Author Visits!!

Marlena De Blasi will be visiting the Book Stall at Chestnut Court in Winnetka on June 3 at 7:30pm to sign her latest book, That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story. Marlena De Blasi is the author of the bestselling A Thousand Days in Venice, and A Thousand Days in Tuscany.

John Connolly will be at Borders in Oak Brook on June 3 at 7:30pm to read from his latest novel The Reapers.

Robert Olmstead will be at the Book Stall in Winnetka on June 4 at 7:00pm to sign Coal Black Horse, his critically acclaimed novel about a 14-year-old boy sent out by his mother to find his father on Civil War battlefield.

Ed Park will be at the Book Cellar in Chicago on June 5 at 7:00pm to sign Personal Days.

Joseph Arpaia will be at Borders in Deerfield on June 6 at 7:30pm to read from Real Meditation in Minutes a Day: Enhancing Your Performance, Relationships, Spirituality, and Health.

My friends at the Warren Newport Public Library will be having two exciting author events this month. Jonathan Santlofer will be visiting on June 7th at 2pm to sign his newest book, The Murder Notebook. Lee Child will be visiting on June 11th at 1pm to discuss his latest book, Nothing to Loose.

Katie Hickman will be at the Book Stall in Winnetka on June 9 at 12:00pm to sign her novel The Aviary Gate, about a researcher who discovers a story locked away for four centuries of a British sea captain’s daughter held captive in a sultan’s harem.

David Sedaris will be at Borders in Evanston on June 11 at 7:00pm to promote his latest book, When You Are Engulfed in Flames.

Alan Furst will be at the Book Stall in Winnetka on June 11 at 7:00pm to sign his novel The Spies of Warsaw, an intrigue set in pre-World War II Warsaw and featuring French, Polish, and German intelligence officers.

Rebecca Stott will be at the Book Stall in Winnetka on June 16 at 7:00pm to sign Ghostwalk, a novel centered on a real historical mystery filled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of 17-century glass making, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Isaac Newton’s scientific theories.

Karen Abbott, author of Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys and the Battle for America's Soul, will be discussing and signing her book at 57th Street Books in Chicago on June 18th at 6pm and at the Book Cellar on June 19th at 7pm.

Robert Kurson reads from Crashing Through: A Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared To See at the Book Cellar on June 25 at 7:00pm.

Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author Salman Rushdie will read from and discuss his new work, The Enchantress of Florence on Thursday, July 10th at 6pm at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago. This reading is free of charge and open to the public. Mr. Rushdie will personalize the new book and sign copies of his backlist (please, no more than 2 books per person).