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 Saturday
11.13 1:00 pm Marshall Field’s
Carolyn Crimi writes children’s
stories that are impossible not to love, such as
the creepy, opposites-coming-together Boris And
Bella. Her latest is the charming GET
BUSY, BEAVER! Thelonious isn’t
like the other beavers. He’s
a little different. While Ma, Pa, and Babs Beaver
hurry, hurry, hurry to make their dam bigger, bigger,
bigger, Thelonious is busy with a project of his
own: a creation so beautiful
that it changes everything. And soon all the beavers
in Thelonious’s
pond join him, as they take a moment to stop and
smell the flowers.
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 Saturday
11.13 4:00 pm UIC
In her
memoir in poetry, THE GLOW OF MY LAMP: A Nurse Shares
Her Life, Judy Sharp tells how nursing became the gateway
to the life she aspired to. Born during the depression
to immigrant parents, her pragmatic choice of career, as
opposed to the artistic one she dreamed of, paid off in
a life with rewards that have been monetary, professional,
and creative. At a time when our country is in need of
nurses, she hopes this glimpse of her life will inspire
others to think of how nursing is more than just a career.
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 Tuesday
11.16 7:30pm UIC
“For
great brands to survive, they must create Loyalty Beyond
Reason in consumers...The secret is the use of Mystery,
Sensuality, and Intimacy. A passionate commitment to three
powerful concepts creates Lovemarks-the future beyond brands.” Kevin
Roberts passionately believes that Love is the way of the
future for business. In LOVEMARKS, a ground-breaking book
of business philosophy, Roberts, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi,
recounts the journey from products to trademarks to brands-and
the need to take the next step-to Lovemarks.
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 Wednesday
11.17 7:30pm UIC
University
of Illinois creative writing professor and former editor
of the Chicago Review Eugene Wildman returns to Barbara’s
to read from his acclaimed collection THE WORLD OF
GLASS.
This series of related stories are a wide-ranging view
of the events that shaped the last decades of the twentieth
century, and as they affect the life of his protagonist,
Todd White. Both an examination of the spiritual isolation
of a man and a country, these are sharp, dark stories that
are not soon forgotten. |
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 Thursday
11.18 7:30pm UIC
By
the end of her first meeting with the late mayor Richard
J. Daley, Jane Byrne had been questioned and berated and
had gained insight into one of the most powerful men in
America - and she had reduced him to tears. That was just
the first of many altercations in her pioneering career.
Part sociopolitical history, part memoir, My
Chicago is the story of Byrne’s rise from
young campaign worker to the mayor’s office, all within
the bruising arena of Chicago’s politics. |
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 Thursday
11.18 7:30pm Oak Park
America
Washington was born a slave in the 1860s, and it was her
honey cream syrup-made for the plantation where she cooked-that
became her great-great-granddaughter’s
key to success over a century later. In SWEET EXPECTATIONS Michele Hoskins tells how she overcame the odds to turn
her family legacy into success. Through her entrepreneurial
genius, indomitable spirit, aggressive sales tactics, and
impenetrable faith, she built a multimillion-dollar corporation
with national distribution through the top food chains.
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November
2004 Book Recommendations & Events Calendar