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You will find the best bargains in town at the Bensenville Community Public Library’s Fall Book Sale! The sale runs from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Library's meeting room. This is your opportunity to purchase non-fiction, fiction and children’s books at unbeatable prices. Hardbound books are a ... (mere)dollar and paperbacks are three for a dollar. Stop by and stock up on good reads for fall and winter!

Join the staff of the Library for Book Brunch on Wednesday, October 22, at 10:00 a.m. to discuss Killer Angels by Michael Shara. Book Brunch meets the fourth Wednesday of the month at 10:00 a.m. Books are available at the library’s circulation desk. For more information, call the Library at (630) 766-4642.

The Library will once again be holding a V.I.P. (Very Important Patron) Pre-Sale from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. This event is for Bensenville Library Card holders only, and you will need to show your Bensenville library card at the door. Admission is $5 with a Bensenville Library Card. No dealers please. Hardcover ... (mere)books cost $1 each; paperbacks are three for $1. Books are separated into hardcover fiction, paperback fiction, children’s books and non-fiction titles. For more information call the Bensenville Public Library at (630) 766-4642.

Join the Adult Book Discussion Group on Thursday, October 2, at 7:00 p.m. to discuss Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs. The Adult Book Discussion Group meets the first Thursday of the month at 7:00 p.m. Books are available at the library’s circulation desk. For more information, call the Library ... (mere)at (630) 766-4642.

Join the Library at the Bensenville Theatre for a showing of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Can you get a life and discover love, all in one day? Two women are about to find out. In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly ... (mere)dismissed from her job. Without so much as severance pay, Miss Pettigrew realizes that she must — for the first time in two decades — seize the day. This she does, by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level — as “social secretary.” Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams). Within minutes, Miss Pettigrew finds herself swept into a heady high-society milieu — and, within hours, living it up. Taking the “social secretary” designation to heart, she tries to help her new friend Delysia navigate a love life and career, both of which are complicated by the three men in Delysia’s orbit; devoted pianist Michael, intimidating nightclub owner Nick, and impressionable junior impresario Phil. Miss Pettigrew herself is blushingly drawn to the gallant Joe, a successful designer who is tenuously engaged to haughty fashion maven Edythe — the one person who senses that the new “social secretary” may be out of her element, and schemes to undermine her. Over the next 24 hours, Guinevere and Delysia will empower each other to discover their romantic destinies. This sophisticated and heartfelt comedy is based on the novel by Winifred Watson. Admission to the show is free. For more information, call the Library at (630) 766-4642.

An irresistible temptation. A split-second choice. A dangerous decision. Discover this latest thriller by Marcus Sakey. SYNOPSIS: A family, and the security to enjoy it: that's all Tom and Anna Reed ever wanted. But years of infertility treatments, including four failed ... (mere)attempts at in vitro fertilization, have left them with neither. Then one night everything changes. Offered a chance at a future they'd almost lost hope in, they seize it. One simple choice. A fairy tale ending. But Tom and Anna soon realize that fairy tales never come cheap.

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. ... (mere)Registration begins, Monday, August 18.

In The Fifth Floor, Michael Harvey gives us a tale of murder, bare-knuckle mayoral politics, and historical catastrophe: in short, the perfect Chicago detective story, complete with a loving tour of the citys funkier locales that'll make any displaced Chicagoan long for home.

Join the Adult Book Discussion Group on Thursday, September 4, at 7:00 p.m. to discuss And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander. The Adult Book Discussion Group meets the first Thursday of the month at 7:00 p.m. Books are available at the library’s circulation desk. For more information, call the Library ... (mere)at (630) 766-4642.

Set in the backdrop of World War II, BESIDE A BURNING SEA follows a man and woman from separate worlds, as the barbarity of war looms in the distance. Beneath a Marble Sky was his first novel.

We’re delighted to welcome back Rob Scotton, who visits from the UK with his new children’s book, Splat the Cat. It’s Splat’s first day of Cat School and he’s worried. Will he make new friends? Is he prepared for mice catching? Enjoy the feline fun and join us.

Haven Kimmel has been praised by millions since her #1 New York Times bestseller, A Girl Named Zippy. Her books are among our bookclub favorites. Now Ms. Kimmel visits with her new book, Iodine, a vivid window into one woman’s tortured psyche. Please come welcome the author back to Anderson’s.

Did your imagination ever take you to a secret place that no one else had ever been? Follow the innocent and lovely Katherine from the beginning to the end of her formative years. Magical entities seem to watch and protect her and lead her into a secret world.

Meet author Polly Horvath, the winner of a National Book Award, a Newbery Honor and other literary prizes as she presents her new book, My One Hundred Adventures. At their core, adventures have a way of teaching you about yourself, as 12-year-old Jane learns.

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.

Join us for a special opportunity. We host a live webcast interview with acclaimed author Philip Roth. Mr. Roth will field questions and discuss his new book, Indignation. It’s the author’s 29th book, a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage, and ... (mere)error. Limited quantity of signed first editions will be available for purchase. Mr. Roth WILL NOT be in Naperville in person.

SYNOPSIS: The true story of thirteen women who took a risk on an expensive diamond necklace and, in the process, changed not only themselves but a community. Four years ago, in Ventura, California, Jonell McLain saw a diamond necklace in a local jewelry store display window. The necklace aroused desire ... (mere)first, then a provocative question: Why are personal luxuries so plentiful yet accessible to so few?

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 ... (mere)stories in a letter to his son. This book won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

We loved Lesley Kagen’s debut, Whistling in the Dark, and are now anxious to meet the author and celebrate her new book, Land of a Hundred Wonders. This one centers on a girl whose accident leaves her “Not Quite Right.” But she is actually “quite right” as a character you’ll adore.

Join the Library at the Bensenville Theatre for a showing of 3:10 to Yuma. In Arizona in the late 1800s infamous outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured Civil War veteran Dan Evans (Christian Bale), struggling ... (mere)to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma" –– a train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail - and dangers at every turn - the mission soon becomes a violent impossible journey toward each man's destiny. Based on the story by Elmore Leonard, this suspense-filled Western is a remake of the 1957 classic starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. Admission to the show is free. For more information, call the Library at (630) 766-4642.

Oscar Hijuelos is a first-generation Cuban American and the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction honoring his The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. New is Dark Dude, a story for younger readers of identity and the struggle to accept your true self.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Test your knowledge of Inheritance trivia and language, participate in an Open Mic reading, and win fun prizes at our very special Midnight Release Party. Join us for an evening of Dragon Lore & More as we await the release of Christopher Paolini's Brisingr.

Spend the final hour before the midnight release of Brisingr with us. Add to our prediction wall and try our trivia game, all in anticipation of the latest Christopher Paolini book. Pre-purchase Brisingr at Anderson’s and receive a voucher to be exchanged for the book itself beginning at midnight.

Welcome Christine Blevins, who visits with her historical fiction debut, Midwife of the Blue Ridge. Venturing to 18th Century America as an indentured servant, a young woman named Maggie hopes to escape old country superstitions — and find a home of her own. But with new dangers in the New World, ... (mere)it’s survival, instincts and her quick wits, that count.

Join the staff of the Library for Book Brunch on Wednesday, September 24, at 10:00 a.m. to discuss The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery. Book Brunch meets the fourth Wednesday of the month at 10:00 a.m. Books are available at the library’s circulation desk. For more information, call the Library at (630) ... (mere)766-4642.

Join our fiction experts on Thursday, September 25, at 7:00 p.m. for a sneak peek at what will be coming out this Fall for fiction readers. We’ll have food and a variety of fun surprises. Don’t miss the fiction event of the Fall!

Is our educational system failing our sons? Evidence may point to just that imbalance, and is explored in The Trouble with Boys. Meet the author, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Peg Tyre, who focuses on social trends and education in her acclaimed work. Expect a fascinating discussion.

(NOTE: TICKETS REQUIRED / $95 / $75 for full-time students) Join our 5th annual gathering of authors and educators interested in the best and newest in young adult literature. Meet authors Holly Black, Suzanne Collins, Caroline Cooney, Ellen Klages, John Stokes, G. P. Taylor and Nancy Werlin. Attend ... (mere)breakout sessions on fascinating topics, enjoy a continental breakfast and a full luncheon. Booksigning opportunities and CPDU credits offered.

A companion to Love That Dog is Sharon Creech’s new novel, Hate That Cat. When a fat black cat gets a bad reputation for a mean, spiteful murr-mee-urrr and other nasty catness, the feline fun begins.

Town House Books & Café is honored to host Julia Glass, recipient of the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction. She has also been awarded three Nelson Algren Fiction Awards and the Tobias Wolff Award for her first novel, Three Junes. Ms Glass will be signing copies and reading from her new novel, ... (mere)I See You Everywhere.