BOOK Saturday, September 25, 11

BOOK
Saturday, September 25, 11 - 3 pm
Ocean County Library Toms River Branch
101 Washington Street, Toms River, NJ 08753
Featured Authors include
Marina Marches
Honeybee: Lessons from an
Accidental Beekeeper
One woman’s charming,
thoroughly engaging account
of abandoning the rat race to
live blissfully as a beekeeper
and honey entrepreneur—
plus everything you’d
ever want to know about
honeybees! She will discuss
will talk about how she
acquired her own bees, built
her own hives, harvested honey, earned a certificate
in apitherapy, studied wine tasting in order to transfer
those skills to honey tasting, and eventually opened her
own business.
Paul Milo
Your Flying Car Awaits
A delightful mixture of science
fiction, utopian vision, and just
plain crazy ideas, Your Flying
Car Awaits is a hilarious and
insightful compendium of the
most outrageous and completely
ridiculous predictions of the
20th Century. Award--winning
journalist Paul Milo’s collection of
“Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations,
and Other Dead--Wrong
Predictions of the Twentieth
Century” is true history on the
lighter side.
Nadine Godwin
Travia
Travia takes a light and whimsical
journey around the globe in
search of the arcane anecdotes,
the startling stats, the fun facts,
and the tantalizing trivia that
remind us why we love to travel in
the first place. Arranged by theme
and with a comprehensive index,
Travia covers all forms of travel
and rewards casual browsing as
well as serious study.
May Pang
Instamatic Karma
The photographs of
Instamatic Karma feature
John Lennon in both
color and black & white,
casual Polaroids and more
composed shots. Each
one is an intimate glimpse
into Lennon’s life, taken by
his former girlfriend and
longtime friend.
Sheryll Bellman
America’s Great Delis
Whether it’s a pastrami
on rye or a bagel with a
schmear, America’s Great
Delis, by Sheryll Bellman,
explores the history and
recipes of the country’s
most beloved delis. From
New York’s Lower East Side
to Detroit and all points
west, the delicatessen
remains a quintessential
part of the American
landscape. In New York, as in much of America, lunch is
synonymous with deli. Perfected in the early twentieth
century by Eastern European Jewish immigrants, the
deli, short for delicatessen, quickly won our hearts
— and stomachs!
Amy Ignatow
The Popularity Papers
Amy Ignatow’s hilarious
debut novel introduces
the reader to intrepid fifthgraders Julie and Lydia.
Their quest to understand
popularity may not succeed
in the ways they want, but will
succeed in keeping readers in
stitches.
Mary Beth Temple
The Secret Language of Knitters
Do you know the difference
between a moth and a qiviut?
Mary Beth Temple explains over
140 different knitting terms that
anyone who has ever picked up
the needle should know. If you
need a little happy break so you
don’t destroy six weeks of knitting
in a fit of frustration, this book is
for you!
Danny & Kim Adlerman
Songs for America’s Children
Mixing patriotic imagery and
child-friendly songs, Danny
and Kim Adlerman have
put together an illustrated
children’s book that
celebrates America.
The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Bookfest will also feature a special concert featuring the
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble will close of BookFest.
The Boston based, national touring jazz band is sure to
delight with their improv/jazz fusion!
A Heal!y Italian Cookbook
Real Food
Sharon Bowers
Candy Construction
Sharon Bowers will be
leading a special kid friendly
demonstration where the
audience will be building
models and other crafts out
of confectionary delights.
Karen Riley
The Pine Barrens of NJ
Karen Riley shares some little
known true life tales and
some long forgotten folklore
from the Jersey Pines.
Craft Projects!
Carole Gernett hosts an
interactive demonstration
showing how you can
make sculptures out of old
books and other paper art
projects.
Real Recip"
By:
Ma#a Favoroso-Osnowi$
Maria Vavoroso-Osnowitz
A Healthy Italian Cookbook:
Real Food, Real Recipes
Maria is from a large Italian
family and all of the recipes
in this book have been in her
family for generations. She
simply modified them so that
they are low in fat, high in fiber,
and use only whole grains
but at the same time not
compromising taste.
Carmine’s Family-Style
Cookbook
A volume of favorite recipes by
the founding chef at New York`s
Carmine`s Italian Restaurant
shares his celebrated culinary
techniques and includes such
options as Italian Cheesesteak
Heroes, Salmon Puttanesca, and
Drew Friedman
Too Soon: Celebrity Portraits
Modern American caricaturist
Drew Friedman shares over
200 of his award winning
views of celebrities in his
latest book. No one is safe,
including Presidents Obama
and Bush, and celebrities like
Oprah Winfrey and Britney
Spears.
Jon Gibbs
Fur-Face
Born in England, author and
blogger, Jon Gibbs, now lives in
New Jersey, where he’s a member
of several writers’ groups, including
the New Jersey chapter of SCBWI
and The Garden State Horror
Writers .He is the founder of The
New Jersey Authors’ Network and
FindAWritingGroup.com. Jon’s
debut novel, Fur-Face (a Middle Grade fantasy about
unusual friendships, unlikely alliances, and wanting to fit
in), was published in eBook form by Echelon Press.
The Onion
Meet America’s favorite news
satirists! The writing staff
from the Onion will be here
to talk about their various
news parody projects,
including their website,
newspapers and books!
KT Pinto
The Books of Insanity
You don’t know who author KT
Pinto is? How could you not
know? Where have you been
hiding, under a rock? We’re going
to have to fix this grievous error
ASAP! Go to www.ktpinto.com
and find out all about her and her
works: The Books of Insanity, her
alternate history vampire series,
and Sto’s House Presents..., her super hero fantasy series,
and read some of her short stories free on-line.
Wallace Jan Ecklof
The Last Celtic Angel and
Spirits From The Past
Wallace’s two passions in life
are animals and literature.
After working with Horses
for the Handicapped and
experienced what these big
beautiful animals could do
for people with disabilities,
especially children, it was at
this juncture in his life that
the inspiration for the Last
Celtic Angel came to him.
Training people with physical and emotional handicaps
plus his years as a ranch hand and a life long love of
everything equine all combined to inspire his writing.
Mike McPhail
Defending The Future
Mike McPhail is the award
winning Author and Anthologist
of the military science fiction
series Defending The Future,
published by Dark Quest Books.
He is a member of the Military
Writers Society of America
(MWSA), and the creator of
the Alliance Archives (All’Arc)
series and its related Martial
Role-Playing Game (MRPG), a manual-based, percentile
system, that realistically portrays the consequences of
warfare.
John Grant, Elizabeth
Humphrey & Pamela D.
Scoville
The Chesley Awards: A
Retrospective
A glorious celebration
of the very best of the
Art of the Fantastic
Established in 1985 and
named in honour of
the renowned Chesley
Bonestell, the annual
Chesley Awards are
internationally respected as the most prestigious in the
field of the fantastic arts. As with the Oscars, the Chesleywinners are decided by the votes of practitioners - the
members of the professional body ASFA (the Association
of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists). Those who have
won the coveted Chesley can truly regard themselves as
at the pinnacle of professional achievement. This book,
the first retrospective of the Chesley Awards contains
over 300 illustrations, almost all in full colour, as well
as copious comments from the winning artists about
their techinques and the thought-processes behind the
images they create. This is an invaluable reference work
for every lover of the Art of the Fantastic - but, more
than that, it is a gorgeous treasure trove of images that
touch the heart and haunt the imigination.
Donna M. Zapalla
Albert’s Perfect Pet
Donna is a New Jersey based
children’s book author and a
teacher. Publications include the
children’s picture books Albert’s
Perfect Pet (2009) and What Kind
of Turtle Am I? (due in 2011), both
from Kittycat Books.
Danielle Ackley-McPhail
The Halfling’s Court
Award-winning author Danielle
Ackley-McPhail has worked
both sides of the publishing
industry for over fifteen years.
Her works include the urban
fantasies, Yesterday’s Dreams,
Tomorrow’s Memories, and The
Halfling’s Court: A Bad-Ass Faerie
Tale. She has edited the Bad-Ass
Faeries anthology series, and
No Longer Dreams, and has contributed to numerous
other anthologies and collections, including Dark Furies,
Breach the Hull, So It Begins, Space Pirates, Barbarians
at the Jumpgate, and New Blood. She is a member of
The Garden State Horror Writers and Broad Universe, a
writer’s organization focusing on promoting the works
of women authors in the speculative genres.
Gary Frank
Institutional Memory
Gary is the author of Forever Will
You Suffer, a supernatural, timeshifting tale of unrequited love
gone horribly wrong, Institutional
Memory, a story of cosmic terrors
in the corporate workplace, and
the co-editor of Dark Territories, the
new anthology from the Garden
State Horror Writers. He’s also
written a number of short stories,
including Stay Here, which received
two Stoker recommendations, and
was published in the 2005 Garden State Horror Writers
anthology, Dark Notes From New Jersey. Occasionally,
he can be found as an associate editor of Space & Time
Magazine.
Jeff Markowitz
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like
Murder
Jeff Markowitz is the author of the
Cassie O’Malley Mysteries, amateur
sleuth mysteries set deep in the
New Jersey Pine Barrens. Jeff holds
a Bachelor’s degree in psychology
from Princeton University and
graduate degrees in special
education and human services. For
more than thirty years, Jeff has worked in the non-profit
sector, developing services that enhance quality of
life. Recently he discovered that he has something of a
flair for killing people. In 2004, Jeff introduced tabloid
reporter and amateur sleuth Cassie O’Malley in Who is
Killing Doah’s Deer? Cassie returned in 2006 in A Minor
Case of Murder.
Children’s Storybook
Character Parade!
Led by Sparks, the Ocean
County Library’s mascot,
children will have a chance
to meet and get pictures
with the stars of their favorite
storybooks!
Vic Mignogna
Victor Mignogna
is an American
Anime Award
winning voice
actor and musician
who has done
voice work for
many anime series,
movies, and video
games. Vic is best
known for his dub
role of Edward
Elric in Fullmetal
Alchemist, Broly in
Dragon Ball Z films,
Tamaki Suoh in
Ouran High School
Host Club, Fai D. Flourite in “Tsubasa Chronicle”and Dark
Mousy in D.N.Angel. He’s also the voice of Zero Kiryu in
Vampire Knight.
Ian Glaubinger
Ian is a New Jersey-based
cartoonist whose style is a
combination of retro/vintage
with pop culture influences. He
is a member of the Philadelphia
Cartoonist Society and his work
has appeared in the anthologies
Rise of the Outlanders and
Cycle’s End.
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