When Christine Sneed begins a story, she never knows where her characters will take it."Usually I'm about halfway through and I still won't know what's…

"You can take the girl out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the girl."We've all heard this, which is why it's refreshing to find a story…

In a story about an alcoholic teen and the twin brother who covers for her, who's the protagonist?"I have people come up to me and, in some cases, they…

Aaron Sitze's new book will not help you pass a course in U.S. History. In fact, you'll fail if Sitze's book is the only one you read. But The Andrew…

Amy Newman's latest collection of poetry imagines scenes in the lives of seven poets who emerged in the mid-20th Century: Sylvia Plath, John Berryman,…

How important is verbal communication between strangers? Can two people bond using only non-verbal cues?Author Maria Boynton explores this theme in her…

When the FBI enters your life, they are not to be trusted.This is Michelle Monelle's advice to the reader as she revisits her past during a series of…

A thriller set in an Illinois "unschooling" community. A novel about a Maine woman asked by the FBI to revisit her childhood. A tale of two Chicago…

In 2003, James McManus became the best-known storyteller about poker when he published Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs & Binion's World…

This Spring, the Illinois Reads program will invite residents to read dozens of new books by Illinois authors. One title on their 2016 list is our Winter…