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An evening of escape: Join Anderson’s Bookshop for an event with four bestselling authors. Sonali Dev will be celebrating the celebrate the release of How Simi Got Her Groom Back, on Tuesday, March 3rd at 7:00 pm in our Naperville store with authors Virginia Kantra, Sally Kilpatrick, and Harper Ross.
Event Format
We will begin checking you in approximately 30 minutes before the start time. After a presentation and Q&A with the authors, the line will form in numbered order with the following guidelines:
Posed photo with your camera taken by our staff
There is a limit of 2 books from home to be signed (per author, unless otherwise stated)
There is a limit of 1 personalization of the new book only (per author, unless otherwise stated)
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More about How Simi Got Her Groom Back:
Two sisters face the real consequences of a fake marriage scheme in an emotional yet hilarious novel about immigration, healing, and family from USA Today bestselling author Sonali Dev.
Two sisters. One fake marriage. Zero chance of keeping the truth hidden.
The Naik sisters escaped their traumatic past in Mumbai to come to the States, but their journeys have been vastly different. Simi is working toward a bright future as a pediatric nurse in a small town in Kentucky when Rupi shows up at her door in distress, on the run, and as always, dragging trouble in her wake.
With Rupi's safety in jeopardy, the sisters hatch a desperate plan to keep her in the country: Rupi must get married--and fast--even if it means Simi recruiting the man she's been secretly dating as her sister's groom. A perfect plan? Not quite. But there aren't many alternatives.
As the big day inches closer, Simi and Rupi face a storm of wedding shenanigans and romantic surprises, not to mention sisterly jealousies. As the stakes and tensions rise, will their secrets tear them apart or will they find a way to risk everything for love?
More about Anne of a Different Island, by Virginia Kantra:
She believed life could follow a plotline—until the story she was living unraveled.
Anne Gallagher has always lived by the book. Anne of Green Gables, that is. Growing up on Mackinac Island, she saw herself as her namesake: the same impulsive charm, the same wild imagination, even the same red hair (dyed, but still). She followed in Anne Shirley’s fictional footsteps, chasing dreams of teaching and writing, and falling for her very own storybook hero.
But when a string of real-life plot twists—a failing romance, a fight with the administration, and the sudden death of her beloved father—pulls her back to the island she once couldn’t wait to leave, Anne is forced to face a truth no story ever prepared her for. Sometimes, life doesn’t follow a script.
Back in the house she grew up in, Anne must confront her past and the people she left behind, including Joe Miller, the boy who once called her “The Pest.” It’s time to figure out what she wants and rewrite her story to create her own happy ending. Not the book version. The real one.
More about Nobody's Perfect, by Sally Kilpatrick:
From a USA Today bestselling author comes a poignant, funny, and heartfelt novel about a wife and mother grabbing hold of a second chance she never saw coming.
Vivian Quackenbush enjoys a typical life. She has winesday evenings with her two best friends. Her son is in college. She and her husband, Mitch, are planning the next move for their empty-nester future. But to Vivian's blindsided surprise...not together.
After nearly twenty-five years of marriage, Mitch wants a divorce. He confesses that he doesn't love her anymore. He never even liked her chicken salad Brutal. What is Vivian to do but channel her anger, frustration, and pain into a video she posts online. Ill advised? Perhaps. Cathartic? Absolutely. Overnight, Vivian goes viral. Millions of views and counting--to Mitch's fury, her son's embarrassment, her mother's support, and the media's delight. For Vivian, it's a moment of truth: hide or lean into it. Vivian 2.0 chooses to lean--maybe even toward the younger single father next door.
Now Vivian is wondering where she goes from here. She's discovering that somewhere in her trending if upended life, she'll have to figure out who she really wants to be.
More about The Unwritten Rules of Magic, by Harper Ross:
Emerson Clarke can’t remember a time when she felt in control. Her father—a celebrated author—was a chaotic force until he got Alzheimer’s. Her mother turned to gin. And recently, her teen daughter has shut her out without explanation. If only she could arrange reality the same way she controls the stories she ghostwrites, life could be perfect.
Or so she thinks.
After her father’s funeral, Emerson steals his vintage typewriter—the one he’d forbidden anyone to touch—and tests its keys by typing out a frivolous wish. When it comes true the very next day, she tries another. Then, those words also spring to life. Suddenly, she becomes obsessed with using the typewriter to rewrite happiness for herself and her daughter.
But the more she shapes her real-life, the more she uncovers disturbing truths about her family’s history and the unexpected cost of every story-come-true. She should destroy the typewriter, yet when her daughter’s secret finally emerges, Emerson is torn between paying the price for bending fate and embracing the uncertainty of an unscripted life.
About the Authors:
USA Today bestselling author Sonali Dev writes stories that explore the experience of being a woman in today’s world. Her novels have been named Best Books of the Year by Library Journal, NPR, the Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, BuzzFeed, PopSugar, and Kirkus Reviews. Dev has won the American Library Association’s award for best in genre, the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, and multiple RT Seals of Excellence. Other honors include being named a RITA finalist and being listed for the Dublin Literary Award. Shelf Awareness calls her “not only one of the best, but one of the bravest romance novelists working today.”Sonali lives in Chicagoland with her husband, two visiting adult children, and the world’s most perfect dog. Find out more about the author and her work at https://sonalidev.com.
New York Times bestselling author Virginia Kantra is a big believer in the power of stories—the ones we grow up with and the ones we tell ourselves. She has written over thirty novels about strong women, messy families, and the journey to find yourself. Her books have received numerous awards as well as starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist and praise in People and USA Today. A graduate of Northwestern University, she is delighted to be returning to the Chicago area in Anne of a Different Island.
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