New York Times Literary Treat of the Week....

Richards, Keith and Fox, James. Life.

Last month Merrick Library welcomed to its Biography section Frank: The Voice by James Kaplan. This month Merrick says hello to the memoirs of someone who might be the rock and roll equivalent of Mr. Sinatra. Grandson of a onetime dance band saxophonist, Keith Richards from age fifteen on sought to develop his own playing style after the initial influence of American blues guitarists. Richards shared his passion for the Delta sound with school friend Mick Jagger which formed the core of The Rolling Stones. That bond has remained despite a degree of social alienation between the two on many levels particularly over their individual trysts with singer/songwriter/actress Marianne Faithfull. While Jagger has been knighted Richards continues to be the original rock antihero even after a legacy of brushes with world law enforcement bodies over illicit drug possession. In 2006 while dealing with a hematoma caused by falling from a tree Richards received get well wishes from many admiring celebrities including a surprise from his native England: then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Keith Richards appears on the following DVDs at Merrick Library:

Les Paul: Live In New York
Pirates Of The Carribean: At World's End
Shine A Light
Stones In Exile

And on the following music CDs:

Les Paul And Friends: American Made, World Played
Timeless: Songs By Hank Williams
Burn Your Playhouse Down: The Unreleased Duets (George Jones)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox: Original Soundtrack

On CD with The Rolling Stones:

A Bigger Bang
Bridges To Babylon
Exile On Main Street
Forty Licks
The Long Black Veil
Shine A Light

Reviewed by Librarian, Bob.

Books In The Media...

As Seen on Television

Jessica Seinfeld, author of Double Delicious!: Good, Simple Food for Busy, Complicated Lives appeared Monday morning on Good Morning America.

The Colbert Report included Jonathan Alter, author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One Monday night.

Tuesday morning Rachael Ray, author of Rachael Ray's Look & Cook appeared on Good Morning America.

Regis and Kelly included Nigella Lawson, author of Nigella Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home on Tuesday. She also appeared on the Today Show and Martha Stewart this week.

Tuesday The Early Show featured Bobby Flay's Throwdown!: More Than 100 Recipes from Food Network's Ultimate Cooking Challengeby Bobby Flay.

Wednesday morning the Today Show included Buddy Valastro, author of Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia.

Wednesday morning, the Early Show featured Michael Chiarello, author of Bottega: Bold Italian Flavors from the Heart of California's Wine Country.

Susan G. Baker, author of Passing It On: An Autobiography with Spirit was on Fox & Friends on Wednesday.

The Today Show included Jeff Dunham, author ofAll by My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me on Wednesday.

Oprah went fly fishing withBrian Grossenbacher and Jenny Grossenbacher, authors of Fly Fishing Montana: A No Nonsense Guide to Top Waters as part of Wednesday's show.

Wednesday on the View, author Mark Halperin, of Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime.

Thursday the View hosted Laurie David, author of The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time (9780446565462).

Ellen included Portia de Rossi, author of Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain on Thursday's show.

David Sedaris, author of Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Thursday night.

Thursday The Late Show with David Letterman hosted Steve Martin, whose new novel, An Object of Beauty cmes out later this month.

Friday morning the Today Show hosted Robyn Silverman, author of Good Girls Don't Get Fat: How Weight Obsession Is Messing Up Our Girls and How We Can Help Them Thrive Despite It.

Also on Friday's Today Show author Adam Carolla of, In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy.

Friday Oprah celebrates the 25th anniversary of the movie based on the book The Color Purple by Alice Walker.

Bill O'Reilly, author of Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama is scheduled for Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday.

Friday night the Late Show with David Letterman has scheduled Tracy Morgan, author of I Am the New Black.

New Non-Fiction Audiobooks!

In this inquisitive voyage of self-discovery, Rhonda Byrne reveals that people have the ability to dramatically improve their lives. From better health to a successful, fulfilling career, listeners will discover how to completely overhaul their lives and finally start living the way they have always wanted.


In 1997, James Keene was sentenced to ten years to life in prison for dealing drugs. Unable to serve that amount of time, James made a deal with authorities: he could obtain an early release if he can get a convicted serial killer to confess his crimes. Sent to a maximum security prison for the criminally insane, Keene endured the most harrowing experience of his life.

Despite the controversy surrounding her personal life and the mystery still shrouding her death, Marilyn Monroe is still one of America's most iconic women. Here, this collection of Monroe's personal writings offers listeners a taste of the unique individual the world prematurely lost.


Marianne Williamson offers 21 lessons completely separate from anything related to diet or exercise. This program will retrain the mind in the area of weight in order to break the cycle of overeating, dieting, and shame that rules so many lives.





A history of the 40-year battle between the Comanche Indians and white settlers, centering on the Comanche chief Quanah.

New York Times Literary Treat of the Week...

Deaver, Jeffery. Edge.
Lehane, Dennis. Moonlight Mile.
Nadelson, Reggie. Blood Count.
Camilleri, Andrea. The Track of Sand.

The Detectives' Club of the Merrick Library Mystery Department recently welcomed a new member. He is Corte, a government security specialist whose current assignment of protecting a Washington D.C. police detective and his family comes with not knowing which member is the target of an assassin (Edge). Corte was made at home by New England operative Patrick Kenzie, who is at a life and career crossroads when he must locate again a girl that years before almost riiped his life to shreds (Moonlight Mile). Also on hand was Artie Cohen, the Russian born shamus looking into the death of an old countrywoman in a famous Harlem apartment building (Blood Count). A surprise arrival from Sicily was police detective Salvo Montalbano, whose investigation into illegal horse racing on his island nation begins with a dead equine outside his beach house (The Track of Sand).

Also by Jeffery Deaver at Merrick Library:

The Blue Nowhere
The Bodies Left Behind
The Bone Collector
The Chopin Manuscript (large print)
The Devil's Teardrop

By Dennis Lehane:

Coronado: Stories
Darkness, Take My Hand
A Drink Before the War
The Given Day

By Reggie Nadelson:

Disturbed Earth
Fresh Kills
Londongrad
Red Hook

By Andrea Camilleri:

August Heat
The Paper Moon
The Wings of the Sphinx

Books to Movies.......

Love & Other Drugs:

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Josh Gad, Judy Greer, Hank Azaria
Director: Edward Zwick
Distributor: 20th Century Fox Distribution
MPAA Rating: R
Release Date: November 24th (wide)
Based on: LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS by Jamie Reidy

A humorous expose of the highly competitive and cutthroat world of pharmaceuticals. An ambitious college grad schmoozes doctors, nurses, hospitals and begins a relationship with a woman suffering from Parkinson's, all while competing against other salesmen who trying to push their brand of drugs.

Love and Other Drugs: Based on Jamie Reidy's memoir "Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman."

(Hathaway) is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie (Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.

Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race.

First America (The Book), and now, six years later, Earth. Yes, once again fearless anchor and ringleader Jon Stewart and his gang of snark-attack writers at The Daily Show bring barbed, laser-guided intelligence camouflaged with gleeful vulgarity to the page, this time to tell the story of Earth from its gritty beginnings as an unwieldy whirl of gasses and dust to its coalescence into a "fertile oasis of sophisticated life in the endless barren expanse of the universe (no offense)."

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