Isabel Wilkerson

A FAN Event

Monday, November 16, 7 pm

Evanston Township High School Auditorium

1600 Dodge Ave., Evanston

Hear journalist Isabel Wilkerson, author of the bestseller The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, speak on the subject "Our Racial Moment of Truth" at this Family Action Network (FAN) program. Ms. Wilkerson's book, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2011, is the story of three young people who set out from the American South during different decades of the 20th century en route to the North and West in search of what novelist Richard Wright called "the warmth of other suns." Ms. Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago bureau chief of The New York Times.   

This event is free and open to the public and is suitable for ages 12 and up.

Jessica Fechtor

Monday, November 16

7 pm at The Book Stall

Meet Jessica Fechtor, author of the popular website and blog Sweet Amandine and now a new memoir, Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home.  It is the amazing story of her recovery from a near-fatal brain aneurysm and how she drew strength from the restorative power of cooking and baking.

Click here for the Sweet Amandine website.

Elana Ashley

Saturday, November 14 11:30 am - 1 pm at the store

Meet Dr. Elana Ashley, the author of a mystery series in English and Spanish for children ages 4 to 8, entitled Splunkunio Splunkey, Detective and Peacemaker. She will be here at the store with her latest in the series, Case Two: Big Bully Holly Howler . Click here for Splunkey's website.

Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., a FAN Event

A FAN Event

Wednesday, November 11

7 pm, New Trier High School Northfield, 7 Happ Rd.

 

The Family Awareness Network (FAN) presents  Dr. Marsha Linehan  for a talk on the subject "Balancing Acceptance and Change: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and the Future of Skills Training." Dr. Linehan is the developer of DBT and founder of the Linehan Institute, which advances leading-edge behavioral technologies that make compassionate and effective treatments available to all persons with complex and severe mental disorders. She is also a professor of psychology and adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle.  

Click here for the FAN website and more information.

Dr. Linehan's books, the DBT® Skills Training Manual: Second Edition and DBT® Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets: Second Edition can be ordered at the event, by calling The Book Stall at 847 446-8880, or here at the store.

Mockingjay Movie Mania

Mockingjay Movie Mania:  

Coming Soon to This Bookstore Near You 

We're delighted to host a "Mockingjay Meetup" this Saturday, November 14, from 2 - 4 pm, celebrating the upcoming release of the final movie in the series, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2. We're partnering with Stacey Canova of Page Turners Blog to give fans of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games books and the movies  a chance to discuss both forms of media (Who did it best? How would you have adapted the books to film?) as well as win prizes. We'll have a drawing for free passes to an advance screening of the movie, a complete set of Hunger Games books, and lots more. Our thanks to Page Turners Blog, Lionsgate Films, and Scholastic Books for contributing to the awesome prize pool and maximizing the fun. This event is recommended for ages 12 and up, and is free and open to the public. Click here for more information.

Stacey Canova is a longtime friend of The Book Stall and the co-owner of Page Turners Blog, a website devoted to reviewing and celebrating contemporary YA literature.  

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 releases nationally next

Friday, November 20.

YA Author Panel

Young Adult Author Panel with ALLY CONDIE, JANDY NELSON and MEG WOLITZER Thursday, November 5 7 - 8 pm, Skokie Public Library, 5215 Oakton St.

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.

Chris Falcon

CHRIS FALCON Sunday, October 25 3 pm at The Book Stall

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.

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. 

Eula Biss

EULA BISS

Thursday, October 22

7 pm, Skokie Public Library, 5215 Oakton St.

 

Chicago author Eula Biss discusses her bestseller On Immunity: An Inoculation, investigating the metaphors and myths surrounding our concept of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body.The book was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and one of the New York Times Book Review's Top 10 books of the year 2014 -- an accolade bestowed by numerous other publications. 

Adam Rubin and Dan Salmieri

Thursday, October 22

4:30 pm at The Book Stall

A big welcome to the power team of writer Adam Rubin and illustrator Dan Salmieri, who will be here with their latest picture book, Robo-Sauce. Fans will remember their bestseller  Dragons Love Tacos -- and now comes their hilarious new picture book about robots that magically transforms into a super shiny metal fold-out robot! It's a unique story about the power of imagination. It's great for the whole family!

Renée Rosen

On Tuesday, November 3 at 7 pm, we are delighted to host the launch party for Chicago writer Rosen's new novel, White Collar Girl, about a female journalist working for the Chicago Tribune during the 1950s. As with her previous presentations, Renée will show slides and discuss the research behind this highly entertaining book.  Click here for her website and more about the book.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

On Monday, November 2, at 7 pm, we will welcome Michigan writer Bobbie Jo Campbell with her new book of short stories Mothers, Tell Your Daughters.  A previous collection, American Salvage, was a National Book Award finalist.  Her highly acclaimed new book, as described in a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel review, "continues her line of fiction about women scratching and clawing their way through another day on the outskirts of the American Dream...The collective message that mothers pass on to daughters in some of this book's most powerful stories might be summed up simply as 'danger ahead'." Click here to read the full review.

Dina Elenbogen

Monday, October 19
7:00 PM

Max and Benny's, 462 Waukegan Road, Northbrook

Evanston writer Dina Elenbogen, a teacher of creative writing at the University of Chicago, discusses her memoir Drawn from Water: An American Poet, an Ethiopian Family, an Israeli Story. As an American Jew Ms. Elenbogen explores her 30-year friendship with Ethiopian Jewish immigrants in Israel as they struggle in a new country and deals with her own desire to join them there. 

Click here for her website.

Andrew Solomon

A FAN Program

Tuesday, October 20

7 pm, Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University

600 Emerson St., Evanston

 

The Family Action Network (FAN) and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern Unversity present "An Evening with Andrew Solomon." It's the third FAN appearance in three years by Dr. Solomon, who is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology and a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University Medical Center.

 

He is the author of Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, as well as The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2001.

This event is free and open to the pubic. Click here for the FAN website.

Dan Ephron

Tuesday, October 20

7 pm, Highland Park Public Library, 494 Laurel

 

Award-winning writer Dan Ephron, who reported from the Middle East for much of the past two decades and was most recently Jerusalem bureau chief for Newsweek and the Daily Beast, discusses his book Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, recreating the tumultuous years leading up to the assassination of Irsaeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin 20 years ago. Mr. Ephron covered both the rally where Rabin was killed and the subsequent murder trial of his assassin, Yigal Amir. Through the prism of the assassination, Mr. Ephron also brings into focus much about Israel today. 

This event is free and open to the public.

Click here for a C-SPAN interview about the book with Mr. Ephron.

Rainbow Rowell

Sunday, October 18 6:30 pm, Skokie School Auditorium, 520 Glendale Ave., Winnetka

Another blockbuster author coming up! We look forward to welcoming Rainbow Rowell, the hugely popular author of books for young adults and adults alike. She'll be speaking about and signing Carry On, her latest YA novel, described as a ghost story, love story, and a mystery.  Says Book Stall children's department chief Robert McDonald: Carry On is a departure for Ms. Rowell, but relates to the characters in her beloved Fangirl. Click here for Ms. Rowell's website. Please note:  Your entry ticket is the purchase of a Rainbow Rowell book (any one) from The Book Stall. We require a special event bracelet (free with book purchase) to gain entry to the auditorium. Due to the volume of calls we are unable take phone orders for this event, but you are welcome to stop by the store to get your book and entry bracelet. If you are unable to make it to the store before the event, we will be selling Rainbow's books (and issuing entry bracelets) on-site. Doors open at 5:30 pm. We will have plenty of books, and with ample space in the auditorium there is no need to worry that you won't get in.

Cookie Stagman and Arlene Michlin Bronstein

Saturday, October 17

1 pm at The Book Stall

 

 

Glencoe native Cookie Stagman is back with a brand-new book, Cookie Stagman's Beautiful Buffets II, written with Arlene Michlin Bronstein. This new edition comes 25 years after the first Beautiful Buffets was published -- a "local" favorite that made it onto the national shelves of Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and many other large stores. Now she and her partner Bronstein are out with a new edition with quick and easy recipes, suitable for cooks of all types and levels of experience. 

Nicholas Sparks

Friday, October 16

7 pm, Skokie School Auditorium

520 Glendale Ave., Winnetka

 

We're thrilled to welcome  Nicholas Sparks, one of the world's most beloved storytellers, for a talk about and signing of his new novel See Me. It's the story of a young man working toward his teaching degree and a hardworking young lawyer, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, both wrestling with their own traumatic histories as they begin to build a relationship.

Click here for Mr. Sparks' website.  

Please note:

• You must purchase a copy of See Me from The Book Stall to attend this event. We require a receipt -- from us -- attached to a line ticket to gain entry. 
• One book purchase per person is required. We will not take phone orders for this event. Either come to the store to get your copy (please save your receipt), or you may purchase one at the event. We will have plenty of books and there is ample space in the auditorium, so there is no need to worry that you won't get in. 
• Mr. Sparks will not be personalizing and will not sign any of his previous books. He will only sign one copy of See Me per person. 

Mindy Segal

Thursday, October 15

7 pm, Skokie Public Library, 5215 Oakton St.

 

 

Mindy Segal, owner of Chicago's Hot Chocolate, winner of the 2012 James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry, and self-professed cookie nerd, presents her new book Cookie Love: More Than 60 Recipes and Techniques for Turning the Ordinary into the Extraordinary.  A bonus: cookies to sample! 

This program is free and open to the pubic, but registration is required by
clicking here or by calling 847 673-7774. 

Robert Jordan with Steve Fiffer

Thursday, October 15

7 pm at The Book Stall

 

 

 

Meet Robert Jordan and hear him speak about his new book, Desert Diplomat, a literary front-row seat to history about his time serving as U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from shortly after 9/11 through 2003. In it, he offers insights into the political, economic, and social changes occurring in this critical region. Ambassador Jordan will appear at the store with the book's co-author, Evanston writer Steve Fiffer.  Click here for the book's website and a homepage trailer and interview with Ambassador Jordan.