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Upcoming Book Event: Anne & Claire Berest

Information was taken from the Montclair Literary Festivals website.

Join us on Tuesday, April 29th, at 6:30p.m. as Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival, the Montclair Public Library, the Montclair Campus of L’Alliance New York, and Watchung Booksellers welcome Anne & Claire Berest in conversation about Gabriële based on the life of their bohemian, brilliant great-grandmother with moderator Violaine Huisman. Event will be held at the Montclair Public Library.

Tickets to hear Anne & Claire Berest in person cost $33 and include a copy of the book. Doors open at 6:00p.m.

Gabriële was originally published in French by Europa Editions and was translated by Tina Kover. It’s a sensational, exuberant novel about love and sex, art and revolution, experimentation and creativity. Moving between Paris, New York, Berlin, Zurich, Barcelona, London, and Saint-Tropez, the book is as audacious, uninhibited, intimate, and unforgettable as its central character, the mercurial, pioneering Gabriële Buffet.

Anne Berest’s first novel to appear in English, “The Postcard,” was a national bestseller, a Library Journal, NPR, and TIME Best Book of the Year, and winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, France’s highest literary honor. It was described as “stunning” by Leslie Camhi in The New Yorker, as a “powerful literary work” by Julie Orringer in The New York Times Book Review, and as “intimate, profound, essential” in the pages of ELLE magazine. 

Claire Berest is the author of four novels including “Rien n’est noir,” winner of the ELLE Readers Grand Prize, and two works of nonfiction, “Class Struggle: Why I Resigned from National Education,” and ”Lost Children: An Investigation in the Minors Brigade.” Her most recent novel is “Artifices.” 

Violaine Huisman is a French writer. Her debut novel, The Book of Mother, won the Prix Françoise Sagan and was long-listed for the International Booker Prize. 

This event will be held at The Montclair Public Library, 50 South Fullerton Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042. If you require any special accommodations to attend, please email montclairliteraryfestival@gmail.com before the event.

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Save the Date: Boston Book Festival

Information taken from Boston Book Festivals website.

Boston Book Festival

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Copley Square

Join us for an extraordinary day celebrating the power of words at the Boston Book Festival.

And stay tuned for announcements about special events happening in the days before!

Website link: https://bostonbookfest.org/

Upcoming Book Event: Christian Allaire

Information was taken from the Montclair Literary Festivals website.

Join us on Tuesday, April 29th, at 7p.m. as Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival and the Montclair Art Museum welcome Christian Allaire in conversation about From the Rez to the Runway: Forging My Path In Fashion with moderator Elaina Patton.  Event will be held at the Montclair Art Museum.

Doors open at 6:30pm. Tickets to hear Christian Allaire in person cost $25 general admission, $15 for MAM members and $10 for students (must have valid student ID), and do not include a copy of the book. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

This event is presented at a special discount for MAM member MAM Member Tickets.

Christian Allaire is currently Senior Fashion and Style Writer at Vogue, where he covers celebrity style, red carpet fashion, trends, emerging designers and specializes in coverage of Indigenous fashion across North America. He is First Nations (Ojibwe), Italian and French and grew up on the Nipissing First Nation reserve in Northern Ontario with dreams of working in the fashion industry. Allaire writes with feeling about the struggle to find his place—and community—in the highly exclusive world of fashion. Full of joy, honesty, adversity, and great clothes, From the Rez to the Runway: Forging My Path In Fashion

is a gripping memoir about how to achieve your dreams—and elevate others—while always remaining true to yourself.  

Elaina Patton is a New York-based freelance entertainment and culture writer and regular contributor to Vogue, IndieWire and NBC Out among others.
This event will be held at The Montclair Art Museum, 3 South Mountain Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07042. 

If you require any

special accommodations to attend, please email montclairliteraryfestival@gmail.com before the event.

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Upcoming Book Event: Colum McCann

Information was taken from Montclair Literary Festivals website

Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival is thrilled to welcome Colum McCann, bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin, in conversation with Garth Risk Hallberg

about McCann’s new novel Twist on Monday, April 28th at 7p.m.

This event will be held at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, 67 Church Street, Montclair, NJ 07042.

Twist is a propulsive novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean. It follows an Irish journalist assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. Resoundingly simple and turbulent at the same time, Twist is a meditation on the nature of narrative and truth from one of the great storytellers of our times.

Colum McCann is the author of eight novels, three collections of stories and two works of non-fiction. Born and raised in Ireland, he has been the recipient of many honors, including the U.S National Book Award, the International Dublin Literary Prize, a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, election to the Irish arts academy, and an Oscar nomination. In 2017 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts. His work has been published in over 40 languages. His 2009 novel Let the Great World Spin has sold a million copies in the United States alone, and was voted on the New York Times Readers List, “100 Best Books of the 21st Century.” Apeirogon, published in 2020, became an immediate best-seller and won several major international awards.

Garth Risk Hallberg’s first novel, City on Fire, was an international best seller and was selected as one of the best books of 2015 by The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Guardian, and Vogue, among others. It was adapted into the AppleTV+ series of the same name. In 2017, Granta named him one of the Best of Young American Novelists.

Doors open at 6:30pm. Tickets to hear Colum McCann in person cost $35 and include a copy of Twist.

If you require any special accommodations to attend, please email montclairliteraryfestival@gmail.com  before the event.

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Upcoming Book Event: Scott Turow

Information was taken from Montclair Literary Festival

Scott Turow ‘Presumed Guilty’

In-person – Thursday, April 17th, 7pm

Join us to welcome the wildly popular author Scott Turow in his only appearance in our area. Turow, the bestselling author of Presumed Innocent-the phenomenon that redefined the legal thriller and is the basis for Apple TV+’s most-watched drama series ever, is in conversation withSarah Lyall about Presumed Guilty, his scintillating new courtroom drama.

InPresumed Guilty, a retired judge returns to the courtroom one last time and starts to question whether the system to which he has devoted his life can ever provide true justice for those who are presumed guilty.

Scott Turow, a writer and former practicing lawyer, is the author of thirteen bestselling works of fiction. His books have been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and have been adapted for movies and television. Mr. Turow has also published two nonfiction books, including One L, about

his experience as a law student.

Sarah Lyall is a writer at large at The New York Times, where she writes news, features and reviews, and has a monthly column on thrillers.

This event will be held at Temple Ner Tamid 936 Broad Street, Bloomfield, NJ 07003.

Doors open at 6:30pm. Tickets to hear Scott Turow in person cost $35 and include a copy of Presumed Guilty.

If you require any special accommodations to attend, please email montclairliteraryfestival@gmail.com  before the event.

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Virtual Author Event: Gregg Hurwitz

Details were taken from the Mahwah Library.

Thursday, April 24th at 7:00 PM EDT

Do you love action-packed adventure? Are you ready for the thrill? You’re invited to a riveting conversation with New York Times bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz as he chats with us about his Orphan X series and his life as a writer of suspenseful storytelling.

Orphan X, the series opener, introduces the world to the Nowhere Man. He is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It’s said that when he’s reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them.

But he’s not merely a legend.

Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He’s also a man with a dangerous past. Taken from a group home at twelve, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets—i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man.

Now ten books in, fans cannot get enough of the Orphan X world and Hurwitz can’t wait to tell us all about it. Register now for a conversation you just cannot miss!

About the Author: GREGG HURWITZ is the New York Times #1 internationally bestselling author of 24 thrillers including the Orphan X series. His novels have won numerous literary awards and have been published in 33 languages. Gregg currently serves as the Co-President of International Thriller Writers (ITW). Additionally, he’s written screenplays and television scripts for many of the major studios and networks, comics for AWA (including the critically acclaimed anthology NewThink), DC, and Marvel, and poetry. Currently, Gregg is actively working against polarization in politics and culture. To that end, he’s penned op-eds for The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Bulwark, Salon, and others, and has produced several hundred commercials and creative content which have gotten several hundred million views on digital TV platforms. He also helped write the opening ceremony of the 2022 World Cup.

RSVP here: https://libraryc.org/mahwahlibrary/71468?uMarketingSource=_LSC_IEN_03_3

Virtual Event: Jennifer Weiner

Dreams We Chase: An Author Talk with Novelist Jennifer Weiner
Wednesday, March 26th at 7:00 PM EDT

Information was taken from the Mahwah Library.

You’re invited to a glimmering conversation with New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner as we chat about the signature emotional depth of her books that have been inspiring readers toward self-discovery for decades. Hearing from the queen of fun herself, we’ll chat with the author about her New York Times bestselling novels, Good In Bed, In Her Shoes, Big Summer, The Breakaway and many more. 

Additionally, in a special preview, Weiner will briefly discuss her forthcoming novel (due out on April 8, 2025) The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits. Set in the world of pop music, The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits is about sisters, motherhood, young love, and the dreams we chase.

Sisters Cassie and Zoe Grossberg were born just a year apart but could not have been more different. Zoe, blessed with charm and beauty, yearned for fame from the moment she could sing into a hairbrush. Cassie was a musical prodigy who never felt at home in her own skin and preferred the safety of the shadows.

On the brink of adulthood in the early 2000s, destiny intervened, catapulting the sisters into the spotlight as the pop sensation the Griffin Sisters, hitting all the touchstones of early aughts fame—SNL, MTV, Rolling Stone magazine—along the way.

But after a whirlwind year in the public eye, the band abruptly broke up.

Two decades later, Zoe’s a housewife; Cassie’s off the grid. The sisters aren’t speaking, and the real reason for the Griffin Sisters’ breakup is still a mystery. Zoe’s teenage daughter, Cherry, who’s determined to be a star in spite of Zoe’s warnings, is on a quest to learn the truth about what happened to the band all those years ago.

As secrets emerge, all three women must face the consequences of their choices: the ones they made and the ones the music industry made for them. Can they forgive each other—and themselves? And will the Griffin Sisters ever make music again? Register now for what will most certainly be a dazzling conversation! 

About the Author: Jennifer Weiner is a #1 New York Times bestselling author whose books have spent over five years on the New York Times bestseller list, with more than 11 million copies in print in 36 countries. She is the author of the novels Good in Bed (2001) and In Her Shoes (2002), which was turned into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine. And the author of That Summer (2021); The Breakaway (2024); and The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits (forthcoming 2025) . She is also the author of The Littlest Bigfoot middle-grade trilogy, Her nonfiction collection Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing (2016), was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.

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Virtual Event: Wordsmith and Wonder: An Author Talk with Jodi Picoult

Information posted from the Mahwah Library

Wednesday, April 2nd at 7:00 PM EDT

Event will begin in 14 days and 2 hours

Step into Spring with us as we chat with the highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult about her newest novel, By Any Other Name.

In 1581, Emilia Bassano—like most young women of her day—is allowed no voice of her own. But as the Lord Chamberlain’s mistress, she has access to all theaters in England and finds a way to secretly bring her work to the stage. And yet, creating some of the world’s greatest dramatic masterpieces comes at great cost: by paying a man for the use of his name, she will write her own out of history.

In the present, playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. Although the challenges are different four hundred years later, the playing field is still not level for women in theater. Would Melina—like Emilia—be willing to forfeit her credit as author, just for a chance to see her work performed?

Told in intertwining narratives, By Any Other Name is a sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire that asks what price each woman is willing to pay to see their work live on—even if it means they will be forgotten. Register now to join the wondrous conversation!


About the Author: Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-nine novels, including By Any Other Name, Mad Honey (co-authored with Jennifer Finney Boylan), Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister’s Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband

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