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 Saturday
5.01 4:00pm 1218 S. Halsted (at Roosevelt) UIC
Award-winning
investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deeper than most
reporters are willing to go learn the ugly truth about
our government and the world we live in. THE BEST DEMOCRACY
MONEY CAN BUY, Second Edition, uncovers even more corruption,
scandal, and shock. Things aren't getting any better, and
Palast is the man to tell you the truths that you may not
want to know. |
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 Wednesday
5.05 7:30pm 1218 S. Halsted (at Roosevelt) UIC
At
a time when Americans are questioning their place in a
hostile world and are swearing off air travel, Elinor Burkett
doesn't just take a trip: she takes a headlong dive into
enemy territories, crisscrossing between the old Evil Empire
and the new Axis of Evil. When Burkett left home she wasn't
planning to write a book, but with SO MANY ENEMIES, SO
LITTLE TIME, how could she not? |
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 Saturday
5.08 7:30pm 1100 Lake Street, Oak Park
Oak
Park native Steven Dudley has spent five years touring
the troubled corners of our world and reporting back for
NPR and the Washington Post. Now he comes back to Oak Park
to read from and sign copies of his first book WALKING
GHOSTS: Murder and Guerilla Politics in Columbia. Call
708.848.9140 for details |
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 Tuesday
5.11 Noon Marshall Fields State St. (lower level)
Call
it Nanny Diaries for the other coast, call it Movieline
with a plot, call it THE SECOND ASSISTANT. Naylor and Hare
know the inside world of Hollywood; the ugly secrets, the
strange rituals, and where the bodies (of promising careers)
are buried. But they don't want to be sued. Instead of
writing a tell-all they have written what may be the great
satire of this summer- soy chai lattes, Botox and all. |
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 Tuesday
5.11 3:30pm 1100 Lake Street, Oak Park
Darren
Shan, creator of the popular young reader series Cirque
du Freak, will be at Barbara's Oak Park for an after school
signing only event. His newest title, HUNTERS IN THE DUSK,
his heroes leave Vampire Mountain in an attempt to find
a newly risen lord to lead them in a war against the vampires. |
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 Thursday
5.13 7:30pm 1100 Lake Street, Oak Park
While
many Americans look to the Arab community with concern
prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber creates a vivid, flavorful
portrait of Arab-American life. CRESCENT traces the life
of Sirine, an Iraqi-American chef at a Lebanese restaurant
- a sensual world of food and spices, poetry and storytelling. |
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 hursday
5.13 7:30pm 1218 S. Halsted (at Roosevelt) UIC
The
literary provocateur behind The Wind Done Gone (a
book that Margaret Mitchell's family tried to stop
in the courts) is back with PUSHKIN AND THE QUEEN
OF SPADES. Alice Randall writes about the academic
world of literature she knows intimately in this
daring novel of racial identity, intellectualism,
and a loving mother torn between protecting her child
from the truth, or letting him share her past. |
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 Saturday
5.15 7:30pm 1218 S. Halsted (at Roosevelt) UIC
The
ten stories in Aaron Hamburger's beautiful and darkly funny
collection THE VIEW FROM STALIN'S HEAD unfold in the post-Cold
War Prague of the 90s, a magnet for artists and writers,
tourists and deadbeats, a city with a glorious yet sometimes
shameful history, populated by people who both resent and
long for their Communist past. |
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 Tuesday
5.18 7:30pm 1100 Lake Street, Oak Park
Peter
Greenberg may be America's best respected travel expert,
and now he draws upon his years of experience to help you
know what you are getting into when you step into a hotel
room. The name, HOTEL SECRETS FROM THE TRAVEL DETECTIVE:
Insider Tips on Getting the Best Value, Service and Security,
in Accommodations from a Bed and Breakfast to a Five-Star
Hotel, says it all. |
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 Wednesday
5.19 7:30pm 1100 Lake Street, Oak Park
In
IT WAS FOOD VS. ME ... AND I WON Nancy Goodman speaks directly
to her readers, sharing her inspiring story of breaking
free from the cycle of food obsession, binge dieting, guilt,
and illusions about willpower. This is a perfect book for
anyone who is interested in living, not in dieting. |
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 Wednesday
5.19 Noon Marshall Fields State St. (lower level)
The
mother-daughter writing team, collectively known as PJ
Tracy, will be at Barbara's at Marshall Fields to sign
copies of their latest, freshest and funniest mystery -
LIVE BAIT. Critics and fans alike praised Tracy's first
thriller, Monkeewrench, and detectives Magozzi and Rolseth
are back to make the streets of Minneapolis safe. |
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 Thursday
5.20 7:30pm 1100 Lake Street, Oak Park
Sierra
Club executive director Carl Pope comes to Barbara's Oak
Park to discuss STRATEGIC IGNORANCE : Why the Bush Administration
is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress.
Brilliantly argued and full of damning evidence from the
administration's environmental record, SI sets forth what
the American public can do to bring a halt to Bush's radical
experiment. |
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 Thursday
5.20 7:30pm 1218 S. Halsted (at Roosevelt) UIC
When
Alexandra Fuller returned home and began asking her father
about a neighboring farmer her father advised her to stay
away, 'Curiosity scribbled the cat.' This bestselling memoirist
(Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight) reports her travels
with this strangely charismatic Rhodesian war veteran into
a modern heart of darkness in SCRIBBLING THE CAT: Travels
With an African Soldier. |
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 Wednesday
5.26 Noon Marshall Fields State St. (lower level)
From
many time award-nominated author Denise (The Jasmine Trade)
Hamilton comes an electrifying, multicultural look at the
gritty underbelly of Los Angeles, starring her sharp-edged,
streetwise reporter/sleuth Eve Diamond - LAST LULLABY.
This is a signing only event. |
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May
2004 Book Recommendations & Events Calendar