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 Monday
10.11 4:30 pm Oak Park
Beloved
children’s book author and illustrator
Jannell (Stellaluna, Verdi) Cannon, is able to find the
charm and beauty in those creatures that we are all raised
to believe are ugly or monstrous. Her wonderful vision
continues in her latest masterwork - PINDULI. Pinduli features
the little-known striped hyena, a misunderstood animal
if there ever was one. Ridiculed for her large ears and
prickly mane, young Pinduli finds the courage to stand
up to her foes and discovers that the power of a few word
- bad or good - can create something enormous. |
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 Tuesday
10.12 7:30pm UIC
DESTINATION:
MORGUE! is James Ellroy’s first book
since the bestselling Cold Six Thousand. In it we get some
of the most insightful of Ellroy’s recent
journalism - such as “My Life as a Creep” which
tells readers how he became an outsider, to his true crime
piece on Robert Blake, “Little Sleazer.” But
the highlight of the collection is the three never-before-published
novellas featuring a demented detective obsessed with a
Hollywood actress. Ellroy fans rejoice and come on down. |
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 Tuesday
10.12 7:30 pm Oak Park
Jamlady
Bev Alfeld is dedicated to educating home cooks on how
to can both safely and deliciously. Now, at Barbara’s,
she is sharing some of her best recipes for fall fruits
in the best way possible, with a tasting! THE JAMLADY
COOKBOOK is a resource for the canner, the gardener, the gourmet,
and for the health-conscious food lover, that features
more than four hundred recipes for jellies, jams, preserves,
butters, and other homemade products. |
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 Wednesday
10.13 12:30 pm UIC
For Art
Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the
terror attack of September 11 was intensely personal and
political. IN THE SHADOW OF NO TOWERS is a masterful account
of the events and aftermath of that tragic day. Spiegelman
and his family bore witness to the attacks in their Manhattan
neighborhood: his teenage daughter attended school directly
below the towers. But the horrors they survived were only
the beginning for Spiegelman, as his anguish quickly changed
to fury as the U.S. government shamelessly co-opted the
event for its own agenda. |
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 Monday
10.18 7:30 pm UIC
Another
longtime Bab’s favorite is back, sharing
his journey to the center of “the thing”,
our country, where high and low come together to share
the most profound gesture of democracy: the election.
In LOOKING FORWARD TO IT: Or, How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the American Electoral Process, Stephen (Happy
Baby) Elliott chronicles his skeptical and hilarious journey
on the campaign trail. He meets washed out managers, idealistic
publicists, corrupt journalists, world-weary auditorium
janitors, recovering addicts, and, of course, politicians. |
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 Tuesday
10.19 7:30pm UIC
Novelist
Suzanne (Hoopi Shoopi Donna) Strempek Shea started
working part-time at Edwards Books in Massachusetts while
recovering
from breast cancer. Based on her time at Edwards, and the
hundreds of stores she has visited nationwide while on
book tours, SHELF LIFE: Mystery, Drama, and Other
Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore,
captures life inside the store and takes the reader on
a year that begins with
a St. Paddy’s Day display and ends with
a very odd Valentine’s Day reunion.
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 Wednesday
10.20 7:30pm Oak Park
FRATERNITY:
A Journey in Search of Five Presidents, is the story
of a long, personal journey: Bob Greene’s
quest to visit, spend time with, and listen to the stories
of former presidents Nixon, Carter, Ford, Bush and Reagan.
It’s a human look at these men, and
the presidency, one looking at “lower
case history - history spoken about quietly, history related
in unhurried tones by the men who, against the odds, had
been shapers of uppercase history.” |
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 Thursday
10.21 7:30pm UIC
For many
years Robert (Good Scent from a Strange Mountain) Olen
Butler has collected picture postcards from the early Twentieth
century - not so much for the pictures on the front, but
for the messages written on the back that hold little bits
of the captured souls of people long since passed away.
Now, in his dazzling new book of short stories, HAD
A GOOD TIME, he again explores America by finding artistic inspiration
in this unlikely and fascinating place. |
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