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The title, Annabelle and the Sandhog, introduces two of the book's main characters, so let's take them in order:Annabelle is a nursing-home aide who…
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When you write a novel, how much of your life experience do you give to your characters? And how much of that experience do you fictionalize?This question…
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The latest book in our 2015 Winter Book Series is a novel set during a time when evangelical authors and publishers pushed for wider recognition of books…
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If you saw Ron Modell leading Northern Illinois University's Jazz Ensemble, you'd recognize the title of his memoir, Loved Bein' Here With You.If you…
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This Autumn, WNIJ again invites northern Illinois authors to read, and discuss, their stories. Recently, a trio of writers published shorter works that…
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"This is the story of a retired high school Latin teacher who murders her son-in-law."That's what Robert Hellenga wanted on the cover of his latest novel,…
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In less than a week, Barrie Jean Borich won two big awards this spring for her latest book, Body Geographic.On May 28, her memoir tied for a gold medal at…
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Joseph Gastiger writes prose poems, a hybrid form that reads like fiction but uses poetic imagery. He prefers writing this type for two reasons."I found…
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Gary Lawrence is a Rockford native who uses familiar sights and people in his fiction. In Baffled and Other Stories, Lawrence takes us to the "On the…
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"Noctambulous" means of, pertaining to, or given to sleepwalking, according to Dictionary.com. It is also the first poem in a new collection by Ricardo…