Book Signing....BETHENNY FRANKEL

Thursday, March 24th, 7pm @ Book Revue
Reality star BETHENNY FRANKEL will speak about and sign her new book,
A PLACE OF YES: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life.

In her new book, Bethenny opens up about and shares the obstacles she overcame helped her achieved her successes in life. Bethenny's path was not always clear. She overcame a difficult childhood, failed relationships, entrepreneurial efforts that never quite got off the ground, and lifelong money struggles. To deal with these challenges,Bethenny developed ten rules for pursuing her goals with authenticity and drive, including: finding your truth, acting on it, and owning it. And by putting Bethenny's rules together, you can use them to be more successful, more fulfilled, healthier, and happier than ever before.

Bethenny Frankel is a celebrity Natural Food Chef, New York Times bestselling author of Naturally Thin, and star of Bravo's hit series The Real Housewives of New York City. In addition to her monthly column in Health magazine, Bethenny is regularly featured at events around the country. She currently resides in New York City with her dog, Cookie.

On Sale Soon...

One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman, April 4th
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Marable Manning, April 4th
I'll Walk Alone by Mary Higgins Clark, April 5th
Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series by Richard Paul Evans, April 5th
Bossypants by Tina Fey, April 5th

Trade Paper...

The Help by Kathryn Stockett April 5th
Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush April 5th
Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink, April 5th

New York Times Literary Treat of the Week...

Baer, Robert and Dayna. The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story. Crown.

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything the mind of man could invent.” The Baers would probably agree with that declaration of Arthur Conan Doyle in describing their journey to wedded bliss through the territory of espionage. Robert Baer, whose 2002 memoir See No Evil inspired the movie Syriana (both available at Merrick Library) was a Central Intelligence Agency veteran whose first family disintegrated due to his road work and was doublecrossed in Tajikistan by double agent Aldrich Ames. California-born Dayna was a fact checker of C.I.A. applicants whose promotion to a “deep cover” team led to the breakup of her first marriage. Taking alternate chapters the Baers provide a view of how real-life spying takes its toll that cannot be matched by fiction.

New Non-Fiction Business Title

In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling mission--"To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible"--and its much-quoted motto, "Don't be Evil." In this provocative book, Siva Vaidhyanathan examines the ways we have used and embraced Google--and the growing resistance to its expansion across the globe. He exposes the dark side of our Google fantasies, raising red flags about issues of intellectual property and the much-touted Google Book Search. He assesses Google's global impact, particularly in China, and explains the insidious effect of Googlization on the way we think. Finally, Vaidhyanathan proposes the construction of an Internet ecosystem designed to benefit the whole world and keep one brilliant and powerful company from falling into the "evil" it pledged to avoid.

Books to Movies...

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

"In theatres March 18th, 2011."

A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.

Director: Brad Furman
Writers: John Romano (screenplay), Michael Connelly (novel)
Stars:Matthew McConaughey, Josh Lucas and Marisa Tomei

New Audiobook Arrivals!

The Andreas family is one of readers. Their father, a renowned Shakespeare professor who speaks almost entirely in verse, has named his three daughters after famous Shakespearean women. When the sisters return to their childhood home to care for their ailing mother, and to lick their wounds and bury their secrets, they are horrified to find the others there. But the sisters soon discover that everything they've been running from might offer more than they ever expected.



When an oil-drilling station off the coast of Colombia is destroyed by terrorists, resulting in the death of his men, Delta commando Dewey Andreas sets out for revenge. Meanwhile, the enigmatic Alexander Fortuna, who has embedded himself into America's corporate elite, plots another attack. With time running out, Andreas must locate Fortuna and stop him before any more lives are lost.




In this fictional memoir, Hadley Hemingway chronicles the life and career of her husband, famed twentieth century writer Ernest Hemingway. Through Hadley's unique perspective, listeners get a behind-the-scenes look into the personal lives of the Lost Generation writers, including Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound.




When Nöel learns that his former flame is terminally ill and pregnant with a child she claims is his, he agrees to take care of the baby girl once she's born. But as a recovering alcoholic whose demons are barely under control, he can't do it alone. Luckily, he has an amazing network of family and friends who are ready to help. A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope in a close-knit Dublin community.




Haunted by her father's mysterious death, Lucy Jarrett returns to America after several years in Japan. Unable to sleep, she rummages through family's lakeside house and discovers a locked chest full of valuables that reveal a family history previously unknown to her. As she digs deeper, she realizes that her family's history is much more interesting than she once thought.

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

Just as biographies dominate recent Non-Fiction Best Seller lists in the New York Times Book Review they are also in abundance at Merrick Library. Here are three new arrivals of note:

Dench, Judi. And Furthermore. St. Martin’s Press.

Whether one knows her as Jean in the popular Britcom “As Time Goes By,” the spymaster “M” in recent James Bond movies, or in film work that includes the current version of “Jane Eyre” Judi Dench has a tremendous fan following. With admirable British reserve, the actress recounts both sweet and sour moments in a lifetime spent on stage and these days largely in cinema. A tender part of these proceedings is telling about her thirty years of marriage to actor Michael Williams who died of cancer in 2001.

Merrick Library has the following films on DVD featuring Judi Dench:
Casino Royale,Doogal, The Importance of Being Earnest,Ladies in Lavender
Macbeth (with Ian McKellen), Mrs. Henderson Presents, Nine
Notes on a Scandal, Pride and Prejudice (with Keira Knightley, Quantum of Solace, The Shipping News

Dubus, Andre, III. Townie: A Memoir. W.W. Norton and Company.

Divorce and abandonment by his famous writer/father left the author, his mother and siblings to endure the drug-ridden, violence-prone environment of 1970s mill town Massachusetts. Andre III took up weightlifting and boxing to counteract repeated beatings but could not protect his family from the toll of life. In college he was reunited with his father who treated him as a buddy. Andre III would become caretaker to the elder Dubus after the latter was paralyzed by a car. Both generations would find different kinds of personal deliverance through writing.

Merrick Library has the following book by Andre Dubus:
Dancing after Hours: Stories

And the following books by Andre Dubus III:
Bluesman, The Garden of Last Days and House of Sand and Fog

Hamilton, Gabrielle. Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef. Random House.

One’s idea of an exclusive restaurant is bound to be turned upside down by this mostly food-related memoir. Hamilton’s East Greenwich Village eatery Prune handles only thirty diners at a time and specializes in comfort dishes prepared in high gourmet style. This was born out of a caring attitude the author saw disappear in her Pennsylvania youth when her parents’ marriage fell apart. The subtitle to this volume is explained by the fact that Hamilton could easily have pursued a full-time writing career had not food been a constant throughout her often stormy life.