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Authors! Authors! Authors! Coming to a library near YOU

By
Rebekah
– October 4, 2011Posted in: Uncategorized

The Warren Newport Public Library has quite a few authors coming in the next couple of months. The following authors will be appearing at other local libraries.

Tuesday, October 11
Chris Bohjalian author of The Night Strangers
(Crown  $25.00, due October 4)
Waukegan Public Library at 6:00 p.m.
Call 847-623-2041 to reserve

Thursday, October 13
Young Adult Authors
Waukegan Public Library at 3:00 p.m.
Call (847) 623-2041 to reserve
Becca Fitzpatrick, author of Silence
(Simon and Schuster  $18.99, due October 4) and
 Moira Young, author of Blood Red Road
(McElderry  $17.99)

Saturday, October 15
Kate Gerlach
Cook Book Blogger Fremont library
1:00 PM

Monday, October 17
Russell Banks author of The Lost Memory of Skin (Ecco  $25.99, due September 27)
Vernon Area Public Library 11:30 (lunch included)
Call 847-566-8702 to reserve
Warren Newport District Library at 7:00 p.m.
Call 847-244-5150 to reserve

Tuesday, October 18
Author Ellen Baker
Keeping House
Lake Forest Bookstore Book Club
7:00 PM

Thursday, October 20th
Author Donia Bojan
Location: Lake Villa Library
1:00 PM                                       Â
1001 E Grand Ave
Lake Villa, Illinois 60046
(847) 356-7711
Refreshments servedby  Lake Villa Library
7:00 PM – Ela Library
http://www.eapl.org/

Monday, October 24
Book Club Event at the Arboretum Club
(401 Half Day Road, Buffalo Grove, IL 60089)
12:30 p.m. (lunch included, goody bag giveaway)
Sponsored by Vernon Area Public Library
Call 847-566-8702 to reserve
Panel includes Ellen Hopkins, author of Triangles
(Atria  $26.00, due October 18)
Amy Hatvany, author of Best Kept Secret
(Washington Square  $15.00)
Sarah Pekkanen, author of Skipping a Beat
(Washington Square  $15.00)

Monday, October 24
Ellen Hopkins, author of Perfect
(McElderry  $18.99, due September 13)
Stevenson High School at 7:00 p.m.
Call 847-566-8702 to reserve (Vernon Area Library District)

Thursday, October 27
Southgate Bookclub
Author Mona Simpson
My Hollywood
6:30 PM

Thursday, October 27
Young Adult Authors
Lake Villa District Library at 7:00 p.m.
Call 847-356-7711 to reserve
Ilsa Bick, author of Ashes
(Egmont  $17.99, due September 6)
Simone Elkeles, author of Chain Reaction
(Walker  $17.99)

Tuesday, November 1
Gilad Sharon, author of Sharon, the Life of a Leader (Harper  $29.00, due October 25)
Highland Park Public Library at 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, November 3
Caroline Preston author of The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt (Ecco  $25.99, due October 25)
Ragdale event at South Gate Cafe at 4:00 p.m. for tea
$30, advance registration required
Call Ragdale 847-234-1063 x201 to reserve

Saturday, November 5
Mystery Writers Panel
Waukegan Public Library at 1:00 p.m.
Call (847) 623-2041 to reserve
Tasha Alexander, author of A Crimson Warning (Minotaur  $24.99, due October 25)
Shane Gericke, author of Torn Apart (Pinnacle  $6.99)
Andrew Grant, author of Die Twice (Minotaur  $9.99)
Luisa Buheler, author of  Grace Marsden Mystery Series

Tuesday, November  8
John Flanagan author of Outcasts:
A Brotherband Chronicle (Philomel  $18.99,
due November 1)
Lake Bluff Middle School 11:00 a.m. (student event)
Warren Newport District Library at 4:00 p.m.
Call 847-244-5150 to reserve
Vernon Area District Library at 7:00 p.m.
Call 847-566-8702 to reserve

Wednesday, November 9
Laura Kipnis
How to become a Scandle
Highland Park Libary
7:00 PM

Saturday, November 12
Mystery Writers Panel
Vernon Area Public Library at 1:00 p.m.
Call 847-566-8702 to reserve
Raymond Benson, author of The Black Stiletto
(Oceanview $25.95, due September 5)
Michael Harvey, author of We All Fall Down
(Knopf  $24.95)
Jeffrey Small, author of The Breath of God
(West Hills  $15.95)

Wednesday, November 16
Maria Duenas
author of:The Time in Between
Lake Villa for a 1:00 PM program on

Saturday, November 19
Warren Newport District Library
Call 847-244-5150 to reserve
Mystery Writers
Sara Paretsky, author of Bodywork (Signet  $9.99)
Libby Hellmann, author of Set the Night on Fire
(Allium  $16.99)




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Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry

By
Rebekah
– September 6, 2011Posted in: Uncategorized

I love a good historical mystery and Anne Perry writes two of the best series around. I am partial to her William Monk/Hester Latterly series. The first, The Face of a Stranger, introduces William Monk, a driven but brilliant police inspector who has been involved in a serious accident and has lost most of his memories. Hester Latterly has just returned from nursing in the Crimean War and is trying to pick up the pieces of her life. Through the next 16 novels their relationship deepens and they team up personally and professionally. In Acceptable Loss, the body of a small-time crook named Mickey Parfitt washes up on the tide, no one grieves; far from it. But William Monk, commander of the River Police, is puzzled by the expensive silk cravat used to strangle Parfitt. Dockside informers lead Monk to what may be a partial answer—a floating palace of corruption on the Thames managed by Parfitt, where a captive band of half-starved boys are imprisoned. Though the investigation seems solved, questions about a past murder and blackmail surface to confuse the detectives. An amazing story about corruption, power and the ones who strive to make it safe. A great addition!

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Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva

By
Rebekah
– September 2, 2011Posted in: Uncategorized

Gabriel Allon’s hair may be grayer and he is certainly looking for a kinder and gentler life, but when he is called upon to fight against terrorism, he is fully involved. Portrait of a Spy is the eleventh in the series.

For Gabriel and his wife, Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a pleasant weekend in London—a visit to a gallery in St. James’s to authenticate a newly discovered painting by Titian, followed by a quiet lunch. But a pair of deadly bombings in Paris and Copenhagen has already marred this autumn day. And while walking toward Covent Garden, Gabriel notices a man he believes is about to carry out a third attack. Before Gabriel can draw his weapon, he is knocked to the pavement and can only watch as the nightmare unfolds.

Gabriel and his team devise a daring plan to destroy the network of death from the inside, a gambit fraught with risk, both personal and professional. To succeed, Gabriel must reach into his violent past. A woman waits there—a reclusive heiress and art collector who can traverse the murky divide between Islam and the West. She is the daughter of an old enemy, a woman joined to Gabriel by a trail of blood. This is Daniel Silva at his best. He allows us to see into the very human heart of Allon and how he fights against evil and the killing of innocence.

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Author of the Week–Tom Robbins

By
Rebekah
– September 1, 2011Posted in: Uncategorized

Thomas Eugene Robbins was born July 22, 1936. An American best-selling author of semi-comic, but often poetic stories that have strong social and philosophical undercurrents. His best known novel, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, was made into a movie starring Uma Thurman.

Born in North Carolina, his family moved to Virginia where Tom graduated from Hargrove Military Academy where he won the Senior Essay Medal. He enlisted in the Air Force and spent time in Korea. He eventually graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University and ended up in Seattle working on a Master’s degree at the University of Washington. He continues to live in Washington.

Robbins continues to craft his quirky and ultimately optimistic novels of the search for the meaning of life, convinced that our culture remains as materialistic, conformist, and confused as ever. He once wrote, “social action on the political/economic level is wee potatoes. Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul and light up the brain.” He has written 9 books and 1 anthology.

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Lethal by Sandra Brown

By
Rebekah
– August 27, 2011Posted in: Uncategorized

Sandra Brown has been publishing for a long time. Starting out as a romance writer she has added suspense into her writing. Her latest, Lethal, showcases her talent for using both genres. When her four-year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But that “sick” man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won’t be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word. Honor realizes that those closest to her can’t be trusted and she works with Coburn to untangle a web of corruption that may have killed her husband. Fast paced this will be a sure winner of Brown fans and suspense/romance genre. This novel is due for release on September 20, 2011

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Diana Gabaldon–Author of the Week

By
Rebekah
– August 25, 2011Posted in: Uncategorized

Diana Gabaldon was born in Arizona on January 11, 1952 and is the best-selling author of the Outlander series. She has a B.S. in Zoology from Northern Arizona University; M. S. in Marine Biology from University of California and a Ph.d. in Ecology from Northern Arizona University. As a full-time assistant professor in the Center for Environmental Studies at Arizona State University in the 1980s, Gabaldon did research, was a scientific computing and database expert, and taught university classes for college credit in anatomy and other subjects. An expert in scientific computing, she was the founding editor of Science Software Quarterly, a journal for scientists that chronicled the rapid advances in hardware and software during the decade when processing power began to migrate from the mainframe to the desktop. She began writing in 1988 as an exercise to see if she could. Her main character is from an old Dr. Who series.

Her novels are difficult to classify as they have something for everyone in them—romance (Jamie and Claire), time-travel, adventure (loads!) and mystery. She has been translated into 19 languages, in 23 countries and has sold 17 million copies. They are meticulously researched which is one of the things I like about them. I learn so much about various periods of history–but this research also takes a lot of time so there are frequently long periods between books. It is best to read her stories in order as she is continually building on past characters and historical events.
1. Outlander
2. Dragonfly in Amber
3. Voyager
4. Drums of Autumn
5. Fiery Cross
6. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
7. An Echo in the Bone
8. Due out 2012

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The Conspirator Review

By
Rebekah
– August 24, 2011Posted in: Uncategorized

I enjoy historial fiction.  I also enjoy movies that bring lesser known people or situations to light.  The Conspirator is one of these movies.  It tells the familiar story of the assassination of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth.  But what is not widely known is help that Booth received to pull this assassination off.  He had help from a few men and one woman, Mary Surratt, who is the focus of this movie. Much of the movie is courtroom drama.  Directed by Robert Redford, the movie is about 2 hours long.  It was very well done. 

 

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“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” -Julia Child

By
Rebekah
– August 17, 2011Posted in: Uncategorized

During this week that would have been Julia Child’s 99th birthday, we celebrate her memory with a few of her best known cookbooks.  Check them out today!

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Split Second by Catherine Coulter

By
Rebekah
– August 16, 2011Posted in: Uncategorized

Well, the gang’s back in another nail-biting thriller by bestselling author Catherine Coulter. In her latest, Split Second, a serial killer is on the loose, and it’s up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to bring him down. They soon discover that the killer is a she not a he, and  has blood ties to the infamous and now long-dead monster Ted Bundy. Savich and Sherlock are joined by agents Lucy Carlyle and Cooper McKnight, and the chase is on. This strange twist is pretty creepy as is the fact that the killer manages to elude the FBI for so long and continue her killing spree. A side plot features Lucy as she learns from her dying father that her grandfather didn’t simply walk away from his family twenty-two years ago: he was, in fact, murdered by his wife, Lucy’s grandmother. Determined to find the truth, Lucy moves into her grandmother’s Chevy Chase mansion. What she finds, however, is a nightmare. Not only does she discover the truth of what happened all those years ago, but she faces a new mystery as well, a strange ring that holds powers. While all of these parts don’t exactly jibe together, it is still a thrilling tale.

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Author of the Week: Alexander Kent

By
Rebekah
– August 15, 2011Posted in: Uncategorized

Alexander Kent (Douglas Edward Reeman) was born October 15, 1924 at Thames Ditton. At the age of 16 he joined the Royal Navy and served during World War II and the Korean War. Besides being an author of historical fiction set on the high seas, Reeman has taught navigation and has served as an advisor on many movies. His first novel A Prayer for the Ship was published in 1958. He is best known for his Napoleonic naval series featuring Richard Bolitho, and then later his nephew Adam.

 Author Readalikes: C. S. Forester, James Nelson, Dewey Lambdin, Patrick O’Brian

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