The Skokie School

The Book Stall welcomes bestselling author Kathryn Stockett to The Skokie School Auditorium for a discussion featrung her new book, The Calamity Club. The multimillion-copy-selling author of The Help returns with a bold, big-hearted novel about a group of unbreakable women, fighting for what’s rightfully theirs—and the power of friendship to change everything.
The ticket price is $38 and includes a copy of the book. All books will be pre-signed, attendees will be invited to take photos with Ms. Stockett following the talk!
The Calamity Club will make you laugh, cry, and cheer—an epic testament to underestimated women who know that calamity can be the spark of new beginnings. This is Kathryn Stockett at her most confident, heartfelt, and hilarious—the triumphant return of one of the most beloved storytellers of our time.
Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She lives in New York City and Mississippi.

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The Book Stall welcomes bestselling author Kathryn Stockett to The Skokie School Auditorium for a discussion featrung her new...

The Calamity Club: An Evening with Kathryn Stockett

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The Book Stall is thrilled to host #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline for a discussion featuring her new book, The Foursome, a boldly original reimagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina — Kline’s own distant relatives — who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.
The ticket price is $32.70 and includes a copy of the book. Ms. Kline will be happy to sign her work!
Spanning five decades and unfolding against the backdrop of a fractured nation hurtling toward war, The Foursome is both intimate and epic: a story of love and constraint, identity and reinvention. With piercing insight and emotional precision, Kline brings to life a forgotten chapter of American history and the complex, boundary-defying marriages at its center.
Christina Baker Kline is the award-winning author of ten novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Orphan Train, The Exiles, and A Piece of the World. Her novels have received the New England Society Book Award for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, and several bookseller awards, among other prizes. Born in England, she was raised in the American South and Maine. She lives in New York City and in Southwest Harbor, Maine.

Local Event: The Foursome: An Evening with Christina Baker Kline at The Book Stall

The Foursome: An Evening with Christina Baker...

The Book Stall is thrilled to host #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline for a discussion featuring her...

The Foursome: An Evening with Christina Baker Kline at The Book Stall

Join The Book Stall for a special Saturday Storytime with Sally Lou Loveman featuring her new picture book, Livy Lou Lovely Loves to Speak! Follow along with Livy Lou Lovely as she discovers her voice when she accepts an invitation from her mother to attend a television show. Livy Lou is a shining example of all the good that can come from opening our world up by saying "yes" to new things. Livy Lou hopes her story will inspire young readers to discover their own story.
Former Oprah Show producer and life of the pre-show party, Sally Lou Loveman announces her first children’s picture book with Livy Lou Lovely Loves to Speak, based on her own story of finding her inner voice and the confidence to speak up at a young age.&nbsp; As the former audience producer for The Oprah Winfrey Show and the founder of lovespeaks, Sally Lou has entertained more than half a million people from The Oprah Show stage to her lovespeaks platform. Today Sally Lou coaches clients to speak without fear by connecting them to their power through exploring their story.

Local Event: Livy Lou Lovely Loves to Speak: Saturday Storytime with Sally Lou Loveman

Livy Lou Lovely Loves to Speak: Saturday...

Join The Book Stall for a special Saturday Storytime with Sally Lou Loveman featuring her new picture book, Livy Lou Lovely...

Livy Lou Lovely Loves to Speak: Saturday Storytime with Sally Lou Loveman

The Book Stall welcomes a poetry reading with Carrie Olivia Adams, Teresa&nbsp;Dzieglewicz, and Naoko Fujimoto, in honor of Ms. Fujimoto's release of her new book of Women: 20 Japanese Female Poets. Of Women is a collection of translations of Japanese waka-poems from the seventh century to the twelfth century, featuring twenty female poets from this period, when Japanese women’s literature flourished. This book includes poems by famous writers from the era, such as Sei Shonagon (The Pillow Book) and Murasaki Shikibu (The Tale of Genji), and introduces some lesser-known female poets as well.&nbsp;Carrie Olivia Adams will share poems from her newest book of poetry, The Book of Marys and Glaciers. Teresa Dzieglewicz will read from her book of poetry, Something Small of How to See a River.
Naoko Fujimoto was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan. She is a poet and translator. Her poetry collections are We Face The Tremendous Meat On The Teppan, winner of C&amp;R Press Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Award, Where I Was Born, winner of the Willow Books Editor's Choice, Glyph: Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory, and five chapbooks. She is a RHINO Poetry and Tupelo Quarterly translation editor. She is a Bread Loaf Translation full scholarship recipient and the 2023 Visiting Teaching Artist at the Poetry Foundation.&nbsp;
Carrie Olivia Adams lives in Chicago, where she is the executive editor for the nonprofit press Black Ocean and the promotions and marketing communications director for the University of Chicago Press. Her books include&nbsp;The Book of Marys and Glaciers,&nbsp;Be the thing of memory,&nbsp;Operating Theater,&nbsp;Forty-One Jane Doe’s, and&nbsp;Intervening Absence in addition to the chapbooks “Proficiency Badges,” “Grapple,” “Overture in the Key of F,” and “A Useless Window.” She writes the&nbsp;<a href="https://poetryandbiscuits.substack.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">“Poetry &amp; Biscuits” newsletter&nbsp;</a>on Substack and curates a house reading series by the same name. When she’s not making poems, she’s making biscuits.
Teresa Dzieglewicz is a Pushcart-winning poet, Black Earth Institute Fellow, a Poet-in-Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center, and part of the founding team of Mni Wichoni Nakicizin Wounspe (Defenders of the Water School). Her first book of poetry, Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for Tupelo Press’s Dorset Prize. Her first children's book, Belonging, (co-written with Kimimila Locke), is forthcoming from Chronicle Books. She has received prizes or fellowships from Best New Poets, the Gingko Prize, the Auburn Witness Prize, the Palette Poetry Prize and the Elizabeth George Foundation.

Local Event: Poetry Reading with Carrie Olivia Adams, Teresa Dzieglewicz, & Naoko Fujimoto at The Book Stall

Poetry Reading with Carrie Olivia Adams, Teresa...

The Book Stall welcomes a poetry reading with Carrie Olivia Adams, Teresa Dzieglewicz, and Naoko Fujimoto, in honor of Ms....

Poetry Reading with Carrie Olivia Adams, Teresa Dzieglewicz, & Naoko Fujimoto at The Book Stall

The Book Stall is so excited to host sports reporter and author Gene Wojciechowski for a discussion featuring his new book, All Carry. A recently laid-off golf reporter. A down-on-his-luck caddie. And a magical set of clubs once owned by Jack Nicklaus. In this wonderfully funny novel, New York Times bestselling author and former ESPN reporter Gene Wojciechowski gives us a pair of unlikely champions unlike any other.
Gene Wojciechowski has spent more than 40 years as a sports reporter, at the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News and Chicago Tribune, and later joining ESPN, where he served as a writer and on-air features reporter on the network's golf coverage, SportsCenter and College GameDay. He has covered almost every significant sporting event in the world, including nearly 75 golf majors, and done ESPN stories on and with the most consequential players in the game: Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Arnold Palmer, Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, and Gary Player. His work has earned him multiple Sports Emmys and Edward R. Murrow Awards, as well as recognition from the Golf Writers Association of America. He is a New York Times bestselling author who has written or co-written thirteen books, including The Last Great Game and Kirk Herbstreit's memoir, Out of the Pocket. He lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with his wife.

Local Event: An Evening with Gene Wojciechowski at The Book Stall

An Evening with Gene Wojciechowski at The Book...

The Book Stall is so excited to host sports reporter and author Gene Wojciechowski for a discussion featuring his new book, All...

An Evening with Gene Wojciechowski at The Book Stall

The Book Stall is excited to welcome Jacob Grant for a special Saturday Storytime featuring his new picture book, Turtle Slept In! Turtle is the last to hatch, and her siblings have all left for the sea. Now she must venture across a busy beach and into the waves to find them. But the sea is big. REAL BIG. This book is perfect for kids ages 3 to 7.&nbsp;
Jacob Grant is an author, illustrator, and dad who makes picture books. He is a winner of the prestigious 2024 Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustration Exhibition, and he’s also an okay kids' soccer coach. Jacob is originally from Cincinnati, and now lives with his wife and two little ones near Chicago. He can be found in his home studio, drawing and writing until something feels story-ish. Learn more at JacobGrantBooks.com.

Local Event: Saturday Storytime with Jacob Grant at The Book Stall

Saturday Storytime with Jacob Grant at The Book...

The Book Stall is excited to welcome Jacob Grant for a special Saturday Storytime featuring his new picture book, Turtle Slept...

Saturday Storytime with Jacob Grant at The Book Stall

The Book Stall is excited to welcome author Martha Conway to the store for a discussion featuring her new book, We Meet Apart. When World War II halts ocean travel in 1940, two American sisters find themselves stranded in Ireland-but in different realities. Christina Baker Kline calls it “a heart-pounding story of exile, sisterhood, and the resilience of the human spirit…Martha Conway brings the past to life in this story of two sisters, separated by war but determined to find each other. Haunting, suspenseful, and deeply affecting, We Meet Apart imagines a version of history in which the lines between safety and danger, belonging and exile, are constantly shifting.”
Martha Conway is the author of several novels including The Underground River, which was a New York Times Book Editor’s Choice. Her novel Thieving Forest won the North American Book Award for Best Historical Fiction. Martha’s short fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, The Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly, and other publications. She has reviewed fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Iowa Review, and is a recipient of a California Arts Council fellowship in Creative Writing. In addition to writing, Martha is an instructor of creative writing at Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program. She received her BA from Vassar College in History and English, and her MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Born and raised in Ohio, she now lives in San Francisco with her family and a lumpy, lovable dog.

Local Event: We Meet Apart: A Discussion with Martha Conway at The Book Stall

We Meet Apart: A Discussion with Martha Conway...

The Book Stall is excited to welcome author Martha Conway to the store for a discussion featuring her new book, We Meet Apart....

We Meet Apart: A Discussion with Martha Conway at The Book Stall

Join us at The Book Stall for a discussion with New Trier graduate, Kristin Massey featuring her book, The J.O.A.T.: Life Lessons from a Jill of All Trades. Learn more about the creative mind behind The J.O.A.T. and how she created a superpower to achieve her life's goals. In J.O.A.T., Kristin introduces her innovative concept of "skill-stitching," a transformative approach that blends diverse skills into a powerful tapestry of abilities. Each chapter of the book reveals a new challenge, a fresh perspective, and actionable insights.&nbsp;
Kristin Massey is a multifaceted creative with an impressive background as a recording artist in the group Red Siren and a voice-over artist. Her passion for culinary arts has blossomed into a successful career as a recipe developer, allowing her to create recipes for bestselling books and numerous health and fitness publications. Her vibrant personality and sharp wit have made her a beloved figure at the Comedy Store on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles, where she performs stand-up comedy.&nbsp;

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Join us at The Book Stall for a discussion with New Trier graduate, Kristin Massey featuring her book, The J.O.A.T.: Life...

 The J.O.A.T.: A Discussion with Kristin Massey at The Book Stall

Join The Book Stall for a celebration of Mother Earth with a Saturday Storytime featuring authors Margot Dallas and Jen Cullerton Johnson! Margot Dallas will be sharing her picture book, Home, celebrating Earth’s wonders through vibrant watercolor art. Revealing amazing creatures, large and small, it inspires appreciation for our magnificent planet. Jen Cullerton Johnson will be reading her book, Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace, a picture book biography of scientist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman--and first environmentalist--to win a Nobel Peace Prize (in 2004) for her work planting trees in her native Kenya.
Margot Dallas grew up in a suburb of Chicago and spent her summers in the rolling hills of Wisconsin. She filled her days immersed in nature, observing the cycles of plants, animals and their habitats. Margot’s passion for nature continued as she majored in biology in college and earned a Master of Science in Microbiology/Molecular Biology. After graduating college, she pursued a career as a research scientist. One of her most favorite and endearing memories is the time she spent reading books to her children. She enjoys creating pollinator gardens for beautiful creatures, and finding moments to ‘NESTLE in NATURE.’&nbsp;
Jen Cullerton Johnson, an accomplished writer, educator, and urban environmentalist, is on a mission to inspire the next generation of environmental advocates through the power of storytelling, literacy, and sustainability. With an MFA and MEd, Jen has taught in countries all over the world, including almost two decades of experience teaching in Chicago Public Schools.&nbsp;

Local Event: Saturday Storytime with Margot Dallas and Jen Cullerton Johnson

Saturday Storytime with Margot Dallas and Jen...

Join The Book Stall for a celebration of Mother Earth with a Saturday Storytime featuring authors Margot Dallas and Jen...

Saturday Storytime with Margot Dallas and Jen Cullerton Johnson

The Book Stall is thrilled to host bestselling author Melanie Benjamin to discuss her new book, The Windsor Affair. A scandalous affair. A power struggle for the throne. A sensational rivalry between an English queen and an American social climber. In this electrifying novel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue tells the story of the Abdication of Edward VIII—and the two women at the center of it all. Ms. Benjamin will be in-conversation with author Renée Rosen.
Melanie Benjamin is a prize-winning novelist and New York Times bestselling author of California Golden, The Children’s Blizzard, Mistress of the Ritz, The Girls in the Picture, The Swans of Fifth Avenue, The Aviator's Wife, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, and Alice I Have Been.
Our conversation partner Renée Rosen is a USA Today bestselling author. Her novels include Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl, The Social Graces, Park Avenue Summer, Windy City Blues, White Collar Girl, What the Lady Wants&nbsp;and&nbsp;Dollface&nbsp;as well as the young adult novel,&nbsp;Every Crooked Pot.

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The Book Stall is thrilled to host bestselling author Melanie Benjamin to discuss her new book, The Windsor Affair. A...

The Windsor Affair: A Discussion with Melanie Benjamin and Renée Rosen

The Book Stall welcomes Suzy McNamara to the store for a poignant discussion of her new memoir, The Silkworm, The Magician, and The Sister Tree: A Tale of Love and Loss, in-conversation with Katie Seigenthaler. This memoir of caregiving, love, and finding your way through devastating loss is a story of survival of the loss of a husband and sister. This is also a love story between two kindred spirits who found each other despite vastly different backgrounds and two sisters who forged a bond amongst the chaos of their childhood and relied on that bond throughout lives steeped in tragedy and trauma.
Suzy McNamara spent five years as a caregiver for her husband, who lived with Early-onset Alzheimer’s. When she lost him and her sister within the same year, she turned to writing as the only language honest enough for what she’d survived. She writes for those navigating loss and the often-invisible weight of caring for someone they love with the steady conviction that grief, however isolating, does not have to be the end of the story.
Katie Seigenthaler is the co-editor of The Kingdom of the Poor: My Journey Home, the best-selling posthumous memoir of homeless activist Charles Strobel; and the co-author with Dr. Alex Jahangir of Hot Spot: A Doctor's Diary from the Pandemic, which chronicles his harrowing tenure as head of Nashville's COVID Task Force. Both were published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2024 and 2022, respectively. Katie is a former reporter, editor and columnist with The Chicago Tribune.&nbsp;

Local Event: The Silkworm, The Magician, and The Sister Tree: A Discussion with Suzy McNamara and Katie Seigentha

The Silkworm, The Magician, and The Sister...

The Book Stall welcomes Suzy McNamara to the store for a poignant discussion of her new memoir, The Silkworm, The Magician, and...

The Silkworm, The Magician, and The Sister Tree: A Discussion with Suzy McNamara and Katie Seigentha

The Book Stall is thrilled welcome food writer and author Leah Eskin to the store for a discussion featuring her debut historical novel, Like Wafers in Honey. Based on the experiences of a real Italian-Jewish cook named Edda Servi Machlin, the novel tells two stories: that of Stella, a Jewish girl from the Tuscan town of Pitigliano, who spends the winter of 1943 fleeing Fascist and Nazi brutality, and that of Edda, a Westchester housewife trying to save a lost treasure — Italian Jewish cuisine. Each chapter includes a recipe updated for modern kitchens. &nbsp;Ms. Eskin will be in-conversation with editor Arthur Levine.&nbsp;
Leah Eskin writes about food and other pressing matters. For almost thirty years, her award-winning column “Home on the Range” ran in the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers. She is the author of the memoir Slices of Life: A Food Writer Cooks Through Many a Conundrum. Bestselling cookbook author Meathead Goldwyn dubs Eskin “the poet laureate of recipes.” Baking diva Dorie Greenspan calls her work “smart, honest, literate, and funny—very funny.” Eskin writes the dessert column for Midwest Living magazine and is the owner of Crumble Handmade Pastry. She lives in Chicago with her husband and their chocolate Lab, Milo. You can reach her at leaheskin.com.
Arthur A. Levine founded Levine Querido in April 2019, after a 23-year tenure as the President and Publisher of Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic. His determination to bring a diverse selection of "The Best of the World's Literature for Young People" to American readers is his guiding principle. This mission resulted in the introduction to North American audiences of the work of great writers such as Daniel Nayeri, Shaun Tan, Sacha Lamb, and Jaclyn Moriarty, among others. Arthur sees this search for great writers from around the world as a continuum with Levine Querido's search for diverse, powerful, unique voices and visions from the multitude of cultures closer to home. In addition to overseeing the company, Arthur edits between eight and ten books annually.

Local Event: Like Wafers in Honey: A Discussion with Leah Eskin

Like Wafers in Honey: A Discussion with Leah Eskin

The Book Stall is thrilled welcome food writer and author Leah Eskin to the store for a discussion featuring her debut...

Join us at The Book Stall for a Saturday Storytime featuring award-winning author Miranda Paul and her new book, Kaleidoscope of Hope: How Butterfly Life Cycles Reflect Our World. In a richly layered text, acclaimed author Miranda Paul explores each stage of a butterfly’s life cycle, while providing lessons in care and responsibility and encouraging hope for the future of our planet. Ms. Paul will lead an interactive event for children to examine butterfly wings up-close and provide materials from the “puddling activity” found in the backmatter of the book so kids can help butterflies in their own backyard. This nonfiction picture book is perfect for kids ages 4 to 8.&nbsp;
Miranda Paul is an award-winning children’s author of more than twenty books for children. Several of her books have been named Junior Library Guild selections and CCBC Choices selections. Her acclaimed work includes One Plastic Bag, Water Is Water, Whose Hands Are These?; Nine Months, illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Jason Chin; Little Libraries, Big Heroes; Thanku: Poems of Gratitude; and Speak Up. Some of her most notable titles with international acclaim have stemmed from collaborating with activist icons—Isatou Ceesay, Farmer Tantoh Nforba, and Rashida Tlaib. She is an annual faculty member at the Highlights Foundation and a co-founding member of the nonprofit organization We Need Diverse Books. She currently serves on the board of Americans Serving African Children (ASAC). Learn more at <a href="https://www.mirandapaul.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">mirandapaul.com</a>.

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Join us at The Book Stall for a Saturday Storytime featuring award-winning author Miranda Paul and her new book, Kaleidoscope...

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The Calamity Club: An Evening with Kathryn Stockett

MAY

19

7:00 PM

The Skokie School, 520 Glendale Ave, Winnetka, IL

The Foursome: An Evening with Christina Baker Kline at The Book Stall

MAY

21

6:30 PM

The Book Stall, 811 Elm St, Winnetka, IL

Livy Lou Lovely Loves to Speak: Saturday Storytime with Sally Lou Loveman

MAY

30

10:30 AM

The Book Stall, 811 Elm St, Winnetka, IL

Poetry Reading with Carrie Olivia Adams, Teresa Dzieglewicz, & Naoko Fujimoto at The Book Stall

JUN

2

6:00 PM

The Book Stall, 811 Elm St, Winnetka, IL

An Evening with Gene Wojciechowski at The Book Stall

JUN

4

6:00 PM

The Book Stall, 811 Elm St, Winnetka, IL

Saturday Storytime with Jacob Grant at The Book Stall

JUN

6

10:30 AM

The Book Stall, 811 Elm St, Winnetka, IL

We Meet Apart: A Discussion with Martha Conway at The Book Stall

JUN

9

6:00 PM

The Book Stall, 811 Elm St, Winnetka, IL

The J.O.A.T.: A Discussion with Kristin Massey at The Book Stall

JUN

10

6:00 PM

The Book Stall, 811 Elm St, Winnetka, IL

Saturday Storytime with Margot Dallas and Jen Cullerton Johnson

JUN

13

10:30 AM

The Book Stall, 811 Elm St, Winnetka, IL

The Windsor Affair: A Discussion with Melanie Benjamin and Renée Rosen

JUN

16

6:00 PM

The Book Stall, 811 Elm St, Winnetka, IL

The Silkworm, The Magician, and The Sister Tree: A Discussion with Suzy McNamara and Katie Seigentha

JUN

23

6:00 PM

The Book Stall, 811 Elm St, Winnetka, IL

Like Wafers in Honey: A Discussion with Leah Eskin

JUN

25

6:00 PM

The Book Stall, 811 Elm St, Winnetka, IL

Kaleidoscope of Hope: Saturday Storytime with Miranda Paul

JUN

27

10:30 AM

The Book Stall, 811 Elm St, Winnetka, IL