BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20220512T230000Z DTEND:20220513T000000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Book Release Event for Author Shelby Van Pelt DESCRIPTION:Lake Forest Book Store invites you to an evening with local author Shelby Van Pelt celebrating her debut novel entitled Remarkably Bright Creatures.\n\nREMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES\n\nEcco Press $27.99 Releases May 3\, 2022\n\n \n\nThursday\, May 12\, 2022 @ 6:00 PM\n\nat Lake Forest Book Store\n\n662 N. Western Avenue\n\nLake Forest\, IL 60045\n\n \n\nBooks available for purchase and signing.\n\n \n\nRefreshment will be served.\n\n \n\nSeats are limited. Reserve yours at 847-234-4420\n\n \n\n\nAfter Tova Sullivan's husband died\, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium\, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope\, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son\, Erik\, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus\, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective\, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late. Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Lake Forest Book Store invites you to an evening with local author Shelby Van Pelt celebrating her debut novel entitled Remarkably Bright Creatures.
\n\nAfter Tova Sullivan'\;s husband died\, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium\, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope\, which she'\;s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son\, Erik\, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus\, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn'\;t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective\, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova'\;s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it'\;s too late. Shelby Van Pelt'\;s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.
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