in John Grogan's "Marley and Me." Now there's Sammy, a mixed-breed hound who's the subject of another tear-jerker, a children's book, "Sammy in the Sky."

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Van Gogh's 'Life' in print

Van Gogh's 'Life' in print

For 10 years, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith in their attempt to write the definitive biography on artist Vincent Van Gogh, poured through the archives of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and studied previously untranslated Van Gogh family letters and never–before–published photogr…

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Best-sellers for Dec. 4

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Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011

Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011

Our weekly round-up of new children's media.

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Book review: Stephen King travels back in time to Kennedy assassination

Book review: Stephen King travels back in time to Kennedy assassination

"How many books have been written about the chain of events leading up to that day in Dallas?" wonders Jake Epping, narrator of Stephen King's "11/22/63." ''A hundred? Three hundred? Probably closer to a thousand."

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AP Essay: Stephen King, JFK and lost Boomer dreams

AP Essay: Stephen King, JFK and lost Boomer dreams

Stories about time travel generally share one trait: They believe, by implication or open statement, that yesterday remains a malleable canvas, if only you could access it. "The past," author William Faulkner once wrote, "is never dead. It's not even past."

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Best-sellers for Nov. 27

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Book review: MJ book thankfully focuses on the music

Book review: MJ book thankfully focuses on the music

We get it already: Michael Jackson was kind of a weird dude.

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New book offers glimpse of Michael Jackson's personal life

New book offers glimpse of Michael Jackson's personal life

A personal assistant-turned-personal manager to Michael Jackson said the King of Pop had been taking propofol as early as 1999, and that the singer was drugged up ahead of his 2001 30th anniversary concerts.

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Barnes & Noble's Nook tablet starts shipping

Barnes & Noble's Nook tablet starts shipping

Barnes & Noble Inc.'s Nook Tablet electronic device began arriving in stores and homes on Wednesday, one day ahead of schedule.

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Best-sellers for Nov. 13

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Author strives to instill acceptance, inclusion in new book

Author strives to instill acceptance, inclusion in new book

After achieving success as an entrepreneur, Chicago resident Robert Kroupa knew what he wanted to accomplish next.

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Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011

Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011

Our weekly round-up of new children's media.

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Valpo author, favorite sleuth solves latest crime

Valpo author, favorite sleuth solves latest crime

In her latest book, Kate Collins, author of The Flower Shop Mystery series, takes us back to the era of traditional mysteries –– a genre exemplified by Agatha Christie who specialized in stately mansion murders where everyone seems to have a motive. Of course, Christie never had Abby Knig…

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Best-sellers for Oct. 30

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Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011

Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011

Our weekly round-up of new children's media.

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Best-sellers for Oct. 23

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Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011

Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011

Our weekly round-up of new children's media.

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Schwarzenegger back on movie set

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Best-sellers for Oct. 16

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Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011

Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011

Our weekly round-up of new children's media.

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Chicago author examines history, psychology behind shoplifting

Chicago author examines history, psychology behind shoplifting

Rachel Shteir likes unusual subjects for her books. Her book "Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show" was a Boston Globe Editor's Choice. And her newest book, "The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting" (Penguin Press 2011; $25.95), is just as intriguing.

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Best-sellers for Oct. 9

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OFFBEAT: Carrie Fisher's 'Wishful Drinking' an entertaining journey

OFFBEAT: Carrie Fisher's 'Wishful Drinking' an entertaining journey

Phil Potempa's daily entertainment news column.

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Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011

Kid Picks with Philip Potempa for Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011

Our weekly round-up of new children's media.

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Alton Brown wants next cookbook to be e-book

Alton Brown wants next cookbook to be e-book

Alton Brown's next cookbook may be more like "The Matrix" than Food Network.

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Chicago literary event features best-selling authors for evening of networking

Two award-winning mystery writers, Jamie Freveletti and Wendy Corsi Staub, are pairing up for a Chicago Literati event, a networking evening of mingling, brainstorming and collaborating.

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