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Naperville Store
123 W. Jefferson Ave.
Naperville, Illinois 60540
630-355-2665
5112 Main St.
Downers Grove, Illinois 60515
630-963-2665
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Dear Booklovers,
Warm up your winter with us. Anderson's has a February full of opportunities to "unlock your mind" and learn. Thanks to Naperville READS `08, two amazing authors, Brian Selznick and Daniel Pink visited our town.
Daniel Pink
 Author Daniel Pink is convinced we are
ALSO: Demonstrate your creative side by reading or sketching in our Naperville storefront windows prior to Mr. Pink's visit. Half-hour stints are available between February 18-26. Please ask how to sign up.
We have a full calendar ahead so check our website at andersonsbookshop.com for the latest on upcoming events.
See you at the store,
The Staff at Anderson's
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Jodi Picoult
Reading
and Booksigning
Tuesday, March 11 at 7:00 p.m. at Downers Grove's historic Tivoli Theatre, 5021 Highland Ave.
Meet acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult - one of our favorites - who visits with Change of Heart, her spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and one man's last chance at gaining redemption and salvation. It's a mesmerizing story woven with Ms. Picoult's exploration of justice and love.
Join us by purchasing your $35 required ticket, which includes admission to the event, one copy of Change of Heart, entertainment and the booksigning.
Tickets are available at either Anderson's location.
Call or stop by to purchase a ticket and reserve your book. Change of Heart comes out March 4.
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The Opposite of  Love Julie Buxbaum
When successful twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can't explain to even her closest friends why she did it. Somewhere beneath her sense of fun, her bravado, and her independent exterior, Emily knows that her breakup with Andrew has less to do with him and more to do with...her. "You're your own worst enemy," her best friend Jess tells her. "It's like you get pleasure out of breaking your own heart." How this brave, original young heroine finally decides to take control of her life and face the fears that have long haunted her is the great achievement of Julie Buxbaum's marvelous first novel.
Member's Price: $20.25 (with coupon)
List Price: $25, The Dial Press |
Every Last Cuckoo Kate Maloy 
At age seventy-five, Sarah thought that her life was settled and assured: she and Charles would live out their days in the quiet comfort of their rural Vermont home. But now, with Charles gone, Sarah is unable to find peace. That is, until her home unforeseeably becomes an unruly refuge for wayward souls. In the tradition of Jane Smiley and Sue Miller, author Kate Maloy has crafted a wise and gratifying novel about a woman who finds the most rewarding role of her life just when she thought the best years were over.
Member's Price: $18.59 (with coupon)
List Price: $22.95, Algonquin |
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Lauren Groff
"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story, this spellbinding novel is at its core a tale of how one town holds the secrets of a family. In the wake of a wildly disastrous affair with her married archaeology professor, Willie Upton arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York, where her hippie-turned-born-again-Baptist mom, Vi, still lives. Through letters, editorials, and journal entries, the dead rise up to tell their sides of the story as dark mysteries come to light, past and present blur,old stories are finally put to rest, and the shocking truth about more than one monster is revealed.
Member's Price: $20.21 (with coupon)
List Price: $24.95, Hyperion
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Charlatan
Pope Brock
In 1917, after years of selling worthless patent remedies throughout the Southeast, John R. Brinkley arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. He set up a medical practice and introduced an wildly popular surgical method using goat glands to restore the fading virility of local farmers. His notoriety captured the attention of the great quackbuster Morris Fishbein, who vowed to put the country's "most daring and dangerous" charlatan out of business. Their cat-and-mouse game lasted for two decades. When Brinkley ran for governor of Kansas, he invented campaigning techniques still used in modern politics. Thumbing his nose at American regulators, he built the world's most powerful radio transmitter just across the Rio Grande to offer sundry cures, and killed or maimed patients by the score, yet his warped genius also produced innovations in broadcasting. By introducing country music and blues to the nation, Brinkley also became a seminal force in rock 'n' roll. Charlatan is a marvelous portrait of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America that was ripe for the bamboozling.
Member's Price: $20.21 (with coupon)
List Price: $24.95, Random House
Join us in welcoming Pope Brock for a fascinating discussion of his book on Thursday, February 21 at 7:00 p.m. in Naperville
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Dream When You're Feeling Blue
Elizabeth Berg
New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg takes us to Chicago during World War II in this wonderful story about three sisters, their lively Irish family, and the men they love. Kitty and Louise Heaney say good-bye to their boyfriends who are going to fight overseas. On the domestic front, meat is rationed, children participate in metal drives, and big bands play songs that offer hope and lift spirits. The Heaney sisters sit at their kitchen table every evening to write letters that are intimate glimpses of life both on the battlefront and at home. The lifelong consequences of the choices the Heaney sisters make are at the heart of this superb novel about the power of love and the enduring strength of family.
Member's Price: $11.34 (with coupon)
List Price: $14, Ballantine paperback
Dream When You're Feeling Blue has been chosen by ten west suburban libraries as the 4th Annual The Big Read.
Ms. Berg will be speaking and signing copies of her book on May 8. Tickets not yet available. For more information, contact a participating library.
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The Faithful Spy
Alex Berenson
In The Faithful Spy, John Wells became the only American CIA agent ever to penetrate al-Qaeda, but his handlers grew distrustful of him, and he of them. Now Wells is back in Washington. His wounds have healed, but his mind is far from clear. When the CIA finds evidence of a surge in Taliban activity, backed by an unknown foreign power, it takes little to convince Wells to return to Afghanistan to investigate. But what he discovers there is far from what he expected.
Member's Price: $8.09 (with coupon)
List Price: $9.99, Jove paperback
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