WHAT: St. Louis Genealogical Society Book Jamboree WHERE: #4 Sunnen Drive Suite 140 St. Louis, MO 63143 (off Big Bend, just south of Manchester Road) WHEN: Sunday, December 6, 2009 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Here is a chance to meet local authors and representatives of local historical and genealogical societies. You can find a good book to read, get a good reference book for your genealogy and/or history interests, and even do some early holiday shopping. Authors will be autographing their book. LOCAL HISTORY: Jeff Fister - Counting Chickens: Tales of Raising 8 Kids (and 4 hens) in the City of St. Louis NiNi Harris - Bohemian Hill, an American Story Unyielding Spirit, the History of the Polish People in St. Louis Kevin Kious - St. Louis Brews - 200 Years of Brewing in St. Louis, 1809-2009 Bill Lhotka - St. Louis Crime Chronicles John Oldani - The Story of the Crown Candy Kitchen and Passing It On: Folklore of St. Louis Greg Marecek - The St. Louis Football Cardinals Carol Ferring Shepley - Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes: Tales of Bellefontaine Cemetery MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS HISTORY: Sue Blesi - History of Stanton Where Dead Men Still Fight Margaret Kimball Brown, PhD - The French Colony in the Mid-Mississippi Valley History as They Lived It: A Social History of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois Don Corrigan - Show Me...Nature's Wrath and Show Me...Natural Wonders Anita Mallinckrodt, PhD - Why They Left: German Immigration from Prussia to Missouri How They Came: German Immigration from Prussia to Missouri Tom Pearson - The Missouri State Guard: A Selected, Annotated Unit Bibliography; Illinois Central: A Guide to Genealogical Research in Springfield, Illinois Railroad Boys: The Story of the 89th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment Dan Terry - Hermann Shadows LOCAL GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETIES THAT WILL BE ADDITIONAL VENDORS THAT DAY Chesterfield Historical Commission Four Rivers Genealogical Society Historic Florissant Jefferson County Genealogical Society Landmark Association of St. Louis St. Charles County Historical Society St. Clair Genealogical Society Washington, Missouri Historical Society In addition. the Society's Photographer for Hire will be available. There is plenty of free parking at the Society