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Events
Salon: A Classics Book Club
The Salon book group will meet to discuss their October pick, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.
Event date:
Monday, October 25, 2021 - 7:30pm
Event address:
$17.99
ISBN: 9781501167713
Availability: Special Order- EITHER on our shelves or available to order
Published: Simon & Schuster - October 24th, 2017
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Salon: A Classics Book Club
The Salon book group will meet to discuss their November pick, Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty.
Event date:
Monday, November 22, 2021 - 7:30pm
Event address:
$15.99
ISBN: 9780358212522
Availability: Special Order- EITHER on our shelves or available to order
Published: Mariner Books - June 2nd, 2020
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DesiLit Book Club
DesiLit will meet (virtually) to discuss their November pick, Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam.
Event date:
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 7:30pm
Event address:
Zoom
$16.00
ISBN: 9780143123132
Availability: Backordered
Published: Penguin Books - August 11th, 2015
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***Offsite*** All Hallows Eve at Naper Settlement with Lindsay Currie
Join us at Naper Settlement for their All Hallows Eve event, and stop by to pick up Lindsay Currie's new book What Lives in the Woods! More info about the event and ticketing can be found HERE!
About Lindsay Currie: Lindsay Currie loves a great mystery, and is the author of a number of award-winning mystery books for young readers. Her titles include THE PECULIAR INCIDENT ON SHADY STREET (2017, S&S) and SCRITCH SCRATCH (2020, Sourcebooks Young Readers) and the forthcoming WHAT LIVES IN THE WOODS (2021, Sourcebooks Young Readers) and CURSES OF EASTPORT (2022, Sourcebooks Young Readers). Lindsay's debut middle grade (PECULIAR INCIDENT) has been to several print runs, was featured in TIME for Kids, was a final nominee for a children's book award in seven states, was an Amazon Prime Book Box pick, and continues the capture the hearts of young readers every single day. SCRITCH SCRATCH is following in those footsteps by going to a second print run only one short month after release, being one of only sixteen titles chosen for the national March Madness book event, becoming an Amazon Book Box pick for April 2021, and winning the Friends of American Writers award.
About What Lives in the Woods: All Ginny Anderson wants from her summer is to sleep in, attend a mystery writing workshop, and spend time with her best friend. But when Ginny's father--a respected restoration expert in Chicago--surprises the family with a month-long trip to Michigan, everything changes. They aren't staying in a hotel like most families would. No, they're staying in a mansion. A twenty-six room, century-old building surrounded by dense forest. Woodmoor Manor.
But unfortunately, the mansion has more problems than a little peeling wallpaper. Locals claim the surrounding woods are inhabited by mutated creatures with glowing eyes. And some say campers routinely disappear in the woods, never to be seen again.
As terrifying as it sounds, Ginny can't shake the feeling that there's something darker . . . another story she hasn't been told. When the creaky floors and shadowy corners of the mansion seem to take on a life of their own, Ginny uncovers the wildest mystery of all: There's more than one legend roaming Saugatuck, Michigan, and they definitely aren't after campers.
It's after her.
Event date:
Saturday, October 16, 2021 - 6:30pm
Event address:
Naper Settlement
523 S Webster Street
Naperville, IL 60540
$16.99
ISBN: 9781728209753
Availability: Special Order- EITHER on our shelves or available to order
Published: Sourcebooks Young Readers - September 14th, 2021
$7.99
ISBN: 9781728245720
Availability: Backordered
Published: Sourcebooks Young Readers - September 14th, 2021
$7.99
ISBN: 9781728232423
Availability: Special Order- EITHER on our shelves or available to order
Published: Sourcebooks Young Readers - August 3rd, 2021
$7.99
ISBN: 9781481477055
Availability: Special Order- EITHER on our shelves or available to order
Published: Aladdin - August 28th, 2018
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***Offsite*** Dr. Simon Balto, "Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power"
The Union League Club of Chicago (ULCC) is hosting Dr. Simon Balto, details to come! Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power is ULCC's Outstanding Book on the History of Chicago Award Winner.
About Dr. Simon Balto: Simon Balto is assistant professor of history and African American studies at the University of Iowa.
About Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power: In July 1919, an explosive race riot forever changed Chicago. For years, black southerners had been leaving the South as part of the Great Migration. Their arrival in Chicago drew the ire and scorn of many local whites, including members of the city's political leadership and police department, who generally sympathized with white Chicagoans and viewed black migrants as a problem population. During Chicago's Red Summer riot, patterns of extraordinary brutality, negligence, and discriminatory policing emerged to shocking effect. Those patterns shifted in subsequent decades, but the overall realities of a racially discriminatory police system persisted.
In this history of Chicago from 1919 to the rise and fall of Black Power in the 1960s and 1970s, Simon Balto narrates the evolution of racially repressive policing in black neighborhoods as well as how black citizen-activists challenged that repression. Balto demonstrates that punitive practices by and inadequate protection from the police were central to black Chicagoans' lives long before the late-century "wars" on crime and drugs. By exploring the deeper origins of this toxic system, Balto reveals how modern mass incarceration, built upon racialized police practices, emerged as a fully formed machine of profoundly antiblack subjugation.
Event date:
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 - 5:30pm
Event address:
$29.95
ISBN: 9781469659176
Availability: Special Order- EITHER on our shelves or available to order
Published: University of North Carolina Press - February 1st, 2020
Rescheduled for Spring Colleen Kinder and panelists, "Letter to a Stranger"
Rescheduled for Spring
Join us in celebration of the new collection Letter to a Stranger edited by Colleen Kinder! Colleen will be joined by contributing authors Rachel Swearingen, Howard Axelrod, Sheba Karim, Amber Meadow Adams, Keij Parssinen, and Sally Franson.
Event is free, but pre-registration is required. Please e-mail words@bookcellarinc.com with the subject line "Colleen Kinder RSVP" to reserve your spot. Event access links will be sent day of, and all start times are in US Central Time.
About Colleen Kinder: Colleen Kinder is an essayist and editor whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, National Geographic Traveler, Salon.com, and The Best American Travel Writing. She has taught writing at Yale University, the Chautauqua Institution, and Semester at Sea. A Fulbright Scholar, Kinder received her MFA at the University of Iowa and is the author of Delaying the Real World and the cofounder of the online magazine Off Assignment.
About Letter to a Stranger: When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to "write a letter to a stranger who haunts you," she opened the floodgates. The responses--intimate and addictive, all in the form of letters, all written in the second person--began pouring in. These short, insightful essays by today's best literary minds are organized around such themes as Gratitude, Wonder, and Farewell, and guide us both across the globe and through the mysteries of human connection.
Bestselling author Leslie Jamison, who provides the foreword, reveals she has been haunted for years by a traveling magician she met in Nicaragua. Journalist Ted Conover writes his missive to a stranger he met on a New Yorker assignment in Rwanda. From the story of Vanessa Hua's shoe shopper in China to the tale of Michelle Tea's encounter in a Texas tattoo parlor, these pieces are replete with observations about how to live and what to seek, and how a stranger's loaded glance, shared smile, or question posed can alter the course of our lives. Moving and unforgettable, Letter to a Stranger is an irresistible read for any literary traveler and the perfect gift for anyone who is haunted by a person they met once but will remember forever.
Event date:
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - 7:00pm
Event address:
ZOOM (email for RSVP link)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781643751245
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Algonquin Books - March 22nd, 2022
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