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November 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009 6:00 p.m. |
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Book Fair benefitting The Women’s Exchange and Book Talk
Description: From 6 until 8 p.m. at the store. Book Fair benefitting The Women’s Exchange and Book Talk at 6...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:00 a.m. |
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The Women’s Exchange Book Fair
Description: From 10 a.m. 'til 4 p.m. at the store - The Women’s Exchange Book Fair...
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Monday, November 23, 2009 7:00 p.m. |
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JIM McMANUS
Description: JIM McMANUS, local author of the bestselling Positively Fifth Street, signs his new book, Cowboys Fu...
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Monday, November 30, 2009 7:00 p.m. |
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WALLY LAMB
Description: WALLY LAMB, author of the #1 bestsellers She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, signs his n...
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D E C E M B E R
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 7:00 p.m. |
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RICHARD MACK
Description: RICHARD MACK, award-winning Evanston-based photographer, gives a lecture and shows images on the mak...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009 12:00 p.m. |
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SARA PARETSKY - Women Writers Series
Location: Lunch at Avli, 566 Chestnut St. Winnetka
Phone: 847-446-9300
Description: Women Writers Series - SARA PARETSKY, bestselling local author, speaks about her latest V.I. Warsh...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009 12:00 p.m. |
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RICHARD CAHAN
Location: Women's Athletic Club
Description: Richard Cahan joins us for a discussion of his new book: "Edgar Miller and the Hand-Made Home: Chica...
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Thursday, December 3, 2009 5:30 p.m. |
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WALTER ISAACSON
Location: Reception, Standard Club, Chicago
Description: WALTER ISAACSON, bestselling biographer and journalist, speaks about American Sketches, his collecti...
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Thursday, December 3, 2009 6:00 p.m. |
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MARK MOYAR
Location: Pritzker Military Library 610 N. Fairbanks Ct., Chicago
Description: Mark Moyar discusses "A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq". Free. ...
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Thursday, December 3, 2009 7:00 p.m. |
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AMANDA LITTLE
Description: AMANDA LITTLE, an author with ties to Chicago, reads and signs her book, Power Trip, at 7 p.m. in the store. |
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Friday, December 4, 2009 6:30 p.m. |
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Poetry Reading - DOUG SKRIEF
Description: Poetry Reading - DOUG SKRIEF, award-winning Minnesota poet, reads from Stone Poems, written in the v...
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Saturday, December 5, 2009 9:30 a.m. |
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ANNUAL HOLIDAY SALE!
Description: ANNUAL HOLIDAY SALE! 20% off all items in the store...
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Saturday, December 5, 2009 10:30 a.m. |
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Children's Story Hour at Harris Bank
Location: Harris Bank in Winnetka
Description: ROBERT McDONALD, head of The Book Stall's children's department, entertains young readers during the...
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Saturday, December 5, 2009 2:00 p.m. |
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JOHN NEWCOMBE
Description: JOHN NEWCOMBE, Winnetka native and an award-winning filmmaker living in Los Angeles, presents his DV...
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Sunday, December 6, 2009 9:30 a.m. |
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ANNUAL HOLIDAY SALE!
Description: ANNUAL HOLIDAY SALE! 20% off all items in the store...
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Monday, December 7, 2009 12:00 p.m. |
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ERIN ARVEDLUND
Location: Luncheon University Club, Chicago
Description: ERIN ARVEDLUND, the Barrons reporter who expressed her suspicions about Bernie Madoff in 2001, speak...
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Monday, December 7, 2009 6:00 p.m. |
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DOUGLAS GAYETON
Location: Italian Cultural Institute, 500 N. Michigan Ave.
Description: From 6 until 8 p.m., DOUGLAS GAYETON, filmmaker, photographer and writer, signs Slow: Life in a Tusc...
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WEDNESDAY DEC. 9, 2009 12 p.m. WARREN BERGER & BRUCE MAU
Location: Symphony Center,
220 S. Michigan Ave.
Description: WARREN BERGER and BRUCE MAU talk about Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life and Maybe Even the World. In the book, celebrated designer Mau and Berger lay out 10 groundbreaking principles of design that address business, social, and personal challenges and improve the way we think, work, and live. For reservations ($36), call us at 847 446-8880. ..
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WEDNESDAY DEC. 9, 2009
7 p.m.
CHARLES MADIGAN, Presidential Writer in Residence at Roosevelt University and former Chicago Tribune editor and journalist, talks about his new book, Destiny Calling: How the People Elected Barack Obama. |
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Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:00 p.m. |
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CARLYN BERGHOFF
Description: Join us from 6 'til 7 p.m. when CARLYN BERGHOFF signs The Berghoff Cafe Cookbook: Berghoff Family Re...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:00 p.m. |
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JAMES BRADLEY
Location: Pritzker Military Library 610 N. Fairbanks Ct., Chicago
Description: JAMES BRADLEY< author of the bestsellers Flyboys and Flags of Our Fathers, speaks about his new book...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009 10:00 a.m. |
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GINGER KATHRENS and JAMES KLEINERT
Description: Ginger Kathrens and James Kleinert will be in the store to discuss their book: "Cloud: Challenge of ...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:00 p.m. |
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RICHARD CAHAN
Description: RICHARD CAHAN signs Edgar Miller and the Hand-Made Home: Chicago's Forgotten Renaissance Man. Embrac...
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Sunday, December 13, 2009 2:00 p.m. |
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KIRSTEN BRAMSEN and CARIN BRAMSEN
Description: KIRSTEN BRAMSEN, author, and her sister CARIN BRAMSEN, illustrator, lead a children's story time wit...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:00 p.m. |
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TERRY TEACHOUT
Location: Highland Park Library, 949 Laurel
Description: TERRY TEACHOUT, the Wall Street Journal arts columnist, talks about Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong,...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:00 p.m. |
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NANCY POLING
Location: The Women’s Exchange 725 Pine St., Winnetka
Description: NANCY POLING, long-time Chicago area resident now located in North Carolina, talks about Out of the ...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010 12:00 p.m. |
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TAMI HOAG
Location: Lunch at Avli, 566 Chestnut St. Winnetka
Phone: 847-446-9300
Description: TAMI HOAG's new book, "Deeper Than The Dead," is being released on Dec. 29, She joins us for a Women...
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Our Children's book club makes a great gift. Choose from sending monthly, bi-monthly, hardcover, paperback, we'll find a plan that works for you! Our staff will pick a title appropriate for your child and send it on its way! Click here for more information!
Bon Appetit! The faithful in The Book Stall’s longstanding Cookbook Club celebrated the season with recipe samples from some of their favorite cookbooks of the year.
Contact Tracy Segal at tracy@thebookstall.com.
Our next meeting will be January 12 at noon in the store. This month's meeting will be a tribute to Ruth Reichl. Club members will be sharing their favorite recipes from Reichl's cookbook/memoirs Tender at the Bone, Comfort Me with Apples, and Garlic and Sapphires.
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