Peoria People – Book
edited by Bill Knight and others This is a collector’s item from 1988 Peoria People: Observations, Articles, and Insight About Central Illinois by dozens of area journalists Dozens of articles, essays, interviews, illustrations, and photographs in this anthology help document the life and charm of Central Illinois. Herein are Jack Brickhouse and Dan Fogelberg, the…
Video Almanac – Book
by Bill Knight This is a collector’s item from 2003 Video Almanac is a 112-page trade paperback described as a “do-it-yourself film festival guide for home viewers [with] hundreds of capsule reviews for dozens of themes — for every week of every year.” From films about Labor to Boxing movies, Medical Dramas to Shakespeare, the…
Fair Comment – Book
by Bill Knight Fair Comment: Essays On The Air – Book In more than 100 essays from Midwestern publications and airwaves, where they’ve been featured for more than 14 years, award-winning journalist Bill Knight writes about labor and baseball, war and religion, corporations and the press, rural life and family.
Horse Shoe Bottoms – Book
by Tom Tippett, edited by Bill Knight Decades after its publication, Tom Tippett’s “Horse Shoe Bottoms” is once more available in this new edition, with a new introduction by Peoria area journalist Bill Knight, who edited this version. Tippett was an Illinois coal miner, union activist, journalist, New Deal bureaucrat, and educator. His only novel,…
Unremembered – Book
by Ken Zurski Tales of the Nearly Famous & the Not Quite Forgotten A nonfiction collection of historical events and figures written by Ken Zurski. Zurski a broadcaster, speaker and author whose books recreate the past. This book casts a spotlight on several dozen personalities and shares their contributions to society and progress. A grand and…
Mr. Fuzzy Ears – Book
by Donna Carr Roberts The Adventures of Mr. Fuzzy Ears: Searching for a Furry Friend One dog’s search for a friend gets him into troubled places. He looks for Mr. Mouse and gets stuck in the cupboard. He is turned away from Mrs. Chipmunk and is then hit on the head with an acorn from…
(Un) Skirting the Issues – Book
by Bonnie Fetch and Jessica Poliner Men are from Mars and women are from Venus–but when it comes to the workplace, everyone needs to come down to Earth (at least in the workplace). While countless books are aimed at teaching women to thrive in business, very few are simply aimed toward helping men to lead the…
Station Eleven – A Novel – Book
by Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven is the 2018 Peoria Reads selection. Peoria Reads! is a project instituted and led by Common Place and the Peoria Public Library. You can find more information at http://www.peoriareads.com. An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story…
The Boat Runner – A Novel – Book
by Devin Murphy Devin Murphy is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Bradley University. In the tradition of All The Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale, comes an incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the perilousness of World War II. Epic in scope and featuring a thrilling narrative with precise, elegant…
Goliath’s Mountain – Book
by Rita Klundt “There is no such thing as a prince charming or fairy godmother, but believe me, there are plenty of goliaths out there.” That’s what her father said, when late one night a sleepy little girl fortuitously married the lead characters in the telling of her two favorite stories. The way she told…