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(Purchase either book and you may buy an event ticket for $5 more. One additional event ticket is $10 (including a $5 off coupon on the new book) with no book. Tickets Available at Anderson’s NOW!) A special summer treat for music lovers! Renowned classical pianist Lang Lang - "The hottest artist ... (more)on the classical music planet," (New York Times) - offers An Evening with Lang Lang at Naperville's Knox Presbyterian Church to share his two new books: Playing with Flying Keys (for young adults, $16.99) and Journey of a Thousand Miles (for adults, $24.95). The books share the rags-to-riches story of a rare talent and his cultural heritage encompassing both the East and West.

Come welcome Miles Harvey, the author of the bestseller, The Island of Lost Maps, to Anderson’s. Mr. Harvey’s new book, Painter in a Savage Land, tells the story of the first European artist to paint life among the Native Americans and colonists in the harsh and hostile New World.

Meet nationally renowned sports artist John Hanley as he presents his new book Classic Cubs.Few things evoke as much emotion as the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. Love them or hate them, the Cubs have a mystique all their own. In Classic Cubs: A Tribute to the Men and Magic of Wrigley Field, artist ... (more)John Hanley celebrates the glorious history and milestones of the team and highlights a galaxy of hall of fame ballplayers with more than 125 original oil paintings and drawings created exclusively for this book.

The Man With the Iron Heart is a tour de force by a storyteller of exceptional imaginative power. What if V-E Day didn’t end World War II in Europe? What if, instead, the Allies had to face a potent, even fanatical, postwar Nazi resistance? Such a movement, based in the fabled Alpine Redoubt, ... (more)was in fact a real threat, ultimately neutralized by Germany’s flagging resources and squabbling officials. But had SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious Man with the Iron Heart, not been assassinated in 1942, fate might have taken a different turn. We might likely have seen a German guerrilla war launched against the conquerors, presaging by more than half a century the protracted conflict with an unrelenting enemy that now engulfs the United States and its allies in Iraq. How might today’s clash of troops versus terrorists have played out in 1945?

(Registration Required/Registration Ends: 7/24/2008 at 6:00 PM) Location: Friends Room C Teens in (or just finishing) grades 9-12 will read 5 books in advance, then answer questions on each title in "Battle of the Books". Books will be available at the 3rd floor Readers' Services Desk. REGISTER ... (more)HERE: http://calendar.dppl.org/evanced/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=5699&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&SignupType=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=7/1/2008&df=calendar&EventType=Adult+Program+%2D+All%2C+Adult+Program+%2D+Book+Discussion%2C+Teen+Pro

Meet Annie is about a special young girl who just happens to have Down Syndrome. Her story is read by the author, with a book signing & activity to follow!

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Join Penny and Kelly for this casual gathering of readers — a time to share what you’ve been reading and get suggestions on what to read next. For more information, call the Library at (630) 766-4642.

Celebrate the release of Stephenie Meyer’s new book, Breaking Dawn, book 4 and the conclusion of her bestselling Twilight saga with a party worth staying up for! Refreshments, fun photo opportunities, music & dance, trivia games, prediction wall, raffles, design your own prom dress contest & more. ... (more)Event occurs weather permitting. To attend, purchase the new book at Anderson’s & then buy an event ticket for $10 more. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON! Friday, August 1st at 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. when the book is released

Celebrate the release of Stephenie Meyer’s new book, Breaking Dawn, book 4 and the conclusion of her bestselling Twilight saga with a party worth staying up for! Refreshments, fun photo opportunities, music & dance, trivia games, prediction wall, raffles, design your own prom dress contest & more. ... (more)Event occurs weather permitting. To attend, purchase the new book at Anderson’s & then buy an event ticket for $10 more. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON! Friday, August 1st at 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. when the book is released

Join us for a party that will ECLIPSE all others as we await the final book in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series!

BECOMING THE NATURAL is the remarkable story of one of the world's most gifted and dedicated athletesa born fighter whose skill and showmanship have helped lift mixed martial arts out of the shadows and into the mainstream.

Meet Abby Pecoriello, the Crafty Mama behind the new hands-on book, Crafty Mama. Baby and toddler projects fill this fun guide to do-it-yourself ideas for your one-of-a-kind child. As an added bonus, Anderson’s will provide a free storytime to entertain your children in our store while you enjoy ... (more)our Crafty Mama event.

Meet His Majesty’s Dragon author Naomi Novik, as she visits with her new title, Victory of Eagles. The acclaimed Temeraire series, a historical fantasy series set in the Napoleonic era, follows the fighting dragon Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence. Meet the imaginative author behind the world ... (more)of Temeraire.

Join the Library at the Bensenville Theatre for a showing of Martian Child. This romantic drama stars John Cusack as a recently widowed science fiction writer who forms an unlikely family with a close friend and a young boy he adopts that claims to be from Mars. The new couple ignores some sage parenting ... (more)advice from the widower's sister and gets more than they bargained for when a series of strange occurrences lead them to believe that the child's claim may be true. Based on an award-winning short story by sci-fi luminary David Gerrold. Admission to the show is free. For more information, call the Library at (630) 766-4642.

Beth Finke with her guide dog, Hanni, learn about guide dogs, their training, and how they help people who are blind. Ms. Finke is the author of the book, Hanni and Beth: Safe and Sound. Location: Meeting Room A & B For children, 12 and younger. Registration is required, online, by phone or in person. ... (more)Registration begins, Monday, August 18.

The first three of our eight titles for the 2008-2009 Book Discussions focus either on other places, other times, or both. The Time Traveler’s Wife is the tale of a Chicago man who is afflicted by chrono-displacement disorder. That is, he is unavoidably whisked around in time and place.

The new Men’s Book Discussion will kick off with a discussion of Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. This novel depicts the lives included in three previous generations of the Reverend John Ames’s family. As he approaches the hour of his own death, the seventy-six year old Reverend chronicles these ... (more)stories in a letter to his son. This book won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.