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Join us Saturday and Sunday, December 5th and 6th for our

Annual Holiday Sale!

20% off all items

in the store

Amanda Little

December 3

Walter Isaacson

December 3

Audrey Niffenegger

December 11

Tami Hoag

January 6

D E C E M B E R

Thursday, December 3, 2009 5:30 p.m. WALTER ISAACSON Location: Reception, Standard Club, Chicago Description: WALTER ISAACSON, bestselling biographer and journalist, speaks about American Sketches, his collecti... More info on this event

Thursday, December 3, 2009 6:00 p.m. MARK MOYAR Location: Pritzker Military Library 610 N. Fairbanks Ct., Chicago Description: Mark Moyar discusses "A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq". Free. ... More info on this event

Thursday, December 3, 2009 7:00 p.m. AMANDA LITTLE Description: AMANDA LITTLE, an author with ties to Chicago, reads and signs her book, Power Trip, at 7 p.m. in the store.

Friday, December 4, 2009 6:30 p.m. at the Winnetka Community House Join us for a screening of The Polar Express, the film based on the classic holiday book.  We will be selling the book at the screening.

Friday, December 4, 2009 6:30 p.m. Poetry Reading - DOUG SKRIEF Description: Poetry Reading - DOUG SKRIEF, award-winning Minnesota poet, reads from Stone Poems, written in the v... More info on this event

Saturday, December 5, 2009 9:30 a.m. ANNUAL HOLIDAY SALE! Description: ANNUAL HOLIDAY SALE! 20% off all items in the store... More info on this event

Saturday, December 5, 2009 10:30 a.m. Children's Story Hour at Harris Bank Location: Harris Bank in Winnetka Description: ROBERT McDONALD, head of The Book Stall's children's department, entertains young readers during the... More info on this event

Saturday, December 5, 2009 2:00 p.m. JOHN NEWCOMBE Description: JOHN NEWCOMBE, Winnetka native and an award-winning filmmaker living in Los Angeles, presents his DV... More info on this event

Sunday, December 6, 2009 9:30 a.m. ANNUAL HOLIDAY SALE! Description: ANNUAL HOLIDAY SALE! 20% off all items in the store... More info on this event

Monday, December 7, 2009 12:00 p.m. ERIN ARVEDLUND Location: Luncheon University Club, Chicago Description: ERIN ARVEDLUND, the Barrons reporter who expressed her suspicions about Bernie Madoff in 2001, speak... More info on this event

Monday, December 7, 2009 6:00 p.m. DOUGLAS GAYETON Location: Italian Cultural Institute, 500 N. Michigan Ave. Description: From 6 until 8 p.m., DOUGLAS GAYETON, filmmaker, photographer and writer, signs Slow: Life in a Tusc... More info on this event

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 12:00 p.m. WARREN BERGER & BRUCE MAU, with moderator Zoe Ryan Location: Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago Description: WARREN BERGER and BRUCE MAU talk about Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life and Maybe Even th... More info on this event

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 7:00 p.m. CHARLES MADIGAN Description: CHARLES MADIGAN, Presidential Writer in Residence at Roosevelt University and former Chicago Tribune... More info on this event

Thursday, December 10, 2009 4:00 p.m. NANCY POLING Location: The Women’s Exchange 725 Pine St., Winnetka Description: NANCY POLING, long-time Chicago area resident now located in North Carolina, talks about Out of the ... More info on this event

Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:00 p.m. CARLYN BERGHOFF Description: Join us from 6 'til 7 p.m. when CARLYN BERGHOFF signs The Berghoff Cafe Cookbook: Berghoff Family Re... More info on this event

Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:00 p.m. JAMES BRADLEY Location: Pritzker Military Library 610 N. Fairbanks Ct., Chicago Description: JAMES BRADLEY< author of the bestsellers Flyboys and Flags of Our Fathers, speaks about his new book... More info on this event

Friday, December 11, 2009 12:00 p.m. ULYSSES GRANT DIETZ Location: University Club Description: ULYSSES GRANT DIETZ, great-great grandson of the 18th president, talks about Dream House: The White H... More info on this event

Friday, December 11 AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Join us in the store for a reading and signing with Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveller's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry.

Saturday, December 12, 2009 10:00 a.m. GINGER KATHRENS and JAMES KLEINERT Description: Ginger Kathrens and James Kleinert will be in the store to discuss their book: "Cloud: Challenge of ... More info on this event

Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:00 p.m. RICHARD CAHAN Description: RICHARD CAHAN sign Edgar Miller and the Hand-Made Home: Chicago's Forgotten Renaissance Man. Embrac... More info on this event

Sunday, December 13, 2009 2:00 p.m. KIRSTEN BRAMSEN and CARIN BRAMSEN Description: KIRSTEN BRAMSEN, author, and her sister CARIN BRAMSEN, illustrator, lead a children's story time wit... More info on this event

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:00 p.m. TERRY TEACHOUT Location: Highland Park Library, 949 Laurel Description: TERRY TEACHOUT, the Wall Street Journal arts columnist, talks about Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong,... More info on this event

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 12:00 p.m. TAMI HOAG Location: Lunch at Avli, 566 Chestnut St. Winnetka Phone: 847-446-9300 Description: TAMI HOAG's new book, "Deeper Than The Dead," is being released on Dec. 29, She joins us for a Women... More info on this event

Cookbook Club

Bon Appetit!  The  faithful in The Book Stall’s longstanding Cookbook Club celebrated the season with recipe samples from some of their favorite cookbooks of the year. 

Contact Tracy Segal at tracy@thebookstall.com. 

Our next meeting will be January 12 at noon in the store.  This month's meeting will be a tribute to Ruth Reichl.  Club members will be sharing their favorite recipes from Reichl's cookbook/memoirs Tender at the Bone, Comfort Me with Apples, and Garlic and Sapphires.