Who's The Real Jersey Girl? by Amy Byrnes What does it take to be a true real Jersey Girl? Is a combination of hard work and determination or is it rock-hard abs and sheer bravado that defines women from the Shore? Barnes & Noble in Eatontown lets you make the call this winter as they host two author events that offer all manner of inspiration for readers of how a girl with New Jersey connections finds success. Best-selling author and Long Branch native Yvonne S. Thornton, M.D. will come to the Monmouth Mall store on Jan. 22 to promote her new book “Something to Prove.” Thornton’s book is a tribute to her father, a Fort Monmouth ditch digger who pushed and inspired all six of his daughters to achieve success through education. It’s the follow up to her New York Times bestselling 1995 memoir, “The Ditchdigger’s Daughters: A Black Family’s Astonishing Success Story” which was also developed into a feature film. The first black woman in the country to be board-certified in high-risk obstetrics, Thornton writes in her new memoir about the challenges of balancing a medical career with the equally demanding jobs of wife and mother. The Monmouth University grad shares how she has juggled her role as a clinical professor and specialist at New York Medical College with attending her two children’s chess matches, making Halloween costumes and learning to tango. Her ethos? “Don’t let anyone define who you are.” On Feb. 10, Jenni "JWoWW "Farley of MTV’s “Jersey Shore” will appear to sign her recently released paean to dating “The Rules According to JWoWW.” Unlike her partner-in-crime Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi who appeared at the Barnes & Noble in Brick Thursday to tout her work of fiction, Farley has penned a how-to for nabbing the guy of your dreams. Farley, a New York native who has also done work in graphic design and promoting nightclubs, offers some dos and don’ts of dating in her book and “shore-tested secrets for landing a mint guy.”