Lake Forest Book Store Winter Newsletter 2012

w ith them for extended periods of Upcoming Events time. In many ways, Luke understands w olf dynamics better Author Luncheon with than those of his ow n family. H is Gary Krist Jodi Picoult w ife, Georgie, has left him, finally author of giving up on their lonely marriage. 2 Events H is s on, Edward, twenty-four, fled City of Scoundrels s ix years ago, leaving behind a Wedn esd ay A p ril 25 s hattered relationship with his Grille on Lau rel Sunday March 11 father. Edward understands that at 11:30 a.m. A d lai E. Stevens on High S chool s ome things cannot be fixed, though Lu n cheon $39.00 at 2:00 p .m memories of his domineering father s till inflict pain. Then comes a We are pleased to welcome Gary In partnership with frantic phone call: Luke has been K rist, author of City of Scoun dr els: Vernon A rea District Library gravely injured in a car accident The 12 Days of D isas ter that Gave Lincolnshire, Illinois w ith Edward's younger sister, Cara. Birth to Modern Ch icago (Crow n at 7:00 p .m. S uddenly everything changes: $26.00, due A pril 17) for a luncheon R egina D ominican High S chool Edward must return home to face in honor of his new book. Wilmette, Illinois the father he walked out on at age The masterfully told story of 12 We are so pleased to be involved eighteen. He and Cara have to volatile days in the life of Chicago, w ith bringing Jodi Picoult decide their father's fate together. w hen an aviation disaster, a race to the area for her only Chicago Though there's no easy answ er, riot, a crippling transit strike, and a s peaking engagements. Lake Forest questions abound: What secrets s ensational child murder roiled a Book S tore is partnering with have Edward and his s ister kept city already on the brink of collapse. Vernon A rea Public Library, A dlai from each other? What hidden In the summer of 1919, the city of E. Stevenson H igh School and motives inform their need to let their Chicago seemed on the verge of Regina Dominican High School to father die . . . or to try to keep him transformation. Modernizers had an provide you with two opportunities alive? What would Luke himself audacious, expensive plan to turn to hear bestselling author Jodi w ant? How can any family member the city from a brawling, P icoult read from and answ er make such a decision in the face of unglamorous place into "the questions about her latest novel, guilt, pain, or both? A nd most M etropolis of the World." But just Lone Wolf (A tria/Emily Bestler importantly, to what extent have as the dream seemed within reach, $28.00, F ebruary 28). they all forgotten what a wolf never pandemonium broke loose--the In the wild, when a wolf knows its forgets; that each member of a pack city's highest ambitions s uddenly time is over, w hen it knows it is of needs the others, and that sometimes under attack by the same unbridled no more use to its pack, it may s urvival means s acrifice. energies that had given birth to them s ometimes choose to slip away. Tickets and books are available on in the first place. Meticulously D ying apart from its family, it stays our w ebsite: researched yet expertly paced, City proud and true to its nature. Humans w w w.lakeforestbookstore.com of S coun dr els captures the aren't so lucky. Luke Warren has tumultuous birth of the modern s pent his life researching wolves. H e A merican city, w ith all of its light has w ritten about them, studied their and dark aspects in vivid relief. habits intensively, and even lived To reserve call 847-234-4420.

Lake Forest Book Store~Independent Booksellers for over 60 Years 680 N. Western Ave Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 847-234-4420 fax 847-234-2390 lakeforestbookstore.com [email protected] Find us on Facebook Fiction The Fear Index In a moment of levity during the By Robert Harris season's first snowfall, they build a Agent 6 Knopf $25.95 child out of snow. The next morning By Tom Rob Smith Bestselling author Harris, returns with the snow child is gone--but they Grand Central $25.99 this intensely suspenseful thriller set glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl Former secret police agent Leo at the nexus of high finance and running through the trees... Demidov is thrown into a foreign sophisticated computer programming, conflict and is forced to question and a searing glimpse into an all-too- Non Fiction confront everything he ever thought recognizable world of greed and fear, a novel that forces readers to confront he knew about his country, his family, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, and himself. the deepest questions about what it means to be human. Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity American Dervish By Katherine Boo By Ayad Akhtar History of a Pleasure Seeker By Richard Mason Random House $27.00 Little Brown $24.99 From Pulitzer Prize-winner Boo Hayat Shah was captivated by Mina Knopf $25.95 An opulent, romantic novel, set at the comes a landmark work of narrative long before he met her, his mother's nonfiction that tells the dramatic and beautiful, brilliant, and soulfully height of Europe's belle epoque, about a handsome young man in his sometimes heartbreaking story of devout friend is a family legend. families striving toward a better life What no one expects is that when mid-20s who secures a position as a tutor in the household of one of the in one of the 21st century's great, Mina shows Hayat the beauty and unequal cities. power of the Quran, it will utterly most prominent bourgeois families in transform the boy. Amsterdam and his entry into a world of moneyed glamour and dangerous Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a temptations. Modern Monarch Believing the Lie By Sally Bedell Smith By Elizabeth George Random House $30.00 Dutton $28.95 The House I Loved By Tatiana de Rosnay In this magisterial new biography, a Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified "New York Times" bestselling author when he's sent undercover to St. Martin's Press $25.99 From the "New York brings Queen Elizabeth II to life. investigate the death of the wealthy Compulsively readable and and influential Bernard Fairclough. Times"bestselling author of Sarah's Key and A Secret Kept comes an scrupulously researched, Elizabeth The death has been ruled an the Queen illuminates the lively accidental drowning. But when absorbing new novel about one woman's resistance during an episode personality, sense of humor, and Lynley enlists the help of his friends, canny intelligence with which she their digging soon reveals that the that shook 1860's Paris to its very core. (Due February 14) meets the most demanding work and Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, family obligations. lies, and motives. Oath of Office Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir The Darlings By Michael Palmer St. Martin's $27.99 By Doron Weber By Cristina Alger Simon and Schuster $25.00 Viking/Pamela Dorman $26.95 When Dr. John Merriman goes on a shooting spree at the office, his A searing account of a father's A sophisticated page-turner about a struggle to save his remarkable son wealthy New York family embroiled business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. from a rare heart condition that in a financial scandal with threatens his life. It is a moving story cataclysmic consequences. Then he turns the gun on himself. After hearing the news of the violent of a young boy's passion for life, a outburst, Dr. Lou Welcome is in family's love, the perils of modern Defending Jacob shock but when he begins to look into medicine, and the redemptive power By William Landay it further, the terrifying evidence he of art in the face of the unthinkable. Delacorte $26.00 finds takes him down a path to an Andy Barber has been an ADA in his unspeakable conspiracy that seems to Roger Williams and the Creation of suburban Massachusetts county for lead directly to the White House and the American Soul: Church State more than 20 years. He is respected in those in the highest positions of and the Birth of Liberty his community but after a shocking power. (Due February 14) By John M. Barry crime shatters their New England Viking $35.00 town, Andy is blindsided by what The Snow Child An acclaimed historian and "New happens next; his 14-year-old son is By Eowyn Ivey York Times" bestselling author offers charged with the murder of a fellow Reagan Arthur Books $24.99 a revelatory look at how Roger student. Jack and Mabel are a childless couple Williams shaped the nature of in Alaska in the 1920’s and they are religion, political power, and drifting apart in the harsh wilderness. individual rights in America. Kids Books

Picture Books Maudie's world revolves around The Genius Files #2: Never Say Maudie. Bear's world also revolves Genius around Maudie - he is as patient and By Dan Gutman Betty Bunny Wants Everything solid as a rock. Maudie is so HarperCollins $16.99 By Michael Kaplan confident of Bear's love she makes Today is Coke and Pepsi McDonald's Illustrated by Stephane Jorisch little effort to deserve it. Bear's thirteenth birthday. Someone's out to Dial $16.99 remedy for loving Maudie is to love make sure they never make it to She wants every toy in the store. her some more. Perfectly captured is thirteen and a half. The twins will Her mother and father try to teach the intricate relationship between nearly be boiled alive in a huge her that she can't have every toy she parent and child. (Ages 3 and up) basket of french fries, frozen to death wants. So she tries to teach them by soft-serve ice cream, stampeded that yes, she can. Betty Bunny is Penny and Her Song in a wild stadium riot, kidnapped every preschooler you know, always By Kevin Henkes from a high-speed roller coaster, and lovable, often a handful, and seldom Greenwillow $12.99 worst of all their parents think understands why she can't always get When Penny comes home from they're totally joking! her way. (Ages 2 and up) school she is ready to sing her song. (Ages 9 and up, due February 24) But the babies are sleeping, and Chopsticks Mama and Papa are worried that The One and Only Ivan By Amy Krouse Rosenthal Penny will wake them up. Oh, but it By Katherine Applegate Illustrated by Scott Magoon is a good song, a really wonderful HarperCollins $16.99 Hyperion $16.99 song . . . and Penny wants more than Bestselling author Applegate Meet Chopsticks! They've been best anything to sing it. presents an unforgettable and friends forever. But one day, this (Ages 2 and up, due February 28) uplifting tween animal fantasy that inseparable pair comes to a fork in explores the power of friendship, art, the road. And for the very first time, Chapter Books and hope with humor and touching they have to figure out how to poignancy. (Ages 9 and up) function apart.... (Ages 2 and up) Earwig and the Witch By Diana Wynne Jones The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky Greenwillow $15.99 By Jennifer E. Smith Ballet Poppy $17.99 By Jane O’Connor Earwig has been at the orphanage since she was a baby. She has her This should be a really terrible day. Illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser Hadley Sullivan is late for her HarperCollins $17.99 best friend, Custard, and everyone always does what Earwig wants. She father’s second wedding, which Fancy Nancy and her friend, Bree, involves a soon to be step-mother are excited about their dance show. wants to stay, so she makes sure no one ever picks her. A couple come to that Hadley's never even met. Then It’s all about mermaids! And who she meets the perfect boy. Twists of knows how to be a fancy, glamorous the orphanage and try to look ordinary, but Earwig knows they are fate and quirks of timing play out in mermaid better than Fancy Nancy this thoughtful novel about family herself? (Ages 2 and up) not. When she is chosen Earwig may have an unpleasant surprise. But so connections, second chances and first loves. (Ages 12 and up) Hugs from Pearl could the very strange couple... (Ages 7 and up) By Paul Schmid Vincent Shadow: The Top Secret HarperCollins $14.99 The Fault in Our Stars Toys Friendly little Pearl loves to hug her By Tim Kehoe friends at school, but her porcupine By John Green Dutton $17.99 Illustrated by Guy Francis quills unfortunately make it "a little Little Brown $15.99 ouchy" for her pals. Something must Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few After winning the annual Whizzer be done, and Pearl tries many Toys Invention Contest, 12-year-old solutions until she is inspired by bees years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter Vincent Shadow can't wait to start on a thorny rosebush. his once-in-a-lifetime internship with (Ages 2 and up) inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus the renowned Mr. Whiz. Vincent wants to come up with an idea that Maudie and Bear Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid’s Support Group, Hazel’s story will make toy history... By Jan Ormerod (Ages 8 and up) Illustrated by Freya Blackwood is about to be completely rewritten. Putnam $ 16.99 (Ages 12 and up) Lake Forest Book Store Book Clubs Tuesday February 21 at 7:00 p.m at Lake Forest Book Store Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence (Penguin $14.00)

Thursday February 24 at 6:30 p.m. at South Gate Cafe Dinner $35.00, to reserve call 847-234-8800 Smut by Alan Bennett (Picador $14.00)

Tuesday March 20 at 7:00 p.m. at Lake Forest Book Store The Lady Matador’s Hotel by Cristina Garcia (Scribner $15.00)

Thurdsay March 22 at 6:30 p.m. Restaurant to be announced Call for details 847-234-4420 Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson (Farrar Straus and Giroux $13.00)

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Wednesday, February 15 Rachel Bertsche, author of MWF whole new light after taking this journey Dan Chaon, author of Staying Awake Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a toward lifelong values together. (Ballantine $25.00) New Best Friend (Ballantine $15.00) Highland Park Library at 12:00 noon Haymarket Pub at 6:00 p.m. Sunday, March 11 A Potbelly turkey sandwich lunch, 737 West Randolph Street, Chicago Jodi Picoult, author of Lone Wolf available for $5, or bring your own To register call 312-638-0700. (Atria, $28.00) brown bag lunch When Bertsche first moves to Chicago, Tickets are required for these events, see To register call 847-432-0216 ext 120. she's thrilled to finally share a zip code our website for details to attend either of In these haunting, suspenseful stories, with her boyfriend. But shortly after these events. Free ticket with the lost, fragile, searching characters wander getting married, Bertsche realizes that her purchase of a book or $11 per ticket. between ordinary life and a psychological new life is missing one thing: friends. www.lakeforestbookstore.com shadowland. Taking matters into her own hands, In partnership with Vernon Area Bertsche develops a plan. District Library at Stevenson High Wednesday, February 22 School Performing Arts Center Tasha Alexander author of Crimson Monday, February 27 at 2:00 p.m. Warning (Minotaur Books $24.99) Jennifer Chiaverini, author of Sonoma and Secrets prove deadly in this new novel Rose (Dutton $25.95) Regina Dominican High School from Tasha Alexander featuring Lady Cook Memorial Library at 7:00 p.m. Emily Hargreaves. at 12:00 noon together with An optional box lunch from Cafe Tuesday, March 13 Lauren Willig author of Orchid Affair Pyrenees will be provided for $8.00, Beth Aldrich, author of Real Moms (Dutton $25.95) which must be paid in advance and in Love to Eat: How to Conduct a Love A governess trades the quiet life for person at either Cook Park or Aspen Affair with Food, Lose Weight and Feel adventure and danger--and romance--in Drive Library. Lunches may be ordered Fabulous (NAL $15.00) this latest installment of Willig's beloved through February 22nd. Gorton Community Center and bestselling Pink Carnation series. To register call 847-362-2330. at 9:00 a.m. Barrington Library at 1:30 p.m. A powerful and dramatic Prohibition-era Sponsored by Northwestern Lake Forest To register call 847-382-1300. story that follows the fortunes of Rosa Hospital Health Advisory Council. Warren Newport Library Diaz Barclay, a woman who plunges into Healthy lifestyle and nutrition expert at 7:00 p.m. the unknown for the safety of her Beth Aldrich loves to eat-and she thinks To register call 847-244-5150. children and the love of a good but everyone else should too. flawed man. Thursday, February 23 Wednesday, March 14 Tuesday March 6 Tasha Alexander author of Crimson Charlotte Adelman, author of The Warning (Minotaur Books $24.99) Stacy Cordery, author of Juliette Midwestern Native Garden: Native together with Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Lauren Willig author of Orchid Affair of the Girl Scouts (Viking $28.95, due Plants: An Illustrated Guide (Ohio (Dutton $25.95) February 16) University Press $26.95) Cook Memorial Library Barrington Area Library at 1:30 p.m. Gorton Community Center at 12:30 p.m. To register call 847-382-1300 at 9:30 a.m. To register call 847-362-2330. Lake Forest Senior Center For more information or to register email Wauconda Library at 7:00 p.m. at 7:00 p.m. [email protected]. To register call 847-526-6225. To register call 847-234-2209. The Midwestern Native Garden offers In celebration of the Girl Scouts' viable alternatives to both amateurs and centennial, a lively salute to its maverick professionals, whether they are Sunday, February 26 founder. Jennifer Chiaverini, author of Sonoma considering adding a few native plants or Rose (Dutton $25.95) intending to go native all the way. Warren Newport Library Wednesday March 7 at 2:00 p.m. Mary O’Donohue, author of When You Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking To register call 847-244-5150. Say “Thank you” Mean It: and Other with Einstein; The Art of Science and A powerful and dramatic Prohibition-era Lessons for Instilling Lifelong Values in Remembering Everything (Penguin story that follows the fortunes of Rosa Your Children (Adams Media $16.95) $16.00) Diaz Barclay, a woman who plunges into Gorton Community Center Highland Park Library the unknown for the safety of her at 10:00 a.m. at 7:00 p.m. children and the love of a good but This unique guide offers purposeful To register call 847-432-0216. flawed man. advice for raising enthusiastic, thoughtful Foer's unlikely journey from chronically children who will make their world a forgetful science journalist to U.S. better place--and who you'll see in a Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives.

Please check our website for additions or changes to these events Sunday, March 18 shows how legal ideas gradually evolved to create their own version of utopia Erik Larson, author of In the Garden out of thousands of reports about the using nanobots, while a guerilla group of Beasts: Love,Terror, and an American Prophet Mohammad, most of which were known as BZRK develops a DNA-based Family in Hitler’s Berlin not even written down until two centuries biot that can stop bots, but at risk of the (Crown $26.00) after his death. host's brain. (Ages 12 and up) Warren Newport Library at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, March 29 Tuesday, April 10 To register call 847-244-5150. Greg Koch, author of The Craft of Beth Aldrich, author of Real Moms The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when Stone Brewing (Ten Speed Press $25.00) Love to Eat; How to Conduct a Love William E. Dodd becomes America's first and The Brewer's Apprentice: An Affair with Food, Lose Weight and Feel ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year Insider's Guide to the Art and Craft of Fabulous (NAL $15.00) that proved to be a turning point in Beer Brewing, Taught by the Masters Cook Memorial Library at 7:00 p.m. history. (Rockport Publishers $24.99) To register call 847-362-2330. The Grille on Laurel at 6:30 p.m Healthy lifestyle and nutrition expert Monday, March 19 Benefit for Boys and Girls Club of Lake Beth Aldrich loves to eat-and she thinks Peter Lerangis, author of The Dead of County and the I Have a Dream everyone else should too. Night (The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Foundation Vespers, Book 3) (Scholastic $12.99) Beer, Food Pairing and copy of Thursday, April 19 Vernon Area District Library taking Greg’s book included in ticket price. Josh Schonwald, author of The Taste of place at Twin Groves Middle School To register 847-473-5990. Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future at 7:00 p.m. This insider's guide focuses on the history of Food (Harper $25.99, due April 10) 2600 North Buffalo Grove Road, of Stone Brewing Company and shares Wauconda Public library at 7:00 p.m. Buffalo Grove homebrew recipes for many of its To register call 847-526-6225. To register 847-634-3650. celebrated beers. Schonwald delivers a fascinating The Vespers have crossed a line. Amy investigation into the trends and and Dan were devastated when the Friday, March 30 technologies that are transforming the Vespers kidnapped seven Cahills around Greg Koch, author of The Craft of Stone world of food before our very eyes, the world, holding them hostage until Brewing (Ten Speed Press $25.00) and from Alice Waters's micro farm to Amy and Dan delivered an impossible The Brewer's Apprentice: An Insider's nanotechnology and beyond. ransom. (Ages 8 and up) Guide to the Art and Craft of Beer Brewing, Taught by the Masters Friday, April 20 Sunday, March 25 (Rockport Publishers $24.99) Round Lake Area Public Library to be David Easton, author of Timeless Anne Lamott, author of Some Assembly Elegance: The Houses of David Easton Required:A Journal of My Son's First held at the Round Lake Cultural and Civic Center at 7:00 p.m. (Abrams $65.00) Son Details to be announced, check our (Riverhead $26.95, due March 20) With an after party to benefit the Friends of the Round Lake Area Public Library. website for updated information. Ela Area Public Library This rare examination of the work of one taking place at For further details and to register go to www.lakeforestbookstore.com. of America's preeminent interior Middle School South at 1:30 p.m. designers and architects serves as a 435 W. Cuba Rd. Lake Zurich retrospective of his storied career as it To register 847-438-3433. Wednesday, April 4 showcases the versatility of his talent Anne Lamott enters a new and Jessica Tuccelli, author of Glow through work that ranges from a 45-room unexpected chapter of her own life: (Viking $25.95, due March 15) Georgian-style house to a Mediterranean grandmotherhood. Highland Park Library at 7:00 p.m. stucco villa. To register call 847-432-0216. A breathtaking Georgia-mountain epic Monday, March 26 Sunday, April 22 Sadakat Kadri, author of Heaven on about the complex bond of mothers and Earth: A Journey Through Shari’s Law daughters across a century. Josh Schonwald, author of The Taste of from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future the Streets of the Modern Muslim World Thursday, April 5 of Food (Harper $25.99, due April 10) (Farrar Straus and Giroux $28.00, Barrington Public Library at 2:00 p.m. Michael Grant, author of BZRK To register call 847-382-1300. due April 10) (Egmont $17.99, due February 28) Highland Park Library Schonwald delivers a fascinating Warren Newport Public Library investigation into the trends and at 7:00 p.m. at 5:00 p.m. To register call 847-432-0216. technologies that are transforming the To register call 847-244-5150. world of food before our very eyes, Kadri brings lucid wit and analytical skill In the near future, the conjoined to the thrilling and turbulent story of from Alice Waters's micro farm to Armstrong twins, under the guise of the nanotechnology and beyond. Islam's foundation and expansion. He Armstrong Fancy Gift Corporation, plot

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