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  • Introducing the James Beard 2024 Book Award Nominees

    Introducing the James Beard 2024 Book Award Nominees

    Baking and Desserts: This award recognizes books with recipes focused on the art and craft of baking, pastries, and desserts, both sweet and savory items, including ingredients, techniques, equipment, and traditions. This year, submissions to the Bread category were included for consideration within the Baking and Desserts category. Dark Rye and Honey Cake: Festival Baking…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    May 3, 2024
    #books, #BookTok, Chicago, Cookbooks, James Beard
    #books, Chicago, Cookbooks, Food, James Beard, James Beard Book Award Nominees
  • No Place Like Murder: 20 Historic True Crimes in the Hoosier State

    No Place Like Murder: 20 Historic True Crimes in the Hoosier State

                   “True crime aficionados are fascinated by the havoc their fellow humans are capable of wreaking,” says author Janis Thornton who takes us beyond high profile crime into lesser known but equally fascinating tales. “For them, learning details of the victims’ worst nightmares is not only tantalizing; in a perverse way, it’s almost comforting because…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    May 1, 2024
    #books, #BookTok, mystery, True Crime
    Agrue family, Frankie Miller, Indiana, Isabelle Messmer, Janis Thornton, True Crime
  • Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with Romance and Brews

    Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with Romance and Brews

    On Saturday, April 27 at 3:30 pm, join the folks at The Book Stall for an afternoon of Romance and Brews to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day! Author Stephanie Jayne joins us at The Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) with three fellow Romance authors for a meet & greet with some frosty refreshments! Stop by for a brew and say hello to romance author Kelly Farmer,…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    April 28, 2024
    #books, #BookTok, Audio book, Author event, Authors, Book Stall, mystery, Rom-Com, Romance
    Chicago, Felix Alexander, Fiction, Kelly Farmer, Mystery-Thriller, Queer Romance, Rom Com, Romance, Sharon Michalove, Stephanie Jayne, The Book Stall
  • Young Rich Widows: Big Hair, Big Egos, and Big Trouble

    Young Rich Widows: Big Hair, Big Egos, and Big Trouble

    “It sounds like the opening of a joke: Four lawyers die in a plane crash. “But no one is laughing inside the brand-new 1985 Cessna careening toward the dark icy Atlantic waters. One engine is already on fire and the other about to blow. “On the manifest: three men, one woman, and a screaming pilot.…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    April 26, 2024
    #books, mystery, Uncategorized
    #books, Cate Holahan, Fiction, Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Mystery-Thriller, Sourcebooks, Vanessa Lillie, Young Rich Widows
  • The Duchess: Scandalous Ladies of London by Sophie Jordan

    The Duchess: Scandalous Ladies of London by Sophie Jordan

    “I liked my husband well enough . . . but I like him even better dead,” says Duchess Valencia Dedham. Now a Dowager Duchess following the death of her husband (no great loss there) and the discovery of the nearest male heir means Valencia Dedham must move out of the mansion that has been her…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    April 5, 2024
    #books, #BookTok, Historical Fiction, Romance
    #books, Fiction, historic, London, Romance, Sophie Jordan
  • Tracey Garvis Graves and Rochelle Weinstein: In-Conversation with Lauren Margolin

    Tracey Garvis Graves and Rochelle Weinstein: In-Conversation with Lauren Margolin

    The Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) is so pleased to host authors Tracey Garvis Graves and Rochelle Weinstein on Wednesday, April 24th at 6:30 PM. They will be in conversation with Lauren Margolin, a.k.a. The Good Book Fairy.  Tracey Garvis Graves’ new book is The Trail of Lost Hearts, which Colleen Hoover calls, “Breathtaking and endlessly romantic.” Rochelle Weinstein’s latest title is What You Do to Me.  Lisa…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    April 3, 2024
    #books, #BookTok, Author event, Authors, Book signings, Book Stall, Fiction
    Author event, book signing, Fiction, Lauren Margolin, Rochelle B. Weinstein, Tracey Garvis Graves
  • The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time

    The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time

    The Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) is delighted to host author Jane Bertch on Thursday, April 11 at 6:30 pm for a discussion featuring her new book, The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time, the inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school in Paris. A…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    April 2, 2024
    #books, #BookTok, Adventure, Audiobooks, Author event, Book signings, Book Stall, Chicago, Cooking School, Food, Gastronomy, Paris
    “The French Ingredient”, book signing, Humor, Jane Bertch, La Cuisine Paris, Memoir, Paris, The Book Stall
  • Max’s War: The Story of a Ritchie Boy

    Max’s War: The Story of a Ritchie Boy

    The Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) on Thursday, April 18 at 6:30 pm is presenting a program with author Libby Fischer Hellman featuring her new book, Max’s War: The Story of a Ritchie Boy. This suspenseful coming-of-age war story is Libby Hellmann’s tribute to her late father-in-law who was active with the OSS and interrogated dozens of German POWs. To register for this…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    April 1, 2024
    #books, #BookTok, Audio book, Audiobooks, Author event
    #books, Fiction, Libby Fischer Hellmann, OSS, Suspense, Thriller
  • Poisoned Passover: Book 2 Torah Mystery Series

    Poisoned Passover: Book 2 Torah Mystery Series

    he Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) is delighted to host mystery author Susan Van Dusen on Wednesday, April 17 at 6:30 pm for an in-store discussion featuring her new book, Poisoned Passover, the second book in the Torah Mystery Series. With no experience except watching TV detective shows, Julia Donnelly, the wife of the mayor, and her Torah group leader, Rabbi Avrum…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 28, 2024
    #books, #BookTok, Audio book, Author event, Book signings, Book Stall, Fiction, mystery
    #books, Author event, book signing, Fiction, mystery, The Book Stall
  • I Cheerfully Refuse: Author Discussion & Book Signing

    I Cheerfully Refuse: Author Discussion & Book Signing

    The Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) is thrilled to welcome award-winning author Leif Enger to the store on Sunday, April 7 at 2:00 pm for a discussion featuring his new book, I Cheerfully Refuse (Grove Atlantic). A career defining tour-de-force from the New York Times bestselling author of Peace Like a River, Enger’s latest novel is set in a not-too-distant America and epitomizes the “musical, sometimes magical…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 27, 2024
    #books, #BookTok, Audio book, Author event, Book signings, Book Stall, Fiction
    “I Cheerfully Refuse”, #books, Chicagoland, Fiction, Grove Atlantic, Leif Enger, Winnetka
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