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Dear Friends,

It is SOOO hard to select the books for our newsletter.
Our choices represent books we've read and loved, buzz books on our nighttable, that extra special odd one we don't want to overlook, and some just because they have great covers!  People are already shopping early for the holidays (!?!?!) and the coupon below will help you make that choice.

We still have wonderful author events coming up.  This week's schedule is highlighted here.

There is also a lot of excitement brewing about Dottie Frank at the Library with The Last Original Wife, the Eckstut's The Secret Language of Color, Sara Paretsky at the BK Book Festival and Fancy Nancy illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser.  And there's more!!!!!  Check out our November calendar, hate to have you miss anything.

TONIGHT, 10/16, 7pm at the bookstore
An intellectual adventure!  Lincoln Paine discussed his new book,
The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World 



TONIGHT, 11/6, 7pm at the Montclair Library, With the Author Series 
Political machines during Prohibition and the Great Depression.  Steven Hart will talk about American Dictators: Frank Hague, Nucky Johnson and the Perfection of the Urban Political Machine.


Thursday, 10/17, 7pm 

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Jersey Women Mean Business!  A panel of successful women business owners discuss what it takes.   Essays in Big Bold Business Advice.



Enjoy! Margot, Carolyn, Marina, Nicole, Marisela, Liane and Jeanne  

 

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What's New
November 2013   
Wally Lamb
  
We have been waiting for a new Wally Lamb book, since his popular She's Come Undone and I Know This Much is True.  And he delivers!  We are water is a strong family drama with all the complexities of modern society that you will NOT want to put down. 
Jonathon Grimwood

Set against the backdrop of the Enlightenment, the delectable decadence of Versailles, and the French Revolution, The Last Banquet is an intimate epic that tells the story of one man's quest to know the world through its many and marvelous flavors.  "French Gatsby territory!  Opulent, sensuous, sumptuous."-BBC Radio 2 
Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft. With the help of the "muckraking" press-including legendary journalists Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, William Allen White, and editor Sam McClure-Roosevelt had wielded the Bully Pulpit to challenge and triumph over abusive monopolies, political bosses, and corrupting money brokers.
Hardcover and eBook  
Ann Patchett

"The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living."

So begins This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, an examination of the things Ann Patchett is fully committed to--the art and craft of writing, the depths of friendship, an elderly dog, and one spectacular nun. These essays twine to create both a portrait of life and a philosophy of life.

Shahan Mufti's family history, which he can trace back fourteen hundred years to the inner circle of the prophet Muhammad, offers an enlightened perspective on the mystifying history of Pakistan. Mufti uses the stories of his ancestors, many of whom served as judges and jurists in Muslim sharia courts of South Asia for many centuries, to reveal the deepest roots-real and imagined-of Islamic civilization in Pakistan.n and scandal." -Publishers Weekly
Charles Blackstone

Blackstone's debut novel traces the whirlwind courtship, hasty elopement, and rocky first weeks of marriage of Peter Hapworth-an unfulfilled adjunct literature professor at a Chicago community college-and Isabelle "Izzy" Conway-a celebrity sommelier with her own TV show, Vintage Attraction.A fun smart read, especially if you love wine and Greece.
Jung Chang    

From the author of Wild Swans, the incredible story of a young consort who launched a palace coup after her husband's death and became the power behind the power (her 5-year old son).  She ruled for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.  
 Hardcover and eBook.  


Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment.  More or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked and argued, about the future of food in America, the meaning of taste, and the limits of snobbery. Without quite realizing it, they were shaping today's tastes and culture, the way we eat now. Hardcover and eBook  
Jonathan Miles

A compulsively readable, deeply human  novel that charts the course of three  intersecting lives - a freegan couple living off the grid in Manhattan, a once prominent linguist struggling with midlife, and a New Jersey debt-collection magnate with a new family and a second chance at getting things right.  Witty and intimate.
Tom Ambrose
 
From the Velocipede to the Pinarello: The Bicycles that Have Shaped the World.  The invention of the bicycle changed history by democratizing travel for the first time. Instead of walking just 10 miles a day on foot, a healthy individual could now ride up to 80 miles on a cycle at a relatively modest cost.
Amy Tan

Amy Tan returns to what she does best, the intricate and fraught relationships between mothers and daughters. This epic story follows 3 generations of women from Shanghai, to a remote mountain village, and to San Francisco.

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November '13:  New Hardcover Books!
Please present this coupon - or mention the newsletter - and receive 20% discount on any of the hardcover books highlighted here:
We are Water, The Empress Dowager Cixi, The Last Banquet, Provence 1970, The Bully Pulpit, Want Not, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, The History of Cycling in 50 Bikes, The Faithful Scribe, The Valley of Amazement and Vintage Attraction.
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November 13, 2013