Borders - La Grange

When did you last use fingerpaints? Make a gift? Open Your Heart With Art: Mastering Life Through Love of Everyday Creativity will help you discover--or rediscover--your creative side.

A secret prophecy shapes the lives of Firestar's grandchildren, but only one of the three knows about it. Jaypaw is captivated by the power it promises, and he believes the key to that power may lie buried in the distant past -- with the ancient cats who once walked these woods and now prowl through ... (more)his dreams. His search for answers leads him toward the mountains -- the home of the Tribe of Rushing Water. Lionpaw and Hollypaw feel drawn to the mountains too, for different reasons.

Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. After centuries of stability, the balance between the Faerie Courts has altered. Leslie knows nothing of faeries or their intrigues. When she is attracted to an eerily beautiful tattoo of eyes and wings, all she knows ... (more)is that she has to have it, convinced it is a symbol of changes she desperately craves for her own life. The tattoo draws Leslie deep into the faerie world, helpless to its allures and dangers.

After reuniting for a celebratory scavenger hunt, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance are forced to go on an unexpected search-a search to find Mr. Benedict. It seems that while he was preparing their adventure, he stepped right into a trap orchestrated by his evil twin Mr. Curtain. With only one week ... (more)to find him, the gifted foursome faces their greatest challenge of all-a challenge that will reinforce the reasons they were brought together in the first place.

Super sleuths Calder, Petra, and Tommy are back with a labyrinthine art mystery to solve.

The Underneath is epic - a harrowing yet keenly sweet tale about the power of love, and of its opposite, hate.

MaryJanice Davidson presents the seventh book in the hilarious New York Times bestselling series featuring Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor. Davidson is a bestselling author who also writes a series featuring a teen were-dragon named Jennifer Scales, and novels featuring Fred the Mermaid (Sleeping with the ... (more)Fishes, Swimming without a Net).

If you thought high school was a matter of life or death, wait till you see just how true that is. In this satirical, yet heartfelt novel, Hurley explores the invisibility we all feel at some times and the lengths we'll go to be seen.

Dr. Ernest Drake joins us for a fascinating discussion on all things legendary beasts and mythical creatures. For anyone who has ever wondered whether legendary beasts still wander among us, this lush look at an astounding array of creatures offers everything a true believer would want to know.

Paul Feig, the creator of the cult television series "Freaks and Geeks". Part comedy, part science fiction, and part fantasy, this debut novel, with line art by talented newcomer Peter Chan, makes being a geek, well, kind of cool.

John Everson is the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel Covenant, which will debut in mass market in August 2008.

SYNOPSIS: Joe Kieran has found that unearthing the truth for a newspaper can be painful, and telling it, heartbreaking. Hiding from his past big city exposés in the quiet coastal ... (more)town of Terrel, he stumbles upon a web of mysterious teen suicides that somehow connect a ring of five women. Is there really a malevolent presence inside Terrel Cliff that holds all of the town in thrall as Angelica, a fortune teller, suggests? Or is there a murderous covenant between five women to sacrifice their first-born?

SYNOPSIS: It's late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. Has Rebus overstepped his bounds for the last time? Only a few days shy of the end to his long, controversial career, will Rebus even make it that far?

Suburban author Peter Ferry will sign and discuss his debut novel which is poignant, funny and suspenseful.

SYNOPSIS: Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy suburb of Lake Forest outside of Chicago, and moonlights as a travel writer. On his way home after work one ... (more)evening he witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim. But was it an accident? Could Pete have prevented it? And did it actually happen, or is this just an elaborate tale he concocts to impart the power of story to his restless teenage charges?

Alex & Me is a book about the universal truths of relationships, just as much as an astonishing scientific journey.

SYNOPSIS:Of the 8 million parrots in the United States, none was more famous than Alex, the African grey who spent 30 years in the loving care of Dr. Irene Pepperberg until his ... (more)untimely death in September, 2007. The full story of his relationship with Irene was a story of emotional ties--parrots mate for life, developing unique duets with their partners, exhibiting affection, jealousy, and craving attention. His last words to her were "I love you, too. You'll be in tomorrow?" He passed away that night.

Once maligned as a swampy outpost, the fledgling city of Chicago brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in Horto or City in a Garden, in 1837. Chicago Gardens shows how this upstart town earned its sobriquet over the next century, from the first vegetable plots at Fort Dearborn to innovative garden designs ... (more)at the 1933 World's Fair. Cathy Jean Maloney has spent decades researching the citys horticultural heritage, and here she reveals the unusual history of Chicagos first gardens.

Inside The Lionel Trains Fun Factory provides a fascinating trip through the rise, fall, and resurgence of Lionel, one of the manufacturing and pop icons in modern American life. A lover of Lionel trains since childhood, Osterhoff put his prodigious research & writing skills, along with his understanding ... (more)of business models, into the writing of his new books. Bob is a retired executive of the Xerox corporation.

Coffee table book filled with poignant photos of rescued, fostered, and adopted greyhounds, mostly from this area.

From Stephen Cannell new book On the Grind - Charged with felony misconduct in a high profile solicitation of murder case, Det. Shane Scully is faced with an impossible decision: either quietly resign from his job as a detective for the LAPD, the work he lovesor face criminal prosecution.

In book 2 Henry makes a bold decision---he must go through the cupboards to find the truth about where he's from and who his parents are. Following that trail will take him from one world to another, and ultimately into direct conflict with the evil of Endor.

In the summer of 1922, a young American priest named Robert Shannon arrives in Ireland in search of his soul. Shell-shocked by what he saw as a chaplain with the Marines in Normandy, and demoralized by the corruption he encountered in the Boston Archdiocese, Shannon is troubled. Stepping ashore, he is ... (more)thrust into Ireland's deepest issues and most profound traditions. Taking him deep into the country's complicated heart, this remarkable journey challenges and changes Shannon.

Celebrate the anniversary of the beloved Eric Carle book The Very Hungry Caterpillar at Borders with a special storytime. There will be plenty of fun art and reading activities for kids ages 3-9. Join us as we honor an American treasure.

SYNOPSIS: 39 Clues hidden around the world guard the family's power, and it's up to YOU to find them. Spies report that Amy and Dan seem to be tracking the life of one of the most powerful fighters the world has ever known. If this fearsome warrior was a Cahill, his secrets are sure to be well-guarded ... (more). . . and the price to uncover them just might be lethal.

The eagerly anticipated first novel from a writer widely applauded as one of America's most stirring and promising new literary talents, THE WORLD IN HALF is a story about a young woman in search of her identity, a family torn apart, and a life begun anew that will enthrall readers with its invention, ... (more)its bravery, and its beauty. Set in Panama and Chicago, it movingly and suspensefully recounts a young woman's attempt to reconcile the two halves of her bicultural identity.

In this extraordinary tale of magic and intrigue, romance and danger, everything you thought you knew about faeries will be changed forever.