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Barnes and Noble 10 Best Fiction Books of 2009

  1. The Girl who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
  2. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  3. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
  4. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
  5. Spooner by Pete Dexter
  6. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
  7. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
  8. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
  9. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
  10. Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips

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NEW JERSEY LIFE MAGAZINE LAUNCHES HEALTH +BEAUTY TITLE

POPULAR NEW JERSEY MAGAZINE ADDS NEW HEALTH AND BEAUTY ISSUE

new-jersey-life1New Jersey Life Magazine will launch its premiere issue of  New Jersey Life Health + Beauty next year, starting in February / March.

For the past 11 years, New Jersey Life has been the authoritative source for the urbane tastes of our state’s most affluent readers, and Health + Beauty evolved from NJL’s popular “Mind, Body Spirit” Column. Continue reading NEW JERSEY LIFE MAGAZINE LAUNCHES HEALTH +BEAUTY TITLE

JERSEY CITY FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY TO HOST DIGITAL BOOKMOBILE NATIONAL TOUR EVENT

library-logo-jcDOWNLOAD EXPERIENCE PROMOTES FREE AUDIOBOOK, EBOOK, MUSIC & VIDEO DOWNLOAD SERVICE

The Jersey City Free Public Library will host the Digital Bookmobile, an immersive download experience inside a 74-foot, high-tech tractor-trailer, on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13TH at the Main Library, MERCER STREET (between Jersey Avenue & Barrow Street), from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Readers of all ages are invited to engage digital downloading through interactive demonstrations and experience Jersey City Free Public Library’s audiobook, eBook, music, and video download service at this free event.

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World’s Best Selling Books of all Times

bookstack_200hOne can never have enough of books! Here is a list of some of the world’s best selling books of all times for all book lovers!

Bible:
The Bible is one of the topmost selling books of all times. This is divided into two sections – the Old Testament and the New Testament. There are many translations of the same that can be found in major bookstores. Currently, there are approximately 438 translations of the full Bible in various languages.

A Tale of Two Cities:
Charles Dickens is known for his great works and a ‘Tale of Two Cities’ is a fine example, which also ranks high as one the best selling books around the world. This historical novel is written during the time of the French Revolution. It is set against the backdrop of London, Paris, England and France.

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40 Years Later -Mario Puzo’s Godfather is Still Popular- Do You Know Why?

175px-godfather-novel-cover1The reasons for its enduring popularity aren’t easy to pin down. Of course, Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpieces, “The Godfather” and “The Godfather, Part II,” brought a swarm of new readers, but the book had already sold millions of copies before the first film was ­released in 1972.

Source: Allen Barra WSJ

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Summer Reads -What Will You Be Reading?

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Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paper to write the definitive murder story of his career. Jack is soon running with his biggest story since The Poet made his career years ago. He is tracking a killer who operates completely below police radar–and with perfect knowledge of any move against him. Including Jack’s.ntil they’re under his control. Can the flock protect themselves from the approaching army–and save the world from utter destruction?

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River View Observer Re- Read of Hoboken Resident -Joe Pantoliano’s Book-Who’s Sorry Now?: The True Story of a Stand-up Guy

River View Observer Takes a Second Look at Hoboken Resident Joe Pantoliano’s Book “Who’s Sorry Now? The True Story of a Stand-up Guy by Joe Pantoliano, David Evanier

 joey-pants.jpg Everyone knows him from the HBO hit show The Soprano’s as Ralph Cifaretto, and he has starred in well over sixty movies, including The 2009 movie The Job now in post production and “To Live and Die”also in post production; and some of  his other movies :The Matrix, Memento, Bound, The Fugitive, The Goonies, Midnight Run, Empire of the Sun, Eddie and the Cruisers, but before this Hoboken resident met the likes of  Tony S and his family

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WHAT YOU ARE READING- First Week of October,2007

TOP 5 FICTION AND NON-FICTION BOOKS

FICTION
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
(Riverhead: $25.95)
Two Afghan women struggle to survive jihad, civil war and Taliban tyranny. 

You’ve Been Warned by James Patterson

and Howard Roughan
(Little, Brown: $27.99)
A nanny falls in love with the father of her charges; trouble follows.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
 (Riverhead: $24.95)
A sci-fi-loving nerd and his immigrant family are haunted by the past.

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $27)
The saga of an undercover CIA agent, beginning with the Tet offensive in Vietnam.

Pontoon by Garrison Keillor
(Viking: $25.95)
The latest from Lake Wobegon details the funeral preparations for Evelyn Peterson, recently deceased.


NON-FICTION
Giving by Bill Clinton(Knopf: $24.95)The former president and now foundation head describes how giving our money and time can change the world


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WHAT YOU ARE READING!

HARDCOVER FICTION

SPLENDID SUNSA THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
Khaled Hosseini. A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war. (Riverhead, $25.95)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

It IT’S ALL ABOUT HIM, by Denise Jackson with Ellen Vaughn. The wife of the country music star Alan Jackson describes how religious faith re-stored her marriage. (Thomas Nelson $24.99)                                    

HARDCOVER ADVICE 

The Secret

THE SECRET, by Rhonda Byrne. The law of attraction as a key to getting what you want. (Atria/Beyond Words $23.95)
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