April 26, 2016 6:30 pm
Chris
Guillebeau will be giving a workshop and signing copies of his book, Born
for This.
Chris
Guillebeau is an entrepreneur, traveler, and New York Times bestselling author.
During a lifetime of self-employment that included a four-year commitment as a
volunteer executive in West Africa, he visited every country in the world (193
in total) before his 35th birthday. For most of his adult life he has modeled
the proven definition of an entrepreneur: "Someone who will work 24 hours
a day for themselves to avoid working one hour a day for someone else."
Chris's first book, The Art of Non-Conformity, was translated into more than twenty languages. His second book, The $100 Startup, was an instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller with hundreds of thousands of copies sold worldwide. His latest book, Born for This, helps readers find the work they were meant to do.
Chris's first book, The Art of Non-Conformity, was translated into more than twenty languages. His second book, The $100 Startup, was an instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller with hundreds of thousands of copies sold worldwide. His latest book, Born for This, helps readers find the work they were meant to do.
Every summer in Portland, Oregon, Chris
hosts the World Domination Summit, a gathering of creative, remarkable people.
Connect with him on Twitter (@chrisguillebeau), write to him from his website
(ChrisGuillebeau.com), or say hi at your choice of international airline
lounge.
This workshop and signing are
free, but please register here: http://bornforthisbook.com/tour#chicago-il-04-16
April 30, 2016 - ALL DAY
April 30th is
Independent Book Store Day! We hope you
will come out and support us and other local shops that are keeping the word
alive. We will have new after-words bags
filled with treats and goodies and our new store t-shirts. We will be giving them out intermittently
throughout the day.
We also have two local
authors of books for young readers that are helping us out by coming by to meet
you and sign copies of their books. If
you are first in line to see Marianne Malone or James Kennedy, win an
after-words t-shirt and bag along with one free paperback copy of their book!
Noon-1pm – Marianne Malone,
author of the 68 Rooms series for young readers
Marianne
Malone is the mother of three grown children, a former art teacher, co-founder
of the Campus School Middle School for Girls in Urbana, Illinois and a popular
speaker in schools. Marianne says, “”Writing is a kind of conjuring. I write
because I believe in the magic of art to transport . . . to give a glimpse of another’s
world.”
The Sixty-Eight
Rooms series takes place in the Thorne Rooms of the Art Institute. Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago
knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed deep within the Art Institute of Chicago,
they are a collection of sixty-eight exquisite – almost eerily realistic
miniature rooms. Imagine… what if, on a field trip, you discovered a key that
allowed you to shrink so that you were small enough to sneak inside and explore
the rooms’ secrets? What if you discovered that others had done so before you?
And that someone had left something important behind? The Sixty-Eight Rooms is the story of an
adventure Ruthie Stewart and Jack Tucker have together. For a link to see photographs of the Thorne
Rooms, go to www.artic.edu/aic/collections/thorne
5pm-6pm James Kennedy author
of The
Order of Odd Fish for young readers
James Kennedy is the
author of the young-adult fantasy novel The Order of Odd-Fish and
the organizer of the 90-Second Newbery Film
Festival, an annual video contest in which
young filmmakers create weird movies that tell the
stories of Newbery-winning books in about 90 seconds,
screening annually in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other
cities. James lives in Chicago with his wife and two daughters. He is
at work on a new novel and a collection of short stories. Visit him
at http://www.jameskennedy.com and learn more about
the 90-Second Newbery at http://www.90secondnewbery.com.
At the start of The
Order of Odd Fish we meet Jo Larouche. She has lived her 13 years in
the California desert with her Aunt Lily, ever since she was dropped on Lily’s
doorstep with this note: This is Jo. Please take care of her. But beware.
This is a dangerous baby. At Lily’s annual Christmas costume party,
a variety of strange events take place that lead Jo and Lily out of California
forever—and into the mysterious, strange, fantastical world of Eldritch City.
There, Jo learns the scandalous truth about who she is, and she and Lily join
the Order of Odd-Fish, a collection of knights who research useless
information. Glamorous cockroach butlers, pointless quests, obsolete weapons,
and bizarre festivals fill their days, but two villains are controlling their
fate. Jo is inching closer and closer to the day when her destiny is fulfilled,
and no one in Eldritch City will ever be the same.
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