Young Adult Author Panel with
ALLY CONDIE, JANDY NELSON
and MEG WOLITZER
Thursday, November 5
7 - 8 pm, Skokie Public Library, 5215 Oakton St.
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Join us at the Skokie Public Library to hear three of today's most popular young adult authors talk about their writing and their books. Ally Condie (left) is a former English teacher and the author of the popular Matched series and the YA novel Atlantia. Jandy Nelson (middle) won this year's Printz Award for her book I'll Give You the Sun, and Meg Wolitzer (right) is the author of the widely acclaimed Belzhar. All three books are brand new in paperback.
  
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is requested by clicking here or calling the library at 847 673-7774.
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YA Author Panel
Amy Sue Nathan
Thursday, November 5
7 pm at The Book Stall
Local author Amy Sue Nathan talks about her new novel, The Good Neighbor,
the story of a newly single mom who moves back to the Philadelphia home
where she grew up, her 5-year-old son in tow. With the help of friends
and an elderly neighbor, she begins to feel she's stepping up to a new
normal...until a small fib on her blog causes her life to spin out of
control.
Ms. Nathan herself writes an award-winning blog called Women's Fiction Writers. Have a look at it by clicking here.
Renée Rosen
Book Launch
Tuesday, November 3
7 pm at The Book Stall
Come join us and bestselling Chicago author Renée Rosen for the official launch of her new novel set in the 1950s, White Collar Girl. A sure pleaser, it's the story of Jordan Walsh, a young female Chicago Tribune journalist from a family of esteemed reporters, who is relegated
by her editors to society news, reporting on Marilyn Monroe sightings
at the Pump Room and interviewing secretaries for the White Collar Girl
column.
Click here for an interview with Renée about her new book on the Newcity Lit website.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Monday, November 2
7 pm at The Book Stall
We welcome Michigan author Bonnie Jo Campbell, who has been getting rave reviews for her new book of short stories, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters.
Her stories describe strong but flawed women, who are vulnerable,
wise, cruel, and funny as they love, honor, and betray one another
against the backdrop of the men in their lives.
Click here for the review in the New York Times, who described Ms. Campbell's prose as "watchful and viscerally alive," and here for an interview with her in the Chicago Tribune. Find Ms. Campbell's website here.
A bonus for those attending: Ms. Campbell will be interviewed by a good friend of The Book Stall, author Rebecca Makkai, who was recently at the store with her new book of short stories, Music for Wartime, currently one of our bestsellers.
Chris Falcon
CHRIS FALCON
Sunday, October 25
3 pm at The Book Stall
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Glenview personal trainer Chris Falcon brings his first book, Billy Blue and the Big Belly, to the store for a storytime and activities. Big Belly mask-making and Billy Blue coloring sheets will round out this fun and educational event for young children.
Click here for an entertaining trailer for the book.
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Natalie Tilghman & Bill Sommer
Saturday, October 24
3 pm at The Book Stall
Glenview writer Natalie Tilghman and co-author Bill Sommer will be here to discuss and sign their new young adult novel, A 52-Hertz Whale. It's
the story -- told through the exchange of conversational e-mails --
about a high school freshman who is worried that the young humpback
whale he tracks online has separated from its pod.
Click here for Ms. Tilghman's website.
Libby Fischer Hellman
Meet & Greet with
LIBBY FISCHER HELLMANN
Saturday, October 24
11 am at The Book Sall
Stop by to say hello to Book Stall friend Libby Fischer Hellmann and pick up a copy of her newest historical thriller, The Incidental Spy, set in the early years of the Manhattan Project. It's the story of a young woman forced
to flee Nazi Germany in 1935 for Chicago, where she eventually finds a
new life as a secretary in the Physics Department of the University of
Chicago. She meets and marries another German refugee scientist and has a
child. Then tragedy strikes, and Lena is forced to spy on the nuclear
fission experiments at the university.
Click here to read an excerpt of the book and see some short interviews with Libby about different aspects of the story and her writing process.
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