The Paper Peddler picks their Top Five for holiday reading and gift giving, so grab a cup of hot cocoa (with the little marshmallows), light a candle which emanates the aroma of holiday butter cookies, snuggle into your favorite resting place, and wrap your arms and imagination around the newest of this holiday season’s scintillating reads.
For a gift that feeds the mind and opens the heart, visit your local bookstore and purchase a good read.
Adult Fiction
• Kill Alex Cross — Patterson
• A Christmas Wedding — Patterson
• 11-22-63 — Stephen King
• Explosive Eighteen —Janet Evanovich
• The Drop — Michael Connelly
Adult Non-Fiction
• Steven Jobs — Walter Isaacson
• Killing Lincoln — Bill O’Reilly
• Catherine The Great — Robert K. Massie
• Jack Kennedy — by Chris Matthews
• Rin Tin Tin — Susan Orleans
Middle Grade/Young Adult
• Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus #2) — Rick Riordan
• Inheritance — Christopher Paolini
• Hunger Games Trilogy — Suzanne Collins
• Wonderstruck — Brian Selznick
• The Diary of a Wimpy Kid #7: Cabin Fever — Jeff Kinney
Children’s
• Everything on It — Shel Silverstein
• The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories — Dr. Seuss
• Home for Christmas and The Night Before Christmas — book and CD both by Jan Brett
• Guess How Much I Love You: The Pop – up Edition — Sam McBratney
• If You Give a Dog a Donut — Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond
—Submitted by Deborah Martinelli, a former teacher of reading and writing for 31 years and avid reader. She is the principal book buyer for the Paper Peddler, a bookstore located for 43 years at 2538 Dune Drive in Avalon.
Upper Township – Again, kids drinking and being loud half the night near a local business. No matter how often authorities are called they say call the owner. Management does nothing except say; they do what they are…
