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Ridgewood Nj, Bookends of Ridgewood will host Norman Reedus the acclaimed star of The Walking Dead. The Book Signing of The Ravaged will be on Monday May 9th at 5pm . You can also order a SIGNED Copy to be shipped if you are NOT attending. Each Person Needs a Ticket to Attend. ONLINE ORDERS ONLY. ( www.book-ends.com )
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Ridgewood NJ, Bookends of Ridgewood will host and in-Store, In- Person Event with Chrishell Stause , the Star on Netflix’s Selling Sunset, actress on Days of our Lives & All My Children
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July 6th, 2016
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Ridgewood NJ, the Morristown Festival of Books has just announced their Independent Bookstore Partner: Bookends at 211 East Ridgewood Avenue in Ridgewood, NJ (201) 445-0726 www.book-ends.com. Bookends has generously donated a portion of the book price to the Festival and this helps to keep our Saturday Festival free and open to the public. Morristown Festival of Books encourages all attendees to support their local independent bookstores.
Morristown Festival of Books is thrilled to announce its much-anticipated 2016 award-winning author lineup! Widely acclaimed journalist and New York Times best-selling author of The Perfect Storm, Fire, A Death in Belmont, War, and now Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, Sebastian Junger kicks off the Festival with his Keynote Address on Friday, September 30th.
The all-day, free main Festival on Saturday, October 1st features over 35 award-winning fiction, non-fiction, children’s, and young adult authors, including Pulitzer Prize-winners Bill Dedman, Gilbert M. Gaul, Amy Ellis Nutt, and Stacy Schiff, novelists Emma Donoghue, Nadia Hashimi, Matthew Thomas and Colson Whitehead, best-selling suspense authors Mary Higgins Clark and Karin Slaughter, non-fiction writers Rana Foroohar and Amanda Freitag, Nebula award-winning fantasy author Naomi Novik, and best-selling children’s author of all time, R.L. Stine!
New Jersey’s premier book festival, Morristown Festival of Books offers something for everyone. This year’s award-winning selected titles fall under a number of categories. Fiction includes Thrillers, Fantasy, Romance, and Short Stories; Non-fiction includes History, Election, Finance, Foreign Policy, Social Policy/Gender Identity, Autism, Sports, and Cooking. As in previous years, the Festival is also featuring a number of Debut Authors as well as Children’s and Young Adult authors.
Young readers will delight in hearing the latest tales of Biscuit and Bad Kitty, while older children will be captivated and spooked by the long-awaited, Goosebumps Most Wanted. For tweens and teens, this year’s festival picks are sure to hit home as the characters in these novels are itching for independence, looking for love and romance, and questioning friendships, decisions and, most of all, themselves.
In addition to these offerings for children and young adults, Festival attendees will have the opportunity to hear Pulitzer-Prize winner Bill Dedman recounting the mysterious case of heiress Huguette Clark who owned several palatial homes yet lived for twenty years in a hospital despite being healthy; Rana Foroohar discussing how financialization is threatening the economic future of America; Amanda Freitag, celebrated chef from Food Network’s Chopped, delighting home cooks with her stories and recipes for restaurant-quality meals; two-time Pulitzer-Prize winner Gilbert M. Gaul examining the myriad problems with elite college football programs; Pulitzer-Prize winner Amy Ellis Nutt sharing the true story of a transgender girl and her family’s extraordinary journey through this transformation; and Stacy Schiff unveiling for the first time the mystery surrounding the Salem Witch Trials.
Fiction lovers will be thrilled by the vast array of novelists featured at the Festival. Some of the award-winning and best-selling novelists include Mary Higgins Clark (As Time Goes By), internationally acclaimed author of Room, Emma Donoghue (The Wonder), Nadia Hashimi (A House Without Windows), Karin Slaughter (The Kept Woman), debut author Matthew Thomas (We Are Not Ourselves), and Colson Whitehead (The Underground Railroad).
Sebastian Junger, the award-winning, veteran reporter who has written extensively of his experience embedded with American troops in Afghanistan, will discuss his latest book Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging in his Keynote Address on Friday, September 30th at 7:30pm, Mayo Performing Arts Center, South Street, Morristown.
The all-day free main Festival takes place on Saturday, October 1. Over 35 award-winning and best-selling authors will speak and answer questions in one-hour sessions at six locales, all within walking distance of each other along South Street in historic Morristown, including St. Peter’s Church Sanctuary and Parish House, Morristown Presbyterian Church Parish House, The Church of the Redeemer, the Morristown/Morris Township Library and the Starlight Room at the Mayo Performing Arts Center. Book sales and signings will occur at a tent on the grounds of the historic Vail Mansion. The Friday night Keynote Address and the free all-day Saturday Festival are presented by Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management.
