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Meet Bob Spitz, the author of 'Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child,' in Lake Forest next week.
Next Wednesday, author Bob Spitz will participate in a luncheon at Authentico in Lake Forest. The event, sponsored by the Lake Forest Book Store, is just one part of a two part event that concludes at 6:30 that evening at Ela Area Public Library in Lake Zurich. The $35 price for the luncheon includes a copy of Spitz's new book, "Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child." From Lake Forest Book Store: The stunning story of how Julia Child transformed herself into the cult figure who touched off a food revolution that has gripped the country for more than fifty years. Spanning Pasadena to Paris, acclaimed author Spitz reveals the history behind the woman who taught America how to cook.
Neil Irwin will will speak about his new book "The Alchemists" and take questions before a book signing on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Baytree Bank.
The information below comes from Lake Forest Book Store. Neil Irwin will will speak about his new book "The Alchemists" and take questions before a book signing on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Baytree Bank. Neil Irwin’s The Alchemists is a gripping account of the most intense exercise in economic crisis management we’ve ever seen, a poker game in which the stakes have run into the trillions of dollars. The book begins in, of all places, Stockholm, Sweden, in the seventeenth century, where central banking had its rocky birth, and then progresses through a brisk but dazzling tutorial on how the central banker came to exert such vast influence over our world, from its troubled beginnings to the Age of Greenspan, bringing the reader into the …
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Two books by the Hollywood actress, "It's All Good" and "My Father's Daughter," are on this week's best seller list from Lake Forest Book Store.
The best seller list below, for the week of April 14 to April 20, provided by Lake Forest Book Store.
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Check out what else people in Lake Forest are reading in this week's list from Lake Forest Book Store.
This week's list provided by Lake Forest Book Store.
"Here I Go Again" is at number one this week. Anne Lamott's "Help Thanks Wow" is second.
The information below is provided by Lake Forest Book Store.
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This week you can catch two authors at Lake Forest Book Store: Erin Cerello and Jennifer E. Smith.
This week, you can catch two authors at Lake Forest Book Store: Erin Cerello and Jennifer E. Smith. Smith, a Lake Forest High School alum, will be reading from and discussing her new novel, titled "This Is What Happiness Looks Like," on Tuesday at 7 p.m. The novel follows two 17-year-olds who begin an email correspondence that leads to the two of them meeting in real life. Cerello will be reading from "Learning to Stay," which centers on a woman as she attempts to adapt to her new relationship with her husband after he returns from serving in the military in Iraq with a traumatic brain injury. Her reading will be held this Friday at 7 p.m. For complete Lake Forest News, sign up for our free newsletter,"like" us on Facebook or follow us on …
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'Storyteller' is the top of this week's bestsellers.
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John Boyne's novel 'The Absolutist' is number one this week. See what else made the list.
Lake Forest Book Store Bestsellers 1. Absolutist John Boyne 2 Art of Hearing Heartbeats Jan-Philipp Sendker 3 Rules of Civility Amor Towles 4 Storyteller Jodi Picoult 5 Aviator's Wife Melanie Benjamin 6 Emeraldalicious Victoria Kann 7 Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman 8 Proof of Heaven Eben Alexander 9 Paris Wife Paula McLaine 10 Orchardist Amanda Coplin 11 Silence of Bonaventure Arrow Rita Leganski 12 Me Before You Jojo Moyes 13 One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate 14 House at Tyneford Natasha Solomons 15 To Be Sung Underwater Tom McNeal
Lake Forest Book Store hosts former Lake Forest resident Dave Eggers who will sign his best seller, ‘Hologram for the King.”
Bestselling author and former Lake Forest resident Dave Eggers will sign copies of “Hologram for the King” from 11 a.m. to noon Sunday at the Lake Forest Book Store. “Hologram for the King” was a 2012 National Book Award finalist and was named one of the top ten books of last year by the New York Times Book Review. The book is the story of a businessman’s efforts to avoid foreclosure and pay his daughters college tuition by taking his family around the world and landing in a Saudi Arabian city, according to information provided by the Lake Forest book store. Eggers moved to Lake Forest with his family from Boston as a young boy and graduated from Lake Forest High School before going to the University of Illinois. For complete Lake Forest …
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