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Dear Friends,
Our fabulous Bookmark Contest for kids, ages 4-12, is going on this month. Missed the announcement? There's still time for your artist to join.
 Baseball Fans: Tonight, 7pm, revel in all things literary about baseball with Ron Kaplan, 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die. Special treat, we will enjoy the wonderful music of Moment's Notice. So no excuses, join us!  Thursday evening, 7pm, Irish American Writers and Artists Salon welcomes Terrence McCauley reading from his new, fast-paced pulp thriller, Prohibition.  World Book Night Launch Party, Friday, 5-7pm. If you've volunteered to be a giver, come pick up your books and enjoy a festive party to celebrate. Not a giver (this year) come and share the excitement of the volunteers and their plans for the 23rd.  Saturday, Noon-3pm, at the Newark Public Library, a conversation with Valerie Wilson Wesley, writing as Savanna Welles, and author Anasa Maat about Wesley's new paranormal romance, When the Night Whispers.Sunday, 4pm, Third Sunday Poets features Annabel Lee, Joel Lewis and Sandra Duguid read from their recent works.  Last Call for Reservations: Book Review Luncheon at Green Brook Country Club, April 24th, featuring Kristin Hannah as she discusses her book, Firefly Lane and introduces her newly released, Fly Away. Reservation required mmlc2926@aol.comWhat else is going on the last week in April? And there's more in May!
What are we talking about in the bookstore? Some highlighted titles - with a coupon below. Note, eBooks are listed when available. Haven't started downloading our KOBO eBooks yet? Here's how.
Enjoy! Margot, Carolyn, Marina, Nicole, Marisela, Liane and Jeanne
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What We're Talking About
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James Salter
Romantic and haunting, All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. Philip Bowman, who comes home from WWII and drifts into the world of New York publishing. It is a dazzling, sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition, a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures of being alive.
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Simon Armitage
Walking "the backbone of England" by day (accompanied by friends, family, strangers, dogs, the unpredictable English weather, and a backpack full of Mars Bars), each evening he gives a poetry reading in a different village in exchange for a bed. Armitage reflects on the inextricable link between freedom and fear as well as the poet's place in our bustling world. In Armitage's own words, "to embark on the walk is to surrender to its lore and submit to its logic, and to take up a challenge against the self."
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An intimate, richly illustrated memoir, written with charm and panache, that juxtaposes two fascinating lives - the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author's own mother, an upper-middle-class New Yorker who was a great beauty and the polished hostess at her family's garment district restaurant - to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman.
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William Nicholson
Motherland is a compelling, page-turning narrative brimming with stunning war scenes, pageantry, politics, and questions about faith and art, as well as quiet, intimate moments of passion, doubt, and longing. Above all, it is a great love story about three people struggling to find happiness and meaning amid war and its aftermath.
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Neil Irwin
A gripping account of the most intense exercise in economic crisis management we've ever seen, a poker game in which the stakes have run into the trillions of dollars. It is a landmark reckoning with central bankers and their power, with the great financial crisis of our time, and with the history of the relationship between capitalism and the state. Definitive, revelatory, and riveting, The Alchemists shows us where money comes from-and where it may well be going.
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Maya Angelou
 Delving into one of her life's most rich, rewarding, and fraught relationships, Mom & Me & Mom explores the healing and love that evolved between the two women over the course of their lives, the love that fostered Maya Angelou's rise from immeasurable depths to reach impossible heights. |
Filip Bondy
Montclair's own, Daily News sports columnist Filip Bondy brings us an hilarious celebration of the worst in baseball history: The boneheads, cheats, jerks and losers who make the grand old game so fun. A thoroughly entertaining portrait of the personalities who deserve their place in baseball history as much as the immortals.
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Fiona Maazel
 The dizzying new novel by Fiona Maazel, a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35." A big, bold, and blackly comic novel. It tackles all the major issues of the 21st century -- religion, government, technology, international politics -- while a love story beats quietly at the core. It is topical and richly plotted.
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NYT reporter, and Montlcair's own, Charles V. Bagli, takes readers inside the most spectacular failure in real estate history, using this single deal as a lens to see how and why the real estate crisis happened. It's the definitive book on real estate during the bubble years-and what happened when that enormous bubble exploded.
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Jean-Marie Blas de Robles
"I dreamed of New York, I am going there."
On May 31, 1953, twenty-year-old Sylvia Plath arrived in New York City for a one-month stint at "the intellectual fashion magazine" Mademoiselle to be a guest editor for its prestigious annual college issue. Thoughtful and illuminating, this captivating portrait invites us to see Sylvia Plath before The Bell Jar, before she became an icon-a young woman with everything to live for. Hardcover and eBook.
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April '13: New Hardcover Books!
Please present this coupon - or mention the newsletter - and receive 20% discount on any of the hardcover books highlighted here: All That Is, Mom & Me & Mom, Walking Home, Who's on Worst, Shocked, Woke Up Lonely, Motherland,
Other People's Money, The Alchemists and Pain, Parties, Work. | Offer Expires:
April 24, 2013
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