DECEMBER 2016 STAFF READING SUGGESTIONS

A UNIQUE HOLIDAY GIFT IDEA
Gift your favorite person one of our 
Signature  Author Luncheons 
 Emily Fridlund,  debut author
HISTORY OF WOLVES
(Just Released)

Wednesday, January 18th
11:30 am to 1:30 pm

at Froggy's French Cafe,
306 Green Bay Road, Highwood, IL

$55 includes lunch and book

Call to reserve this special gift
Credit cards accepted
847-234-4420

An exciting debut novel, History of Wolves was a winner of the McGinnis-Ritchie  award for its first chapter, a BookExpo America (BEA) Buzz Forum book selection  and an American Booksellers Association (ABA) Indies Introduce selection for Winter/Spring  2017.

STAFF READING SUGGESTIONS
RAY AND JOAN: THE MAN WHO MADE THE MCDONALD'S FORTUNE AND THE WOMAN WHO GAVE IT ALL AWAY
By Lisa Napoli

A dual biography about the complicated Ray Kroc and his wife Joan, affectionately named "St. Joan of the Arches". This is a fascinating look at this iconic corporation that has changed the world in many ways and Joan's far-reaching generosity. My husband couldn't put this one down!
-Diana Grumhaus
BORN A CRIME
by Trevor Noah

I read Born a Crime by Trevor Noah and loved it. It would appeal to anyone who liked The Tender Bar (and who didn't?). Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by 5 years in prison, Trevor recounts stories of his childhood that are funny and dramatic at the same time. Coming of age during the end of apartheid, Trevor Noah gives the reader a deeper look into the complexities of race, gender and class. Highly recommended. He's very funny!
-Kathy Petray
THE PRINCESS DIARIST
by Carrie Fisher

The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher's third memoir. Full disclosure- I never intended to read her book, but curiosity got the best of me. She's very funny and a good writer. Did you know she was in the movie, Shampoo with Warren Beatty? Better than a People Magazine!
-Molly Furlow
THE RED BANDANNA
by Tom Rinaldi

I've been putting this book into the hands of everyone that comes into the store. The moving story of Welles Crowther who was in the World Trade Center on September 11th. This book is about many things but to me it speaks about believing in yourself, trusting the voice in your head and being open to change. It will make you think and cry and it's a great gift for ANYONE on your list this year!
-Diane Grumhaus
MOONGLOW 
by Michael Chabon

This biographical novel of Chabon's grandparents is a fantastic read. It is the portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator's grandfather and grandmother, a woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. I loved it.
-Kathy Petray
CHRISTMAS MEMORIES
by M. H. Clark and Jill Labieniec 

Savor the season, relive a favorite tradition, or capture a moment you want to hold forever. This guest book is a place to gather all that this brilliant season means to you. Leave it on a coffee table throughout the season and invite your guests to add a festive message. Or take a quiet moment once Christmas is over to write a personal reflection or memory.
-Staff
THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING: A NOVEL
by Fannie Flagg

From the beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe comes another unforgettable, laugh-out-loud, and moving novel about what it means to be truly alive.
-Staff
AND EVERY MORNING THE WAY HOME GETS LONGER AND LONGER: A NOVELLA
by Fredrik Backman

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here comes an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man's struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family's efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go.
-Staff
VICTORIA 
by Daisy Goodwin

Drawing on Victoria's diaries as well as her own brilliant gifts for history and drama, Daisy Goodwin, author of the bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter as well as creator and writer of the new PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria, brings the young queen even more richly to life in this magnificent novel.
-Staff
A LIFE WELL PLAYED: MY STORIES
by Arnold Palmer

This book is Palmer's parting gift to the world -- a treasure trove of entertaining anecdotes and timeless wisdom that readers, golfers and non-golfers alike, will celebrate and cherish. No one has won more fans around the world and no player has had a bigger impact on the sport of golf than Arnold Palmer.
-Staff
THE UNDOING PROJECT: A FRIENDSHIP THAT CHANGED OUR MINDS
by Michael Lewis

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. This story about the workings of the human mind is explored through the personalities of these two fascinating individuals so fundamentally different from each other that they seemed unlikely friends or colleagues. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind's view of its own mind.
-Staff
THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE: AN OPTIMIST"S GUIDE TO THRIVING IN THE AGE OF ACCELLERATIONS
by Thomas L. Friedman

The New York Times says, "...he has written his most ambitious book - part personal odyssey, part common-sense manifesto." Thank You for Being Late has two overt aims. First, Friedman wants to explain why the world is the way it is - why so many things seem to be spinning out of control, especially for the Minnesota white middle class he grew up in. And then he wants to reassure us that it is basically going to be O.K. 
-Staff
ALL THE GALLANT MEN: AN AMERICAN SAILOR'S FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF PEARL HARBOR
by Donald Stratton and Ken Gire

The first memoir by a USS Arizona survivor: Donald Stratton, one of the battleship's five living heroes, delivers an epic, powerful, and intimate eyewitness account of Pearl Harbor and his unforgettable return to the fight. A top-ten New York Times bestseller!
-Staff
SIMPLE: THE EASIEST COOKBOOK IN THE WORLD
by Jean-Francois Mallet

This is really the easiest cookbook in the world. Every recipe has less than four steps and fewer than six ingredients, illustrated with more than 1,000 user-friendly photographs. No wonder it is an overnight international bestseller!
-Staff
 AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
POGUE'S BASICS: MONEY: ESSENTIAL TIPS AND SHORTCUTS (THAT NO ONE BOTHERS TO TELL YOU) ABOUT BEATING THE SYSTEM 
by David Pogue
STONED: JEWELRY, OBSESSION, AND HOW DESIRE SHAPES THE WORLD
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