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10 READ BETWEEN THE LYNES Perfect for Book Club Schedules Daytime Book Club Book Groups Memories of a Marriage 2nd Wednesday of each month Decades after Lucy de Bourgh’s divorce and at 12:30 pm at RBTL untimely death of her ex-husband, she August 14, 12:30 pm encounters Philip, the narrator of Louis Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain Begley’s new novel, Memories of a Marriage Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Ben Fountain’s remark- ($25.95, Nan Talese, 978-0-385-53746-9). able debut novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk ($14.99, Ecco, 978-0-0608-8561-8), is a Philip remembers Lucy as a ravishing, funny, razor-sharp satire set in Texas during America’s war in Iraq that explores the gaping ready-for-anything hellion with a well-earned national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. reputation for generosity with sexual favors, but can’t understand why she refers to her Wednesday, September 11, 12:30 pm late husband as “that monster.” As Philip The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer sets out on a quest to discover who these From bestselling author Meg Wolitzer comes The Interestings ($27.95, Riverhead, 978-1- friends were that he had misunderstood so 5944-8839-9), a dazzling, panoramic novel about what becomes of early talent, and the completely and what happened to their mar- roles that art, money, and even envy can play in close friendships. The summer that riage, a shocking portrait of Lucy emerges. Nixon resigns, six teenagers become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. Meet Me at the Cupcake Café Having grown up in an apartment above her Grandpa Joe’s bakery, Issy Randal has Evening Book Club always known how to make something sweet. She’s much better at baking than she is at fil- 3rd Monday of each month at 7 pm at RBTL ing, so when she’s laid off from her desk job, Monday, August 19, 7:30 pm Issy decides to open up her own little café. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Phillip Sendker But she soon learns that her plan will take all When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife her courage and confectionary talent to avert nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be...until they find a love letter he disaster. Funny and sharp, Jenny Colgan’s wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Spanning the Meet Me at the Cupcake Café ($14.99, decades between the 1950s and the present, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats ($14.95, Other Landmark, 978-1-402-28180-8) is about how Press, 978-1-5905-1463-4), a bestseller across Europe, is a powerful and moving debut life might not always taste like what you novel by Jan-Phillip Sendker. expect, but there’s always room for dessert! Monday, September 16, 7:30 pm This is Paradise The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson Debut author Kristiana Kahakauwila cap- Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son ($15, Random House, 978-0-8129-8262-6) follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tures the grit and glory of modern Hawaii tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North with force and accuracy in a collection of sto- Korea. Johnson offers an adventurous journey into a world hidden from view: a North ries, This is Paradise ($16, Hogarth, 978-0- Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen 770-43625-4). Exploring the tensions moments of beauty, and love. between local and tourist, tradition and expectation, facade and authentic self, Kahakauwila provides a portrait of life as it’s Men’s Book Club truly being lived on Maui, Oahu, Kaua’i and the Big Island. Her stories remind us of the 4th Monday of each month at 7 pm powerful desire to belong, to put down roots, at Woodstock Public House and to have a place to call home. Monday, August 26, 7 pm The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce Forever, Interrupted Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Over a chance encounter in a pizza shop, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does. Little differentiates one day Elsie Porter and Ben Ross find their chem- from the next. Then one morning a letter arrives, addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl, istry to be instant and electric. Head over from a woman he hasn’t heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and heels in love, they elope within five months. is writing to say goodbye. But before Harold mails off a quick reply, a chance encounter But nine days later, Ben is struck while riding convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. Rachel his bicycle. At the hospital, Elsie meets Joyce’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry ($15, Random House, 978-0-8129-8345-6) is Susan, the mother-in-law she had not yet a story of hope, transformation, and the wonder of everyday things. met, who didn’t even know of her existence. In Forever, Interrupted ($15, Washington Monday, September 30, 7 pm Square, 978-1-476-71282-6), author Taylor Ishmael by Daniel Quinn Jenkins Reid interweaves Elsie and Ben’s When a man in search of truth answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher look- charmed romance with Elsie and Susan’s ing for serious students, he finds himself alone in an abandoned office with a gorilla named Ishmael. grief and healing when Ben dies. This debut Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael ($18, Bantam, 978-0-5533-7540-4) is the winner of the Turner Tomorrow Award — a prize for fiction that offers solutions to global problems. novel will remind you that there’s more than one way to find a happy ending. 129 Van Buren Read Between The Lynes Woodstock, IL 60098 Phone: (815) 206-5967 Your Hometown Bookstore www.ReadBetweenTheLynes.com UPCOMING EVENTS AN EVENING WITH SHAUNA NIEQUIST WOMEN & WORDS Bread & Wine SAMANTHA HOFFMAN Presentation, Discussion & Reception What More Could you Wish for Monday, August 5, 7 pm Tuesday, September 3, 7 pm at Calogero’s As a follow up to her two bestselling books, Bittersweet and What better way to kick off summer reading by meeting a humor- Cold Tangerines, author and blogger Shauna Niequist returns ous, entertaining author who is sure to delight with her new novel, with the perfect read for those who love food and value the What More Could you Wish for ($14.99, St. Martin’s Press, 978-1- community and connection of family and friends around the 2500-0303-4)! table. Bread & Wine ($18.99, Zondervan, 978-0-310-3-2817-9) Do you ever think about your first love, the one you thought you couldn’t live with- is a collection of essays about family relationships, friendships, out? Libby Carson does, and when she receives a marriage proposal she turns to and the meals that bring us together. This mix of Anne Lamott SearchForClassmates.com to reach out to her high-school boyfriend, Patrick … just and Barefoot Contessa is a funny, honest, and vulnerable spiritu- for fun. But fun soon turns to flirtation and Libby, startled to feel the same stirrings al memoir. It is a celebration of food shared, reminding us of the of passion she felt at seventeen, wonders if she’s having a mid-life crisis. Events take joy found in a life around the table. It’s about hunger, both phys- a turn when Libby is faced with not one, but two offers of marriage. There’s no getting around it now — Libby must take stock of her life and everyone in it, to answer ical and otherwise, and the connections between the two. for herself the question that everyone has been asking her — What more could you wish for? Please join us for a special evening with Shauna Niequist. Shauna will discuss her Dinner will be held at Calogero’s with a set menu. writing and engage us all in conversation. Afterwards, we’ll enjoy live acoustic Tickets: $40 dinner and a book ($32 dinner only) music, light fare, beverages and crafts for children. This is planned to be a true family experience as Shauna gathers us around the Read Between the Lynes Local Author Fair table. JOE GUSTAITIS Shauna Niequist lives outside Chicago with her husband, Aaron, and their sons, Chicago’s Greatest Year Henry and Mac. She writes about family, friendship, faith, and life around the table. Visit her online at Shaunaniequist.com. JOYCE KOCINSKI Letters From Mom MEET JOHN F. HOGAN & Sunday, September 8, 12-2 pm ALEX BURKHOLDER Chicago’s Greatest Year Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards In 1893, 27.5 million visitors came to the Chicago World’s Fair. Yet an almost end- Saturday, August 24, 1– 3 pm less list of achievements took place in Chicago in 1893 as well. Chicago’s most Wade into the endless smoke of Chicago’s Union Stock Yards, important skyscraper was completed and Frank Lloyd Wright opened his office. the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires before its African American physician and Chicagoan Daniel Hale Williams performed one closure in 1971, including some of the most disastrous confla- of the first known open-heart surgeries. Sears and Roebuck was incorporated, and grations of a city famous for fire. In 1910, twenty-one firemen William Wrigley invented Juicy Fruit gum. The Field Museum, the Art Institute of and three civilians were killed in a blaze at a beef warehouse Chicago, and the Museum of Science and Industry all started and the Cubs’ new — the largest death toll for an organized fire department in the nation prior to ballpark opened. 9/11. The meatpackers who ran the yards considered the constant threat of fire Come listen to Joseph Gustaitis share the fascinating history found in Chicago’s as part of the cost of doing business, shrugging it off with an, “It’s all right, we’re Greatest Year ($29.95, So. Illinois Univ. Press, 978-0-8093-3248-9) where the facts fully covered.” For the firefighters who were forced to plunge into the flames range from funny to astounding, showcasing innovators, civic leaders, VIPs, and again and again, it was an entirely different matter. power brokers who made 1893 Chicago about so much more than the fair. Join us in conversation with historians John F. Hogan and Alex Burkholder, Letters from Mom: A Daughter’s Journal of Healing authors of Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Anyone who experienced the loss of a loved one knows that the healing process Jungle ($19.99, History Press, 978-1-6094-9907-5), to learn more about the famed is personal and takes place over time. Please join us to welcome Joyce Madeline Chicago’s Union Stockyards and the nearly three hundred fires that occurred Kocinski whose inspirational book Letters from Mom: A Daughter’s Journal of there prior to it’s closing in 1971. Healing ($8.99, CreateSpace, 978-1-4848-1114-6) is based on her journal entries and the letters her mother wrote to her over the last few years of her life. Kocinski shares her story and the value of this important time in our lives when we address, in an authentic and real way, the value of our relationships and how they continue beyond our time on earth. Bring a friend or family member!

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