CLICK HERE FOR AN AUDIOBOOK COPY OF AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL (DOLLY PARTON)
CLICK HERE FOR AN AUDIOBOOK COPY OF SIMPLY MORE (CYNTHIA ERIVO)
CLICK HERE FOR AN AUDIOBOOK COPY OF CHER: THE MEMOIR
Join us for an in-person Book Club Discussion & Themed Tasting Experience on Saturday, March 7th from 4-6 pm at Tavern on the Point in Edison Park!
This adventure is inspired by Butterfly Hurricanes: Tales of Powerful Women & features Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton by Martha Ackmann, Simply More by Cynthia Erivo +/or Cher: The Memoir by Cher (CHOOSE 1, 2, OR ALL 3 BOOKS - PRE-READING IS RECOMMENDED FOR THIS EVENT)…
Local Book Lovers will gather to discuss the featured books at Tavern on the Point in Edison Park (6724 N Northwest Highway), where they can also get a taste of some delicious themed small bites + bevys inspired by the characters, plots and settings of the story while we mingle! A *MINI BOOK FAIR POP-UP* with curated books and reading pairings will be set up for shopping after the event, so guests can stock up on their favorite bookish goodies to take home with them. All attendees will get a TAKE-AWAY GIFT + EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNTS FROM OUR BOOKTIQUE too...
NOTE: EACH $15 TICKET PURCHASED ABOVE INCLUDES THE BOOK DISCUSSION, SPECIAL THEMED TREAT FROM OUR BOOKTIQUE & VIRTUAL COUPON FOR SHOPPING. BOOK CLUB ATTENDEES CAN OPT TO PAY FOR THE *OPTIONAL* ADDITIONAL FOOD/DRINK TASTING THE NIGHT OF THE EVENT!
With each Book Club sign up, you can choose to purchase a physical copy of the featured book(s) to read before we meet in-person (CLICK THE CHECKBOX(ES) TO ADD A COPY OF THE BOOK(S) TO YOUR ORDER), decide to download an audiobook from the link below before the event, OR opt to grab your book(s) from the library / share your book(s) with a friend.
BOOK SYNOPSIS
AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL (DOLLY PARTON)
In Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton, Martha Ackmann chronicles the life of an American Original...
From her impoverished childhood in the Smoky Mountains to international stardom as a singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, and philanthropist, Dolly Parton has exceeded everyone's expectations except her own. During a time when the Beatles set the standard for contemporary music, Dolly appeared on a local country music television show that her high school classmates thought was pure cornpone. The day after her high school graduation, she boarded a bus for Nashville, but record executives turned her down. One said her voice sounded like a screech owl.
When Dolly finally got her foot in the door, her talent and focus catapulted her to the top of country charts, the pop world, and movie stardom. Yet her success came at a price. Shunned by many in Nashville who saw her ambition as a betrayal of her country music roots, Dolly became the target of death threats, lawsuits, and a judge who threatened to throw her in jail. She nearly collapsed on-stage and later succumbed to depression that pushed her to the brink, but she refused to be counted out and came back stronger than ever developing Dollywood, the amusement park that became the economic engine of East Tennessee, and founding the Imagination Library that provides free books to children around the world. Her philanthropy to health organizations led to creation of the Moderna COVID vaccine. And, finally, she returned to her roots, recording bluegrass albums that became the most celebrated of her unparalleled 60-year career.
Ain't Nobody's Fool is a deep dive into the social, historical, and personal forces that made Dolly Parton one of the most beloved and unifying figures in public life and includes interviews with friends, family members, school mates, Nashville neighbors, members of her band, studio musicians, producers, and many others. It also features never before seen photographs and unearthed documents shedding light on her family's hardscrabble life. More than anything, Martha Ackmann's fresh and animated new book proves Dolly Parton knows just who she is and she ain't nobody's fool.
SIMPLY MORE (CYNTHIA ERIVO)
In this vulnerable and enlightening book of life lessons, globally renowned performer Cynthia Erivo draws from her singular experience to show us how to embrace being “too much” and to live up to the fullest iteration of ourselves...
It is never too late to build the life you’re seeking.
Cynthia Erivo learned the music to Wicked a decade before she needed it, not knowing those same lyrics would change her life. Now she has performed those songs on the world stage, showing us there is always time to keep discovering ourselves. And to illustrate that it’s often the parts of ourselves we are told to bury that make us shine.
In a series of powerful, personal vignettes, Cynthia reflects on the ways she has grown as an actor and human and the practices she’s learned over years of performing and reminds us all we are capable of so much more than we think.
We all have hopes and dreams that we want to bring across the finish line. We all falter and take missteps. In this book, Cynthia draws from her experiences running marathons, both real and metaphorical, onstage and onscreen, to show how each challenge can help us. She urges readers to lean into the wisdom of their bodies, to understand and strive for a physical and mental balance. Because when we chase our deepest desires, each small step leads us closer to where we want to go.
CHER: THE MEMOIR
The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person... Cher herself.
After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir.
Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who has been lauded by the Kennedy Center.
She is a lifelong activist and philanthropist.
As a dyslexic child who dreamed of becoming famous, Cher was raised in often-chaotic circumstances, surrounded by singers, actors, and a mother who inspired her in spite of their difficult relationship.
With her trademark honesty and humor, Cher: The Memoir traces how this diamond in the rough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to become the trailblazing superstar the world has been unable to ignore for more than half a century.
Cher: The Memoir, Part One follows her extraordinary beginnings through childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono--and reveals the highly complicated relationship that made them world-famous, but eventually drove them apart.
Cher: The Memoir reveals the daughter, the sister, the wife, the lover, the mother, and the superstar.
It is a life too immense for only one book.
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TASTINGS CALENDAR
MARCH 14 (4-6 PM) PUNISHED @ TRE KRONOR NORDIC BISTRO IN NORTH PARK
MARCH 22 (2-4 PM) MEET THE NEWMANS @ MUSEUM OF BROADCAST COMMUNICATIONS IN CHICAGO
(CLICK THE LINKS ABOVE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT EACH EVENT)
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