#1 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron is joined in conversation by Amanda Friedeman, the associate director of education from the Illinois Holocaust Museum for the launch of her latest novel, Up From the Ashes.
Book sale and signing to follow.
FREE event; RSVP on Eventbrite.
GET YOUR SPELL ON! We're popping up at Sketchbook Evanston for our inaugural themed adult spelling bee, called SPELLED! This month's theme is Horror and Halloween! So come out and show us how good you are at spelling spooky words!
Open to all (adults)! Twelve contestants, $10 entry, one winner, PRIZES, and spooky vibes galore!
Our dystopian book club is reading Ava Reid's FABLE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD! Get ready for some cli-fi, anti-corporate, Hunger Games-esque fighting for survival with some queer teens! We guaranteed you'll feel better about the current state of our world, because it could always be worse!! :)
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Join us every FRIDAY from 10:00-10:30am for Storytime with the Storytime Dads! Stories, songs, and a good time for 0- to 5-year-olds and their caregivers!
Join us for horse-themed crafts and a Q&A with local author Amy Alznauer, to celebrate the launch of her new books Where the Wild Horses Are. RSVP for this free event on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/where-the-wild-horses-are-book-launch-with-amy-alznauer-tickets-1998508686279
Nash Eliza West has been horseless her whole life, and she has one shot to turn things around.
Twelve-year-old Nash is a self-proclaimed cowboy. She sleeps with her riding boots on, takes lessons at the local barn, and reads True Grit for life advice. There's just one thing missing— a horse of her own.
Enter the Extreme Mustang Makeover contest, a chance to receive and tame a newly-captured mustang for the summer. Signing up will guarantee Nash one hundred days with a horse; and if she wins, she can use the prize money to bring him home for good. It’s the miracle Nash has been waiting for.
But Nash’s attention is divided when her cousin Benny arrives to stay for the summer. While Nash and Benny were once like sisters, the six years since Nash moved away have driven a wedge between them. Benny is everything Nash isn’t: gentle and well-behaved, and Deaf like Nash’s parents are. Sometimes she wonders if they’d rather have a daughter like that than a headstrong cowboy CODA like Nash.
A brave girl and a horse no one believes can be tamed: it’s a tale as old as time, brought to sizzling new life through Nash’s one-of-a-kind voice. Amy Alznauer weaves cowboy bravado, growing pains, and Deaf culture inspired by life in her Deaf-hearing family into a debut middle grade novel that will lasso you tight by the heart.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
Devin Elle Kurtz returns for the launch of the THIRD Bakery Dragon picture book! Join us at Art Maker's Outpost for some magical fun.
Author and illustrator Devin Elle Kurtz is coming back to Evanston for the launch of her third book in the Bakery Dragon series! What are the odds the Booked staff can pull of making a giant cookie? Join us at Art Makers Outpost on Saturday, October 17th from 1 to 2pm to find out.
The bestselling Bakery Dragon is back, braving a snowstorm to deliver cookies and cheer, just in time for Christmas! And a friend in need requires the greatest cookie of all, one that can warm even the coldest heart.
Booked Club is getting spooky with Evanston author Abby Geni! Join us to discuss her new spine-tingling novel: CHILDREN OF THE WOLF. Abby will be joining us for the discussion!
Join us to celebrate the launch of Elsa Sjunneson's Dear Blind Lady: Disability Advice You Didn't Know You Needed
Join us to celebrate the launch of Elsa Sjunneson's Dear Blind Lady: Disability Advice You Didn't Know You Needed. Sjunneson will be in conversation with *Why Fish Don't Exist* author, Lulu Miller.
An unfiltered disability advice book answering the awkward, honest, and often complicated questions disabled and nondisabled people encounter in everyday life.
In Dear Blind Lady, Deafblind author and disability rights activist Elsa Sjunneson delivers candid, funny, and practical guidance in an advice-column format. Written for disabled readers, allies, friends, family members, coworkers, and anyone who wants to build a more accessible and respectful world, this book tackles the questions nondisabled people may be afraid to ask—and disabled people are tired of answering.
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Join us every FRIDAY from 10:00-10:30am for Storytime with the Storytime Dads! Stories, songs, and a good time for 0- to 5-year-olds and their caregivers!
Our newest book club is reading Thornhedge, a novella from T. Kingfisher. Join us, nerds!
