Join the Queen of Southern Food, and Food Network superstar Paula Deen, as she signs copies of her fabulous new cookbook, PAULA DEEN & FRIENDS: Living it Up, Southern Style, at Barbara's Bookstore Marshall Field's. From informal get-togethers for a few friends to elegant cocktail parties for multitudes, this is effortless entertaining at its most fun. This is a signing only event, please call 312.781.3033 for further details.

Join grade school superheroes J.P. and Joe on their first adventure - FLUB-A-DUB-CHUB AND THE SLEEPWALKING MARTIAN. This story of jet-pack boots, hot-dog shaped pranksters, talking lint balls and, you guessed it, sleepwalking martians, is sure to delight everyone with imagination and a taste for the unique and the funny. This book may be meant for kids, but they shouldn't hoard all of the fun, read it for yourself.

Here are the events and evils that make up a life: a junior-high-school fashion crisis, a best friend's betrayal, substance abuse, recovery, finding a satisfying career, dating fiascoes, the perfect relationship, the illness and slow death of a parent. This is the life of Charlotte Anne Byers, told by Elizabeth (When the Messenger is Hot) Crane in ALL THIS HEAVENLY GLORY. This is the perfect story for any girl who tried to fit in, who grew up into a woman who was glad she didn't.

Richard J. Franke is a Chicago legend. From his time at John Nuveen and Co., to his place on the University of Chicago Board of Trustees, to his founding of the Chicago Humanities Festival he has had a deep impact on the cultural life of our beloved home. In CUT FROM WHOLE CLOTH: An Immigrant Experience, Franke shares the story of his grandparents, near penniless German immigrants who passed on a legacy of success based on hard work, love and an appreciation of life as it should be lived.

Brilliantly exploring the wonder, violence and magic of New York in the years just after the Civil War, METROPOLIS, by former Paris Review editor Elizabeth Gaffney, follows two young immigrants from very different backgrounds as they try to follow their American dreams through the chaos of the city. At once a coming of age story, a social panorama, a criminal mystery, and a love story, this is a superb debut by a promising literary talent.

Literary critic, rock star, and now novelist, Wesley Stace (AKA John Wesley Harding) has had an incredible career. MISFORTUNE, Dickensonian adventure that grew from one of his songs about a boy who is raised as a girl, will delight fans of big, bawdy, intelligent novels. A baby boy is rescued by an eccentric English lord as his daughter. When puberty hits "Rose" flees his beloved father, travels the world, and comes to terms with his identity in a way no teenager could ever imagine.

Sarah (Partly Cloudy Patriot) Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit and an irreverent sense of humor in ASSASSINATION VACATION. Sarah takes us on a road trip like no other - a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways in which they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage. This is the disturbing and amusing story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture in all of its strange forms.

One evening veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box. The answer came as a surprise. "I was at Secretariat's Derby, in '73. That was...just beauty, you know?" John Jeremiah Sullivan didn't know, but he found out, journeying from prehistoric caves to the Kentucky Derby in pursuit of what Edwin Muir called "our long-lost archaic companionship" with the horse. The result is BLOOD HORSES: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son.