Author Signing

Tony Danza

Friday, September 14th, 2012, 7pm @ Book Revue in Huntington

Actor and Author Tony Danza will be here to speak about and sign his book, I'd Like To Apologize To Every Teacher I've Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High.

I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia’s largest high school with 3600 students.

Entering Northeast’s crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony found his way to a classroom filled with twenty-six students who were determined not to cut him any slack. They cared nothing about “Mr. Danza’s” showbiz credentials, and they immediately put him on the hot seat.
Featuring indelible portraits of students and teachers alike, I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had reveals just how hard it is to keep today’s technologically savvy – and often alienated -- students engaged, how impressively committed most teachers are, and the outsized role counseling plays in a teacher’s day, given the psychological burdens many students carry. The book also makes vivid how a modern high school works, showing Tony in a myriad of roles – from lecturing on To Kill a Mockingbird to “coaching” the football team to organizing a talent show to leading far-flung field trips to hosting teacher gripe sessions.
A surprisingly poignant account, I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is sometimes laugh-out-loud funny but is mostly filled with hard-won wisdom and feel-good tears.

New Audiobooks!

A Wanted Man, by Lee Child
In Lee Child’s white-hot thriller, nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth. Six minutes after hitchhiking at the end of Worth Dying For, Jack Reacher finds himself on a roller-coaster ride of escalating tensions As the tension rises, the twists come fast and furious, keeping readers guessing and gasping until the explosive finale.

Severe Clear, by Stuart Woods

Overseeing the grand opening of an ultra-luxury hotel on the grounds of his late wife's Bel-Air mansion, Stone Barrington presides over a star-studded gala attended by socialites, royalty and billionaires and is compelled to call in favors by friends in the CIA when the NSA receives intelligence that the affair has attracted the attention of international terrorists.

Bones  Are Forever, by Kathy Reichs

A latest entry in the best-selling series by the award-winning author of Déja Dead finds forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan examining the bodies of three babies while Detective Ryan investigates their mother in a case with ties to the high-stakes world of diamond mining.

Frozen Heat, by Richard Castle

When she discovers a connection between the homicide she is investigating and the unsolved murder of her mother, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat must expose her family's painful truths to stop a ruthless killer and solve the dark mystery that has tormented her for years.

Last to Die, by Tess Gerritsen

Visiting 16-year-old "Rat" Perkins at isolated Evenson boarding school, Maura Isles is astonished to learn that all of his classmates are survivors of violence and are being instructed in scientific detective skills, a discovery that coincides with Jane Rizzoli's investigation into the murder of a boy's foster family. 

Low Pressure, by Sandra Brown

Publishing under a pseudonym, Bellamy Lyston writes a sensational, best-selling novel about her sister's murder eighteen years earlier and the tornado that destroyed the crime scene, and becomes the target of a stalker after a tabloid newspaper discovers the truth.

Winter of the World, by Ken Follett

Continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political, and economic turmoil in the mid-twentieth century, during which they witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the horrors of World War II.

This is How You Lose Her, by Junot Diaz

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao presents a lyrical collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal and the echoes of intimacy.

Book Signing

Mike Gallagher

Thursday, September 13th, 2012, 7pm @ Book Revue In Huntington

Radio Personality and Author Mike Gallagher will speak about and sign his new book, 50 Things Liberals Hate.

America, how does the liberal hate thee? Let us count the ways . . .
It’s hard work being a liberal these days. Not only do a mere 20 percent of Americans identify themselves as liberal, but one could go broke supporting a skinny double-decaf Starbucks habit. On top of  that, when you hate things most Americans love, it’s tiring to have to endlessly correct/educate/fix/enlighten the poor dullards out there who just want to enjoy their lives. Which, taken as a whole, makes the average liberal lonely, short on cash, and mad as hell! So, in the spirit of the compassion they themselves espouse, 50 Things Liberals Love to Hate is truth spoken with love, an invitation to the disenfranchised: it’s not too late, liberals, to join the fun! C’mon, crack open a Bud and throw another T-bone on the grill. But kindly check your disdain at the door when it comes to:

WALMART: How about a handmade, locally sourced flat-screen television instead?
STEAKHOUSES: There’s no steamed tofu on this menu.
McDONALD’S: The stranger in the playground handing out candy to children.
FLAG PINS: It’s okay to love America, but not enough to wear it on your lapel.
FOOTBALL: War with cleats and pads.
THE V-8 ENGINE: There’s just something plain wrong about all that power and freedom under the control of one person.
SUCCESS: When you make more money than the rest of us, it hurts our feelings.
THE FOUNDING FATHERS: A bunch of old white guys who are making it nearly impossible for modern government to pick our doctors, teach our children, correct our diets, and save our money.
. . . and 42 other things that have liberals packing some serious hate. Mike Gallagher—America’s sixth-ranked radio talk show host and Fox News contributor—skewers liberal lunacy with cutting irony and scathing wit. Here are 50 warning signs of a liberal mind implosion, all darn good reasons to lock the doors, crank up the A/C, turn on the game, and let the countdown begin. . . .

New DVD

"Girl In Progress"

As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.

New DVD

What to Expect When You're Expecting!

A look at love through the eyes of five interconnected couples experiencing the thrills and surprises of having a baby, and ultimately coming to understand the universal truth that no matter what you plan for, life doesn't always deliver what's expected.

Jeb Ladouceur & Walt Fifer

Friday, September 7th, 2012, 7pm @ Book Revue in Huntington.

Authors Jeb Ladouceur and Walt Fifer will speak about and sign their
new novel, Mark of the Zodiac.

A deranged apprentice in a New Orleans tattoo parlor leaves eerie calling cards on mutilated corpses. Here in The Big Easy—often referred to as The City That Care Forgot—Iranian-born homicide detective Mal Kardassa, and his sidekick, reporter Jess Delaney, have cleverly calculated a killer’s M.O.…but now they must lure the astrology-fixated maniac into the open. If they don’t, he’ll slay more unwary targets …and Delaney’s next on the stalker’s Zodiac List. Even diehard thriller fans may never again want to explore the omens buried deep in their astrological signs. After reading ‘MARK OF THE ZODIAC,’ they’ll certainly think twice before displaying the telltale symbols publicly…especially on their skin!

New Audiobooks!

The Light Between Oceans, by M. L. Stedman

The debut of a stunning new voice in fiction— a novel both heartbreaking and transcendent.

Moving his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock where the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant that has washed up on the shore, a decision with devastating consequences.

Dog Stars, by Peter Heller

A riveting, powerful novel about a pilot living in a world filled with loss—and what he is willing to risk to rediscover, against all odds, connection, love, and grace. Surviving a pandemic disease that has killed everyone he knows, a pilot establishes a shelter in an abandoned airport hangar before hearing a random radio transmission that compels him to risk his life to seek out other survivors

City of Women, by David R. Gillham

Whom do you trust, whom do you love, and who can be saved?

It is 1943—the height of the Second World War—and Berlin has essentially become a city of women.Sigrid Schröder is, for all intents and purposes, the model German soldier’s wife:  But behind this façade is an entirely different Sigrid, a woman who dreams of her former lover, now lost in the chaos of the war. Her lover is a Jew.But Sigrid is not the only one with secrets.

Zoo, by James Patterson

As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans. With wildly inventive imagination and white-knuckle suspense that rivals Stephen King at his very best, James Patterson's ZOO is an epic, non-stop thrill-ride from "One of the best of the best." (TIME)

The Tombs, by Clive Cussler

Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels. They embark on a high-stakes chase through numerous countries, where they are pitted against dangerous adversaries.

 

The Time Keeper, by Mitch Albom

Given one last chance at redemption, Father Time, the inventor of the world's first clock, must teach two earthly people the true meaning of time--a journey that leads him to a teenage girl who is about to give up on life and a wealthy businessman who wants to live forever.