Danish cuisine has been in the gastronomic spotlight since Noma was voted the best restaurant in the world for three years running. Noma is part of the New Nordic Cuisine movement, making use of fresh local ingredients to create variations on traditional food and drink. This new book provides tips on how and what to order in Denmark as well as a culinary history of the country and an introduction to its quickly growing local foods trend.

Please join us for an exciting event with Carol "Orange" Schroeder, proprietor of Madison-based Orange Tree Imports and co-author of Eat Smart in Denmark, a new guide connecting menus and markets to geography, history, and regional pride. Orange will be joined by Joan Peterson of Eat Smart Guides and Ginkgo Press. It's all happening on Wednesday, December 3, and yes, we'll be serving kringle from O&C Bakery. 

Minister, psychotherapist, local author, and founding Director of the Samaritan Family Wellness Center, Rev. Dr. Scott Stoner, will join us at Boswell Book Company to discuss his new book Your Living Compass, which engages readers in a 10-week, self-guided wellness retreat, with daily ten-minute readings, plus small, meaningful action steps designed to improve readers' lives, relationships, and work.  

Living Compass is a church-based faith and wellness program designed for individuals and small groups. Deeply spiritual and exceedingly practical, Your Living Compass joins the national Living Compass network, which includes a website, workshop series, wellness resources (including a free Living Well with Living Compass app), social media, and a new multi-million-dollar wellness center located in the offices of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago.

What do you get when you combine a BFA in photography from MIAD and an unimpressed black cat? A Super-Amazing, 100% Awesome time!! Meet us at Boswell for a hilarious night with local author Kate Funk, author of The Best Cat Book Ever, featuring her kitty sidekick, AC, dressed as a unicorn, a garden gnome, a ninja, the Abominable Snowman, and many more. You don't want to miss this talk and signing, complete with full-color slides of AC loving his costumed life!

Move over Grumpy Cat-here comes the most super-amazing, 100% awesome, BEST cat book...ever! Do you like cats? Do you really, really like cats? Do you like cats who look like they are seriously pissed off? Do you like cats who are seriously pissed off and dressed in hilarious costumes? Are you impressed by this photographer's ability to get her cat to pose as such things as an abominable snowman, Medusa, a jazzercise instructor, and a dinosaur? If you answered "yes" to these questions-you're in luck, because this book has all of those things, and more! Our purr-ific event is Tuesday, December 9, 7 pm. 

Please join us at the North Shore Library, located at 6800 N. Port Washington Road in Glendale, for an evening event suffused with Christmas spirit! Award-winning playwright, novelist, and local author, Ludmilla Bollow, will be discussing and signing copies of her touching new memoir, Lulu's Christmas Story: A True Story of Faith and Hope During the Great Depression, in which she recounts the year before her family's toughest Christmas.

The Story begins in small-town Wisconsin. In the trying times of the Great Depression, Lulu can't wait for Christmas to come around. Her anticipation transforms into anxiety when her father loses his job, doubts about Santa surface, and the Shirley Temple doll of her dreams seems ever out of reach. Her mother reveals her own brutal Christmas experiences as an orphan, adding even more worries to the already troubling mix. But Lulu's deep faith and vibrant hope keep her looking forward to each new day and believing tirelessly in the glorious gift of Christmas. Will Lulu triumph? Find out on Wednesday, December 10, at the North Shore Library, at the special start time of 6:30 pm. 

On the night of the Great Chicago Fire, 17-year-old Delia Spencer watches as the flames rise and consume her beloved hometown. While she couldn't imagine how much her life and the world around her would change, she would be equally shocked to find that the agent of change was the man she met that same night, Marshall Field.  

Leading the way in rebuilding after the fire, Marshall Field's success grew out of his famous instinct to "give the lady what she wants," and it was a charm and intensity that won Delia's heart. The only problem? Both were married. What the Lady Wants chronicles their thirty-year affair.  What the Lady Wants, the new novel by Renée Rosen, is classic historical fiction, filled with lots of detail, and a large dollop of juicy society gossip.  

Renée Rosen is the author of two previous novels, Dollface and Every Crooked Pot. Her talk will include a Marshall Field's slide presentation. Come by and see our store window, featuring classic Marshall Field's shopping bags and other memorabilia and don't forget about our talk/reading on Thursday, December 11, 7 pm.

The year is 1968. The world is changing, and teenage Jon Mosher is determined to change with it. Racked by guilt over his older brother's childhood death and stuck in the dead-end town of Brewster, he turns his rage into victories running track. Meanwhile, Ray Cappicciano, a rebel as gifted with his fists as Jon is with his feet, is trying to take care of his baby brother while staying out of the way of his abusive, ex-cop father. When Jon and Ray form a tight friendship, they find in each other everything they lack at home, but it's not until Ray falls in love with beautiful, headstrong Karen Dorsey that the three friends begin to dream of breaking away from Brewster for good.