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Upcoming Book Event: Kenan Thompson

Omg, I just saw Kenan Thompson will be at Bookends on January 11th to sign his children’s book. I loved watching him and Kel at Kenan & Kel.

Kenan Thompson – Book/Ticket -Longest-tenured SNL cast member celebrates picture book debut- Sun., Jan. 11th @ 1pm Each Person Needs a Book.

Kenan Thompson – Book/Ticket – Longest-tenured SNL cast member will be signing his new book: UNFUNNY BUNNY -Sunday, January 11th @ 1pm. Each Person needs a book for entry.



*Only choose the Shipping Option if you ARE NOT attending the event*



About the book:

From the beloved longest-tenured cast member of Saturday Night Live, Kenan Thompson, comes a hilarious new picture book perfect for fans of Jory John and Grumpy Monkey.



Tomorrow is Bunny’s first day of school, and everything is going to be perfect. All he wants is to be the funniest kid in class and make everyone else laugh. But when Bunny gets there, his jokes fall flat. What’s an UNfunny bunny to do?



This laugh-out-loud tale about unexpected friendship and pursuing your dreams is a silly, lighthearted read-aloud stuffed with 30 “unfunny” jokes that are sure to send readers of all ages into fits of giggles.

Upcoming Author Event: E. Lockhart

About this Event

Please join us as we welcome author E. Lockhart as she celebrates the release of her newest book We Fell Apart!

This Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition includes a unique seafoam printed edge design with custom printed endpapers, an exclusive case with foil stamp, and bonus content from the author, including an annotated chapter, a hand-drawn map of Hidden Beach and the Sinclair family tree, and a Q&A.

#1 New York Times bestselling author E. Lockhart returns to the world of her TikTok sensation We Were Liars with all her signature beachy gothic atmosphere, family intrigue, and high-stakes romance.

“Compulsively readable to the very last page.” -Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games

The invitation arrives out of the blue.

In it, Matilda discovers a father she’s never met. Kingsley Cello is a visionary, a reclusive artist. And when he asks her to spend the summer at his seaside home, Hidden Beach, Matilda expects to find a part of herself she’s never fully understood.

Instead, she finds Meer, her long-lost, open-hearted brother; Brock, a former child start battling demons; and brooding, wild Tatum, who just wants her to leave their crumbling sanctuary.

With Kingsley nowhere to be seen, Matilda must delve into the twisted heart of Hidden Beach to uncover the answers she’s desperately craving. But secrets run thicker than blood, and blood runs like seawater.

And everyone is lying here.

Don’t miss any of the We Were Liars novels
WE WERE LIARS • FAMILY OF LIARS • WE FELL APART

Special Instructions
  • You MUST purchase a copy of We Fell Apart from our store location in order to gain enter the event.
  • Please keep your receipt as proof of purchase from our store location.
  • You can register for the event HERE

Upcoming Book Event: Cassandra Peterson (Elvira)

Cassandra Peterson AKA Elvira – Book/Ticket – Elvira’s Cookbook from Hell – Tues. Sept. 30th @ 6pm. Each person needs a book.

About the Book:

New York Times bestselling memoirist and pop culture icon Cassandra Peterson, as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, delivers the definitive guide to ghoulish hosting all year round.Hello darling, it’s me, Elvira–the afterlife of the party–here to bring the “Hell” to your next Hell-raising gathering! Ready to unleash your inner party monster? Well, I’m here to prove that the devil is in the details. Shock your fiends with sinister snacks, demonically delicious dishes, and cocktails so wickedly good they’ll make your head spin! But this isn’t just a cookbook–think of it as your Necronomicom of party planning. Between these pages lies everything you’ll need to make your next get-together a graveyard smash!From a “Beastly Bloody Brunch” to a “Romantic Graveside Picnic” to a “Creepy Cocktail Party” to “Having Your Friends for Dinner”– Elvira’s Cookbook from Hell is a volume bound to raise any party from the dead!

Location

Bookends
211 E Ridgewood Ave Ridgewood, NJ

Link to pre-order https://www.book-ends.org/product/cassandra-peterson-aka-elvira-book-ticket-mistress-of-the-dark-tues-sept-30th-6pm-each-person-needs-a-book/TZJ7RVYP6WWNWVST6EIZ2EOV?cs=true&cst=custom

Upcoming Author Event: Clare Leslie Hall

I’m so excited that Clare Leslie Hall will be discussing her book. Her book was part of the Barnes & Noble Book Club a few months ago. It was one of my favorite books for this year. Below is my book review and event information.

My Review: Rated 5 out of 5 stars

It is a heartbreaking love story filled with secrets that will shatter the lives of the characters and the readers. Clare Leslie Hall is a fantastic storyteller. She captivated the readers with a story filled with so much love that tragedy was unavoidable. I fell in love with each of the characters. I felt like a member of the family watching every tragedy unfold.

The first page of this story grasped my attention. I wanted to know what exactly happened at this farm and who was murdered. Clare divided the story into five different sections. The story begins with Gabriel, followed by Bobby, Jimmy, Frank, and Grace. It then takes us to the trial, weaving through the past and present-day events. The way she drafted the story made the story unravel at the exact time the author was ready to reveal a secret or a tragedy.

Bobby, Beth’s child, is the central figure in this story. His conception, childhood, and tragedy that ultimately impacts the Johnson family will lead to a love triangle fraught with disaster, shocking readers. Losing a child is an unimaginable experience for any parent, especially when it involves witnessing such a gruesome death. Despite Beth blaming Frank for Bobby’s death, both of them showed remarkable bravery by continuing their marriage.

The story begins with the intense love affair and subsequent breakup between Beth and Gabriel. After their separation, Beth marries Frank, who has always been in love with her. Together, Beth and Frank have a son named Bobby. Bobby is passionate about the outdoors and learns everything he can about farm life. However, the family faces a tragedy when Bobby’s life is cut short.

Meanwhile, Gabriel marries and has a son named Leo. He becomes a famous author and eventually returns to his childhood home. Despite moving on, Beth and Gabriel still feel the lingering sparks from their past romance, which leads to an affair. As Beth connects with Leo, she finds herself grappling with the loss of Bobby.

As secrets unravel, an intense argument culminates in a murder. I won’t spoil the entire story but prepare to be shocked by who pulls the trigger and to witness the strong bonds of love and family throughout the narrative.

The tree featured on the cover of the book plays a significant role in the story. It is a tree that the Johnson family grew up with, where a wedding proposal took place. Unfortunately, a tragedy occurred with the eventual death of the tree and the precious life of an innocent boy. This intense love triangle, with its many secrets and tragedy, will leave you wanting more.

Event Details
Please join us in welcoming author Clare Leslie Hall as she discusses and signs her newest release Broken Country!

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK | A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall is an unforgettable story of love, loss and the choices that shape our lives…but it’s also a masterfully crafted mystery that will keep you guessing until the very last page. Seriously, that ending?! I did not see it coming.” -Reese Witherspoon.

“Stirring and mysterious…fires directly at the human heart and hits the mark.” -Delia Owens, New York Times bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing

A love triangle unearths dangerous, deadly secrets from the past in this thrilling tale perfect for fans of The Paper Palace and Where the Crawdads Sing.

“The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him.”

Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager-the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident.

As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel’s life, tensions around the village ride and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become.

A sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.

Special Instructions:

-Clare will sign and personalize your copy of Broken Country

-There will be a photo-op with Clare.

Link to RSVP: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/bnparamus/clare-leslie-hall-discusses-and-signs-broken-country

Upcoming Event: Shelby Van Pelt

In Store
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 6:00 PM ET
Shelby Van Pelt discusses and signs REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES

About this Event
Please join us in welcoming author Shelby Van Pelt as she celebrates the release of Remarkably Bright Creatures in paperback! She will be in conversation with Lynda Cohen Loigman.

After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in the Puget Sound over thirty years ago.

Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors – until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late.

Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.

Special Instructions
LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE!

To reserve your spot, please click the link HERE
You must purchase a paperback copy of Remarkably Bright Creatures at our location to attend the event.
If you have any questions, please call the store at 201-445-4589

Upcoming Event: Isabel Allende

Information was posted on the Montclair Festival website.

Montclair Literary Festival Presents

An evening with Isabel Allende

celebrating the release of her new novel: My Name is Emilia Del Valle

Join us to welcome internationally beloved author Isabel Allende in conversation with Cleyvis Natera on the publication of her new novel, My Name is Emilia del Valle.



Date: Monday, May 5

Time: 7:00 PM

Location: Temple Ner Tamid, 936 Broad Street Street, Bloomfield, NJ

Tickets: $35 – includes a hardcover copy of My Name is Emilia Del Valle



In this spellbinding historical novel, a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her father—and herself. My Name is Emilia del Valle is a riveting tale of self-discovery and love from one of the most masterful storytellers of our time.

Purchase tickets here: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/event_step2/MjMwNjQ4/304214

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.

RSVP Link: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/event_step2/MjI5NTAw/302271