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PHIL JACKSON
Friday, May 24th
12:00 pm at The
Union League Club
During his storied career as head coach of the
Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson
won more championships than any coach in the history
of professional sports. Even more important, he
succeeded in never wavering from coaching his way,
from a place of deep values. Jackson was tagged as
the “Zen master” half in jest by sportswriters, but
the nickname speaks to an important truth: this is a
coach who inspired, not goaded; who led by awakening
and challenging the better angles of his players’
nature, not their egos, fear, or greed.
This is the story of a preacher’s kid from North
Dakota who grew up to be one of the most innovative
leaders of our time. In his quest to reinvent
himself, Jackson explored everything from humanistic
psychology and Native American philosophy to Zen
meditation. In the process, he developed a new
approach to leadership based on freedom,
authenticity, and selfless teamwork that turned the
hypercompetitive world of professional sports on its
head.
To make reservations for the luncheon, please
call: 847.446.8880.
MEMORIAL DAY - STORE IS CLOSED
Monday, May 27th
All Day at The
Book Stall
In observance of Memorial Day, we will be closed.
Enjoy your day and we will see you on Tuesday, May
28th at 9:30 am.
OLYMPIA SNOWE
Tuesday, May 28th
12:00 pm at The
Union League Club
Known for working across party lines in her 18
years in the U.S. Senate, Republican Olympia Snowe,
from Maine, felt driven from the legislative body by
acrimonious partisanship and declined to run for
reelection in 2012. But she hasn't abandoned
politics. In this heartfelt call to action, she
details the cost to the American public of a
Congress so polarized that it passes record low
numbers of laws and can't agree on a budget. Snowe
offers an insider's view of how Congress came to be
so dysfunctional, including a behind-the-scenes look
at her role in working with both sides to get
President Obama's health-care bill passed. She
recounts her personal history of losing both parents
when a child, widowhood at 26 that led to taking her
husband's state legislative seat, later marriage to
John McKernan, who would be elected governor of
Maine as she pursued politics into the Senate. Snowe
offers a passionate plea to Americans to insist on
changes in the Senate, including filibuster reform,
biennial budgeting, and a five-day workweek for
Congress.
To make reservations for the luncheon, please
call: 847.446.8880.
PETER BERGEN
Thursday, May 30th
7:00 pm at
Congregation Beth Shalom, 3433 Walters Avenue,
Northbrook, IL
An exciting insider account of the vast,
secretive effort to track and kill the al-Qaeda
leader. Shortly after coming into office, President
Obama urged CIA Chief Leon Panetta to redouble the
efforts to find Osama bin Laden; the trail had grown
cold despite the dozen high-level intelligence
officers working on the case for a decade. Only in
2010 did the monitoring of a Kuwaiti courier's
cellphone use suggest ties to bin Laden, and they
followed his car to the compound in the quiet
Pakistani town of Abbottabad, where he actually
lived with bin Laden's extended family. A CIA safe
house was set up nearby to observe the "pattern of
life" details: the wives and children living at the
compound and never leaving, the wash hanging on the
line, the mysterious "pacer" who walked around the
"jail yard" and never left. In fact, bin Laden had
lived there for years, increasingly isolated and out
of touch with his network and with only the Kuwaiti
and his brother as guards and conduits to the
outside world. CNN national security analyst,
Peter Bergen (The Longest War: The Enduring
Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda, 2011, etc.)
ably delineates the U.S. government decision-making
process in pursuing the Special Operations
infiltration of the compound, despite the lack of
certainty that bin Laden was actually there.
Officials also had to consider America's delicate
relationship with Pakistan. In three weeks of
rehearsal, SEAL teams manipulated every eventuality,
even the helicopter mishap that actually happened.
Bergen also stresses the enormity of the political
risks undertaken by Obama and his staff, and he
pursues the aftermath in terms of wounded Pakistan-U.S.
relations and the spelling of the "twilight" for
al-Qaeda. A compelling story, told with authority,
of the final takedown of likely the most wanted
criminal in history.
This event is free and open to the public.
CALDECOTT ART EXHIBIT with
ERIC ROHMANN and AARON REYNOLDS
Saturday, June 1st
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm at
Skokie Public Library
Celebrate the art of children’s picture books with
Aaron Reynolds,
the author of this year’s Caldecott honor book
Creepy Carrots,
who at 1:30 pm
will talk about how his story went from a creepy
idea to a creepy finished book. At 3:30 pm,
Eric Rohmann,
2003 Caldecott Medal recipient for My
Friend Rabbit,
talks about the process of creating art for
children’s picture books.
Recommended for ages 5 and up. No registration
necessary. For more information:
events.skokielibrary.info.
LINCOLN SCHATZ
Wednesday, June 5th
12:00 pm at
The Standard Club
In
The Network: Portrait Conversations, Portraitist Lincoln Schatz
talks about his book which is filled with generative
video portraits of 100 entrepreneurs,
industrialists, politicians, scientists, scholars,
inventors and other influential figures who play
pivotal roles shaping the history and daily workings
of America.
To make reservations for the luncheon, please
call: 847.446.8880.
BULBUL BAHUGUNA
Wednesday, June 5th
6:30 pm at
The Book Stall
The Ghosts That Come Between Us is
a first-person narrative that follows the life
journey of a girl named Nargis. The story starts in
the Himalayas in post-independence India, spans
through Communist Russia, and ends in a Chicago
suburb in the United States. While the book recounts
delightful memories of childhood in the sixties and
colorful anecdotes of family travels through young
urban and feudal rural India, finding love behind
the impervious Iron Curtain, and the adventure and
challenge of immigrating to the United States, the
book in the main is about Nargis's struggle to
escape the confusing relationship with her father,
Brigadier Yadav, and forgo the special status she
thrived and in which she enjoyed growing up. The
closure Nargis strives for, she painfully realizes,
has to come from within. Nargis's journey combines
the daring straightforwardness of innocent childhood
with the poetic eloquence of an adult engaged in
hazy reflection.
MARVIN KALB
Thursday, June 6th
6:30 pm at
The Book Stall
In The Road to War: Presidential
Commitments Honored and Betrayed, Marvin
Kalb explores the key question of why presidents
have justified their war-making powers by citing
"commitments" both private and public, made by
former presidents that have been proven to be tricky
and dangerous and have led our nation on a road to
war. Marvin Kalb, a good friend of The Book
Stall, is the former chief diplomatic correspondent
for CBS and NBC News.
SUZANNE HAYES and LORETTA NYHAN
Women Writer's Luncheon
Friday, June 7th
12:00 pm at
AVLI Restaurant
It's January 1943 when Rita
Vincenzo receives her first
letter from Glory Whitehall.
Glory is an effervescent
young mother, impulsive and
free as a bird. Rita is a
sensible professor's wife
with a love of gardening and
a generous, old soul. Glory
comes from New England
society; Rita lives in Iowa,
trying to make ends meet.
They have nothing in common
except one powerful bond:
the men they love are
fighting in a war a world
away from home.
Brought together by an
unlikely twist of fate,
Glory and Rita begin a
remarkable correspondence.
The friendship forged by
their letters allows them to
survive the loneliness and
uncertainty of waiting on
the home front, and gives
them the courage to face the
battles raging in their very
own backyards. Connected
across the country by the
lifeline of the written
word, each woman finds her
life profoundly altered by
the other's unwavering
support.
A collaboration of two
authors whose own beautiful
story mirrors that on the
page, I'll Be Seeing
You is a deeply
moving union of style and
charm. Filled with
unforgettable characters and
grace, it is a timeless
celebration of friendship
and the strength and
solidarity of women.
To make reservations for the luncheon, please
call: 847.446.8880.
MARVIN KALB
Friday, June 7th
12:00 pm at
The Standard Club
In The Road to War: Presidential
Commitments Honored and Betrayed, Marvin
Kalb explores the key question of why presidents
have justified their war-making powers by citing
"commitments" both private and public, made by
former presidents that have been proven to be tricky
and dangerous and have led our nation on a road to
war. Marvin Kalb, a good friend of The Book
Stall, is the former chief diplomatic correspondent
for CBS and NBC News.
To make reservations for the luncheon, please
call: 847.446.8880.
BETTY JANE WAGNER
Saturday, June 8th
3:00 pm at
The Book Stall
Join us here at The Book Stall
as Betty Jane Wagner
speaks about her book,
World War II Hits Home.
This young adult novel reveals
the racism that swirled around
Japanese-Americans at the time
of their relocation during World
War II. Eleven year-old Diana's
parents take in a boy from the
Amache Relocation Camp in
Colorado so he can attend the
local high school. This brings
trouble for Diana who, with her
adventurous friend Snuffy, is
quite capable of creating
trouble on her own! Readers will
be introduced to the feel of
everyday life in a beet-farming
town in 1944. Events overseas in
both France and the Pacific have
a profound impact on the
home-front. Snuffy's
high-school-dropout brother's
hatred of all Japanese is
intensified when his own brother
is killed by Japanese soldiers
in the Pacific.
This event
is free and open to the public.
Recommended for ages 11 to
adult.
COLUM McCANN
Sunday, June 9th
4:30 pm at
The Book Stall
In the National Book Award winning
Let the
Great World Spin,
Colum McCann thrilled
readers with a marvelous high-wire act
of fiction that The New York
Times Book Reviewcalled“an emotional tour de force.” Now
McCann demonstrates once again why he is
one of the most acclaimed and essential
authors of his generation with a soaring
novel that spans continents, leaps
centuries, and unites a cast of deftly
rendered characters, both real and
imagined.
Newfoundland, 1919. Two
aviators - Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown
- set course for Ireland as they attempt
the first nonstop flight across the
Atlantic Ocean, placing their trust in a
modified bomber to heal the wounds of
the Great War.
Dublin, 1845 and 1846. On an
international lecture tour in support of
his subversive autobiography, Frederick
Douglass finds the Irish people
sympathetic to the abolitionist cause -
despite the fact that, as famine ravages
the countryside, the poor suffer from
hardships that are astonishing even to
an American slave.
New York, 1998. Leaving behind a
young wife and newborn child, Senator
George Mitchell departs for Belfast,
where it has fallen to him, the son of
an Irish-American father and a Lebanese
mother, to shepherd Northern Ireland’s
notoriously bitter and volatile peace
talks to an uncertain conclusion.
These three iconic crossings are
connected by a series of remarkable
women whose personal stories are caught
up in the swells of history. Beginning
with Irish housemaid Lily Duggan, who
crosses paths with Frederick Douglass,
the novel follows her daughter and
granddaughter, Emily and Lottie and
culminates in the present-day story of
Hannah Carson, in whom all the hopes and
failures of previous generations live
on. From the loughs of Ireland to the
flatlands of Missouri and the windswept
coast of Newfoundland, their journeys
mirror the progress and shape of
history. They each learn that even the
most unassuming moments of grace have a
way of rippling through time, space, and
memory.
Please join us here at The Book Stall
to welcome Colum McCann to our part of
the world. Wine and cheese will be
served.
GILLIAN ROYES
Women Writer's Luncheon
Monday, June 10th
12:00 pm at
AVLI Restaurant
Hopes for the impoverished village of Largo Bay
come alive with the arrival of Joseph, estranged son
of bar owner Eric. Janna, who has returned to the
island, falls for Joseph’s good looks and charm, but
she isn’t the only one with an eye for this
mysterious man.
As questions about Joseph’s sexuality arise, Shad
struggles with protecting the survival of his
beloved birthplace amidst the deeply ingrained
culture of intolerance that surrounds him. Questions
arise about what it means to be a man and a father,
and Shad feels pressure to defend what he knows is
right.
As in the acclaimed
The Goat Woman of Largo Bay, the first book in
this series, Gillian Royes paints an
indelible picture of a beautiful land where religion
is strong but life is cheap, and explores what
happens when a village must confront its own
darkness or lose a bright future.
To make reservations for the luncheon, please
call: 847.446.8880.
KEVIN O'BRIEN
Monday, June 10th
6:30 pm at
The Book Stall
O’Brien, a North
Shore native, New Trier “East” grad, and
brother-in-law of bestselling author Mike Leonard,
signs his riveting new thriller that takes readers
into the darkest corners of the human mind, where a
therapist unwittingly uncovers a tangled web of
deception, corruption, and murder.
Child star, Collin Cox, is
washed up at sixteen. When his train-wreck of a
mother is brutally slain, he moves in with his
grandparents on the Kitsap Peninsula. Under a
different name, he starts at a new high school where
no one knows him. But one night, when two friends
hypnotize him, Collin begins to talk in a different
voice and he takes on a strange, new persona - that
of a serial killer who has been dead since 1962. As
people around him start dying, Collin turns for help
to Olivia Barker, a Seattle hypnotherapist,
recovering from a horrible tragedy and a collapsed
marriage. Is Collin responsible for these recent
deaths? Has someone from the past taken control of
him? Olivia and Collin delve deep into the unsolved
murders from fifty years before. But the truth may
be the last thing they ever know….
SUMMER
CAMP READING PARTY
Tuesday, June 11th
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm at
The Book Stall
Join us here at The
Book Stall for recommendations on excellent summer
reads for camp and for home, sign-up for our new
Camp Care Package Program, get great prizes and
receive cool free book give-aways! It's all free but
you must pre-register for the event. Educators and
parents welcome!
This event is
recommended for ages 9-12. Please call The Book
Stall to register: 847.446.8880.
JULIAN GUTHRIE (with
the America's Cup trophy)
Tuesday, June 11th
6:30 pm at
The Book Stall
Don’t miss this
opportunity to hear San Francisco Chronicle
journalist
Julian Guthrie
tell the story behind her new book,
The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison
and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's
Greatest Race, The America's Cup,
about the partnership and friendship between Larry
Ellison, cofounder and billionaire CEO of Oracle
Corporation, and a car radiator mechanic turned
yacht club commodore. She follows their runs for the
oldest trophy in international sports in 2003 and
2007 and their eventual victory in 2010. Her book
is timely: the 2013 America’s Cup races will take
place off San Francisco this summer.
Plus, you will
get to see first-hand, the actual America's Cup
trophy.
WENONAH HAUTER
Thursday, June 13th
6:30 pm at
The Book Stall
In
Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and
Farming in America,
Wenonah Hauter,
one of the nation’s leading healthy food advocates
takes aim at the consolidation and corporate control
of food production, which she believes prevents
farmers from raising healthy crops and limits the
choices that people have in the grocery store. She
is the executive director of Food & Water Watch, a
D.C.-based watchdog organization, and also owns a
working farm in Virginia.
SLEEPY
STORY TIME
Friday, June 14th
6:30 pm at
The Book Stall
Join us for our
"Don't Tell the Pigeon About This Party," a
celebration of Mo Willem's unforgettable
pigeon character. We'll read stories and sing Happy
Birthday to the pigeon - he turns 10 this year! PJ's
and stuffed animals guests encouraged.
MARK INGWER
Tuesday, June 18th
6:30 pm at
The Book Stall
In today's
competitive and global marketplace, it is becoming
increasingly essential for companies and brands to
understand why customers buy - or don't buy - their
products and services. Only by understanding the
"whys" can companies grow their business and develop
loyal customers. In Empathetic Marketing,
Dr. Mark Ingwer presents a groundbreaking
approach to understanding consumers' core emotional
needs. This innovative book provides both the
psychological theory underlying consumers' emotional
needs, as well as concrete business examples that
demonstrate the incredible effectiveness of
unleashing the power of deeper needs and emotions
for success in the marketplace.
GET UNBORED!
Wednesday, June 19th
3:00
- 4:00 pm at
The Book Stall
We are thrilled to invite you to our first ever
Unbored event! We will have craft
activities from Bloomsbury's new book Unbored
to keep summer blahs at bay.
Recommended for ages 7-9 and registration is
required. Please call The Book Stall: 847.446.8880.
DEAN JENSEN
Wednesday, June 19th
6:30 pm at
The Book Stall
A
true life Water for Elephants, Queen of the
Air brings the circus world to life through
the gorgeously written, true story of renowned
trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, "Queen
of the Air", the most famous woman in the world at
the turn of the 20th century, and her star-crossed
love affair with Alfredo Codona, of the famous
Flying Codona Brothers.
Like today's Beyonce, Madonna, and Cher, she was
known to her vast public by just one name, Leitzel.
There may have been some regions on earth where her
name was not a household expression, but if so, they
were likely on polar ice caps or in the darkest,
deepest jungles. Leitzel was born into Dickensian
circumstances, and became a princess and then a
queen. She was not much bigger than a good size
fairy, just four-foot-ten and less than 100 pounds.
In the first part of the 20th century, she presided
over a sawdust fiefdom of never-ending magic. She
was the biggest star ever of the biggest circus
ever, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus,
The Greatest Show on Earth. In her life, Leitzel had
many suitors (and three husbands), but only one man
ever fully captured her heart. He was the handsome
Alfredo Codona, the greatest trapeze flyer that had
ever lived, the only one in his time who, night
after night, executed the deadliest of all big-top
feats, The Triple--three somersaults in midair while
traveling at 60 m.p.h. The Triple, the salto mortale,
as the Italians called it, took the lives of more
daredevils than any other circus stunt.
SAHAR DELIJANI
Monday,
June 24th
6:30 pm at
The Book Stall
Neda is born
in Tehran’s
Evin Prison,
where her
mother is
allowed to
nurse her
for a few
months
before the
arms of a
guard appear
at the cell
door one day
and, simply,
take her
away. In
another part
of the city,
three-year-old
Omid
witnesses
the arrests
of his
political
activist
parents from
his perch at
their
kitchen
table,
yogurt
dripping
from his
fingertips.
More than
twenty years
after the
violent,
bloody purge
that took
place inside
Tehran’s
prisons,
Sheida
learns that
her father
was one of
those
executed,
that the
silent void
firmly
planted
between her
and her
mother all
these years
was not just
the sad loss
that comes
with death,
but the
anguish and
the horror
of murder.
These are
the
Children of
the
Jacaranda
Tree.
Set in
post-revolutionary
Iran from
1983 to
2011, this
stunning
debut novel
by Sahar
Delijani
follows a
group of
mothers,
fathers,
children and
lovers, some
related by
blood,
others
brought
together by
the tide of
history that
washes over
their lives.
Finally,
years later,
it is the
next
generation
that is left
with the
burden of
the past and
their
country’s
tenuous
future as a
new wave of
protest and
political
strife
begins.
Children of
the
Jacaranda
Treeis an
evocative
portrait of
three
generations
of men and
women
inspired by
love and
poetry,
burning with
idealism,
chasing
dreams of
justice and
freedom.
Written in
Sahar
Delijani’s
spellbinding
prose,
capturing
the intimate
side of
revolution
in a country
where the
weight of
history is
all around,
it is a
moving
tribute to
anyone who
has ever
answered its
call.
OPEN-HOUSE for ROBERTA (Store will be closing at
5:00)
Tuesday, June 25th
5:30 pm at
The Book Stall
Come one, come all to join us in a celebration of
Roberta's 31 years of owning The Book Stall.
Refreshments will be served and a glass or two will
be raised.
IF YOU LOVE JOHN GREEN...
Wednesday, June
26th
3:00 - 4:00 pm at
The Book Stall
We are hosting "If You Love John Green"
for our YA readers. You don't need to know anything
about John Green to come - you can learn everything
here at our event. We'll be showing videos from John
and his brother Hank, recommending books and giving
away some great prizes.
CARL HIAASEN
Wednesday,
June 26th
6:30 pm at
The Book Stall
In Carl
Hiaasen's
latest book,
Bad
Monkey,
Andrew Yancy
- late of
the Miami
Police and
soon-to-be-late
of the
Monroe
County
sheriff’s
office - has
a human arm
in his
freezer.
There’s a
logical (Hiaasenian)
explanation
for that,
but not for
how and why
it parted
from its
shadowy
owner. Yancy
thinks the
boating-accident/shark-luncheon
explanation
is full of
holes, and
if he can
prove
murder, the
sheriff
might rescue
him from his
grisly
Health
Inspector
gig (it’s
not called
the roach
patrol for
nothing).
But
first—this
being
Hiaasen
country -
Yancy must
negotiate an
obstacle
course of
wildly
unpredictable
events with
a crew of
even more
wildly
unpredictable
characters,
including
his just-ex
lover, a
hot-blooded
fugitive
from Kansas;
the twitchy
widow of the
frozen arm;
two
avariciously
optimistic
real-estate
speculators;
the Bahamian
voodoo witch
known as the
Dragon
Queen, whose
suitors are
blinded unto
death by her
peculiar
charms;
Yancy’s new
true love, a
kinky
coroner; and
the
eponymous
bad monkey,
who with
hilarious
aplomb earns
his place
among Carl
Hiaasen’s
greatest
characters.
Here is
Hiaasen
doing what
he does
better than
anyone else:
spinning a
tale at once
fiercely
pointed and
wickedly
funny in
which the
greedy, the
corrupt, and
the
degraders of
what’s left
of pristine
Florida—now,
of the
Bahamas as
well—get
their
comeuppance
in mordantly
ingenious,
diabolically
entertaining
fashion.
MARDI JO LINK
Thursday, June 27th
6:30 pm at
The Book Stall
Bootstrapper:
From Broke
to Badass on
a Northern
Michigan
Farm
is a
poignant,
irreverent
and
hilarious
memoir about
survival and
self-discovery
by Mardi
Jo Link,
an
indomitable
woman who
never loses
sight of
what matters
most.
It’s the
summer of
2005, and
Mardi Jo
Link’s
dream of
living the
simple life
has
unraveled
into debt,
heartbreak,
and
perpetually
ragged
cuticles.
She and her
husband of
nineteen
years have
just called
it quits,
leaving her
with serious
cash-flow
problems and
a looming
divorce.
More broke
than ever,
Link makes a
seemingly
impossible
resolution:
to hang on
to her
century-old
farmhouse in
northern
Michigan and
continue to
raise her
three boys
on well
water and
wood
chopping and
dirt. Armed
with an
unfailing
sense of
humor and
three
resolute
accomplices,
Link
confronts
blizzards
and foxes,
learns about
Zen divorce
and the best
way to
butcher a
hog,
dominates a
zucchini-growing
contest and
wins a
year’s
supply of
local bread,
masters the
art of
bargain
cooking,
wrangles
rampaging
poultry, and
withstands
any blow to
her pride in
order to
preserve the
life she
wants.
With an
infectious
optimism
that would
put Rebecca
of
Sunnybrook
Farm to
shame and a
deep
appreciation
of the
natural
world, Link
tells the
story of
how, over
the course
of one long
year, she
holds on to
her sons,
saves the
farm from
foreclosure,
and finds
her way back
to a life of
richness and
meaning on
the land she
loves.
SLEEPY STORY TIME with UTE KRAUSE
Friday, June
28th
6:30 pm at
The Book Stall
Kids ages 3 to 6 - come in your pj's (and with
your favorite stuffed animal) and listen to author
and storyteller extraordinaire, Ute Krause, read
from her picture books - Oscar and the Very Hungry
Dragon and Nick and the Nasty Knight.
KHALED HOSSEINI
Friday, June 28th
7:00 pm at
The Winnetka Community House, Matz Hall
Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times
bestselling author of The Kite Runnerand A Thousand Splendid Suns, has
written a new novel, And The Mountains Echoed,
about how we love, how we take care of one another
and how the choices we make resonate through
generations. In this tale revolving around not just
parents and children but brothers and sisters,
cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many
ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor
and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are
surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at
the times that matter most. Following its characters
and the ramifications of their lives and choices and
loves around the globe - from Kabul to Paris to San
Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos - the story
expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally
complex and powerful with each turning page.
Admission for this event is the purchase of a
copy of And The Mountains Echoed. Please call
(847.446.8880) or come into The Book Stall to get
your copy.
MARY-ALICE MONROE - Meet and Greet
Saturday,
June 29th
2:00 pm at
The Book Stall
Three
granddaughters.
Three
months. One
summer
house.
In this
enchanting
trilogy set
on
Sullivan’s
Island,
South
Carolina,
New York
Times
bestselling
author
Mary Alice
Monroe
captures the
complex
relationships
between
three half
sisters
scattered
across the
country -
and a
grandmother
determined
to help them
rediscover
their family
bonds.
The
Summer Girls
is set amid
ancient live
oaks and
palmettos,
overlooking
the water,
historic Sea
Breeze is
Marietta
Muir’s
ancestral
summer home.
Her
granddaughters
once adored
vacations
there, but
it’s been
years since
they’ve
visited.
Mamaw fears
once she is
gone, the
family bonds
will fray.
The Muir
family is
one of
Charleston’s
oldest and
the blood of
their pirate
captain
ancestor
runs strong,
so Marietta
drops a
subtle
promise of
loot - pearl
necklaces,
priceless
antique
furniture,
even the
house - to
lure her
“summer
girls” back
to the
lowcountry.
For
years,
Carson Muir
has drifted,
never really
settling,
certain only
that a life
without the
ocean is a
life half
lived.
Adrift and
penniless in
California,
Carson is
the first to
return to
Sea Breeze,
wondering
where things
went wrong .
. . until
the sea she
loves brings
her a minor
miracle. Her
astonishing
bond with a
dolphin
helps Carson
renew her
relationships
with her
sisters and
face the
haunting
memories of
her
ill-fated
father. As
the rhythms
of the
island open
her heart,
Carson
begins to
imagine the
next steps
toward her
future.
In this
heartwarming
novel, three
sisters
discover the
true
treasures
Sea Breeze
offers as
surprising
truths are
revealed,
mistakes
forgiven,
and precious
connections
made that
will endure
long beyond
one summer.
STORE WILL BE CLOSED FOR INVENTORY
Sunday,
June 30th
All Day at
The Book Stall
http://bookstall.indiebound.com/book/9780809331123To see more of our upcoming events, click
Monthly Events.
Photos From Recent Events*
Dale Kushner
Chef Art Smith
Isabel Allende with Roberta
Steven Harper
Chris Columbus with Robert, Betsy and Chris'
nephew...
Julia Sweeney
Elizabeth Strout with Roberta, Sarah and Liz
Ezekiel Emanuel with staffers Javier Ramirez
and Liz Rogatz
Al Roker
Jeremy Roenick
Jeff Kinney
This was the scene at 8:45 am
and with Robert...
Jane Seymour
Ming Tsai
Walter Jacobson & Roberta
*Photos by David Linsell
Michael Chabon
David Byrne
Tim Gunn
Amor Towles
Junot Diaz with
staffers Javier Ramirez and Sarah Collins
Teresa Giudice
The Sensational
E.L. James
from our event at
The Standard Club,
April 30th
Jules Feiffer and our own Robert McDonald
Olympic Gold Medalist and winner of Dancing with the Stars, Kristi Yamaguchi, graced our store and read from her new book, It's a Big World Little Pig. It was a special day!
