For a few hours on Sunday, Sept. 22, New Providence will be the literary capital of Central Jersey when third annual New Providence Book Festival takes over the Salt Box Museum site.

The festival will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the museum at 1350 Springfield Ave.

There will be mysteries, and memoirs and how-to-books; ghosts, and kids’ books and local histories.

The authors will also read from their works and discuss writing during the day.

Featured writers are: Bert Abbazia, J.R. Bale, Linda Barth, Michael Stephen Daigle, Reyna Favis, Vivian Fransen, Kerry Gans, Kristina Garlick, Laura Kaighn, Elissa Matthews, Bob Mayers, Lisa Romeo, Jenn Stroud Rossmann and David Watts.