All Write Now columnist Steph Auteri lists some of the nonfiction books we can look forward to in 2019, that she writes will make her feel inspired again.
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All Write Now: Looking literarily forward, times six
All Write Now columnist Melissa D. Sullivan points to six titles coming in 2019 that she’s looking forward to: something for everyone.
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Stories of Boys Making Positive and Grown-up Choices
The hard-to-shake (and untrue!) belief that boys don’t like to read at once stymies interest and limits the types of books that are recommended and highlighted. And while it is […]
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Montclair’s Jorge Aguirre Dishes Details (and a prequel) About Monsters Beware!
Montclair’s Jorge Aguirre has MONSTERS BEWARE! coming out March 13th. It is the third book of his popular Chronicles of Claudette series, together with illustrator Rafael Rosado. Anticipating that milestone, he […]
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Open Book/Open Mind: A year of electing dangerously, writes Lawrence O’Donnell
Things were terrible in American in 1968: and everything that was bad was changed by the resistance of that time, says Lawrence O’Donnell. He’ll be discussing his new book “Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics” at the Montclair Public Library on Sunday, Feb. 4.
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Ron Kaplan to talk Hank Greenberg at Watchung Booksellers Wednesday
Ron Kaplan will talk about his new book “Hank Greenberg in 1938” at Watchung Booksellers, 54 Fairfield St., on Wednesday, June 21, at 7 p.m. The book chronicles the events […]
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Author Janet Benton to appear in Montclair
Author Janet Benton appears today, Thursday, June 15, 7 p.m., at Watchung Booksellers, 54 Fairfield St., to discuss her book “Lilli de Jong,” a novel based on the experiences of […]
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Montclair’s Laurie Lico Albanese loves triangles
Laurie Lico Albanese In conversation with Laura Morowitz Burgdorff Cultural Center, 10 Durand Road, Maplewood Mapsobookfest.org Maplewood/South Orange Book Festival Saturday, June 10, 1 p.m. By GWEN OREL orel@montclairlocal.news Laurie […]
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Jaqueline Mroz to discuss ‘Scattered Seeds’ in Montclair
Author Jacqueline Mroz will discuss her book “Scattered Seeds: In Search of Family and Identity in the Sperm Donor Generation,” in conversation with Deborah Davis, on Friday, June 9, from […]
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Books: in ‘Sisters One, Two Three’ secrets run in families
By GWEN OREL orel@montclairlocal.news There is a different reality of family for every person in it, says Nancy Star, author of “Sisters One, Two, Three.” “Who’s to say which memory […]
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Montclair writes poetry
We received some terrific poems on the theme of travel, to honor poetry month — that was April, but we forgot to give you a deadline at first, and really, […]
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Ron Kaplan, author of book about Hank Greenberg, to speak
Ron Kaplan, author of “Hank Greenberg in 1938: Hatred and Home Runs in the Shadow of War,” will speak about Greenberg at Bnai Keshet’s Kaplan Minyan on Saturday morning, May […]
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Eyes right: Montclair Public Library’s Open Book/Open Mind presents ‘Watched’
‘Watched’ Presented by the Montclair Public Library and the MPL Foundation Open Book/Open Mind Performed by Theatre 167 Friday, May 19, 7-9 p.m. Montclair High School Little Theatre 141 Park […]
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It’s New Jersey, It’s America: Montclair author Thomas Pluck to speak
By GWEN OREL orel@montclairlocal.news “Bad Boy Boogie,” by Thomas Pluck, takes place in New Jersey. Much of it takes place in Nutley, where Pluck, now a Montclairite, grew up. “The […]
