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Fri, 11/09/2012 - 8:00pm
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Wed, 01/16/2013 - 11:00am
Lake Forest Book Store Author Brunch
Melanie Benjamin, author of The Aviator's Wife
(Delacorte $26.00, due January 15)
Wednesday January 16 at 10:00 a.m.
Authentico, Lake Forest
Brunch $39.00 includes the book.To reserve call 847-234-4420
In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
For much of her life, Anne Morrow, the shy daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has stood in the shadows of those around her, including her millionaire father and vibrant older sister, who often steals the spotlight. Then Anne, a college senior with hidden literary aspirations, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family. There she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic. Enthralled by Charles’s assurance and fame, Anne is certain the celebrated aviator has scarcely noticed her. But she is wrong.
Charles sees in Anne a kindred spirit, a fellow adventurer, and her world will be changed forever. The two marry in a headline-making wedding. Hounded by adoring crowds and hunted by an insatiable press, Charles shields himself and his new bride from prying eyes, leaving Anne to feel her life falling back into the shadows. In the years that follow, despite her own major achievements—she becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States—Anne is viewed merely as the aviator’s wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, life’s infinite possibilities for change and happiness.
Drawing on the rich history of the twentieth century—from the late twenties to the mid-sixties—and featuring cameos from such notable characters as Joseph Kennedy and Amelia Earhart, The Aviator’s Wife is a vividly imagined novel of a complicated marriage—revealing both its dizzying highs and its devastating lows. With stunning power and grace, Melanie Benjamin provides new insight into what made this remarkable relationship endure.
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Wed, 01/30/2013 - 12:30pm
Lake Forest Book Store Author Luncheon
Leslie Maitland, author of Crossing the Borders of Time
(Other Press $18.95, due January 8)
Wednesday January 30 at 11:30 a.m.
Elawa Farm, Lake Forest
Boxed lunch $35.00, includes the book
To reserve call 847-234-4420
Maitland, author of Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed (Other Press $18.95, due 1/8/13) is an award-winning former "New York Times" reporter, presents a sweeping account of her family's escape from war-torn Europe that hinges on the intimate and deep romance of Maitland's mother, Janine with a Catholic Frenchman. Janine's escape from Germany to France during Hitler's rise to power, her family's eleventh-hour escape on a refugee ship and their acclimation to America are woven with another story--the sorrow at leaving her fiance behind, and the life-long hope of seeing him again.
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Wed, 05/29/2013 - 11:30am
Bee Ridgway, author of The River of No Return
(Dutton $27.95)
Wednesday May 29 at 11:30 p.m.
Froggy's French Cafe, Highwood, Illinois
Luncheon $35.00, does not include the book
We are happy to welcome Bee Ridgway in honor of her new book.
In Bee Ridgway’s wonderfully imaginative debut novel, a man and a woman travel through time in a quest to bring down a secret society that controls the past and, thus, the future.
“You are now a member of the Guild. There is no return.” Two hundred years after he was about to die on a Napoleonic battlefield, Nick Falcott, soldier and aristocrat, wakes up in a hospital bed in modern London. The Guild, an entity that controls time travel, showers him with life's advantages. But Nick yearns for home and for one brown-eyed girl, lost now down the centuries. Then the Guild asks him to break its own rule. It needs Nick to go back to 1815 to fight the Guild’s enemies and to find something called the Talisman.
In 1815, Julia Percy mourns the death of her beloved grandfather, an earl who could play with time. On his deathbed he whispers in her ear: “Pretend!” Pretend what? When Nick returns home as if from the dead, older than he should be and battle scarred, Julia begins to suspect that her very life depends upon the secrets Grandfather never told her. Soon enough Julia and Nick are caught up in an adventure that stretches up and down the river of time. As their knowledge of the Guild and their feelings for each other grow, the fate of the future itself is hanging in the balance.
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Fri, 06/14/2013 - 7:00pm
Amy Sue Nathan, author of The Glass Wives
(St. Martin's Griffin $14.99, due May 14)
Friday June 14 at 7:00 p.m.
Lake Forest Book Store
To reserve your copy call 847-234-4420.
There will be a book signing following the program.
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Fri, 06/21/2013 - 7:00pm
Larry Stillman, author of The Rope Catcher
(iUniverse $21.95)
Friday June 21 at 7:00 p.m.
Lake Forest Book Store
To reserve your copy call 847-234-4420.
Join us as we welcome local author, Larry Stillman!
It is April of 1942, and twenty-eight-year-old Jimmie Goodluck
leads an aimless existence on the Navajo reservation, where he knows
only poverty, prejudice, and lack of opportunity. Everything changes
when he hears a US Marine Corps recruitment message on the radio.
Without a second thought, Jimmie heads out toward what he hopes will
be a new and meaningful life.As a marine recruit, Jimmie
becomes a code talker. He and his small, all-Navajo platoon develop a
highly-classified code using the Navajo language—the only code in World
War II the enemy cannot break. For the first time ever, Jimmie
experiences equality, respect, and even admiration—everything he’s
dreamed about all his life. But it is only when he returns home four
years later that he discovers the devastating truth about what can
happen after your dreams come true.Hope, disillusionment, and
redemption line Jimmie’s journey of self-discovery as he immerses
himself in a world war and in the turbulent changes that sweep across
the Navajo reservation—forever changing his own destiny.It is April of 1942, and twenty-eight-year-old Jimmie Goodluck
leads an aimless existence on the Navajo reservation, where he knows
only poverty, prejudice, and lack of opportunity. Everything changes
when he hears a US Marine Corps recruitment message on the radio.
Without a second thought, Jimmie heads out toward what he hopes will
be a new and meaningful life.As a marine recruit, Jimmie
becomes a code talker. He and his small, all-Navajo platoon develop a
highly-classified code using the Navajo language—the only code in World
War II the enemy cannot break. For the first time ever, Jimmie
experiences equality, respect, and even admiration—everything he’s
dreamed about all his life. But it is only when he returns home four
years later that he discovers the devastating truth about what can
happen after your dreams come true.Hope, disillusionment, and
redemption line Jimmie’s journey of self-discovery as he immerses
himself in a world war and in the turbulent changes that sweep across
the Navajo reservation—forever changing his own destiny. -
Mon, 06/24/2013 - 11:30am
Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club
(Vintage $15.00, due June 4)
Monday June 24 at 11:30 a.m.
Froggy's French Cafe, Highwood, Illinois
Luncheon $42.00, includes the book
A staff favorite, please join us as we welcome Will Schwalbe!
An Entertainment Weekly and BookPage Best Book of the Year
During her treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son Will spent many hours sitting in waiting rooms together. To pass the time, they would talk about the books they were reading. Once, by chance, they read the same book at the same time—and an informal book club of two was born. Through their wide-ranging reading, Will and Mary Anne—and we, their fellow readers—are reminded how books can be comforting, astonishing, and illuminating, changing the way that we feel about and interact with the world around us. A profoundly moving memoir of caregiving, mourning, and love—The End of Your Life Book Club is also about the joy of reading, and the ways that joy is multiplied when we share it with others. -
Fri, 06/28/2013 - 7:00pm
Julia Pandl, author of Memoir of a Sunday Brunch
(Algonquin $13.95)
Friday June 28 at 7:00 p.m.
Lake Forest Book Store/Summer Fridays
To reserve your copy call 847-234-4420.
For Julia Pandl, the rite of passage into young-adulthood included mandatory service at her family’s restaurant, where she watched as her father—who was also the chef—ruled with the strictness of a drill sergeant.
At age twelve, Julie was initiated into the rite of the Sunday brunch, a weekly madhouse at her father’s Milwaukee-based restaurant, where she and her eight older siblings before her did service in a situation of controlled chaos, learning the ropes of the family business and, more important, learning life lessons that would shape them for all the years to come. In her wry memoir, she looks back on those formative years, a time not just of growing up but, ultimately, of becoming a source of strength and support as the world her father knew began to change into a tougher, less welcoming place.
Part coming-of-age story à la The Tender Bar, part win- dow into the mysteries of the restaurant business à la Kitchen Confidential, Julie Pandl provides tender wisdom about the bonds between fathers and daughters and about the simple pleasures that lie in the daily ritual of breaking bread. This honest and exuberant memoir marks the debut of a writer who discovers that humor exists in even the smallest details of our lives and that the biggest moments we ever experience can happen behind the pancake station at the Sunday brunch.
