08/20/2026
We’re so excited to be hosting Kathleen Rooney (author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and From Dust to Stardust) to celebrate her new book, Man Overboard! OUT NOW
Our staff has been loving this book, and we can’t wait to share and discuss it with you all.
We hope you’ll join us for this FREE, in-store event on Thursday, September 10th from 6 to 7pm.
Books will be available for purchase and signing, and refreshments will be served. But space is limited, so please call to RSVP at 847-234-4420 📞 OR sign up at the link in our bio 🔗
“Patrick ‘Kick’ Kilpatrick hates the ocean. Has always been terrified of it. And now he’s in a real pickle.
Drifting alone in the sea after falling (or jumping? He can’t remember as the all-inclusive drinks on the cruise he was taking with his extended family were, well, inclusive) Kick must survive. Breath by breath, hour by hour in the lonely sea.
As the waves crash over him, so too do the thoughts and memories of just how he got there. A Thanksgiving cruise with an obnoxious brother-in-law he has to bite his tongue to keep from screaming at. A father who gives the Great Santini a run for his money. And a mother who already left the family boat, so to speak, a long time ago. His family may be complicated, and the pains of life may seem unbearable—infuriating enough to leap from the deck—but maybe the will to survive is stronger.
Man Overboard! is an inventive, slyly hilarious, and inspiring novel about what it means to be alive and stay alive, and what keeps us going no matter how choppy the waves of our journey become. Hold on for dear life!“
