Category: Book signings
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F*ck Your Diet and Other Things My Diet Tells Me
“Our food choices and our image of ourselves are part of our culture.,” says Chloe Hilliard.
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REPUTATION: Everybody’s got something to hide
“Reputation is a book about different members of a university community and how they react to a school-wide email hack– and a subsequent murder,” says Sara Shepard, author of the New York Times best seller, Pretty Little Liars. “There are a lot of different perspectives, a lot of scandals, and a lot of twists, but…
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I Know What I Saw: Modern-Day Encounters with Monsters of New Urban Legend and Ancient Lore
Linda Godfrey has spent almost 30 years hunting down tales of the supernatural.
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Hope Rides Again: An Obama Biden Murder
Obama and Biden are back! This time they’re in Chicago solving the mystery of who stole Obama’s Blackberry and killed the thief.
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Apocalypse Any Day Now: Deep Underground with America’s Doomsday Preppers.
The end of the world is coming again—just as it was before Y2K and the Mayan Doomsday Calendar back to the calculations of Bishop Gregory of Tours, showing it would be all over sometimes between 799 and 806 and Christopher Columbus (yes, that Christopher Columbus) who it was ending in 1658. “It’s something…
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No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
“Domestic violence is not a large part of our conversation,” says Rachel Louise Snyder, author of the recently released “Domestic violence is not a large part of our conversation,” says Rachel Louise Snyder, author of the recently released No Visible Bruises, her exploration of this country’s domestic violence epidemic and what it means…
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Night Moves
“I didn’t decide to write this book, it was already written,” says Jessica Hopper, a Chicago based music critic with a career encompassing over the last two decades, a time when she not only wrote for New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Buzz Feed and Bookforum, was an editor at Pitchfork and Rookie and editorial…
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Courting Mr. Lincoln
Bestselling novelist Louis Bayard, author of the literary historical novel Courting Mr. Lincoln, has written about a fascinating story about the relationships between the future President and the two people who knew him best: his handsome and charming confidant (and roommate) Joshua Speed , the rich scion of the a wealthy hemp growing family in…
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Park Avenue Summer
Chicago-based author Renee Rosen typically writes novels about historic periods and people in Chicago such as the age of jazz (Windy City Blues); mid-20th century journalism (White Collar Girl) and the Roaring Twenties (Dollface). But in Park Avenue Summer, her latest novel which she describes as “Mad Men the Devil Wears Prada,” she takes…
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William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Mean Girls
Take two cultural icons—William Shakespeare, the English poet, playwright and actor who is considered one of the best writers in the English language and the movie Mean Girls which was released 15 years ago and stars Tina Fey, one of my favorite comedians and you have tales of passion, toxic envy, back-stabbing (both literal…
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