The Doylestown Bookshop

Each year during the months of May and June, Thoroughbred racing becomes front page news all over the country as horses vie for the coveted, but elusive, Triple Crown made up of the Kentucky Derby, The Preakness and the Belmont Stakes.

Most people know Smarty Jones for his dramatic chase of the Triple ... (more)Crown in 2004, Barbaro for his dramatic fight for survivial after breaking his leg in the Preakness after winning the Kentucky Derby and Riuffian as the greatest Filly to ever race, culminating in her one on one race versus Kentucky Derby winner Foolish Pleasure in the Great Match in 1975.

In her new book, Barbaro, Smarty Jones and Ruffian: The People's Horses, Linda Hanna gives us the inside and detailed story behind all three horses that only she would know due to the information she gleaned from exclusive interviews with the owners and trainers of these three legendary horses.
Also appearing with Linda Hanna will be Patricia Chapman, owner of Smarty Jones, who wrote the wonderful introduction to Hanna's paean to Pennsyvania horse-racing.

Alison Bass will be at the Doylestown Bookshop on Tuesday, June 24th to sign copies of her new book, Side Effects: A Best-Selling Drug On Trial, an investigative book that discusses the relationship between pharmaceutical companies and the public in general, while specifically focusing on the case of ... (more)the anti-depressant drug Paxil, which proved to be not only ineffective, but also hazardous to a person's health.
Alison Bass is the mental health reporter for the Boston Globe and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for her eye-opening investigative journalism.

Christine Marie Duminiak will be at the Doylestown Bookshop to sign copies of her book God's Gift Of Love: After-Death Communications For Those Who Grieve.
Christine Duminak is a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, Spiritual Bereavement Recovery Facilitator, a member of Association for Death Education ... (more)and Counseling and the
founder of Prayer Wave for ADC's. Her mission statemet is, which is nicely embodied by God's Gift of Love:
Christine is committed to spreading the message that our loved ones survive death, are still a part of our lives, and that God in His mercy allows them to directly communicate with us from Heaven, in many different ways, in order to comfort us.
To read more about God's Gift of Love and Christine Duminiak, please visit www.christineduminiak.com.

What is going to happen to Edward & Bella?
Come celebrate the release of Breaking Dawn the fourth and final book in Stephanie Meyer's amazing Twilight Saga.
The party will last from 10:30 pm until 12:01 am when the book goes on sale. We'll be having activities and serving food. Please continue ... (more)to check back as we finalize the details of the event.

See you there!

Amy Edelman will be at the Doylestown Bookshop to sign copies of her book Manless in Montclair.
Manless in Montclair, Edelman's first novel, is story of love, loss, and finding your place in the world, even when you find yourself in the last place you thought you’d ever be.
About the Author
"Amy Holman ... (more)Edelman moved to New York after college to become a clothing designer. After failing miserably, she fell into a career as a publicist and started her own company six months before her first child was born. She is the author of The Little Black Dress, which explores how the little black dress influenced contemporary fashion, art, literature, and film. In 2001 her husband of 12 years died unexpectedly. The following holiday, her youngest daughter asked for a daddy. The following year she began looking for another man and discovered dating in the 21st century as a 43-year-old widow with two kids. Her happy ending was reported in the New York Times “Vows” section on October 7, 2007." -www.amyedelman.com

For more information about Manless in Montclair and Amy Edelman, please be sure to visit her website at www.amyedelman.com.

Amy Edelman will be at the Doylestown Bookshop to sign copies of her book Manless in Montclair.
Manless in Montclair, Edelman's first novel, is story of love, loss, and finding your place in the world, even when you find yourself in the last place you thought you’d ever be.
About the Author
"Amy Holman ... (more)Edelman moved to New York after college to become a clothing designer. After failing miserably, she fell into a career as a publicist and started her own company six months before her first child was born. She is the author of The Little Black Dress, which explores how the little black dress influenced contemporary fashion, art, literature, and film. In 2001 her husband of 12 years died unexpectedly. The following holiday, her youngest daughter asked for a daddy. The following year she began looking for another man and discovered dating in the 21st century as a 43-year-old widow with two kids. Her happy ending was reported in the New York Times “Vows” section on October 7, 2007." -www.amyedelman.com

For more information about Manless in Montclair and Amy Edelman, please be sure to visit her website at www.amyedelman.com.

This month Farley's Book Club will be reading Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland. As usual, please meet in the back room of Farley's for stimulating discussion and light refreshments!

Linda Wisniewski will be at the Doylestown Bookshop during First friday in September to sign copies of her new book, Off Kilter: One Woman's journey To Peace With Scoliosis, Her Mother & Her Polish Heritage. Please read the detailed description below to find out more about the book.

About the Author
Linda ... (more)C. Wisniewski writes for the Bucks County Herald and teaches memoir classes for Bucks County Community College. A graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo, she holds a master’s degree from Villanova University and a certificate of advanced study from Drexel University. She is regional representative of the International Women’s Writing Guild and a board member of the Story Circle Network. Linda is a contributing editor for the Story Circle Journal and an assistant editor for Story Circle Book Reviews.

For more information about Linda Wisniewski and Off Kilter, please be sure to visit his website at www.lindawis.com.

Mark Bavaro, Super Bowl-winning tight end for those great Giants teams from the 80s, will be at the Doylestown Bookshop to sign copies of his new book Rough & Tumble, a gritty and dramatic novel of a season in the life of a professional football player as he navigates the brutal world of the NFL.
Notes ... (more)About The Author
MARK BAVARO is widely considered one of the toughest, most idiosyncratic athletes ever to play in the NFL and one of the best tight ends of all time. He played college football at Notre Dame, graduated in 1985, and was drafted by the Giants where he stayed through the 1990 season and played for Bill Parcells and alongside Phil Simms and Lawrence Taylor. He also played with the Cleveland Browns and the Philadelphia Eagles. He was selected to the Pro Bowl in 1986 and 1987 and was a pivotal member of the New York Giants during their Super Bowl XXI and XXV wins. He lives in Massachusetts.

Notes About The Signing
•Due to time constraints, Mr. Bavaro will not be signing any pieces of sports memorabilia.
•Books will be located behind the front counter of the bookshop and we ask that you purchase the book before getting in line to get it signed.

When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth...And law enforcement is ready to take them down!

On Friday, October 3rd at 7:00 pm, award-winning horror author Jonathan Maberry will be at the Doylestown Bookshop to sign copies of his newest book, Zombie C.S.U., the hilarious, but ... (more)surprisingly serious book that asks the age-old question, What if zombies were real? He gets the lowdown from the experts on all things undead and the result is a welcome addition to the zombie zeitgeist ably standing beside such works as Max Brooks' genius World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide.

About The Author
Jonathan Maberry is a writer, lecturer, and motivational speaker. He is the author of Ghost Road Blues, which won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, as well as Dead Man's Song, Bad Moon Rising, and several nonfiction books, including Vampire Universe and The Cryptopedia, which won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Nonfiction. He is a writing mentor for the Horror Writers Association and the Mystery Writers of America, a founding partner of The Writers Corner USA, a speaker for the National Writers Union, co-founder editor of The Wild River Review, and publisher of Cryptopedia Magazine, an online horror magazine. He is co-creator and consulting producer for "On the Slab" a web-based horror and SF entertainment news show for stage 9/Disney. He lives in Warrington, Pennsylvania , with his wife, Sara, and son, Sam.

Ten Mile River

On Friday, October 24th at 6:00 pm, Paul Griffin will be at the Doylestown Bookshop to sign copies of Ten Mile River, a gripping and gritty young adult novel about the unusual friendship between two New York teens who find their home on the streets.
This is Paul Griffin's first ... (more)novel, and his spare moving prose and uncanny ear for authentic dialogue is guaranteed to garner many fans.

Publisher's Weekly Starred Review of Ten Mile River
Ray and José, 14 and 15, have survived foster care and juvenile detention together, and now hide out from their parole officers in a burned-out stationhouse in New York City's Ten Mile River park. They make their way by stealing, working occasionally, and trying to stay under police radar. Ray is bigger and smarter, but José, a proven matador, is boss. They are friends to the end—until Ray meets and falls for the beautiful Trini, who encourages both boys to go straight, like her. But Ray's view of himself and his understanding of loyalty also leads him to set up Trini with José. As Griffin illuminates Ray's often dangerous world, readers will feel for themselves Ray's dilemma and the difficulties he faces in choosing between José, drawn to the fast buck, and his own desires to make something of himself. The language is tough but convincing, the setting authentic, the characters memorable and their struggles played out with a complexity that respects the audience's intelligence.

Karen Levin Coburn, co-editor of Letting Go, describes Writin' on Empty: Parents Reveal the Upside, Downside, and Everything in Between When Children Leave the Nest perfectly in her glowing review: "This collection of essays about the universal experience of children leaving home is guaranteed to strike ... (more)a chord—to make you smile and laugh out loud—and yes, even shed some tears. It will confirm what you've been thinking as well as challenge you to think a bit differently."

Now, DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland is proud to welcome local authors and editors of Writin' on Empty, Risa Nye, Joan Taylor Cehn and Julie Renalds, to the store as they discuss a topic that is sure to pull at the heartstrings of every parent out there, whether you've already gone through this experience yourself or are about to.

Head down to DIESEL, A Bookstore on Thursday, October 30 at 7pm and mingle & meet other parents in the perfect opportunity to share your own stories at this wonderful event!

Learn more about the editors and their book at www.writinonempty.com.

Job got you down? Feeling a bit drained at the office? It might be worse than you could possibly imagine.

Gary Frank will be at the Doylestown Bookshop to sign copies of his newest book Institutional Memory, a novel of corporate american terror featuring a building that seems to be absorbing ... (more)the life force of the people that work within its walls to disasteorus effect.

About the Author
Institutional Memory is Gary Frank's second novel, following 2006's Forever Will You Suffer. Currently, he is the president of the Garden State Horror Writers Society. For much more on Gary Frank, please visit his website at www.authorgaryfrank.com.

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Melissa Groeling will be at the Doylestown Bookshop on Friday, December 5th, at 7:00 pm to sign copies of her debut novel Beauty Marks, an intriguing melange of romance and mystery that takes place on the down and out.

About the Author
Melissa Groeling believes that the past ... (more)can be overcome and that the future is what you make it. She lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her family and pet cat. She is currently working on her second novel.

Doylestown resident Marie Lamba will be at the book shop on December 7th to sign copies of her wonderful new young adult novel, What I Meant. . ., the story of how 15-year-old Sangeet Jumnals sleepy suburban life suddenly gets super complicated after her aunt moves in with her family.
About the Author
Marie ... (more)was born in New York and ended up in Doylestown. Doesn't seem like a long journey, but she didn't exactly take 95 down from New York. She loves Swiss chocolate, her daughters and her husband and has a poodle named Ella, whose exploits will be featured in the sequel to What I Meant. . . (pub date: not yet determined).
To read much much more about Marie Lamba and What I Meant. . ., please vist her website at marielamba.com.

Doylestown resident Marie Lamba will be at the book shop on December 21st to sign copies of her wonderful new young adult novel, What I Meant. . ., the story of how 15-year-old Sangeet Jumnals sleepy suburban life suddenly gets super complicated after her aunt moves in with her family.
About the Author
Marie ... (more)was born in New York and ended up in Doylestown. Doesn't seem like a long journey, but she didn't exactly take 95 down from New York. She loves Swiss chocolate, her daughters and her husband and has a poodle named Ella, whose exploits will be featured in the sequel to What I Meant. . . (pub date: not yet determined).
To read much much more about Marie Lamba and What I Meant. . ., please vist her website at marielamba.com.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 13TH AT 11 AM – KIM CUNNINGHAM autographing and discussing ABSOLUTELY WILD , wacky winsome and wild rhymes written by her father and fully illustrated with her handcolored linoleum prints.

Chris Conover will be at the Doylestown Bookshop on Saturday, December 13th at 2:00 pm to sign copies of her book The Christmas Bears, a joyfully written and beautifully illustrated tale that celebrates the happy anticipation of Christmas that makes the season so wonderful.

Roger Moss & Tom Crane will be signing copies of their book, Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia.

h2 { font-size:24px; font-weight:bold } Images of America Warrington Book SigningThe Images of America book series has been recording the history of our local area for years. Now Warrington gets the chance to shine. The year 2009 marks Warrington’s 275th anniversary. To commemorate this event, the ... (more)newly formed Warrington Historical Society has assembled the vintage photographs in Warrington as a glance back at the township’s rich past, offering a window to a time when the Warrington landscape was made up of endless open space and agriculture was the main industry.
Warrington presents a collection of more than 200 vintage photographs along with a historical narrative and all the profits will go to the Warrington Historical Society.

Zombie Fest It's springtime and flowers aren't the only thing coming up out of the ground! On Friday, March 20th, The Doylestown Bookshop is teaming up with The County Theater> to present a zombie-filled evening featuring award-winning horror author Jonathan Maberry. Mr. Maberry will begin the evening ... (more)at 7:00 pm at the bookshop where he will be signing copies of his latest book, Patient Zero (see description below). During the book signing, we will be having a zombie costume contest with the winner of the contest, judged by acclaimed horror writers Max Brooks and Brian Keene, receiving their very own zombie portrait, an $80.00 value, from acclaimed zombie portraitist Rob Sacchetto. For more info about zombie portraits and the artist:
•www.robsacchetto.com
•www.zombieportraits.com Following the book signing and zombie costume contest will be a zombie double feature with a special introduction to the films by Mr. Maberry. The films that will make up the double feature are 28 DAYS LATER and a special author's choice. Tickets for the zombie double feature, available at both The County and the Bookshop, are $10.00 a piece or $5.00 with purchase of one of Mr. Maberry's books at the Bookshop.

Dr. Peter Langman will be visiting the Doylestown Bookshop to discuss and sign copies of his new book, Why Kids Kill, an in-depth study into the psychology of school shootings.

Join Bruce Foxworthy as he retells stories from his new book, "Making Do and Hanging On: Growing Up in Apple Country Through the Great Depression

Join the Philly Liars Club as they throw a huge bash to celebrate all that is wonderful about the independent Doylestown Bookshop! There will be free Rita's Water Ice, and games for prizes that include autographed books, a cameo in a the canine web comedy It's Todd's Show, and having a character named ... (more)after you in an upcoming Marvel Comic written by Jonathan Maberry. Here are the writers who will be there: Marie Lamba (WHAT I MEANT..., Random House), Jonathan Maberry (PATIENT ZERO, St. Martins), Dennis Tafoya (DOPE THIEF, St. Martins), Jon McGoran who writes as D.H. Dublin (FREEZER BURN, Berkley), L.A. Banks (THE THIRTEENTH, St. Martins Griffin), Gregory Frost (LORD TOPHET, Del Rey/Random House), Kelly Simmons (STANDING STILL, Washington Sq. Press), Merry Jones (THE BORROWED AND BLUE MURDERS, Minotaur Books), Keith Strunk (PRALLSVILLE MILLS AND STOCKTON, Arcadia Publishing), Poe scholar Ed Pettit, social media guru Donald Lafferty, and Emmy award winning producer Laura Schrock (current project It's Todd's Show). For more info, or to reserve a book before the event, call the bookstore at 215-230-7610.