To celebrate the February release of Jane Austen for Kids by Nancy I. Sanders, we've rounded up some of our favorite activities from the book below. Have fun hosting a regency tea, making a top hat and decorating a silhouette candle, and be sure check out the book for more fun ways to explore the…

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While reducing sugar and flour, increasing fiber, and drinking enough water are the most effective diet remedies, read below for additional fascinating tips that illuminate the science behind weight loss from Simon Quellen Field’s Gut Reactions.



 

Calcium

Test subjects taking a g…

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Musings on Joni Mitchell

By Susan Whitall, editor of Joni on Joni: Interviews and Encounters with Joni Mitchell



 

It’s hard to narrow down my favorite Joni Mitchell songs, so think of this as a number of notable Joni songs, with my musings on what each one meant to me. Pour the w…

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Top Eight Early American Word Creations

By Rosemarie Ostler, author of Splendiferous Speech

Americans have been inventing their own vocabulary since the first English-speaking settlers landed on North American shores. Hundreds of new terms entered the English language during the country’s ea…

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The Blonde on Blonde Fab Five

By Daryl Sanders, author of That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde

When Chicago Review Press asked if I would a contribute a piece to the CRP blog about my five favorite tracks from the 1966 Bob Dylan album Blonde on Blond

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Read below for a SNEAK PEEK at chapter six of Samantha Barbas's new book Confidential Confidential, about Hollywood's most infamous scandal magazine.

Kirkus Reviews calls the books "a thoroughly researched history of a lurid publisher and Americans' lust for scandal."



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Dorothy Carvello began her career in 1987 at Atlantic Records as the assistant to founder and president Ahmet Ertegun. She went on to work for many of the biggest names in music—Morris, Azoff, Galante, Buziak and Ienner—at Atlantic, Giant, RCA, Relativity and Columbia. Her no-holds-barred memoir…

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It's officially autumn, right? As temperatures hit 70 here in Chicago and the Cubs prep for a win tonight in Cleveland, our November books officially hit the shelves. #CRPreads #FlyTheW

New for adults:

          

 

New for Kids:

November 7: Happy Birthday to Marie Curie!

Kir…

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Fall is officially upon us, and with it our October books. We're excited to have two biographies of Chicagoans—cult author Nelson Algren and musician Curtis Mayfield—coming out this month, along with two different looks at women heroes during World War II; an investigation into hot sauce—every…

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This month we have quite an array of titles publishing in paperback. Chicago-interest titles (yep, that's Blago on the cover of Golden), music books, memoirs, true crime, cultural studies...you name it, it's here. If you read Evan Osnos' piece on Fr. Michael Pfleger in the New Yorker earlier this y…

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