 Augie Aleksy Centuries & Sleuths BookstoreWeb site: http://www.centuriesandsleuths.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp Events URL: http://www.centuriesandsleuths.c… This bookstore is an  IndieBound member. Added by: lilithcat. Contacted: Yes. Favorited: bfister, fitzgene, robkamm Apraksts: A specialty store with two interests - history and mystery - and host to a wide variety of events, including author discussions and signings, book club meetings, reenactments of famous trials, and even "visits" from long-dead historical figures.  Upcoming events
TNBC - The Post-Birthday World (Augusts 28 at 19:00) Safe or sexy? OK - that's a bit of a simplification of the novel, but haven't we always wondered about that decision we didn't make. How would our lives be different? Would it be better or worse? Lionel Shriver has laid out both scenarios and has come up with a fantastic read. As always, ... (more)Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (Augusts 31 at 14:00) Title: Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars (Alebegensians)Author: Rene Weiss
G.K. Chesterton Society Meeting (Septembris 13 at 14:00) Title: Small is Beautiful-Economics as if People MatteredAuthor" E.F. Schumacher
Alan Alda discusses and signs Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself (Septembris 17 at 19:00) Alan Alda. DIESEL, A Bookstore is proud to say that former M*A*S*H star, Alan Alda, will be kicking off our event series at the new Brentwood store!! He'll be joining us to share more from his bestselling memoir, THINGS I OVERHEARD WHILE TALKING TO MYSELF, a book that is candid, wise, and as questioning as it ... (more)Interested: readit2 Added by booksense. Mystery Discussion Group (Septembris 20 at 14:00) Title: Roots of EvilAuthor: Sarah Rayne
On This Day... (Septembris 20 at 23:00) 1878: Birthday of Upton Sinclair candidate for governor of California and author of The Jungle, about the life of East European immigrants living & working in the Chicago stockyards in the early 20th century. It was supposed to cause concerns about the social ills of the country, ... (more)On This Day... (Septembris 21 at 23:00) 1866: Birthday of H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells, writer of popular history & science fiction & extreme liberal of his time.1888: Sherlock Holmes concludes The Sign of Four in which Dr. John Watson, M.D. finds a wife, Miss Mary Morstan.1947: Birthday of horror ... (more)On This Day... (Septembris 23 at 23:00) 1865: Birthday of Baroness Orczy, Hungarian-English artist, playwright, & author of romantic novels & short detective stories(e.g. The Scarlet Pimpernel & Old Man in the Corner)1952: Then Vice President Richard M. Nixon gives Checkers speech denying ... (more)Jeanne M. Dams (Septembris 27 at 14:00) Jeanne M. Dams reads from Indigo Christmas (A Hilda Johansson Mystery).
Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (Septembris 28 at 14:00) Title: Champagne: How War & Hard Times Gave Rise to the World's Most Glmorous WineAuthor:Don & Petie Kladstrup
On This Day... (Oktobris 3 at 23:00) 1922: Rebecca L. Felton is appointed the first woman U.S. Senator.1925: Birthday of American historical novel writer & Eastern liberal, Gore Vidal.1962: Under orders from President John F. Kennedy, U.S. closes ports to ships carrying cargo to Cuba.
On This Day... (Oktobris 4 at 23:00) 1877: Chief Joseph surrenders with the remnants of the Nez Perce, saying, "I will fight no more, forever."1902: The third marriage of Dr. John Watson, M.D. possibly to Violet de Merville.1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik I.
*** Editor & Contributor Discussion & Signing: Tracy Baim & Marie Kuda (so far...) (Oktobris 5 at 14:00) Title: Out & Proud in Chicago: Overview of the City's Gay CommunityEditor: Tracy BaimContributor: Marie Kuda and others....
G.K. Chesterton Society Meeting (Oktobris 11 at 14:00) Title: Illustrated London News
On This Day... (Oktobris 12 at 23:00) 1492: Christopher Columbus discovers America (The Bahamas).1790: A Philadelphia newspaper reports possible war between Britain & Spain.1961: F.B.I. launches Socialist Worker Distruction Program.
Mystery Discussion Group (Oktobris 18 at 14:00) Change Title: Roots of EvilAuthor: Sarah Rayne
On This Day... (Oktobris 22 at 23:00) 1962: President John F. Kennedy orders a blockade of Cuba, intensifying the Missile Crisis.
On This Day ... (Oktobris 24 at 23:00) 1648: Peace of Wetaphalia ends the Thirty Years War. It is said that in the train car in 1940 win the French surrendered to the Nazis, Adolph Hitler stated, "This is not for the injustices of the Treaty of Versailles, but for the injustices of The Peace of Westphalia."1945: ... (more)Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (Oktobris 26 at 14:00) Title: Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800Author: John Ferling
On This Day... (Novembris 2 at 23:00) 1734: Birthday of the great American frontiersman, Daniel Boone.1920: Eugene V. Debs receives almost 1 million votes for U.S. President while in jail.
On This Day... (Novembris 7 at 23:00) 1790: Several New York children were bled and put in warm baths as treatment for smallpox1837: Abolitionist editor, Elijah P. Lovejoy was murdered by a mob in Alron, IL.
G.K. Chesterton Society Meeting (Novembris 8 at 14:00) Title: Tolstoy & Carlyle
On This Day... (Novembris 18 at 23:00) 1836: Birthday of Sir William S. Gilbert, English humorist and librettist who teamed up with English composer Sir Arthur Sullivan to produce such delightful operattas, Trial by Jury, HMS Pinafore, and The Mikado.1872: Suffragist, Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting.1928: ... (more)On This Day... (Novembris 22 at 23:00) 1916: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson presents a medallion to Sherlock Holmes.1963: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX.
On This Day... (Novembris 23 at 23:00) 1859: Birthday of William (Billy the Kid H. Bonney, future Western gunslinger and outlaw, in New York city.
On This Day... (Novembris 25 at 23:00) 1914: Birthday of The Yankee Clipper, Joe Di Maggio.
On This Day... (Novembris 27 at 23:00) Jehuda Reinharz. 1790: Governor St. Clair of the Northwest Territory wrote that Cincinnati was the most proper place for its capital.1874: Birthday of
On This Day... (Decembris 2 at 23:00) 1954: The United States Senate censures Senator Joseph R. Mc Carthy of Wisconsin.1980: Four U.S. Catholic missionary women killed by Death Squads in El Salvador
On This Day... (Decembris 4 at 23:00) 1790: A Philadelphia newspaper reported that the penalty for dueling in Sweden was the death of the survivor.1795: Birthday of Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian and essayist. His major works are The French Revolution and On Heroes and Her Worship.1867: ... (more)Interested: fitzgene Added by booksense. Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (Decembris 7 at 14:00) Title: Six Frigates: Epic History of the Founding of the American NavyAuthor: Ian W. Toll
On This Day... (Decembris 11 at 23:00) 1918: Birthday of modern Russian novelist, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
On This Day... (Decembris 22 at 23:00) 1639: Birthday Of Jean Baptiste Racine, French tragic dramatist.
On This Day... (Decembris 23 at 23:00) 1790: United States Senate formed a committee to consider a national bank.1947: President Harry S. Truman pardons 1,523 of 15,805 World War I Draft Resisters.
On This Day... (Decembris 27 at 23:00) 1900: Prohibitionist, Carry Nation led the first bottle-smashing raid of a saloon in Wichita, Kansas.1980: The U.S. Post Office issues a stamp honoring Sequoyah, a Cherokee who invented the only known written language created by a North American Indian tribe, and still ... (more)On This Day... (Janvāris 3 at 23:00) 106 B.C.: Birthday of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman lawyer, orator, and statesman. After Julius Caesar's death, Cicero published the Philippics, a series of speeches attacking Mark Anthony, who had him put to death.1777: British defeated at Princeton, ... (more)On This Day... (Janvāris 14 at 23:00) 1796: A Bill to amend an act to promote the useful arts read for a second time in U.S. Senate.1899: Sherlock Holmes refused to cooperate with Inspector Lastrade's investigation of the murder Charles Augustus Milverton.
On This Day... (Janvāris 24 at 23:00) 1796: Arthur Campbell wrote to James Madison that he volunteerd to lead militia to take over western posts.1944: Birthday of mystery writer, Tim Heald.
On This Day... (Janvāris 28 at 23:00) 1905: The Adventure of the Second Stain was published in Collier's Magazine.
On This Day... (Marts 21 at 23:00) 1685: Birthday of German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach.
On This Day... (Marts 24 at 23:00) 1874: Birthday of world renowned & legendary magician & close friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry (Eric Weiss) Houdini.1916: Birthday of American mystery and western novelist; creator of Matt Helm, Donald Bengtsson Hamilton.
On This Day... (Aprīlis 9 at 23:00) 1865: General Robert E. Lee of the Confederate States of America surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant of the United States of America at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, thus bringing an end to the American Civil War.1875: Birthday of American journalist and author ... (more)Interested: CAGEYM Added by booksense. On This Day... (Jūlijs 2 at 23:00) 1850: Birthday of Sir Robert Peel founder of Scotland Yard.1891: Dr. John H. Watson's first account of the Holmes' cases, A Scandal in Bohemia appears in The Strand Magazine.1908: Birthday of NAACP's chief counsel and first Black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall.1976: U.S. Supreme Court declares ... (more)On This Day... (Jūlijs 16 at 23:00) 1821: Birthday of Mary Baker Eddy founder of the Christian Science Movement.1862: Birthday of Ida B. Wells Black newspaper reporter and civil rights activist concentrating on promoting Black women's clubs and the anti-lynching laws in the United States.1872: Nationwide Railway Strike began.1945: First ... (more)Past eventsEllen F. Steinberg (Marts 9 at 14:00) There will be a sampling of foods covered in the book prepared by Eleanor Hanson.
Beverle Graves Myers (Marts 11 at 19:00)
Laura Caudwell, Connie Fletcher, Marcus Sakey (Marts 20 at 19:00)
Raymond Benson (Aprīlis 6 at 14:00)
Michael Stanley (Aprīlis 11 at 19:00)
Michael Black (Aprīlis 12 at 12:00)
Alex Matthews (Aprīlis 13 at 14:00)
Mystery Discussion Group (Aprīlis 19 at 14:00) Title: City of Glass (Vol.1 of N.Y. Trilogy) by Paul Auster
Libby Fischer Hellmann , Michael Allen Dymmoch (Aprīlis 20 at 14:00)
Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (Aprīlis 27 at 14:00) Title: Great Mortality: Intimate History of the Most Devastating Plague (The Black Death)Author: John Kelly
Sean Chercover, Anthony Neil Small (Maijs 15 at 19:00)
Interested: danbrady Added by lilithcat. Mystery Discussion Group (Maijs 17 at 14:00) Title: California Fire & Life
Mystery Writers of America Midwest Chapter Meeting: Steve Bogira (Maijs 18 at 13:00) "Courtroom 302" is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge's chambers, ... (more)Interested: danbrady Added by bookjones. Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (Maijs 24 at 15:00) Title: 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, & Debs, The Election that Changed the CountryAuthor: James Chace
Jennifer Faus (Jūnijs 1 at 14:00) In this poignant account, we are introduced to the victims of the day that has come to be known as Bloody Sunday. On January 30th, 1972, the British Army deployed the 1st Parachute Regiment to conduct an arrest operation in Derry during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march. Twenty-six civil ... (more)Interested: danbrady Added by bookjones. Jonathan Santlofer (Jūnijs 5 at 19:00)
John Drummond (Jūnijs 8 at 14:00) John Drummond returns to Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, but his 1st time in Forest Park to discuss & sign his latest Chicago Crime & Corruption book, It Ain't Pretty, But It's Real to follow his Thirty Years in the Trenches Covering Crooks, Characters & Cappers.
Interested: danbrady Added by bookjones. Ted Okuda, Mark Yurkiw (Jūnijs 13 at 19:00)
Mystery Discussion Group (Jūnijs 14 at 14:00) Date SwitchTitle: Forty Words of SorrowAuthor: Giles Blunt
Stephen Kinzer (Jūnijs 17 at 19:00) Stephen Kinzer discusses A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth & the Man Who Dreamed It. The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men profiles one of the most successful revolutionaries of the modern era, telling the dramatic story of how he seized power in Rwanda and led this shattered country's astonishing recovery
Sherlock Holmes & Edwin Drood Together Again for the First Time (Jūnijs 22 at 14:00) Can Sherlock Holmes solve The Mystery of Edwin Drood? Come see if Various Sherlock Holmes Societies can help the Chicago Dickens Fellowship close the case of Edwin Drood.
Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (Jūnijs 29 at 14:00) Title: Franklin & Winston: An Intimte Portrait of an Epic FriendshipAuthor: Jon Meacham
Stephanie Kuehnert (Jūlijs 10 at 19:00) Event location: The Beacon Pub, 101 Circle Avenue, Forest Park, IL 60130, (708) 366-7066
Daniel P. Smith (Jūlijs 11 at 19:00)
G.K. Chesterton Society Meeting (Jūlijs 12 at 14:00) Title: The Resurrection of Rome
Doug M. Cummings (Jūlijs 13 at 14:00)
*** Author Discussion & Signing : Julia I. Keller (Jūlijs 16 at 7:00) Chicago Tribune writer, Julia I. Keller will discuss & sign her book, Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changes Everything and the Misundrestood Genius Who Invented It.
David J. Walker and Margot Justes (Jūlijs 20 at 14:00)
Interested: geogal Added by bookjones. Book Signing (Jūlijs 24 at 17:00) Marilyn Parmelee. Meet Haslett author Marilyn Parmelee. Thursday July 24, 5-7pm
Clio's Chroniclers [a.k.a.] The History Discussion Grou (Jūlijs 27 at 14:00) Title: Desert Queen: Extraordinary Life of Gertrude BellAuthor: Janet Wallach
Max Allan Collins (a.k.a. Patrick Culhane) (Augusts 2 at 14:00)
Chris Grabenstein (Augusts 3 at 14:00) "Hell Hole" is the fourth book in the mystery series featuring former hardened military PD and current Sea Haven, NJ police officer John Ceepak and his partner, wise-cracking Danny Boyle. In "Hell Hole," Ceepak is confronted with his most personal case yet when he must investigate the alleged suicide ... (more)G.K. Chesterton Society Meeting (Augusts 9 at 14:00) Program: Art Livingston will talk about GKC's Napoleon of Notting Hill.
Mystery Discussion Group (Augusts 16 at 14:00) Title: Murder of a Small Town HoneyAuthor: Denise Swanson
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