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  • Persian Feasts: Recipes & Stories from a Family Table

    The cuisine of Iran, with origins dating back centuries, is arguably one of the most sophisticated in the world, offering an incredible array of dishes. This cuisine hails from the lands of ancient Persia and has evolved through the ages to what comprises the myriad and distinct regional cuisines in present-day Iran. Also shaping this…

  • Castle Gormenghast: Revisiting Gothic Fantasy

    A crumbling castle, an eccentric and slightly mad family, and intricate plotting in a Medival fantasy series about a remote earldom is the perfect antidote to stressful holidays. Need to escape into a different world after talking politics over the Thanksgiving table–or even harder, avoiding talking politics across the Thanksgiving table? Then it’s time to…

  • Where Are You, Echo Blue?

    “In those years, the hardest of my childhood, Echo felt like a kindred spirit. I memorized her lines in Slugger 8. I practiced her stance on the field in the mirror. I cut out snapshots from Teen Beat magazine. I bought four copies of her cover issue of Sassy, the one where she wore a…

  • “The Wildes” by Louis Bayard Book Signing

    On Thursday, Oct. 3rd at 6:30 PM,  Louis Bayard, author of The Pale Blue Eye and Jackie and Me, will be in conversation with novelist Lori Rader-Day at The Book Stall. They will discuss Bayard’s new novel, The Wildes, a profoundly empathetic story about Oscar Wilde’s wife Constance and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright’s imprisonment, told against Victorian England and World…

  • Food, Travel, & Recipes: A Day in Tokyo

    Serious foodies have always raved about Tokyo’s fabulous food finds in a city where no matter the time of the place, there’s always a treat ready to be had. Now, Brendan Liew and Caryn Ng, who established chotto, a pop-up Japanese café in Melbourne, Australia, where they introduced the art of traditional ryokan-style breakfasts, have…

  • Camino Ghosts by John Grisham

    “what could be better than a cursed island, some supernatural happenings, and the righting of centuries of social wrongs?” “It was a ship from Virginia, called Venus and it had around 400 slaves on board, packed like sardines,” bookstore owner Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann, a writer who is looking for a new book subject.…

  • Article: The 3 Best Thrillers Reese’s Book Club Has Ever Recommended

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  • The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

    “a compelling look at a dynamic trailblazer who broke into a field that was male dominated and leading the way for other women . . .” “When Dana Walters found her husband ashen-faced and unconscious in their hotel bed, his bottle of sleeping pills emptied, she didn’t call an ambulance,” writes author Susan Page in…

  • The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

    “’You’ll never own any White Orchard designs, you murderer!’ Her voice cut through the room and there was dead silence. Everyone was staring at them. “Remi gasped, and Rory’s brows knitted in a frown. ‘Daisy Ann, what’s going on?’ “Amber froze, her heart banging in her chest, as her eyes darted around the room, desperate…

  •  Local author to appear at bookstore for book signing of new “Lost East Chicago and Indiana Harbor” history book

    Award-winning author and journalist Joseph S. Pete will appear at a Northwest Indiana bookstore to sign copies of his new history book, “Lost East Chicago and Indiana Harbor.” Pete, a Lisagor Award-winning reporter and columnist, will do a book signing from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 20 at Miles Books at 2819 Jewett…