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July
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 Thursday
7.01 1:00pm at UIC
Former
President Bill Clinton will sign copies of his
memoir MY LIFE (Alfred A. Knopf) at Barbara’s
on July 1, 2004. The book signing will begin at
1:00 pm.
In order to accommodate as many people as possible,
President Clinton will sign one copy of MY LIFE
per customer at this event. He will be unable to
personalize
books. As well, he will not be signing any other
books or memorabilia.
Note: If you attended this event and did not receive
a signed copy of the book, please click
here for
an important announcement.
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 Thursday
7.01 7:30pm Oak Park
Ex-cop
Rushmore McKenzie has more time, and money, than he knows
what to do with. In fact, Mac is downright bored. Until
he decides to do a favor for a friend facing a family tragedy.
David Housewright's uncanny ability
to turn the Twin Cities into an exotic, brooding backdrop
for noir fiction, and his winning, witty hero, serve as
a wicked one-two punch in A HARD TICKET HOME a series debut
that reinforces Housewright's reputation
as one of crime fiction's rising stars.
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 Tuesday
7.06 7:30pm Oak Park
REFUSNIK!
: Israel's Soldiers of Conscience, edited
by Peretz Kidron, is a moving, first-time look at Israeli
soldiers who have refused orders on moral grounds, thus
earning them the name 'Refusenik' -along
with a prison sentence. Refusenik! tells the different
stories of the Israelis who believe
in their country but not in its actions beyond its borders.
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 Wednesday
7.07 7:30pm Oak Park
In
the pages of READY FOR THE PEOPLE Los Angeles deputy DA
Marissa Batt presents three of her most difficult and horrifying
cases. Marissa introduces you to the players in these real-life
dramas: victims, perpetrators, witnesses, judges, and lawyers.
She takes you step-by-step through the details of each
case, police investigation, and trial. Told in a voice
full of grit as well as compassion, this is true crime
at its best. |
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 Thursday
7.08 7:30pm UIC
THE
SECOND CITY ALMANAC OF IMPROVISATION is a treasury
of the decades
of wisdom learned by one of the most important theater
companies in the country. Anne Libera, artistic director
of the Second City Training Center as well as the Second
City resident director, along with contributors such as
Fred Willard, Dan Castellaneta and Tina Fey, share the
stories and secrets behind their success, failures, and
overarching influence.
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 Thursday
7.08 7:30pm Oak Park
FATHER'S
DAY is a superb comic novel-the action unfolds on a New
York phone sex line and in a tony New England suburb-that
is as well a moving tale of families and loss. Matthew
Vaber's life has just taken a turn for
the worse - his father has killed himself, his thrilling,
damaged mother has moved to center stage, and he is addicted
to the salacious Pump Line, where men appear and disappear
at the push of a button.
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 Tuesday
7.13 7:30pm Oak Park
Alex
(There Are No Children Here) Kotlowitz is an accidental
Chicagoan, having arrived there from New York, seduced
by the sense that from this perch he could peer into America's
heart. NEVER A CITY SO REAL presents our beloved home as
it has come to symbolize America in all of its splendor
and frailty-ingenious and egalitarian, uncertain and self-indulgent.
A stew of contradictions, as well as a safe haven.
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 Wednesday
7.14 7:30pm UIC
Written
on the occasion of the city's 300th
anniversary, Arthur George's ST. PETERSBURG:
Russia's Window to the Future, chronicles
history from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin. Scholarly
and entertaining, this work captures all the glorious,
tragic history from its founding, its brilliance under
Catherine the Great, the tragic Decembrist Rebellion, the
Revolution, Stalin's Terror, the siege
during World War II, and its rebirth
and restoration following the Soviet Union's
demise.
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2nd
Hand Anthology/Todd Dills |
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 Thursday
7.15 7:30pm UIC
ALL
HANDS ON features the best of four years of published work
from
over 30 contributors to the beloved Chicago 'zine
(from such THE2NDHAND stalwarts as Cain, Costello, Solórzano,
Dills, Kennedy, Graf and...), as well as a number of new
features. Join editor and local literati leader Todd
Dills, and some of the fabulous 2nd Hand regulars, as they
read from this, the anthology you have been waiting for.
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 Saturday
7.17 1:00pm Oak Park
If
you are a Barbara's regular you know
that we love fine literature, bad movies, hot coffee, and
dogs. Now that the sun is out all of the time our dog owning
customers will take every opportunity to head outside to
toss a frisbee or take a much needed walk (to Barbara's
for a treat) with their beloved canines. Margaret Litton
provides the inside scoop on other great places to take
your four-legged friends in THE DOG LOVER'S
COMPANION TO CHICAGO.
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 Tuesday
7.20 7:30pm UIC
Jim
Hightower, national radio commentator, columnist, public
speaker and political sparkplug has spent three decades
battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That
Ought To Be-consumers, working families, environmentalists,
small businesses, and just-plain-folks. In his latest book,
LET'S STOP BEATING AROUND THE BUSH :
More Political Subversion from Jim Hightower gives us a
hard-hitting, fact-filled review of the real state of the
union. |
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 Thursday
7.22 7:30pm Oak Park
From
distinguished chronicler of American social history and
political culture Ward (Echo House) Just , AN UNFINISHED
SEASON is a novel that captures the 1950s hauntingly. In
a time of rabid anticommunism, worker unrest, and government
corruption, even the small-town family could not escape
the nationwide suspicion and dread of the 'enemy
within.' |
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Thursday
7.22 7:00 pm UIC
Women
and War : Stories of War, Survival and Hope is a photo-documentary
book, exhibition and multimedia presentation project designed
to provide a contemporary, international view of war from
the point of view of the women who live it. The goal of
this important and timely project is to promote awareness
of issues associated with gender and conflict in order
to ultimately help the women affected by war.
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 Thursday
7.29 7:30pm Oak Park
As
the attainment of marriage equality grows imminent, Americans
need easy-to-follow, common sense answers as to what civil
marriage equality means. Civil rights attorney Evan Wolfson's
book WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS aims to reach and engage non-gay
and gay Americans in a discussion about civil marriage
equality, addressing their concerns and arming them with
answers. |
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July
2004 Book Recommendations & Events Calendar