Books
Inspiration Flows From the Shore
January 15, 2015
Now a professor in Mississippi, author Michael Kardos still draws from his youth in Long Branch to fuel his work....
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Author Donald Linky: A Byrne Legacy
December 8, 2014
New book explores the governor’s life and times....
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Colorful Tomes for Tots and Tweens
November 20, 2014
This holiday season, pick up any of these great publications for your favorite li'l bookworm!...
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Rose Knows: The Baking Bible
November 19, 2014
In The Baking Bible, her magnum opus, Rose Levy Beranbaum shows why pros as well as amateurs turn to her for guidance. ...
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Torn Siblings, in Search of Spirit
November 3, 2014
Reading We Will Listen For You is an invitation to look beyond the stone walls of churches and gape in wonder at the world and the unknowable vistas beyond. ...
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Recipe for Murder at The Shore
September 5, 2014
An aspiring mystery writer finds herself at the heart of the real-life murder in this tightly-plotted whodunit....
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Book Fest Bound for Morristown
September 4, 2014
Bibliophiles will go wild for the Morristown Festival of Books! The two-day event takes place September 26-27 and will feature 22 local and national authors....
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Little Free Libraries are cropping up in front of homes throughout the Garden State....
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Plants Plot Their Revenge
July 24, 2014
Author A.J. Colucci creates a horrifying alternative reality while exploring the nature of human courage and maternal bonds....
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Riding Out the Repercussions
June 30, 2014
Adrift teen Tom Alison anchors this cautionary but invigorating novel about identity, culpability and class....
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The Good Goodbye: On Love, Loss, and Living
May 20, 2014
A journalist's memoir reflects on the deaths of her husband, sister, mother and mother-in-law in the span of 17 months. ...
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Flirting With Disaster: A Collection of Calamities
April 23, 2014
A new book by Alan A. Siegal catalogs the fires, shipwrecks and other disasters that have plagued New Jersey throughout history. ...
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The memoir of yoga enthusiast Brian Leaf, "Misadventures of a Parenting Yogi," amusingly documents his quest to be a centered dad. ...
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Daniel O’Brien: Fighting Words
April 10, 2014
The author of the historical non-fiction book "How To Fight Presidents" talks with us about the eccentricities of past commanders-in-chief, and why Millard Fillmore is dead meat....
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Quickie novelist Dan Hurley finds there’s no fast track to brain power....
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An Immigrant’s Bittersweet Slice of Life in Edison
March 6, 2014
The thinly-veiled memoir tells the tale of an immigrant family who must cope with grief, doubt and life in America. ...
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Author James McBride: Making His Own Luck
March 3, 2014
National Book Award winner James McBride talks with New Jersey Monthly about not caring about his literary status, and his part-time life in Lambertville. ...
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Missing Memory
January 24, 2014
Prolific author Joyce Carol Oates latest novel, "Carthage," is a murder mystery that relies on small town gossip, capricious witnesses and family politics....
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Family Mystery at the Shore
January 6, 2014
Sarah Cornwell's debut novel, "What I Had Before I Had You," follows a mother's search for her bi-polar son in her gritty, Jersey Shore hometown....
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Princeton’s Salinger Stash
January 2, 2014
With a documentary on the J.D. Salinger airing on PBS on January 21, many are flocking to Princeton to read five of the reclusive author's unpublished short stories. ...
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