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Events,
events, many, many events...
September
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Amadeus
the Traveling Dog |
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 Saturday
9.18 1:00pm Oak Park
Amadeus
is a beautiful,120 lb.,Great Pyrenees puppy who turns
heads and wins hearts everywhere he goes, he is certified
by the AKC as a Canine Good Citizen, which qualifies
him to visit hospitals, schools, and libraries, and
share with children his adventures as the Traveling
Dog! In his latest story, Friendship Rules, we learn
how Amadeus met Penny the cat, how they became friends,
and a few simple rules that make friendships last.
Come to this fun and furry event, meet Amadeus, and
give him a pat.
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 Sunday
9.19 2:00pm Oak Park
Doug
(Oak Park Illinois, Postcard History) Deuchler is back
at Barbara’s
to discuss his latest work of local history, Maywood:
Images of America. This prairie community,
laid out along the railroad, boomed after the Great Chicago
Fire. Soon
industries arrived, followed by a variety of ethnic groups.
Maywood was one of the few early suburban communities with
an African-American neighborhood. Doug taught in Maywood
for over 34 years, giving him a unique, ground-level view
of this community. |
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 Tuesday
9.21 7:30pm UIC
The
long-awaited new memoir by Esmeralda Santiago, author
of When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman is
an emotionally charged story of an exotic and dangerous
love affair. In The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally
breaks out of a monumental struggle with her powerful
mother-only to come under the thrall of ‘the
Turk’ and discover that romantic
passion, too, can become a prison. Her journey to
self-liberation and discovery is a daring one, candidly
recounted.
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 Wednesday
9.22 7:30pm Oak Park
Rosalind
has two mommies. Now, due to a tragic accident involving
frozen foodstuffs, she has none. And Sean, the sperm
donor who gave her half her DNA and nothing else,
is taking custody. Donorboy is a brilliant and heartbreakingly
funny debut novel from Brendan Halpin, author of
the memoirs It Takes a Worried Man and Losing
My Faculties. Donorboy is the universal story of how
we all laugh, cry, and occasionally fight our way
to a new life in the face of tragedy.
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 Thursday
9.23 7:30pm Oak Park
Francisco
Goldman’s third novel, The Divine
Husband, is a tale of the soul of the Americas and
the birth of the modern spirit, set in the ballrooms
and plantations of 19th century Central America and
the rooming houses and 5th Avenue addresses of New
York. Maria de las Nieves Moran is a bookish, dreamy
novice nun - until the country’s
new ruler closes the convents. What will be her fate
in the secular world? When she enrolls in a writing
class under José Marti, her life is
transformed by the brilliant Cuban poet and hero.
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 Thursday
9.23 7:30pm UIC
For
women looking for healthy lifestyles beyond yoga
and Pilates macrobiotic instructor Jessica Porter
offers fresh insight into one of the world’s
oldest and most popular diets - The
Hip Chick’s
Guide to Macrobiotics. The effect of a macrobiotic
diet
can extend beyond basic health to weight loss, better
sex, and peace of mind. Tips and recipes are combined
with Jessica’s no-nonsense philosophy and witty
anecdotes to create a book that will inspire women
to hit the kitchen with an understanding of how to
strengthen their minds and bodies through food. |
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Dave
Barry & Ridley Pearson
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 Sunday
9.26 4:00pm Oak Park
Dave
Barry and Ridley Pearson have turned back the clock to
a wonderful
story that precedes J. M. Barrie’s beloved
Peter Pan. Peter
and the Starcatchers is brimming with
rich characters, from the scary, somehow familiar Black
Stache and the ferocious Mister Grin to the sweet, sophisticated
Molly and the fearless Peter. Riveting adventures take
readers from a filthy, crime-ridden port in old England
across the turbulent seas, aboard the Never Land, which
carries a trunk that holds a magical substance-just a sprinkle,
and wounds heal; just a dusting, and people can fly.
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 Wednesday
9.29 7:30pm Oak Park
This
wonderful first novel recreates a world by affirming eternal
virtues
- humor, pain, and the joy of daily life. Daniela Kuper
has an incredible eye and ear for life as it is, was, and
will be. Hunger and Thirst chronicles the rise and fall
of the Trouts as they live out the longing, betrayal and
precariousness of family life in the Chicago Jewish culture
of the 50s. Rich with period detail, the novel is a fierce
exploration of a family that loves deeply, even as they
are compelled to destroy.
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 Wednesday
9.29 7:30pm UIC
In
his riveting, hilarious, frightening new book, Dick:
The Man Who Is President, investigative reporter
John Nichols provides the first biography of the nation’s
vice president. This “highly unauthorized” examination
of the world’s most powerful man reveals
that everything Dick Cheney has ever done has been a calculated
move to grab power and insinuate himself into essential
behind-the-scenes roles. A goal whose fulfillment can be
read in Cheney’s old Secret Service
codename: “Backseat.”
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 Thursday
9.30 7:30pm Oak Park
A
small and isolated world-a world where laws and taboos
are broken
on a daily basis, and family loyalty replaces moral accountability.
Chicago author Lisa (Billy Dead, Blameless)
Reardon’s
new novel, The
Mercy Killers, is a deeply involving and
satisfying story that illustrates just how far fear can
drive us, and where love can sometime send us. When a man
takes the rap for what he thinks is his brother’s
crime, he finds himself lost both in war and at home. |
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 Thursday
9.30 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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September
2004 Book Recommendations & Events Calendar