Tag: #books
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In My Time of Dying: An Evening with Sebastian Junger
The Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) is thrilled to host New York Times bestselling author Sebastian Junger at the store on Wednesday, June 19 at 6:30 pm for a discussion featuring his new book, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife. Part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate…
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Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares about Words
The Book Stall is hosting linguist, local NPR host, and veteran English professor Anne Curzan on Wednesday, June 12 at 6:30 pm for a discussion featuring her new book, Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares about Words (PenguinRandom House). With lively humor and humanity, Says Who? reveals how our choices about language usage can be a powerful force for equity and…
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The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes
When my friend David Brown asked me to read “The Year of the Locust” and give him my opinion, I was less than excited. Written by Terry Hayes, a former journalist, and Emmy-nominated screenwriter who wrote the screenplays for, amongst others, Mad Max 2 – Road Warrior, Dead Calm, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Payback, From Hell, and Vertical Limit,…
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Think Twice by Harlan Coben
“Secrets, lies, and a murderous conspiracy . . . churn at the heart of Harlan Coben’s blistering new novel.” Harlan Coben may be a New York Times bestselling author, his award-winning books translated into 46 different languages and many such as Fool Me Once, The Stranger, and Gone for Good, made into such Netflix series…
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The Hunter’s Daughter: Is She As Evil As Her Father?
“And I didn’t ask any questions,” the narrator of Nicola Solvinic’s debut mystery-thriller The Hunter’s Daughter (Berkley ), says in her first-person account of what it’s like having been raised by a serial killer. “I truly didn’t want to know the answers. When the rifle went off, did I kill my dad? Or Agent Parkes? Did…
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The Instruments of Darkness by John Connolly
“Moxie Castlin was easy to underestimate, but only on first impression. He was overweight by the equivalent of a small child, didn’t use one word in public when five others were loitering nearby with nothing better to do, and had a taste for the reminiscent of the markings of poisonous insects or the nightmares of…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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