Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
June Anything Goes Book Club Meeting: Sleep by Honor Jones
Join our bookseller Stephanie on the third Thursday of each month to discuss our monthly pick, whether it’s fiction, nonfiction, mystery or romance. No genre is off limits! Please sign up monthly to attend! Stay tuned for the announcement of our March pick!
Book club members will receive 15% off each monthly book club pick! Please show your confirmation email at check out to receive your discount.
June Romantasy Book Club Meeting: The Love Haters by Katherine Center
Join our bookstore owner Sophia on the second Thursday of each month to chat about a new romance, fantasy, or a book that has a little bit of both!
Book club members will receive 15% off each monthly book club pick! Please show your confirmation email at check out.
May Anything Goes Book Club Meeting: I See You’ve Called In Dead by John Kenney
Join our bookseller Stephanie on the third Thursday of each month to discuss our monthly pick, whether it’s fiction, nonfiction, mystery or romance. No genre is off limits! Please sign up monthly to attend! Stay tuned for the announcement of our March pick!
Book club members will receive 15% off each monthly book club pick! Please show your confirmation email at check out to receive your discount.
May Romantasy Book Club Meeting: Great Big beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Join our bookstore owner Sophia on the second Thursday of each month to chat about a new romance, fantasy, or a book that has a little bit of both!
Book club members will receive 15% off each monthly book club pick! Please show your confirmation email at check out.
Book Signing: Kenan Thompson
Chapter One is happy to welcome Kenan Thompson for a book signing of his biography "When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown"!
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TICKETS ARE REQUIRED. One ticket = one signed copy. Each ticket is $38 plus fees. You must present your ticket upon arrival. Books will be given out at the time of the event. Attendees will be served on a first come, first served basis.
*No refunds or exchanges accepted*
About the Kenan:
Kenan Thompson is an American actor and comedian. He has been a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2003, making him the longest-tenured cast member in the show's history.[3] He was also the first regular cast member born after the show's premiere in 1975. Outside of SNL, Thompson starred on NBC's sitcom Kenan from 2021 to 2022.
About the Book
Kenan’s biography “When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown” came out in 2023, published by Harper Collins!
"Kenan is a master storyteller with extraordinary stories to tell. I wouldn't miss this for the world."--Leslie Jones
When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan Thompson
Kenan Thompson is Saturday Night Live's longest-ever-serving cast member and a star of such pioneering sketches as "Black Jeopardy" and is hugely beloved thanks to a tidal wave of nostalgic fans who grew up on early 2000s classics All That, Good Burger, and Kenan & Kel on Nickelodeon.
He's also a dad (to two girls) in his mid-40s living in suburbia, and whose universal, relatable, family-friendly humor has created unbelievable appeal and engagement from fans from middle America to coastal elites. Becoming a dad sucked the cool right out of him -- and he's OK with that!
When I Was Your Age is packed with hilarious yet poignant essays that are aimed to offer any reader valuable advice on parenting, focusing on positivity, and having fun in life. Kids, new parents, fellow fathers, budding comics, and aunties who want to pinch his cheeks, can all learn from his biggest mistakes and most triumphant victories. There's something for everybody here!
Book Signing: Harlan Coben!
TIME CHANGE: 6pm-8pm
Join us for an exciting book signing at Chapter One with New York Times Best Selling Author Harlan Coben the day before the offical release of his new book, "Nobody's Fool"!
*THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT* Walk ins are not guaranteed a signed copy.
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE A TICKET!
One ticket = one signed copy. Each ticket is $38 plus fees. You must present your ticket upon arrival. Books will be given out at the time of the event. Attendees will be served on a first come, first served basis.
*No refunds or exchanges accepted*
SYNOPSIS:
A year after the devastating events that took place inFool Me Once, Harlan Coben’s bestselling thriller and #1 Netflix series, a secret from former Detective Sami Kierce’s college days comes back to haunt him. Present day is hard enough for the disgraced Kierce, but his past isn’t through with him yet…
Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There’s a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend. Anna. Dead. He doesn’t know what happened. His screams drown out his thoughts—and then he runs.
Twenty-two years later, Kierce, now a private investigator, is a new father who’s working off his debts by doing low level surveillance jobs and teaching wannabe sleuths at a night school in New York City. One evening, he recognizes a familiar face at the back of the classroom. Anna. It’s unmistakably her. As soon as Kierce makes eye contact with her, she bolts. For Kierce there is no choice. He knows he must find this woman and solve the impossible mystery that has haunted his every waking moment since that terrible day.
His investigation will bring him face-to-face with his past—and prove, after all this time, he’s nobody’s fool.
Harlan Coben is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's leading storytellers. His suspense novels are published in forty-six languages and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries, with eighty million books in print worldwide. His Myron Bolitar series has earned the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, and several of his books have been developed into Netflix original series, including the #1 global hit Fool Me Once, The Stranger, The Innocent, Gone for Good, The Woods, Stay Close, and Hold Tight, as well as the Amazon Prime series adaptation of Shelter. He lives in New Jersey.
Annie Grossman Book Signing
Join journalist-turned-dog trainer Annie Grossman, author of the new book How To Train Your Dog With Love + Science, for a reading that looks at the development of positive reinforcement training over the last century, and the ways in which digital technology may impact how dogs learn in the future. This new book dissects the problems with dog training in popular modern media, and shines a bright light on how, and why, to train without using force or coercion. Grossman will answer questions, do a short demo, and make the case that "good dog training" may be a window into understanding ourselves. She will be joined by Lauren Huston of Sunny Heart Doodles and Eric Anderson of Morris County's Hound Harmony.
Silent Book Club February Meeting
A silent bookclub allows members of the community to get together and silently read. There’s no specific book assignment, no reading discussion. Just an hour of silent reading companionship! After the hour is up, attendees are allowed to mingle, browse, and enjoy some light refreshments and treats. All attendees will receive 10% off any book purchased on book club night! Please RSVP below every month you wish to attend. An RSVP is needed each month even if you have attended a previous month.
Book Signing: Ed Kalegi
24 conversations with compelling personalities: Carol Burnett, Dick Van Dyke, Cindy Williams, Henry Winkler, Peri Gilpin, Norman Lear, Brooke Shields, Rosanna Arquette, Lorraine Bracco, Chazz Palminteri, Gwen Carr, Cassidy Hutchinson, Jan VandeHei, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Dean Koontz, Richard Lewis, Robert Klein, Dick Cavett, Lizz Winstead, Ken Levine, Rob Burnett, Doug Momary and Emily Peden, Todd Rundgren, and Dionne Warwick.
This book is more than just a collection of celebrity interviews; it’s a journey through pop culture, history, and the art of conversation. These conversations span genres and generations.
As for Ed, he’s hosted The Weekend with Ed Kalegi syndicated radio show since 2014 (www.EdKalegi.com) and has interviewed several hundred celebrities, authors, and newsmakers. He is a conversationalist at heart who grew up immersed in TV, film, and the media. As a young boy, he’d use a walkie-talkie as his own impromptu bedroom radio station and stay up late to watch Dick Cavett on a 5” black and white Sony TV with snowy reception and bad vertical hold. It’s always been in his blood. Now, he’s lucky to be able to work within what he love.
Anything Goes Book Club February Meeting
Our book this month is More or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova.
Book club members will receive 15% off each monthly book club pick! Please show your confirmation email at check out to receive your discount.
Jordana Blake and S. Trout Book Signings
Flying by Jordana Blake
Forbidden Fruit and Forbidden Obsessions by S. Trout
Romantasy Book Club February Meeting
Our book this month is Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros.
Book club members will receive 15% off each monthly book club pick! Please show your confirmation email at check out.
Book Signing: Angela Brown
We are so excited to welcome back local author, Angela Brown!! She will be signing copies of her new book Some Other Time!
Former bookstore employee Ellie and Jonah, her husband of twenty years, are headed for divorce. They’ve simply fallen out of love, but their family—college-aged daughter Maggie, and Ellie’s eccentric parents Frank and Bunny—aren’t having it. But what if their lives had gone differently? What if Ellie and Jonah had never crashed into one another? That’s the question Ellie is forced to reckon with on the extraordinary morning when she wakes up to an alternate version of the present day—one in which she and a passing stranger named Jonah never married.
Perfect for Valentine’s Day, SOME OTHER TIME is an untraditional love story in which Ellie sees that a simple shift in time could have resulted in an entirely different life. In Olivia Strauss, Brown asked: “If you knew the date when you would die, would you change the way you live?” And SOME OTHER TIME looks at the tiny nuances of life, asking what it could have been like if another path had been chosen.
As Ellie soon finds out, “life is not a study in destiny but an experiment in choice, less a quirky romance novel about serendipity and more akin to those Choose Your Own Adventure books she loved to read as a kid. You make one decision and flip ahead twenty pages. You make a different one and watch your marriage end.”
SOME OTHER TIME is a charmingly upside down second-chance romance, full of heart and tenderness.
Book Signing : Dr. Mark McLaughlin
Join us for the fifth anniversary of Cognitive Dominance: A Brain Surgeon's Quest to Out-Think Fear and hear Dr. Mark McLaughlin discuss the ways in which we can control our brains and use them to their fullest potential.
Hometown History
Hometown History is going to be coming to you in person this fall! On September 26th from 7-8pm as Chapter One will be hosting a Meet & Greet! Join us for a Q&A about how Hometown History got started, the details on how they make such absurdly good podcasts, and behind the scenes stories and extras that you didn’t hear in their episodes.
You can register for this event here: https://www.hometownhistorynj.com/events-1/hometown-history-meet-greet-chapter-one/form
Children's Storytime with Mendham Borough Library
Bring your child to Chapter One for story time in partnership with the Mendham Borough Library! September 25th at 10:30am. Please sign up below