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Author Brunch With Chris Bohjalian
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Thursday May 15
11:30 a.m.
Shore Acres
Lake Bluff
Luncheon $43.00
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Chris Bohjalain, author of Midwives and The Double Bind brings us a riveting novel in Skeletons at the Feast (Shaye Areheart $25.00, due May 6) In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella, a twenty-year-old Scottish prisoner of war who was brought from the stalag to her family's farm as forced labor. And there is a twenty-six-year-old Wehrmacht corporal, who the pair know as Manfred-who is, in reality, Uri Singer, a Jew from Germany who managed to escape a train bound for Auschwitz.
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Book Signing with Franny Billingsley
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Saturday May 24
1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Lake Forest Book Store
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Local author Franny Billingsley
whose previous books include The Folk Keeper and Well Wished joins us to sign her new picture book
Big Bad Bunny (Illustrated by G. Brian Karas, Atheneum $16.99). At home, in the Mouse House, Baby Boo-Boo gets no respect. Just look at her name Baby Boo-Boo: She's no baby! The word drives her wild in a big, bad way. And here's Mama Mouse calling, always calling after her, "Baby! Where are you, Baby?" It's humiliating; mice (and other small persons) will understand what Big Bad Boo-Boo does. It's quite naughty.
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Reading and Book Signing with Beth Ann Fennelly
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Wednesday May 27
5:30 p.m.
Lake Forest Book Store
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Please join us as we welcome former Lake Forester Beth Ann Fennelly as
she reads from her new collection of poetry, Unmentionables (Norton $23.95). A new collection by a poet declared "one of the most exciting poets of her generation" ("Harvard Review"). With elegant wordplay and her usual subversive wit, Beth Ann Fennelly explores the "unmentionable" not only what is considered too bold but also what can't be said because words are insufficient. In sections of short narratives, she questions our everyday human foibles. Three longer sequences display her admirable reach and fierce intelligence: One, "The Kudzu Chronicles," is a rollicking piece about the transplanted weed.
Another, "Bertha Morisot: Retrospective," conjures up a complex life portrait of the French impressionist painter. The third presents fifteen dream songs that virtually out-Berryman Berryman.
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Author Brunch With Sandra Gulland
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Friday June 13
11:30 a.m.
Lovell's of Lake Forest
915 S. Waukegan Rd.
Luncheon $43.00
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The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise de la Vallière, who, against all odds, became one of the most mysterious consorts of France's Louis XIV, the charismatic Sun King. Set against the magnificent decadence of the seventeenth-century French court, Mistress of the Sun begins when an eccentric young Louise falls in love with a wild white stallion and uses ancient magic to tame him. This one desperate action of her youth shadows her throughout her life, changing it in ways she could never imagine. A riveting love story with a captivating mystery at its heart, Mistress of the Sun (Touchstone $26.00, due June 3) illuminates both the power of true and perfect love and the rash actions we take to capture and tame it. To reserve call 847-234-4420
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Lake Forest Book Store was opened in 1949 by a group of local women who decided that this small North Shore community needed a book store. For 55 years the book store inhabited a small space just south of the town square. The store was 1000 square feet with 650 square feet selling space. Two years ago Lake Forest Book Store moved into the cornerstone space vacated by B. Dalton on historic Market Square, a downtown shopping area that was completed in 1917. Now located directly across from the Lake Forest train station the store is right in the middle of the town square area and has grown to 1800 square feet of selling space.
The book store is a general full service store with a large selection of books that reflect the needs and interests of the community. Some of our strong areas include a large children’s section with an ever changing selection of new picture and chapter books. We also have a large selection of new and backlist interior design books. At the center of the store resides a large table overloaded with new paperback fiction. Customers gather round the table to hear reviews of the latest paperback books. As an extension of this we do evening book reviews for book clubs in which we review from 50 to 75 books appropriate for book clubs, pleasure reading and gift giving.
Lake Forest Book Store has strong links to the community. We have partnerships with many local organizations and join together with them for many book and author events. The store is a vendor to the Lake Forest schools and is involved in several local book fairs. We routinely donate books and book reviews to local charities. Several generations of Lake Forest residents have grown up coming to the Lake Forest Book Store. We look forward to serving this wonderful community for generations to come.
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