Nutley Library Hosts Local Author Book Fair

 The Nutley Public Library, 93 Booth Drive, hosted its first “Local Author Book Fair” on  September. 21.

 The event was sponsored and organized by the Friends of the Nutley Library. Discover fiction and non-fiction for all ages from 15 local published authors, who will be on hand to display, discuss, sell and autograph their books for avid readers and aspiring authors.

 Scheduled local authors: Anthony Buccino, Dr. Marisa Casronova, Barbara Davide, John Demmer, Theresa Quinn Del Vecchio, Raquel Drosos, Joseph A. Dwyer, Luisa Frey, Michael C. Gabriele, Eileen Groome, Nadia Khan, Barry Lenson, Maryann Romagnoli, Maureen Saar, and David Wilson.

  Friends of the Nutley Public Library is a non-profit organization dedicated to the improvement of Nutley’s most treasured asset – its library. Since its founding in 1985, the Friends have supported the library through financial gifts that provide a full array of programs for children, teens and adults in addition to the library’s audio/hard copy books, technology and furnishings.

 Visit the library’s website (https://nutleypubliclibrary.org/) for more information or call the library at (973) 667-0405, ext. 2604, email: library@nutleynj.org.

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A Father's Place - An Eclectic Collection

American Boy: Pushing Sixty 

Belleville and Nutley in the Civil War

Belleville Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom

Canned, booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out..

Gas Stations Photography By Anthony Buccino

Greetings From Belleville, New Jersey collected writings

In Our Old Kitchen Photography by Anthony Buccino

Jersey City Snapshots

Martha Stewart Doesn't Live Here Anymore and other essays

New Orleans in Plain View

New York City Snapshots - In Plain View

Nutley Notables: The Men and Women Who Made a Memorable Impact on Our Home Town, Nutley, New Jersey

Nutley Notables, Volume Two

Nutley Snapshots – In Plain View

Nutley Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom

Old Spices Photography by Anthony Buccino

One Morning In Jersey City

Rambling Round - Inside and Outside at the Same Time

Retrieving Labrador Days dog tales in prose and verse

Sister Dressed Me Funny

Sixteen Inches on Center

Sometimes I Swear In Italian

This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter

Voices on the Bus

Yountakah Country

Nutley Notables - The men and women who made a memorable impact on our home town, Nutley, New Jersey Volume Two

Greetings from Belleville, New Jersey

Collected writings

You don't have to be from Belleville, New Jersey, to enjoy this book! You'll just wish you were ... after you've read it.

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A Father's Place - An Eclectic Collection

Stories about family life, the father-son-dilemma, father-daughter dilemma, day trip vacations in New Jersey, Brookdale soda pop, too much coffee, pets, friends and more! 

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Belleville and Nutley in the Civil War

A compilation of information documenting the participation of the New Jersey towns of Belleville and Nutley (aka North Belleville, Franklin) in the American Civil War.

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Belleville Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom

In the last century, Belleville lost 157 sons while in service to our country. This collection, gathered from newspaper clippings and other sources collects what we know about these young men in an effort that their sacrifice not be forgotten.

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Greetings From Belleville, New Jersey collected writings

Belleville native Anthony Buccino collected his favorite and most-requested writings about life and growing up in Belleville, New Jersey.  More than forty essays and reflections on everything from junior high school bullies to selling pretzels at high school football games. This collection includes the Excellence in Journalism award-winning Don the TV man.

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Jersey City Snapshots

More than 200 color snapshots of Jersey City, New Jersey, from Pavonia/Newport to Paulus Hook, from Grundy Park to Grove Street, along the Hudson River from the Colgate clock to Exchange Place, Harborside and through neighborhoods that have no names.

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Martha Stewart Doesn't Live Here Anymore and other essays

A chapbook of essays focusing on the household trials of author Anthony Buccino, based on his Rambling Round newspaper columns. Read all about Dad vs. house (hint: house wins.)

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Nutley Notables - The men and women who made a memorable impact on our hometown, Nutley, New Jersey

The township of Nutley, New Jersey, accumulated a wealth of celebrated and eccentric people. Their images and stories document the unique contributions they've made that shaped Nutley today.

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Volume Two

New York City Snapshots In Plain View

Here’s to the nonstop energy generated by this big old city and the people  who buzz busily on its wild and crazy  New York City streets day and night

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Nutley Snapshots – In Plain View

Volume one of a series of photo collections to showcase the all-around beauty and some of the history of the northern New Jersey township of Nutley.

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Nutley Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom

Biographies about the more than 130 Nutley sons who died while in service to our country. Fourth edition.

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 Rambling Round - Inside and Outside at the Same Time

The best of Buccino's humor and homage to living life every day, with tongue firmly in cheek, in the Garden State. Buccino's been called "New Jersey's Garrison Keillor, or something like that."  

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Retrieving Labrador Days dog tales in prose and verse

Stories and verse about each of his three Labrador retrievers and some of the other dogs and people whose lives they touched.

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 Sister Dressed Me Funny

Tales about, of all things, a naked statue and the catholic school tie, Italian American family roots and that dress his sister made him wear. 

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This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter

If you ever commuted to work, you'll enjoy reading Anthony Buccino's latest collection "This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter" about the joys and follies of getting to and from work  in the city using metropolitan public transit.

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WW2 Letters Home from the South Pacific by Angelo Buccino

WW2 Letters Home from the South Pacific by Angelo Buccino is one GI’s view of the war amid the heat, bugs, carnage and noise in an artillery battalion supporting First Marine Division at Guadalcanal and other islands that never get mentioned.

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A Father's Place - An Eclectic Collection

Sister Dressed Me Funny

Rambling Round  Inside and Outside at the Same Time

Greetings From Belleville, New Jesey, Collected Writings

Nutley Notables - Volume One

Nutley Notables - Volume Two

Retrieving Labrador Days: Dog tales in prose and Verse

American Boy: Pushing Sixty

Canned booted, bumped... sacked, unemployed

Sometimes I Swear In Italian

Voices on the Bus

One Morning in Jersey City

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A FATHER'S PLACE, An Eclectic Collection

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