Attention history buffs and nonfiction readers! Join us for a "Book Stall After Hours" event with award-winning author Nathaniel Philbrick, as he shares his new book, In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown. Your ticket to this special event admits TWO people and includes a copy of In the Hurricane's Eye. We'll be serving refreshments. The ticket cost equals the cost of one book. Tickets are available by calling the store: 847-446-8880, or visiting the ticket page on Eventbrite.  Can't make it to the event?  Call us at 847-446-8880, and we'll be happy to arrange an autographed copy for you. 

In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington realized that the only way to defeat the British Empire was with the help of the French navy. But as he had learned after two years of trying, coordinating his army's movements with those of a fleet of warships based thousands of miles away was next to impossible. And then, on September 5, 1781, the impossible happened. Recognized today as one of the most important naval engagements in the history of the world, the Battle of the Chesapeake--fought without a single American ship--made the subsequent victory of the Americans at Yorktown a virtual inevitability.

In a narrative that moves from Washington's headquarters on the Hudson River, to the wooded hillside in North Carolina where Nathanael Greene fought Lord Cornwallis to a vicious draw, to Lafayette's brilliant series of maneuvers across Tidewater Virginia, Philbrick details the epic and suspenseful year through to its triumphant conclusion. A riveting and wide-ranging story, full of dramatic, unexpected turns, In the Hurricane's Eye reveals that the fate of the American Revolution depended, in the end, on Washington and the sea.

Kirkus Reviews says of In the Hurricane's Eye, "A tense, richly detailed narrative of the American Revolution...Philbrick reprises the protagonists of his last history of the War of Independence in a meticulously researched recounting of the events leading up to the colonists' victory at the Battle of Yorktown..Philbrick, a sailor himself, recounts the strategic maneuvering involved in the many naval encounters: ships' positions, wind direction and strength, and the 'disorienting cloud of fire and smoke' that often imperiled the fleet."