The Cook Players present Murder in the Keys Who killed famous author Ernie Hammyweight? An audience of about 170 patrons helped solve the crime during a fun event on the evening of June 22 at the Libertyville Civic Center. The performance was several months in the making, when staffers Jo Hansen and Jane Trump tackled…
Erica’s Pick of the Week has space battles, homicidal computers, and ethical hackers. And a really, really strong finish.
Sometimes you read a book and it affects you so much that you just have to talk about it with someone. That’s how it is for me with Educated, and I’m lucky that one of my colleagues has also just read it and can’t stop talking about it either. We might be boring all the…
Erica talks creepy (but not TOO nightmarish) Halloween reads.
Taylor Brown harnesses the ancient Altamaha River in Georgia to weave together three dynamic stories in his second novel, The River of Kings. Brown introduces French artist Jacques Le Moyne, the real-life first European artist in North America, who traveled in the 1500s with French explorers in search of gold and other riches. Le Moyne’s…
