VANISHING CUBA is a visual storytelling project by American photographer Michael Chinnici. The collection depicts the changes Cuba is facing as it emerges from more than 60 years of isolation and decay. Michael’s 24 trips to Cuba have yielded tens of thousands of photographs, thought provoking and emotional stories, and created lifelong friendships. Vanishing Cuba is about capturing the past, present and ... +

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In celebration of both National Poetry Month and the 40th Anniversary of Books & Books, South Florida-based poets are available to the public at Books & Books Coral Gables throughout the month of April for two alternating micro-residency engagements. Check out a Poet invites the general public to spend 15 minutes of one-on-one time with a local poet, hear them read, ask ... +

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Join SPF for the 4th edition of the Small Press Fair Fort Lauderdale: SPF’19 with a market of print, book and zine exhibitors; a giant steamroller press, live print-making demonstrations, food trucks and more! A market of print, book and zine exhibitors from Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Boca Raton, Orlando, Gainesville, Tennessee, New York, Louisiana and beyond. Steamroller pressing the largest prints of ... +

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What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realise. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself. Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester, England. After graduating from Oxford University she published her first novel at ... +

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If you are intrigued by the storied art form of poetry and want to learn more about expressing yourself, then sign up for the free Lunch with Art– Poetry Edition at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center. These monthly lunchtime gatherings are hosted by Sharonda “Eccentrich” Richardson, the #14 ranked female poet in the world! Expanding upon the success of the Lunch with Art ... +

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Everyone loves the idea of writing a novel…until they start it and realize they don’t know what they’re doing! “The Shape of a Novel” breaks down what you need to write a novel and how to outline your book before you start it so that when you’re stuck you have a blueprint to return to. Workshops will include brief lectures on how ... +

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The 32nd Annual Conference on Children’s Literature: Nurturing Our Sense of Community is happening. This free, daylong professional development opportunity is open to anyone interested in literacy for youth. The training and exposure offered is of particular interest to local authors, community partners, teachers, including early childhood educators, literacy coaches, library media specialists, public librarians, caregivers and parents.  The 2019 special guests are Oge Mora, Angela Dominguez, and ... +

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The Butler Waugh Lecture is excited to host C. Riley Snorton, a professor of English and affiliate of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of “Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low” and “Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity.” He is the winner of the Lambda ... +

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Books & Books is thrilled to announce that Booker Prize-winning, internationally-bestselling author Salman Rushdie launches his new novel, QUICHOTTE  presented in collaboration with Miami Book Fair at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus Auditorium World-renowned storyteller Salman Rushdie is at the height of his power in his highly-anticipated novel QUICHOTTE (Random House; 9/3/2019), an electrifying, modernized classic that fractures and reforms our conception of love in a whirlwind ... +

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Jul 26, 2019, 8 PM Colson Whitehead, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning Oprah’s Book Club selection The Underground Railroad, will be in Miami for an exclusive appearance to celebrate the highly-anticipated follow-up, THE NICKEL BOYS: A Novel. A devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of ... +

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Rupi Kaur is a poet, artist, and performer. At the age of five, her mother handed her a paintbrush and said, “Draw your heart out.” At seventeen, she happened upon a local open mic night where she performed her first spoken word poem. While studying at the University of Waterloo, Rupi wrote, illustrated, and self-published her first collection, milk and honey. In the years since, milk ... +

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Jordan B. Peterson is a Ph.D. research and clinical psychologist currently teaching and researching at the University of Toronto with tenure. He frequently appears on TVO on various topics. His research interests include self-deception, mythology, religion, narrative, neuroscience, personality, deception, creativity, intelligence and motivation. He is one of the two professors listed in the Arts & Science Students Union’s Anti-Calendar rated as ... +

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Multi-Awarded Venezuelan illustrator /Designer Menena Cottin studied graphic design in Caracas, at the Neumann Foundation Design Institute. After taking courses in writing and illustrating children’s books at Parsons School of Design and traditional animation at the Pratt Institute, both in New York City, he began creating books for children. Author, illustrator and designer of more than 30 children’s books published in Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, ... +

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Exile Books, Miami’s book store is spending the summer in exile at The Standard Spa in Miami Beach. Exile Books is a pop-up artist’s bookstores that migrates throughout Miami, spending 4-6 months in selected locations. At every venue Exile evolves, presenting a thematically curated selection of titles and fresh programming. Thursdays at the Standard Thu, Jul 7, 6 PM MADE-UP MEMORIES ZINE WORKSHOP ... +

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Have an idea to spread poetry as part of O, Miami Poetry Festival 2018? Submit your proposal between August 21, 2017 and October 13, 2017. For a sense of the kind of things we do, go the video page and start watching. Full rules and regulations will be available via our Submittable portal beginning August 21st. How the process works Submit your ... +

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Exile Books has opened a storefront in the heart of Little Haiti. After three years in our cozy Wynwood studio, we can’t wait to share EXILE Books with the community of Little Haiti. Neighboring Emerson Dorsch art gallery, the space will be home to EXILE’s offices and include a public storefront showcasing a curated selection of artist’s books, zines, and print projects ... +

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Little Haiti Book Festival will feature authors from Haiti and the Haitian diaspora, literary panels and craft talks, workshops for writers, hands-on activities for children, a film screening, a dance workshop, poetry, dance and music performances, and more. The Little Haiti Book Festival relies on the generous support of Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs, the City of Miami and Commissioner Keon Hardemon, the ... +

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The Desert and the Cities Sing: Discovering Today’s Israel is a unique treasure box including photographs by Neil Folberg, films, books and more. is an exploration of Israel by two intrepid travelers, Lin Arison and Diana C. Stoll. Through encounters with world-renowned artists, educators and innovators, they reveal the richness of a country many know only through front-page headlines. Free Event Includes: ... +

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MOCA call for participants able to share true personal stories about a time when the intersection of your social identities challenged and changed you. Who we are is an intersection of identities: Age. Gender. Race. Class. Culture. Sexual orientation. Religion. Politics. Ethnicity. Language. Physical ability. Physical challenge. Sometimes, identity is what holds us together; other times it pulls us apart. Twelve readers ... +

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WordSpeak, an ongoing spoken word program for South Florida teens, invites performance poet, playwright and educator Emanuelee Bean also known as “Outspoken”. The program includes Workshops, Open Mic and Reading. Emanuelee Bean is a Texas Poet Laureate nominee, and ranked 9th in the Individual World Poetry Slam in 2013. He ranked 2nd in collaborative poetry at Group Piece Finals in 2013 and ... +

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This exhibition details the dramatic recovery of historic materials relating to the Jewish community in Iraq from a flooded basement in Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, and the National Archives’ recovery work in support of U.S. Government efforts to preserve and make these materials available. The materials include more than 2,700 Jewish books and tens of thousands of documents in Hebrew, Arabic, Judeo-Arabic ... +

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On April 1st, O, Miami kicks off the month with a poetic boat ride up the Miami River. The festival ends on April 30th with a teen poetry and music competition. In between, O, Miami celebrates contemporary poetry and transforms Greater Miami into a canvas for the literary arts, and the ideas to get poems in front of Miamians this year are ... +

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The University of Miami Libraries and Books & Books invite you to a presentation of the book ESCAPE: THE HEYDAY OF CARIBBEAN GLAMOUR by Hermes Mallea In his latest book, Escape: The Heyday of Caribbean Glamour, author and architect Hermes Mallea celebrates the well-preserved glamour of warm-weather destinations in the Caribbean and Florida, from the great estates of ambitious patrons to the ... +

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The 34th annual Alper JCC Berrin Family Jewish Book Festival brings over a dozen acclaimed authors to our community to share the power of words that initiate conversations, inspire change or entertain us with their stories. The festival begins Monday, October 20th when award-winning journalist and legal analyst Lisa Bloom presents her compelling book, Suspicion Nation. Bloom exposes mistakes made in the ... +

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Event: Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 7:00pm Live reading and book signing by Oscar Fuentes. 4 Nights a With Betsy, a new book by Oscar Fuentes, will launch at Books & Books in Coral Gables on Saturday, June 21 at 7:00pm. Rio Chavarro writes, “Oscar’s poetry tells of love found, lost, beaten, bested, devoured, detached, he speaks to my heart’s inner, primitive ... +

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Wednesday, May 28, 2014 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm Girl’s Club and the Broward County Cultural Division invite artists, art spaces and creative entrepreneurs to attend this information session/brown bag lunch talk on Wednesday, May 28. Hear from Gigi Rosenberg, author of The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing, about practical tools and strategies for realizing creative projects and writing successful artist grants. Rosenberg ... +

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Friday, May 2, 2014 at 7:00pm – Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 5:00pm Turn-Based Press will be publishing a series of prints based on illustrations by Steven Appleby from the illustrated novel, The Good Inn. The book was co-authored by Black Francis and Josh Frank. Frank will offer a reading and prints will be on view. Adapted from the publisher HarperCollins: Loosely-based ... +

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM Charlie Crist, the former Republican governor of Florida, spent years in the party’s inner circle. In this no-holds-barred memoir, he shows why he switched sides and became a Democrat. After serving as a Republican governor Charlie Crist made headlines when he decided to run for the U.S. Senate as an Independent. He ... +

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Monday, February 10th, 6:00 p.m. Author and educator Dr. Marvin Dunn will return to the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center to discuss his newest book, which addresses a century of racial violence in Florida. “The Beast in Florida is the most original and courageous book of Florida history since Stetson Kennedy’s Palmetto County was published in 1942,” states Paul Ortiz, author ... +

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Jan 12 2014. 4:00 pm DJ: The Dog Who Rescued Me chronicles David Toussaint’s life with his six-year-old pug, DJ. In this ten-chapter photo book, a poignant tale is told, through Toussaint’s words and Piero Ribelli’s beautifully expressive photos, of how the love of an animal brought Toussaint out of depression and gave him a new appreciation of his neighborhood, New York ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. December 20, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Photographer Jake Mayfield, undertaking a personal quest for artistic integrity, finds beauty, passion, and racial discord on the lush and feral Caribbean island of Soufrière. On his first day there he has a run-in with Rollo Joseph, a dangerous pseudo-rasta whose presence haunts him both physically and psychologically as their conflict escalates ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. December 30, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Pete Fernandez is a mess. He’s on the brink of being fired from his middle-management newspaper job. His fiancée has up and left him. Now, after the sudden death of his father, he’s back in his hometown of Miami, slowly drinking himself into oblivion. But when a co-worker he barely knows asks ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. January 3, 2014, 8:00 p.m. They’ve served the rich, the famous, and the infamous, ranging from Madonna and Al Capone to Amelia Earhart and Bill Clinton. They’ve escorted patrons to their cars during the cocaine wars and sent trays of food from the kitchen to high profile patrons via Secret Service agents. They work at the second-highest ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. December 17, 2013, 8:00 p.m. In an elite college in a once-decaying New England city, Steven Brookman has come to a decision. A brilliant but careless professor, he has determined that for the sake of his marriage, and his soul, he must extract himself from his relationship with Maud Stack, his electrifying student, whose papers are always ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. December 11, 2013, 8:00 p.m. In 1950s Jewish Boston, Dale Stanten’s mother established a home-based business as a prostitute to remedy her husband’s inability to provide for his family. At age six, the author was answering the front door for johns. Neighbor children were forbidden to play with her and even the Girl Scouts asked her to ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables, December 12, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Published to glowing reviews, this riveting narrative takes us back to when the Cuban Revolution was young and offers a new and surprising look at Fidel Castro. Drawing on interviews with high-level defectors from Cuban intelligence, Cuba expert Brian Latell creates a vivid narrative that chronicles Castro’s crimes from his university days ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. December 4, 2013, 8:00 p.m. The New York Times Book Review calls Edgar Award–winner James W. Hall a “master of suspense” and this new high-stakes thriller Going Dark shows why as Thorn embarks on a mission to save his new-found son. Earth Liberation Front, known as ELF, is a loosely knit organization comprised of environmental activists scattered ... +

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November 26, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Kolie Crutcher, the award-winning author of Electric Living-The Science Behind the Law of Attraction, will be holding an author presentation and book signing at Books & Books Coral Gables. The Books & Books appearance is the last event of Crutcher’s week-long visit to South Florida. Crutcher will be in town to receive the 2013 Readers’ Favorite Gold ... +

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University of Miami Field House. November 15, 2013, 6:00 p.m. America’s most prominent legal mind and the #1 bestselling author of Chutzpah and The Best Defense, Alan Dershowitz, recounts his legal autobiography, describing how he came to the law, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past 50 years, most of which he has personally been involved ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. November 1, 2013, 6:30 p.m. At a time when fashion and decoration set the tone and absorbed the attention of society more than politics and economics, it isn’t surprising that the first priority of Marie Antoinette was to be queen of fashion. The controversial wife of Louis XVI was often resented for her interference in politics, her ... +

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Books & Books. October 28, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Tigertail Productions is launching Tigertail, A South Florida Poetry Annual: Sunstruck Matches. This tenth edition of Tigertail’s annual publication is edited by noted poet and food/wine writer Jen Karetnick. Ten years of poetry annuals will be celebrated, honoring the editors and poets of all 10 books. Past editors include Richard Blanco, who delivered President ... +

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Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus Auditorium. October 9, 2013, 7:30 p.m. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker – a ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. September 16, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Local author Lori St John, Esq, CPA debuts her first non-fiction legal thriller, The Corruption of Innocence, A Journey for Justice. How did the wife of a prominent surgeon find herself at the death chamber battling the American justice system with the Pope and Mother Teresa in her corner? Lori St John’s ... +

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Books & Books, Bal Harbour Shops. September 12, 2013, 6:00 p.m. When Zia Donatella comes to live with the Bertolizzi family, little do Alfie and his older sister Emilia know what’s in store for them. Zia Dontella is determined to show the kids how a home-cooked meal is better than even the best take-out pizza or burrito. And when Zia’s plan actually ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. September 17, 2013, 8:00 p.m. From the bestselling author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade – and who must pass as a girl to survive. Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. August 16, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Kerrigan is writing a guidebook to his adopted city of Copenhagen. Specifically, a guide to the city’s drinking establishments-of, which there are more than 1,500.Thus, it is a project potentially without end, and one with a certain amount of numbness built into it, through countless drinks imbibed. And that is part of ... +

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From August 19 through September 9, 2013. Have you had an idea running around your head for a novel, or a short story; a piece of creative non-fiction, or a memoir, but you just haven‚t gotten around to writing it? Do you already have a piece of fiction or non-fiction that needs the careful eyes of outside readers? Or, have you always ... +

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August 20, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Trauma does not just happen to a few unlucky people; it is the bedrock of our psychology. Death and illness impact us all, but even the everyday sufferings of loneliness and fear are traumatic. Western psychology teaches that if we understand the cause of trauma, we might move past it, while many drawn to Eastern practices see ... +

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August 8, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Lynne Cox has set open water swimming records across the world, and now she has focused her decades-long experience and expertise into this definitive guide to swimming. Cox methodically addresses what is needed to succeed at and enjoy open water swimming, including choosing the right bathing suit and sunscreen; surviving in dangerous weather conditions, currents, and waves; ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. July 12, 2013, 12:00 p.m. You may know her only as Justin Bieber’s mom, but Pattie Mallette has an incredible life story of her own. She knows what its like to struggle with depression, abandonment, and abuse. She knows what its like to barely hang on to faith. Now she spills the truth about the journey that’s ... +

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July 22, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Madeline Hart is a rising star in Britain’s governing party: beautiful, intelligent, driven by an impoverished childhood to succeed. But she is also a woman with a dark secret: she is the lover of Prime Minister Jonathan Lancaster. Somehow, her kidnappers have learned of the affair, and they intend to make the British leader pay dearly for ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. June 27, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Tai Chi: The Perfect Exercise is an introduction to, and argument for, the relevance of tai chi in the modern world. Written with a novelist’s voice and augmented by fine-art, black-and-white photographs and clear instructional diagrams, the book introduces this ancient, Taoist practice enjoyed by millions worldwide as a curative, longevity practice, ... +

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Miami Beach Botanical Garden. June 27, 2013, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. A recently introduced oral poetry art form, spoken word is the subject of growing interest among young people worldwide. As part of its WordSpeak spoken word project, Tigertail is offering four free workshops and a slam for South Florida teens from 13 to 19 years old. Tigertail has launched the All ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. June 9, 2013, 2:00 p.m. A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to ... +

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Books & Books Miami Beach. June 8, 2013, 2:30 p.m. When Alan Greenberg first showed up at Werner Herzog’s Munich home at age twenty-four, he was, according to the director, the first outsider to seek him and recognize his greatness. Every Night the Trees Disappear is Alan Greenberg’s intimate chronicle of how the visionary filmmaker Werner Herzog directed a masterwork. Greenberg’s observations, ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. May 31, 2013, 8:00 p.m. John Henry is known worldwide for his large-scale public works of art and is currently designing the world’s tallest sculpture. With the recent collaboration between former Corcoran Museum director David C. Levy, art writer and educator Stephen Luecking, and renowned sculpture photographer David Finn, sculptor John Henry has now ventured into the ... +

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Books & Books at Temple Judea. June 18, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Andrew Yancy – late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office – has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of ... +

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Books & Books at Temple Judea. June 19, 2013, 7:30 p.m. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times ... +

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Books & Books at Temple Judea. June 23, 2013, 2:00 p.m. From one of the world’s most beloved storytellers – #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman – comes his first adult novel in eight years. Wondrous and imaginative, and at times deeply scary, The Ocean at the End of the Lane captures the very essence of childhood fear and uncertainty. ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. May 18, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Outrageous, candid, fun loving, and sharp-shooting, Wendy Williams is one of the most entertaining and beloved talk show hosts on the air today. Fans turn to the self-proclaimed “Queen of Media” for her honest advice, trusting her to tell it like it is. Drawn from the popular “Ask Wendy” segment on The ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables, May 20, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and later, as an adult woman who loves to travel but is terrified of boarding a plane. With an open heart, she writes about ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. May 21, 2013, 8:00 p.m. “One day I will tell you the story of my life,” promises Emma Brockes’s mother, “and you will be amazed.” Brockes grew up hearing only pieces of her mother’s past-stories of a rustic childhood in South Africa, glimpses of a bohemian youth in London – and yet knew that crucial facts were ... +

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Coral Gables Congregational Church. June 1, 2013, 6:00 p.m. Eve Ensler has devoted her life to enlightening the world about the female body – how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet, she spent much of life disassociated from her own body, a disconnection brought on by her father’s sexual abuse and her mother’s remoteness. Now, Eve shares ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. May 17, 2013, 7:00 p.m. The star of Animal Planet’s popular My Cat from Hell, Jackson Galaxy, a.k.a. “Cat Daddy,” isn’t what you might expect as far as cat experts are concerned (as The New York Times noted, he “looks like a Hells Angel”). Yet Galaxy’s ability to connect with even the most troubled felines is truly ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. May 11, 2013, 4:00 p.m. When internationally known television and film personality George Lopez turned fifty, he was ready to kiss the first half-century of his life goodbye. After living through years of doing stand-up on the road, a stressful divorce and kidney disease, he was eager to leave it all behind and begin a new chapter. ... +

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Coral Gables Congregational Church. May 5, 2013, 4:00 p.m. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice will be in conversation with an equally passionate voice in world literature. Together, they discuss some of the greatest challenges of our times, including: How to counter failures of imagination that keep billions of people without access to ... +

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Books & Books, Museum of Art Ft. Lauderdale. May 4, 2013, 4:00 p.m.Books & Books, Coral Gables. May 6, 2013, 8:00 p.m. If you’re fat and fail every diet, if you’re thin but can’t get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. April 29, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And the residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of life’s most profound discoveries and are some of the most true-to-life characters that ... +

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April 2013. Miami Dade College (MDC) InterAmerican Campus announced that student Mercedes Ramos won first place in the internationally recognized Dis-moi dix mots! poetry contest. Ramos’ poem, titled L’Unique, centers on two people’s interpretation of a bouquet of flowers, and illustrates how personal perception gives people a unique quality.  Contest entrants were given 10 French words to include in their poems. Upon ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. May 1, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Born in Aleppo, Syria, Elias left with her family at the age of seven to escape rising religious and political tensions and settled in the suburbs of Detroit, only to discover herself newly embedded in a different kind of hostile landscape. Bullied in school for everything from not being cool enough (her ... +

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Soho Beach House. April 30, 2013, 7:00 p.m. From the national bestselling author of Prague Fatale comes A Man Without Breath, a powerful new thriller by master novelist Philip Kerr that returns Bernie Gunther, the sardonic Berlin cop, to the Eastern Front, where he must uncover the perpetrators of a terrible war crime. As Malcolm Forbes enthused in The Daily Beast, “The ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. April 17, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Coconut Grove is a seaside hideaway filled with modest homes and charming cottages that have been nurtured, preserved, and artfully updated for today. Houses washed with white set amidst abundant gardens recall Eden. Irregular rooflines fitted with earthy red tile emerge playfully from an abundance of bright bougainvillea and graceful palms. Fountains ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. April 12, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Who knew that horticulture was such an intoxicating subject? In this follow-up to the New York Times bestsellers Wicked Bugs and Wicked Plants, Amy Stewart explores the odd, unusual, and surprisingly common plants that have produced the world’s greatest spirits. The Drunken Botanist uncovers the enlightening botanical history and the fascinating science ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. Wednesday, April 17, 2013. 7:00 p.m. A compelling portrait of a girl who is a master of reinvention – creating a new name, new identity and new Ume.com profile every time she moves to a new town: Dessen tells the story of Mclean, a high school senior who has taken on a new persona in each of ... +

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Annual Poetry Slam. April 20, 2013, 2:00 p.m. The African-American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) is celebrating National Poetry Month on Saturday, April 20, 2013 beginning at 2 p.m. AARLCC is calling for poets, judges and vendors to participate in this event. New this year: There will be three categories of poetry awards. A first-, second- and third-place trophy will be ... +

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April 2013. In honor of National Poetry Month (April 2013) and in partnership with O, Miami, the month long festival that celebrates poetry throughout Miami Dade County, The Betsy South Beach has a full slate of events, promotions and interactive activities on tap. Produced by the University of Wynwood with principal support provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. March 29, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Black has firsthand understanding of the big butt. Always a chubby girl, she suffered for much of her life trying to mold herself into the physical ideal of womanhood often promoted by our culture. She eventually discovered that it was not her body that was blocking her; it was her attitude about ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. April 1, 2013, 6:00 p.m. In Chasing the Sun, the international music icon and humanitarian Juanes shares the incredible story of his life and how music and faith guided his path. In his own un-adulterated words, and with visually arresting images throughout – some of them never before seen – Juanes imparts his defining moments from childhood ... +

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Featuring Q&A with Associate Professor of Communication John SolidayUniversity of Miami Bank United Fieldhouse. April 8, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Cohen takes readers behind the scenes of his life and work, truly one and the same, to tell the story of his rise from a TV-adoring kid who always had a copy of People magazine at his side while growing up, to an ... +

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Broward College. March 28, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and contributing editor at TIME, Jon Meacham is one of America’s most prominent public intellectuals. Known as a skilled raconteur and an accomplished historian with a depth of knowledge about politics, religion, and current affairs, he understands and analyzes how issues and events impact modern life. Meacham’s latest presidential biography, Thomas Jefferson: ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. March 20, 2013, 8:00 p.m. “An artist with a “reputation for writerly miracles,” (Janet Maslin, New York Times), Ron Rash dazzles readers with his gift for evocative and luminous prose and his piercing insight into the human heart’s duality – a yearning for nobility often overshadowed by our dark, primal nature. In the title story, two drug ... +

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University of Miami Bank United Fieldhouse. March 24, 2013, 4:00 p.m. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow’s Drift argues that we’ve drifted away from America’s original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we’ve arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today’s war in Afghanistan, along ... +

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Coral Gables Congregational Church. March 13, 2013, 7:30 p.m. For Jessica Alba becoming a mom was the most profound, life-changing and eye-opening experience of her life. Upon becoming pregnant with her daughter Honor (now four), Alba set out to create a healthy environment for her family and herself. However, what she found was a marketplace filled with products that worked well but ... +

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Temple Judea. March 14, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Henry Ford is remembered in American lore as the ultimate entrepreneur–the man who invented assembly-line manufacturing and made automobiles affordable. Largely forgotten is his side career as a publisher of anti-semitic propaganda. Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech examines a watershed event in the life of auto giant Henry ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. February 27 and 28, 2013. What do we turn to for both everyday sustenance and seasonal celebration? Food. Often, though, we’re like the hungry ghosts of Taoist lore, eating mindlessly, wandering aimlessly, and wanting more – more than food itself can provide. Ellen Kanner believes that if we put in a little thought and preparation, every meal ... +

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Knight Concert Hall. February 22, 2013, 7:30 p.m. “Richard Blanco is not just a poet from Miami; he’s a Miami poet. Robert Frost only lived in New England for a small portion of his life, but when he wrote out came birches, apples, snow. Blanco lives in Maine in now, but whenever he puts pen to paper, out comes mangroves, abuelas, mangos. ... +

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Temple Judea. March 7, 2013. 7:30 p.m. What is the worst thing a person can do? Can one ever atone for a heinous act? And who, in the end, has the power to forgive? These are the questions at the heart of Jodi Picoult’s astonishing, philosophical new novel, The Storyteller, which takes readers on two parallel journeys through the Holocaust: one with ... +

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The Coral Gables Congregational Church. February 28, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Could that glass of milk affect your memory? Is that aluminum can increasing your risk for Alzheimer’s disease? Can a banana be a brain booster? Everyone knows that good nutrition supports your overall health, but did you know that certain foods can protect your brain and optimize its function? In Power Foods ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. February 15, 2013. 7:00 p.m. Cory Doctorow (www.craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (www.boingboing.net), and a contributor to The Guardian, the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wired, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the ... +

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Books & Books, Bal Harbour Shops. February 13, 2013. 6:30 p.m. Once the exclusive realm of the male, pin-up photography was invaded mid-century by a shapely young miss who could, and would, model for her photographs. The only female pin-up photographer of her day, Bunny Yeager was also a model in her own right. After winning several beauty pageants in Miami, Yeager ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. January 28, 2013. 8:00 p.m. As the architect behind one of the most successful and prolific television brands of all time – NBC’s Law & Order – Dick Wolf needs little introduction. For decades, fans have been riveted by the New York crime scenes that open every episode of the many incarnations of the Law & Order ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. January 30, 2013. 8:00 p.m. Like Joan Didion’s Salvador and Rory Stewart’s The Places in Between, Farewell, Fred Voodoo vividly portrays the people of a stark place. Simply put, this is a brilliant writer’s account of a long, painful, ecstatic–and unreciprocated–affair with Haiti, a country that has long fascinated the world. Her book is about magical transformations. ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. February 1, 2013. 7:00 p.m. Elysia is created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen-year-old girl, an empty vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an experimental model of a teenage clone. She was replicated from another teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia to exist. Elysia’s purpose is ... +

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University of Miami, Bank United Center. February 1, 2013. 6:00 p.m. With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. Through her still-astonished eyes, America’s infinite possibilities are envisioned anew in this warm and honest book, ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. January 11, 2013. 8:00 p.m. New York Times bestselling author James Grippando is known for skillfully infusing his blockbuster Swyteck novels with newsworthy elements, and the idea for his latest thriller Blood Money was sparked by the attempted murder of an Oklahoma woman mistaken for Casey Anthony at the height of her notoriety, another shocking example of ... +

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From January 10 through 20, 2013. Leading contemporary writers will offer insights into the lives and work of literary icons such as Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Gore Vidal, Ernest Hemingway, and Walt Whitman during “Writers on Writers,” the 31st annual Key West Literary Seminar all happening during the span of two consecutive weekends. Session One kicks off on January 10, ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. January 14, 2013. 7:00 p.m. When sheltered American good girl Allyson “LuLu” Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of Twelfth Night in England, there’s an undeniable spark. After just one day together, that spark bursts into a flame, or so it seems to Allyson, until the following morning, when she ... +

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AARLCC. December 29, 2012. 2:00 p.m. Author and educator Tason Gaines, MBA, JD, will share his passion for helping “at risk” students to learn the skills they need to pass FCAT exams. His book, MATH Study Guide is aimed at helping students and teachers from the 4th to the 10th grades to perform better on the standardized testing that is considered so ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. December 14, 2012. 8:00 p.m. Carolina García-Aguilera, the author of ten novels, is a unique figure in the literary world. A licensed private investigator for the past twenty-five years, she has won prestigious awards for her books in the popular Lupe Solano mystery series. Magnolia, García‐Aguilera’s new novel, is a clever, witty and engaging story where two ... +

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Books & Books Bal Harbour Shops. December 13, 2012. 6:30 p.m. Established as a luxury vacation destination in southern Florida for the rich and famous in the early 1900s, Palm Beach is synonymous with old-world glamour and new-world sophistication. This breathtakingly beautiful resort community – though elite and exclusive – can be truly hospitable to tourists, especially in hotels, restaurants, and shops. ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. December 8, 2012. 2:00 p.m. She’s excited us with her magnetism as a Bond Girl in the film Live and Let Die; she’s made us cheer for her dance moves on the Emmy-nominated program Dancing with the Stars; she’s made us laugh as the sexually charged wife of Christopher Walken in New Line Cinema’s feature film Wedding ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. November 27, 2012. 8:00 p.m. Long before Jimmy Buffett wrote “Margaritaville” about Key West, James Beard award-winning chef Norman Van Aken had already pledged allegiance to the magical little scrap of land at the end of the rainbow. Norman says “I just felt lucky when I walked the old small streets and alleys, protected by some ancient ... +

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Temple Beth Am. December 2, 2012. 7:00 p.m. Yaakov Katz is the military correspondent and defense analyst for The Jerusalem Post and the Israel correspondent for Jane’s Defence Weekly, the international military magazine. He is currently a 2013 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Katz led the Post’s coverage of the recent IDF wars and operations including the Second ... +

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Book talk by Brenna Munro at Books & BooksNovember 28, 2012. 8:00 p.m. After apartheid, South Africa established a celebrated new political order that imagined the postcolonial nation as belonging equally to the descendants of indigenous people, colonizing settlers, transported slaves, indentured laborers, and immigrants. Its constitution, adopted in 1996, was the first in the world to include gays and lesbians as ... +

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From November 14 through 16, 2012. This fall, aspiring writers will have the opportunity to learn techniques and get publishing advice when The Center of Literature and Theatre @ Miami Dade College (MDC), formerly known as the Florida Center for the Literary Arts, presents its prestigious Miami Writers Institute from Wednesday, November 14 through Friday, November 16, during the Miami Book Fair ... +

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From November 3 through 18, 2012. The Center for Literature and Theatre at MDC, as described by its Director Alina Interián, “…is for readers and actors, book lovers and theatre aficionados. It is for aspiring writers and award-winning authors, children learning to sound out their first words, and college students ready to make their mark on society. It is the supportive community ... +

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Books & Books, Bal Harbour Shops. October 22, 2012. 6:30 p.m. The story of Job is one of unjust things happening to a good man. Yet after losing everything, Job – though confused, angry, and questioning God – refuses to reject his faith, although he challenges some central aspects of it, and is rewarded with abundant good fortune. Rabbi Kushner examines the ... +

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Discussing and signing Bunny Yeager’s Darkroom: Pin-Up Photography’s Golden EraBooks & Books, Coral Gables. October 24, 2012. 7:00 p.m.Books & Books, Bal Harbour Shops. October 25, 2012. 6:30 p.m. Once the exclusive realm of the male, pin-up photography was invaded mid-century by a shapely young miss who could, and would, model for her photographs. The only female pin-up photographer of her day, ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. October 15, 2012. 8:00 p.m. New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York City during the Golden Age of comic books (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay); to an imaginary Jewish homeland in Sitka, Alaska (The Yiddish Policemen’s Union); to discover The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Now ... +

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Neiman Marcus, Bal Harbour Shops. October 8, 2012. 2:00 p.m. With her unique talent for seeing past disastrous wardrobes to the core emotional issues that caused these sartorial crises, style savant Stacy London has transformed not only the looks but also the lives of hundreds of guests who have appeared on What Not to Wear. Like the women she’s transformed, London has ... +

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CrepeMaker Café. September 24, 2012. 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. The CrepeMaker Café is celebrating its fourth season of The Poetry Buffet, featuring Miami-based artist David Zalben. Born in Brooklyn, New York, his family often moved from city to city, including Brazil. David began his artistic journey at the early age of nine, and photography became his passion. Self-taught, David worked in advertising ... +

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UM BankUnited Center Fieldhouse. October 2, 2012. 6:00 p.m. In the passion of the civil rights campaigns of 1964 and 1965, Jonathan Kozol gave up the prospect of a promising and secure career within the academic world, moved from Harvard Square into a poor black neighborhood of Boston, and became a fourth grade teacher. He has since devoted nearly his entire life ... +

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As part of its Stanford Distinguished Professors Lecture SeriesSeptember 20, 2012. 7:00 p.m. “Is religion the problem, or is religion the solution? Is religion a harm to global ethics, or does it provide a healing touch?”– Mark Juergensmeyer From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. September 10, 2012. 8:00 p.m. In a riveting account based on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources on both sides of the aisle, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus bill, one of the most important and least understood pieces of legislation in the history of the ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. September 20, 2012. 8:00 p.m. Marked by Irvine Welsh’s scabrous humor and raw Scottish vernacular, Skagboys transports us to 1980s Edinburgh, where the Trainspotting crew is just getting started. Mark Renton has it all: the first in his family to attend university, he has a pretty girlfriend and a great social life. But when economic uncertainties and ... +

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Coral Gables Congregational Church. September 22, 2012. 7:30 p.m. Junot Díaz’s first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with “the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet” (Newsweek). His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was a literary sensation, topping best-of-the-year lists and winning a host of major awards, including the Pulitzer ... +

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Miami Dade College Chapman Conference CenterSeptember 28, 2012. 7:30 p.m. The son of a pastor and grandson of a Voudu priest, Wyclef Jean was born and raised in the slums of Haiti, until his family moved to New York when he was nine. As immigrants they struggled in Brooklyn then eventually moved to Newark, where his father converted a burnt down funeral ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. September 1, 2012. 7:00 p.m. Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan began writing a weekly column, “Breaking the Sound Barrier,” for King Features Syndicate in 2006. This timely new sequel to Goodman’s New York Times bestseller of the same name gives voice to the many ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power – and refusing to ... +

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August 28 and 30, 2012. 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Writers don’t talk enough about reading. Most of the people who are serious about writing can recite writing advice by heart: “show, don’t tell”; “kill your darlings”; “revise, revise, revise”; etc. But they don’t talk nearly enough about serious strategies for reading. And who are they as writers, if they are not readers ... +

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August 15, 2012. 6:00 p.m. Yvette Forbes’ book Testimonies: Issues of Life depicts the stories of nine biblical women. The author gives accounts of their triumphs, their disappointments, their mistakes and their pain. Her book tells the story of how these women overcame their trials and how they weathered life’s storms. She will be discussing her book on Wednesday, August 15, 2012 ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables . August 26, 2012. 6:00 p.m. Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England’s notorious Anti-Social Behaviour Order), has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine. He provides him with fatherly career advice (always carry a knife, for example) and is determined they should share the joys of pit ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. July 27, 2012. 8:00 p.m. One of the hottest areas of contemporary design is landscape architecture. No matter what the architectural style of the moment, the green areas around houses, stadiums or corporate headquarters have taken on a considerable importance, all the more so with the emphasis on ecology and green design. Landscape Architecture Now! calls on ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. July 17, 2012. 8:00 p.m. Tim O’Brien meets Annie Dillard in this remarkable memoir by debut author Benjamin Busch. Much more than a war memoir, Dust to Dust brilliantly explores the passage through a lifetime – a moving meditation on life and death, the adventures of childhood and revelations of adulthood. Seemingly ordinary things take on a ... +

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Coral Gables Congregational Church. July 26, 2012. 7:30 p.m. When last we encountered Gabriel Allon in Portrait of a Spy, he was pitted in a blood-soaked duel with a deadly network of jihadist terrorists. Now, exposed and war-weary, he has returned to his beloved Rome to restore a Caravaggio masterpiece for the Vatican. But while working early one morning in the conservation ... +

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July 21, 2012. 7:00 p.m. Local author Tony Kapel will be releasing his fourth novel titled The Halls Ways on July 21st at Swamp space gallery at 7:00 p.m. This event will invite the curious readers to a look inside of the notebooks, sketchpads, and found treasures collected, and used during the books conception. As well as the artwork that made it ... +

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Presented at GableStage. July 30, 2012. 7:30 p.m. David Kwiat has been a professor in the Theater Division at New World School of the Arts since 1989. He is the recipient of an Endowed Teaching Chair and his many performances in South Florida have earned him two Carbonell Awards; “Best Actor” and “Best Supporting Actor.” David authored John Barrymore: Confessions of an ... +

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African-American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC)June 30, 2012. 2:00 p.m. Author and former school teacher Robens Chery comes to the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) on Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 2 p.m. to discuss his book, “The Mindset of a Teen” published in a parent’s edition and a teens’ edition. The author – a Broward County reading teacher ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. June 26, 2012. 8:00 p.m. It is 1977, and in rural upstate New York, Lemuel Higgins has the world on a string: a promising career with the New York Yankees and a beautiful young wife, Sarah, with whom he’s creating a new home and family. Despite two successful big-league starts and a “Lem Higgins Day” parade in ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. June 23, 2012. 7:00 p.m. If you think a healthy weight-loss program means choking down dry chicken breasts and “blah” broccoli – think again! In The Fun, Fit Foodie Cookbook, bestselling author, international wellness expert and super fitness model, Jennifer Nicole Lee, reveals her fat-blasting and muscle fueling recipes that your taste buds and your body will ... +

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From July 17 through 21, 2012. The Tigertail WordSpeak spoken word team will compete in Brave New Voices, the international youth poetry slam festival to be held in the San Francisco Bay area from July 17 to 21, 2012. For the eighth year in a row, the Tigertail WordSpeak team has been invited to compete in this prestigious festival, selected from among ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. June 30, 2012. 7:30 p.m. Few politicians have risen to national prominence as quickly as Marco Rubio. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. His committee assignments currently include Commerce, Science and Transportation; Foreign Relations; Intelligence; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship. At age ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. June 24, 2012. 7:00 p.m. Claire Doheney, recovering from a serious illness, agrees to house-sit in an oceanfront mansion on Chappaquiddick Island in Martha’s Vineyard. The New York book editor hopes to find solace, strength, and sufficient calm to finish her biography of the iconoclastic psychotherapist, Wilhelm Reich. The last thing she expects to find is love. ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. June 14, 2012. 8:00 p.m. As Lawrence-Lightfoot notes, there are few examples in our culture to suggest how to approach exits with grace and understanding. We are focused instead on the idea of beginnings, the start of something rather than the acknowledgement of an ending. These questions of exiting are particularly timely as we live in a ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. June 12, 2012. 8:00 p.m. It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, recently back from the war in Europe, shows up in the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy village of a few hundred people, nestled in the Valley of Virginia. All he has with him are two suitcases: one contains his ... +

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Books & Books Coral Gables. June 8, 2012. 8:00 p.m. The only writer ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel (Independence Day) Richard Ford follows the completion of his acclaimed Bascombe trilogy with Canada. After a five-year hiatus, an undisputed American master delivers a haunting and elemental novel about the cataclysm that undoes one teenage ... +

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Books & Books Coral Gables. June 13, 2012. 8:00 p.m. When Sargent “Sarge” Shriver – founder of the Peace Corps and architect of President Johnson’s War on Poverty – died in 2011 after a valiant fight with Alzheimer’s, thousands of tributes poured in from friends and strangers worldwide. These tributes, which extolled the daily kindness and humanity of “a good man,” moved ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. May 15, 2012. 8:00 p.m. With The Inquisitor’s Key, New York Times bestselling writing team of Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson, who write together as Jefferson Bass, strike off in a bold new direction, writing a high concept thriller that combines an international stage with a religious conspiracy, and of course their trademark authentic forensic investigation. ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. May 16, 2012. 6:30 p.m. Books & Books wants to help kick-start someone’s ingenious idea! If you are in attendance tonight and sign-up to participate, Books & Books will invite you to submit your $100 Start-Up Idea by May 31st and with Chris’ help, we will select a winner to receive $100 to develop that idea. We’ll ... +

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Coral Gables Congregational Church. May 10, 2012. 7:30 p.m. The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in professional basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Procter & Gamble, Allen cashed in his retirement fund for a two-acre plot a half-mile away from Milwaukee’s largest public housing project. ... +

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May 4, 2012. 7:00 p.m. Yonnondio follows the struggles of the growing family of Jim and Anna Holbrook in the late 1920s and the Great Depression as they move from the coal mines of Wyoming to a tenant farm in western Nebraska. It is mostly through the eyes of Maizie Holbrook, the young protagonist, that we learn the story of the family’s ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables . May 6, 2012. 4:00 p.m. Harold Kwalwasser has put together a call to action for education reform that makes a clear case for what has to be done in order to educate all children to their full potential. He visited forty high-performing and transforming school districts, charters, parochial, and private schools, including Miami-Dade and Broward County, ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. May 4, 2012. 6:30 p.m. Jenny Lawson is an Internet phenomenon. Her irreverent blog, www.bloggess.com, averages millions or page views a month and she is one of the most popular bloggers on Twitter with 200,000+ followers and growing daily. What makes her work so widely appealing? Perhaps Jenny’s seemingly random, darkly comic stories speak to the rebel ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. April 27, 2012. 8:00 p.m. “One of the best American novelists of his day” (Janet Maslin, New York Times) and 2010 winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award (considered the world’s most prestigious story prize) Ron Rash is a writer of extraordinary power and grace. As he displayed in his New York Times bestselling, Serena, ... +

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April 30, 2012. 8:00 p.m. Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will visit Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Wolfson Campus to discuss her new book, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948, on Monday, April 30. The evening is presented by The Center for Literature and Theatre at MDC and Books & Books. The event is free and open ... +

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Jewish Museum of Florida. April 15, 2012. 2:00 p.m. In conjunction with the Museum’s current exhibition Max Miller: Final Mourner’s Kaddish – 333 Days in Paintings and in celebration of National Poetry Month, a special reading of Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish will be presented at the Jewish Museum of Florida. The reading features a variety of local writers, including some from Next@19th’s CHAIku ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. March 30, 2012. 8:00 p.m. The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it; the notorious artist who painted it; the now vanished turn-of-the-century Vienna that shaped it; and the ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. March 26, 2012. 8:00 p.m. The Book of Jonas is about a young Muslim war orphan whose family is killed in a military operation gone wrong, and the American soldier to whom his fate, and survival, is bound. Told in spare, evocative prose, the novel is about memory, about the terrible choices made during war, and about ... +

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March 28 at 6:30 p.m. and March 29 at 7:30 p.m. The Buddha Walks into a Bar is Lodro Rinzler’s introduction to Buddhism for anyone who wants to ride the waves of life with mindfulness and compassion. Join the author and teacher for a discussion on how to apply various forms of compassion to long-term relationships, dating, and even our sex life. ... +

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At the Crossroads of Art & Science: The Physicist as NovelistMarch 28, 2012. 7:00 p.m. Alan Lightman, Adjunct Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is an award-winning novelist and a theoretical physicist. He has served on the faculties of Harvard and MIT, and was the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment at MIT in science and the ... +

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From March 15 through April 15, 2012. The Center for Literature and Theatre @ Miami Dade College (MDC), (formerly known as the Florida Center for the Literary Arts), in collaboration with the Miami-Dade Public Library System, will present The Big Read Miami by celebrating the iconic life and work of America’s most beloved poet, Emily Dickinson from March 15 to April 15, ... +

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From March 19 through 23, 2012. Words are powerful tools for self-expression and for changing the world. WordSpeak, a project for teens, includes workshops, slams and performances in a Miami residency by Josh Healey. Oakland-based Healey is a spoken word poet, writer, community organizer, arts educator and comedic powerhouse. He comes to Miami to launch the seventh year of Tigertail’s WordSpeak, an ... +

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Books & Books. February 17, 2012. 8:00 p.m. Peter Selgin is the author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction, as well as a novel (Life Goes to the Movies, 2nd place finalist AWP and James Jones First Novel Award), two books on the craft of fiction writing, and two children’s books. His first memoir, Confessions of ... +

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Books & Books. February 20, 2012. 8:00 p.m. It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired ... +

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Books & Books. February 22, 2012. 8:00 p.m. Based on manuscript documents and written with meticulous scholarship that required months of work in French archives, Éminence is surprisingly entertaining and a true pleasure to read. Not only an account of Cardinal Richelieu’s political intrigue, it is also a juicy portrait of the French royal family, and they’re all out of control: the ... +

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Books & Books. February 29, 2012. 8:00 p.m. Adored and nurtured by his adoptive parents in California, Asher Stone has moved effortlessly through a nearly perfect life. He is on the verge of a professional soccer career-when a car accident throws his future into doubt. Suddenly, Asher begins to wonder about his past, and about the girl who gave him up for ... +

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From Mar 3 through 31, 2012. 10:00 a.m. Get that book or short story into shape. Aspiring teen authors will work on improving each of the key elements of character development, plot, setting and dialogue making their stories richer and more layered. All classes will blend discussion, hands-on exercises and critiques of the writer’s current work-in-progress. The final class will deal with ... +

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From Mar 3 through 31, 2012. 10:00 a.m. Get that book or short story into shape. Aspiring teen authors will work on improving each of the key elements of character development, plot, setting and dialogue making their stories richer and more layered. All classes will blend discussion, hands-on exercises and critiques of the writer’s current work-in-progress. The final class will deal with ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. February 13, 2012. 12:00 p.m. Patricia Schultz will be discussing and signing the second edition of her book 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, at Books & Books, Coral Gables on February 13th at 12:00 p.m. A #1 New York Times bestseller, 1,000 Places reinvented the idea of travel book as both wish list and practical ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. Jan 12, 2012. 8:00 p.m. Warren Phillips began his career working as a copyboy for the New York Herald Tribune for sixteen dollars a week – and ended it as publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of its parent corporation, Dow Jones & Company. The life story of Warren Phillips is the story of the ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. Jan 15, 2012. 2:00 p.m. The authors’ alter egos are Jeffrey Peckerman and Philip Horkman, two suburban schlubs from New Jersey who through their own astonishing stupidity become legendary international criminals. Somehow Horkman, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and Peckerman, a forensic plumber (don’t ask), manage to turn a disputed call in ... +

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Books & Books Bal Harbour Shops. Jan 10, 2012. James Grippando is known for writing thrillers with themes pulled from the headlines and, in fact, eerily in front of the headlines. His plots are often based on factual, though closely guarded and even hidden, information. Now, with his new stand-alone novel Need You Now, he’s done it again.  Its plot focuses on ... +

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Jan 8, 2012. 4:00 p.m. Patti Smith will be at Books & Books Coral Gables on January 8th for an exclusive afternoon autographing session of her books, including her newest childhood memoir, Woolgathering. Her seminal album, Horses, was followed by eleven releases. Her photography and artwork have been exhibited internationally. On July 10, 2005, she received the Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts ... +

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Books & Books Coral Gables. Dec 27, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Tigertail’s award-winning 2011 WordSpeak team brings you the leading edge of new work in spoken word. Incredible teens spit poems guaranteed to rivet you to your seat. Book cover designed by Chris Meesey, teen book editor Gio Garced. Team members are Alejandra Nunez, Leondra Hollingsworth, Gio Garced, Diego Leon Mosquera, Samantha Turner ... +

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The African-American Research Library and Cultural Center. Jan 4, 2012. 5:30 p.m. Hannah Spivey is an author, a supporter of women’s empowerment and a domestic violence activist. She will be discussing her novel, Ebony the Beloved, at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Here is a teaser description of her novel: ... +

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Coral Gables Museum. Dec 17, 2011. 11:00 a.m. This moving tale of a 14-year-old girl’s journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan – an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro’s revolution – is perfect for all ages and all South Floridians. In 1961, two years after the ... +

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Nov 12, 2011. Atelier 1022 Studio and Fine Art Gallery in the Wynwood Art District announces the one-night-only special book launch event “LITERĂ” on November 12, 2011, an evening dedicated to Miami’s up-and-coming independent and first-time authors, with a program of readings, book signings, and art instillations inspired by the written word. Headlining the event is Resident Artist and Atelier 1022 Partner ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. Nov 8, 2011. 8:00 p.m. From Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Buchanan, the novel she has always wanted to write: the gripping saga of star-crossed lovers across generations. John Ashley and Laura Upthegrove became the most notorious, colorful, and compelling figures in Florida’s violent outlaw history. This is their true story of prison breaks, bootlegging, bank robberies, and ... +

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Presented in collaboration with GableStage.Books & Books, Coral Gables. Nov 9, 2011. 7:00 p.m. In the glory days of movie-making, Piper Laurie was living every little girl’s dream. Having been selected by Universal Studios to be a contract star, Piper was removed from her acting class and provided with stylists, chaperones, leading roles, and handsome dates, and elevated to the heights of ... +

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MDC Wolfson Campus. Nov 11, 2011. 7:30 p.m. Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in American journalism and for the New York Times bestsellers The Greatest Generation and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America’s greatness. “What happened to the America I ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. Oct 29, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Join Michael Connors at Books & Books for an unprecedented tour of stunning and architecturally significant Cuban palacios, mansions, and private homes that have been meticulously preserved, previously un-photographed, and inaccessible to visitors. Michael Connors, an expert in Caribbean antiques, gives us a lavishly illustrated volume that traces the opulent world of ... +

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Temple Judea Coral Gables. Oct 27, 2011. 7:30 p.m. Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. Oct 22, 2011. 7:00 p.m. Sam Shaw (New Yorker, b. January 15, 1912 d. April 5, 1999) was born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Internationally recognized for his photographs of films and movie stars, his interests and talents covered a wide array of subjects including music, theater, sculpture, painting, literature, journalism, and social ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. Oct 11, 2011. 8:00 p.m. The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. Sept 23, 2011. 8:00 p.m. With honesty and heart-rending emotion, actress and filmmaker Dyan Cannon tells the story of her topsy-turvy relationship with Hollywood legend Cary Grant. Cannon’s captivating narrative takes the reader behind the scenes of Hollywood’s Golden Age, inside America’s high court of glamour and notoriety in which Cary Grant was king. In his private ... +

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Books & Books Coral Gables. Sept 26, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Long one of our most acute and insightful novelists, Russell Banks often examines the indistinct boundaries between our intentions and actions. With his uncompromising and morally complex new novel, Lost Memory of Skin, the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist is at the peak of his powers as a writer. Suspended in a strangely ... +

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Alliance Francaise of Miami. Sept 20, 2011. The comeback of South Beach in Miami Beach is one of the most interesting urban and cultural revivals of a city in modern American History. South Beach: Stories of A Renaissance captures the individual accounts of economic, cultural and political renewal that has created the dynamic international resort influenced by French Art Deco that is ... +

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Sept 20 at 6:30 p.m. and Sept 21 at 8:00 p.m. Randolph Henning will be discussing and signing his book The Architecture of Alfred Browning Parker: Miami’s Maverick Modernist on September 20th at 6:30 p.m., at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, and on September 21st at 8:00 p.m., at Books & Books, Coral Gables. Alfred Browning Parker was one of the ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. Sept 20, 2011. 8:00 p.m. During World War II, German U-boats prowled the Atlantic, sinking hundreds of U.S. ships along the east coast, including the largest cruise ship in the world, Normandie, destroyed at a Manhattan pier after Pearl Harbor. Nazi agents even landed on Long Island with explosives and maps of railways, bridges, and defense plants. ... +

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Books & Books Bal Harbour Shops. Sept 17, 2011. 2:00 p.m. He was born that way – The Boy with Pink Hair. He had a cotton candy colored mop that no one had ever seen before… Life is not easy being pink. Adults stare at you, little children giggle behind your back and some kids are just mean. But when you have ... +

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Books & Books Coral Gables. Sept 17, 2011. Set against the maze of Madrid’s congested and contested streets, Learning to Lose follows four individuals as they swerve off course in unexpected directions. Each of them is dodging guilt and the fear of failure, but their shared search for happiness, love, purity and redemption, and above all, a way to survive, forms a ... +

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Bob Graham: The Keys to the KingdomSept 24, 2011. 1:00 p.m. Senator Bob Graham, former two-term Governor of Florida and eighteen-year US Senator, discusses his suspenseful novel, The Keys to the Kingdom (Vanguard Press, 2011). Following an explosive New York Times op-ed piece about the 9/11 investigation, a former Senator and co-chair of the Congressional Inquiry Commission is found dead near his ... +

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Sept 9, 2011. 7:00 p.m. This September, the Wolfonian Museum at FIU presents the film Twilight at the World of Tomorrow: Genius, Madness, Murder and the 1939 World’s Fair’s on the Brink of War by James Mauro (2010). The summer of 1939 was an epic turning point for America – a brief window between the Great Depression and World War II. It ... +

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Wolfson Campus. Jul 27, 2011. 7:30 p.m. A story of body and spirit, rooted in the hungers of flesh and of the soul, The Kid brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones. We meet him at age nine, on the day of his mother’s funeral. Left alone to navigate a world in which love and hate sometimes hideously masquerade, ... +

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Books & Books Coral Gables. Jun 23, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Oscar Hijuelos has enchanted readers with vibrant characters who hunger for success, love, and self-acceptance. In his first work of nonfiction, Hijuelos writes from the heart about the people and places that inspired his international bestselling novels. Born in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights to Cuban immigrants in 1951, Hijuelos introduces readers to the ... +

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Books & Books Coral Gables. Jun 25, 2011. 5:00 p.m. Ozzy Inguanzo is a writer, independent producer, and lifelong movie geek with over a decade’s worth of professional experience in feature films. From development and pre-production, into production, post-production, and marketing, he has trained and collaborated with award-winning directors, producers, writers, designers, editors, and motion picture studios. Ozzy’s strengths in storytelling and ... +

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From Jun 13 through Aug 6, 2011. South Regional Broward College Library in Pembroke Pines will be hosting an adult summer reading program entitled “Novel Destinations”. Kick-off starts with a performance by Bluegrass Band, “The Shade Tree Pickers” at 3:00 p.m. on June 13th.        The award-winning Broward County Libraries Division, founded in 1974, provides essential quality-of-life community service as well as outstanding ... +

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May 22, 2011. 2:00 p.m. On Sunday, May 22, 2011, at 2:00 p.m., Ellen Brazer will present a review at the Jewish Museum of Florida of her book, “Clouds Across the Sun.” Before the end of WWII, Hitler charged a group of his most trusted and brilliant comrades with a mission-educate your progeny and then elevate them to positions of power throughout ... +

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April 2011. A guest poet had Archbishop Curley Notre Dame High School students dynamically engaged in the celebration of poetry month. David Marcillo, author of “Terror to All Who Belong To This World” returned to interact with the current honors students of his former English teacher, Brother John Corcoran. In light of current events, studying “Hiroshima” by John Hersey, “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt ... +

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Books & Books Coral Gables. May 12, 2011. 8:00 p.m. As the first of 78 million baby boomers turn 65 this year, the discussion about longer lives in America has been entirely about the staggering economic costs of a dramatically aging society. But in this game-changing new book, renowned social entrepreneur Marc Freedman argues that we’re having an extraordinarily hard time acknowledging ... +

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Apr 28, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle. Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative, and discreet, means of income. In Georgia’s case it is six well-heeled lovers-one for each day ... +

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Books & Books Coral Gables. Apr 27, 2011. 8:00 p.m. New York Times bestselling author Charles Fishman brings us The Big Thirst, a fascinating journey into the secret life of water, a book that upends everything we think we know about the most vital substance in our lives. He takes readers from the wet moons of Saturn to the water-obsessed hotels of ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. Apr 29, 2011. 8:00 p.m. For centuries we believed that humans were the only ones that mattered. The idea that animals had feelings was either dismissed or considered heresy. Today, that’s all changing. New scientific studies of animal behavior reveal perceptions, intelligences, awareness and social skills that would have been deemed fantasy a generation ago. The implications ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. Apr 20, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Anchee Min was born in Shanghai and lived in China for 27 years. During the Cultural Revolution, she was ordered to denounce Pearl Buck as an American imperialist. Here is the incident in her own words, as well as what led Min back to Pearl Buck: “I was ordered to denounce Pearl ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. Apr 25, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Acclaimed writer Francisco Goldman was a self-professed niñote, or man – child – unlucky in love, resistant to commitment – when he met the beautiful Aura Estrada, and the contours of his world shifted absolutely. Aura was a brilliant graduate student in creative writing whose forthrightness and passion for life was finally ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. Apr 13, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Intensely lyrical and profoundly moving, One Hundred Names for Love is at once a tender love story and an inspiring chronicle of illness and recovery. Diane Ackerman brings us an absorbing, uplifting account of the near-miraculous recovery of her husband, the gifted writer Paul West, after a massive stroke that rendered him ... +

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Books & Books Bal Harbour Shops. Apr 20, 2011. 7:00 p.m. Drawn from the many workshops Elizabeth Berkley has conducted with teen girls across the country, Ask Elizabeth brings these revealing and intimate conversations to life on the page. Much like a private diary, the book is a personal resource that girls can turn to when they seek answers to teen life’s ... +

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Apr 1 through 30, 2011. Is it possible to get all 2.5 million people in Miami-Dade County to encounter a poem in just thirty days? Who would even try? University of Wynwood is proud to announce the most ambitious project in its three-year history: O, Miami, a county-wide celebration of contemporary poetry. O, Miami is a month-long effort to get every single ... +

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Books & Books. Mar 18, 2011. 8:00 p.m. A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness – until she meets Ernest ... +

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Books & Books. Feb 24, 2011. 8:00 p.m. From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, ... +

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Jan 2011. The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University has entered into an agreement with Books & Books, one of the nation’s most well respected bookstores, to bring noted authors, books and programming to the museum. With the addition of a café and culinary offerings by Chef Allen Susser, the museum becomes an even more popular destination in downtown Fort ... +

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Feb 13, 2011. 2:00 p.m. On Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. at the Jewish Museum of Florida, Ron Ruthfield will discuss his book, The Capital Underground. This program is free to members and free with museum admission. Ron Ruthfield has brought his own unique perspective to The Capital Underground, having lived in South Florida during the days when the use ... +

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Jan 22, 2011. 4:00 p.m. Edwidge Danticat will be at Books & Books Coral Gables on January 22, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. reading and signing her recent book Haiti Noir, with contributing writers M.J. Fievre and Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel. Presented in collaboration with MOCA and Project Medishare. MOCA is currently hosting an exhibition of 75 photographs taken by Bruce Weber from 2003 ... +

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Jan 15, 2011. 4:30 p.m. Whoopi Goldberg will be signing her two latest books Is It Just Me? and the newest in her children’s series, Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Terrible Terrel on January 15, 2011 starting at 4:30 p.m. in Books & Books Coral Gables. Is it just us – or can you just not wait to meet Whoopi? Whoopi Goldberg, the Academy ... +

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Books & Books. Jan 11, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Joan Nathan will be discussing and signing her book Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France on Jan 11, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. at Books & Books, Coral Gables. What is Jewish cooking in France? That is the question that has haunted Joan Nathan over the years and driven her ... +

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Temple Judea. Jan 16, 2011. 2:00 p.m. Mary Pope Osborne will be on Books & Books Coral Gables this month for a special talk about the newest in her series, Magic Tree House #45: A Crazy Day with Cobras. Also, author Natalie Pope Boyce will be present that evening to present her companion book titled Research Guide #23: Snakes and Other Reptiles. ... +

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Books & Books. Dec 16, 2010. 8:00 p.m. Enjoy Linda Gassenheimer’s tour of the food, sites and characters of the Florida Keys. Taste Keys samples by chefs from Hawks Kay Resort and Marina, along with Margaritaville’s Tropical Margarita’s. Entrance is free and open to the public. In her quest for the best of the Keys’ recipes, best-selling author and renowned media personality ... +

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Books & Books. December 28, 2010. 8:00 p.m. Tigertail takes great pleasure in launching the WordSpeak 2010 book and CD by Tigertail’s award-winning 2010 WordSpeak teen team. This books and CD brings you the leading edge of new work in spoken word. On this evening, members of this incredible team will “spit” poems guaranteed to rivet you to your seat. The WordSpeak ... +

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Nov 29th, 2010. 6 p.m. Free enterprise and entrepreneurialism can be the driving force in creating a world that all people want to see – a world where poverty is less prevalent, where everyone can dream of doing something meaningful with their life, where all who want to work can find a job that offers decent wages and a sense of dignity, ... +

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Books & Books Coral Gables. Oct 27th, 2010. 7:00 p.m. In 2002, a New York Times article about the DNA identification of the heart of Louis Charles – the young son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette – caught the eye, and emotions, of Jennifer Donnelly. The back story of his death touched her so deeply she was inspired to write Revolution, ... +

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Jewish Museum of Florida. Nov 7th, 2010. 2:00 p.m. On Sunday, November 7th, 2010 at 2:00 p.m., Ann Helen Wainer will reveal how an old faded photograph prompted her to rescue the memories of her family’s plight during and after the Holocaust. Wainer will share stories of her journey of discovery that led her to learn more about the people in the ... +

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Oct 22nd and 23rd, 2010. Irish poet Paul Perry returns to the UM Coral Gables campus October 22nd and 23rd as part of the Goran Reading Series to honor his professor, Lester Goran’s 50-year teaching legacy. Perry is the author and editor of a number of critically acclaimed books including The Drowning of the Saints, Goldsmith’s Ghost, and The Orchid Keeper. A ... +

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From Nov 14th through 21st, 2010. The 27th edition of the nation’s finest and largest literary gathering, Miami Book Fair International, presented by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts (FCLA) at Miami Dade College (MDC), will take place November 14th – 21st, 2010 at the college’s Wolfson Campus, 300 NE Second Avenue, in downtown Miami. The always-popular Street Fair runs Friday, ... +

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Sept 30th, 2010. 8:00 pm. Author Ricardo Pau-Llosa, will be a Books and Books to discuss and share his newest novel, Living with Art, Philosophy, and Poetry on September 30th, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. For over three and a half decades, the author has been a prominent figure in the literary and visual arts of South Florida. An internationally recognized authority on ... +

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Oct 10th, 2010. 2:00 p.m. Hera Becker shocks the world by revealing a family secret in her book, My Cousin Killed Hitler, about Russian Marshal Georgi Zhukov. On Sunday, October 10th, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. at the Museum, Hera Becker will entertain and reveal what you do not know about World War II. Just when everyone thought they knew to whom they ... +

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Sept 27th, 2010. 8:00 p.m. An enraged man abducts his estranged wife and child, and holes up in a secluded mountain cabin, threatening to kill them both. A right wing survivalist amasses a cache of weapons and resists calls to surrender. A drug trafficker barricades himself and his family in a railroad car, and begins shooting. A cult leader in Waco, TX ... +

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Oct 14th, 2010. 8:00 p.m. Tigertail Productions is launching Tigertail, A South Florida Poetry Annual: Selected Collective, Poetry, Prose and Projects by The Miami Poetry Collective. The eighth edition of Tigertail’s annual poetry publication is by the innovative Miami Poetry Collective. In the book’s introduction Campbell McGrath says, “In short, the MPC wants to rescue poetry from the airless box in which ... +

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Sept 18th, 2010. 7:30 p.m. Nicholas Sparks, one of America’s most beloved storyteller, continues to soar with nine #1 New York Times Bestsellers and seven films – six already released as major Hollywood movies – while fans everywhere await the release of his sixteenth novel, Safe Haven on September 14th, 2010. Film rights for Safe Haven have already been acquired by Relativity ... +

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Discussing and signing Oaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy. 
Sept 22nd, 2010. 8:00 p.m. No one has done more to introduce the world to the authentic, flavorful cuisines of Mexico than Diana Kennedy. Acclaimed as the Julia Child of Mexican cooking, Kennedy has been an intrepid, indefatigable student of Mexican foodways for more than fifty years and has published several classic books ... +

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Sept 17th, 2010. 7:00 p.m. The acclaimed author of Remainder, which Zadie Smith hailed as “one of the great English novels of the past ten years,” gives us his most spectacularly inventive novel yet. Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, “C” is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless ... +

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September 14th, 2010. Books and Books, in collaboration with the Women’s Chamber of Commerce of Miami-Dade County and the Epic Hotel, presents an evening with author Jenny MacCarthy, who will be discussing and signing her newly released book titled Love, Lust and Faking It: The Naked Truth About Sex, Lies and True Romance. No subject is too intimate for McCarthy. Like an ... +

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August 17th, 2010. 8:00 p.m. Author Michael Largo will be discussing and signing his most recent book God’s Lunatics at Books & Books in Coral Gables on August 17th, 2010 at 8:00. What is the meaning of life? Since the dawn of civilization, humankind has sought to answer the mysteries of existence. Unfortunately this restless search for the divine has, all too ... +

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Books & Books. August 20th, 2010. 8:00 p.m. Successful psychic medium Jeffrey Wands invites you to embark on a wondrous journey of discovery and harness the power within. Jeffrey believes that each of us is a giant treasure chest waiting to be filled with the gifts that we’ve been given, but most of us have not summoned the courage to open ourselves ... +

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Books & Books. August 30th, 2010. 7:00 p.m. Author Carl Hiaasen will be reading and signing his most recent novel Star Island at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden on August 30th, 2010 at 7:00 p.m., presented by Books & Books. Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen – and about to attempt a comeback from ... +

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August 14th, 2010. 11:00 a.m. Kyus Philnesta turned a narrative poem into a book. One of the poems in her self-published poetry book (To the Heart of Things) birthed a novel (Because of Love) and Kyus is now working on a sequel novel as requested by her readers. Meet this dynamic young writer on Saturday, August 14th, 2010 from 11:00 a.m. to ... +

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The Bookstore in the Grove. August 20th, 2010. 9:30 p.m. How does your world look when you see it through your “poetic mind” – through the lens of aesthetics and imagination? How might our lives change, the world change, if we saw always the greater possibility, the bigger picture – if we set aside our literal mind? Join the Bookstore in the ... +

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July 24th, 2010. 8:00 p.m. Author Daniel Silva will be reading, discussing and signing his most recent novel The Rembrandt Affair at Books & Books Coral Gables on July 24th, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. Over the course of a brilliant career, Daniel Silva has established himself as “the gold standard” of thriller writers (Dallas Morning News) who “has hit upon the perfect ... +

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July 2010. John Adkins, Artist, Professor and Chair of Arts & Philosophy at Miami Dade College has recently published and released a unique children’s book that explores a common childhood emotion. This educational work of art will offer children an artistic and creative way to cope with fear. The author explains, “Every night when my children were small, we would read stories. ... +

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Presented by Books & Books. June 30th, 2010. 7:30 p.m. Author Anthony Bourdain will be discussing and signing his most recent book “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook” at the Lincoln Theatre in Miami Beach on June 30th, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. In the ten years since his classic Kitchen Confidential first alerted ... +

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June 14, 2010. 7:30 p.m. Most who have observed Christopher Hitchens over the years would agree that he possesses a ferocious intellect and is unafraid to tackle the most contentious subjects. Now 60, English-born and American by adoption; all atheist and partly Jewish; bohemian (even listing “drinking” along with “disputation” as “hobbies” in Who’s Who) he has held to a consistent thread ... +

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June 17th, 2010. 8:00 p.m. In his breakout bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger created “a wild ride that brilliantly captures the awesome power of the raging sea and the often futile attempts of humans to withstand it” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat – the fear, the honor, and ... +

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Talk and Q/A with Annie Cohen-Solal.June 2nd, 2010, 7:00 p.m. Leo Castelli reigned for decades as America’s most influential art dealer. Now Annie Cohen-Solal, author of the hugely acclaimed Sartre: A Life, recounts Castelli’s incalculably influential and astonishing life. After emigrating to New York in 1941, Leo Castelli would not open a gallery for sixteen years, when he had reached the age ... +

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May 22nd, 2010. 7:00 p.m. Author Yann Martel will be reading and signing his book Beatrice & Virgil at Books & Books Coral Gables, on Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating ... +

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The Wolfsonian Museum-FIU. May 21st, 2010. 7:00 p.m. Join author and former public editor of The New York Times Daniel Okrent for a  discussion of his latest book, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, an exploration of the virtues, failures, and politics of Prohibition. Beginning with the liquor-soaked country that the U.S. was in the 19th century, Okrent explains three ... +

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April 2010. With the help of a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and donations kindly received from readers, Artlurker, an online Miami based contemporary art newsletter, is proud to announce the Miami Writers Prize, a new annual prize aimed squarely at promoting and encouraging residents of Miami who write critically about art. Judged by a panel of ... +

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Mar 12th, 2010. 12:00 p.m. The Miami-Dade Public Library is presenting The Reading Room, a Temporary Space for Artists’ Books, Publications and Multiples. This month’s event will feature John Bailly, Gary L. Moore, Phaedra Robinson and Michelle Weinberg. On the second Friday of each month, a secret room in the Children’s Room at the Main Library becomes The Reading Room. In this ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. Mar 9th, 2010. 8:00 p.m. Author Johanna Moran will be reading and signing her book The Wives of Henry Oades at Books and Books Coral Gables on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. When Henry Oades accepts an accountancy post in New Zealand, his wife, Margaret, and their children follow him to exotic Wellington. But while ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. Mar 11th, 2010. 8:00 p.m. Author Danielle Trussoni will be reading and signing her most recent book titled Angelology at Books and Books Coral Gables on March 11th, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her father entrusted her to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in upstate New York. Now, at twenty-three, ... +

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African-American Research Library and Cultural Center. Mar 29th, 2010. 5:30 p.m. In apartheid South Africa, author Michael Gaffley was “politically disabled” because of his skin color. He was too white to be black and too black to be white. Dr. Gaffley is now a certified child and youth care practitioner and he is a board member of the Association for Child and ... +

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February 27th and 28th, 2010. The University of Miami’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program honors the 50th teaching anniversary of its founding professor, Lester Goran, author of 14 books, by launching a weekend workshop series designed to engage the local writing community on February 27th and 28th, 2010. Led by the MFA program’s distinguished faculty, alumni, and graduate teaching ... +

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Books and Books. Jan 6th, 2010. 8:00 p.m. W.E.B. Griffin and E. Butterworth IV will be at Books at Books Coral Gables reading, discussing and signing their book The Honor of Spies on January 6th, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. Griffin’s Honor Bound novels have been hailed as “terrific” (Newark Star-Ledger) and “immensely entertaining” (Kirkus Reviews), with “enough derring-do, romance and action to satisfy ... +

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Reviewing her book Jacob’s Cane. Jan 10th, 2010. 4:00 p.m. Author Elisa New will discuss her book, “Jacob’s Cane” at the Jewish Museum of Florida as part of the Florida Jewish History Month on January 10th, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. Rich with details, “Jacob’s Cane” begins with Jacob Levy’s arrival in America and the fabric-finish business that he started in the basement ... +

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Temple Israel of Greater Miami. Jan 9th, 2010. 7:30 p.m. Books and Books, in collaboration with Green Monkey, presents an evening with author Elizabeth Gilbert discussing and signing her book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage at the Temple Israel of Greater Miami on January 9th, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth ... +

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December 18th, 2009. 8:00 p.m. Writer Carmen L. Guerrero will be discussing and signing her book Le ville disegni e modelli at Books and Books Coral Gables on Friday, December 18th, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. Luigi Moretti Le Ville disegni e modelli presents an unexplored area of Italian architect Luigi Moretti’s career, that of the single family villa. Building upon recent exhibits ... +

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January 10th, 2010. 2:30 p.m. In her New York Times bestseller Naturally Thin, Bethenny Frankel shares her ten real-life rules for enjoying healthful natural foods and escaping the diet trap. Now, in The Skinnygirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life, Bethenny joins you in the kitchen and shows you how to stop the “cooking noise” and put an end to ... +

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Books and Books. October 23rd, 2009. 8:00 p.m. A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers presents his autobiography and his vision ... +

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Historical Museum of Southern Florida. October 27th, 2009. 7:00 p.m. The Historical Museum of Southern Florida presents a Lincoln Reading event to discuss Ronald White’s A. Lincoln Biography, October 27th at 7:00 p.m. The free book discussion is part of several community-wide events planned in Miami exploring the life and presidency of Abraham Lincoln. 2009 marks the bicentennial of the birth of ... +

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Temple Judea. October 17th, 2009. 7:00 p.m. When in the mid-1950s Andy Williams reached a low point in his career, singing in dives to ever-smaller audiences, the young man from Wall Lake, Iowa, had no inkling of the success he would one day achieve. Before being declared a national treasure by President Ronald Reagan, Williams would chart eighteen gold and three platinum ... +

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Books and Books Miami Beach. Oct 13th, 2009. 7:00 p.m. Gerald Posner will be discussing and signing his book Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power – A Dispatch from the Beach on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. at Books and Books Miami Beach. From its beginnings in the 1890s, the Beach has been a place made by visionaries and hustlers. ... +

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University of Miami. November 4th, 2009. 11:15 a.m. The University of Miami presents guest speaker, author and Torah scholar Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, who will be presenting her latest book, The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious. This book explores biblical commentators’ understanding of the interplay between conscious and unconscious levels of experience. Other acclaimed books include Genesis: the Beginning of Desire ... +

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Books and Books. October 5th, 2009. 7:30 p.m. Madeleine K. Albright will be discussing and signing her book Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box at Temple Judea in Coral Gables. Madeleine Albright was the first female Secretary of State of the United States and, at that time, the highest-ranking woman in U.S. history.  Like most women, she had occasionally ... +

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Oct 15th, 2009. Tigertail Productions is launching Tigertail, A South Florida Poetry Annual, Three by Three on October 15th at Books and Books in Coral Gables. This 7th edition is comprised of three individual poetry chapbooks by Hugo Rodriguez, Yahya Frederickson, and Jill M. Allen, edited and introduced by Denise Duhamel, Michael Hettich and Campbell McGrath, respectively. The cover is by Miami-based ... +

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From Nov 8th through Nov 15th, 2009 Over eight days for the past 25 Novembers, downtown Miami becomes the center of the literary world when the Miami Book Fair International welcomes thousands of people who attend readings and discussions featuring prize-winning, best selling and emerging authors from the US and around the world. For the Book Fair’s 26th year, Sherman Alexie, Margaret ... +

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Books and Books. Aug 6th, 2009. 7:00 p.m. Gigi Levangie Grazer will be reading and signing her most resent book Queen Takes King at books and Books Miami each on Thursday, August 6th, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Jackson Power. A name like the man himself: aggressive, ambitious, bullish. The prodigal son, heir to millions, built his own Manhattan real estate empire and ... +

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Books and Books. August 6th, 2009.  8:00 p.m. Author Daniel Levin will be reading and signing his first novel The Last Ember on Thursday, August 6th, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. at Books and Books Coral Gables. Jonathan Marcus was a promising young archeologist studying at the American Academy in Rome when a terrible accident during an illegal excavation resulted in a friend’s ... +

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Books and Books. July 24th, 2009. 8:00 p.m. Author A. Manette Ansay will be visiting Books and Books Coral Gables on July 24th at 8:00 p.m. to read and sign her most recent book Good Things I Wish You. A. Manette Ansay is the author of eight books, including Vinegar Hill, Midnight Champagne, and Blue Water. She has received the Pushcart Prize, ... +

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Books and Books. July 15th, 2009. 8:00 p.m. Books and Books Coral Gables will be hosting an evening of literature featuring Jennifer Haigh. The author, who is National Book Award finalist House of Sand and Fog, will be reading and signing her new book The Condition. The Condition tells the story of the McKotches, a proper New England family that comes apart ... +

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From Oct 22nd through 24th, 2009. Early registration is now open for the 23rd annual FIU Hutchinson Island Writers’ Conference, set for October 22nd, 23rd, and 24th at the Marriott Hutchinson Island Beach Resort near Stuart, Florida. The conference, co-sponsored by the Martin County Library System, features classes, readings, and manuscript consultations with faculty from FIU’s top-ten-rated MFA program as well as ... +

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Books and Books. June 11th, 2009. 8:00 p.m. Author Ana Menéndez will be reading and signing her most recent novel, The Last Warm, published by HarperCollins on June 11th, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. at Books and Books Coral Gables. Flash, a photojournalist, chases conflicts around the globe with her war correspondent husband, Brando. Now Brando is in Iraq, awaiting her arrival. Yet ... +

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Books and Books. June 13th, 2009. 7:00 p.m. Stephen Olvey will be discussing and signing his book The Man Who Would Not Die at Books and Books Coral Gables. Herschel McKee’s remarkable life story reads like that of a comic-book hero. A daredevil, a leader of men and, above all, a survivor, McKee fought in both World Wars, suffering numerous skirmishes with ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. May 30th, 2009. Liza Gyllenhaal will be reading and signing her fist novel Local Knowledge on Saturday, May 30th, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. Maddie Alden has always longed for more than her small, economically depressed upstate New York town could offer. The real estate boom that transformed the countryside after 9/11 seems to bring her just that: ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. Jun 24th, 2009.  Author Joseph O’Neill will be reading and signing his most recent book, Netherland, at Books and Books Coral Gables on June 24th, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland is a brilliant novel about a European man living in Manhattan after 9/11, with two troubled loves: that for his wife, and that for his adopted country. Told in a lyrical, ... +

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Books and Books. Mar 14th, 2009. 4:00 p.m.  Alyn Darnay will be leading a workshop based on his new book, The Script: A Breakthrough Guide to Scriptwriting on March 14th, 2009 at Books and Books Coral Gables. In his signature straightforward style, Darnay will lead a workshop designed to enhance your ability to develop and execute a superior marketable script, including how-to: Create ... +

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Arts at St. Johns. Apr 4th, 2009. 8:00 p.m.  Hear the poetry of Rumi, dramatically spoken live by Peter Rogen in English and Amir Vahab in Farsi, accompanied by three wonderful Sufi musicians: Arsalaan playing the nay flute and harp, Osiris on frame drum and other percussions, and Amir on nay flute, tambour, and drums.  The music of the nay flute and ... +

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Books and Books. Feb 18th, 2009. 7:30 p.m.  In his New York Times bestseller, "Born to Kvetch", author Michael Wex led readers on a hilariously edifying excursion through Yiddish culture and history. With "Just Say Nu" he shows us how to use this remarkable language to spice up conversations, stories, presentations, arguments, and more, when plain English will not suffice (including, of ... +

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Books and Books. Feb 25th, 2009. 7:30 p.m.  Featuring a cast of elite, erudite, and downright eccentric characters, and a complex trail of clues that will have you guessing until the final pages, "Lethal Legacy" is Linda Fairstein’s most beguiling thriller yet. When Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr’s apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, she finds a ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. Feb 12th, 2009. 8:00 p.m.  Roland Merullo has consistently wowed critics with his brilliant storytelling and his refusal to be pigeonholed. Now, Merullo delivers a dazzling and finely nuanced political thriller about a clandestine plot to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Former CIA agent Carolina Perez has spent five years working deep undercover with a singular goal: ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. Feb 12th, 2009. 6:30 p.m.  For the late Fuad I. Khuri, a distinguished career as an anthropologist began not because of typical concerns like accessibility, money, or status, but because the very idea of an occupation that baffled his countrymen made them – and him – laugh. "When I tell them that ‘anthropology’ is my profession…they think ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. Feb 11th, 2009. 8:00 p.m.  One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn’t come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son’s room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy’s father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife ... +

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Books and Books Miami Beach. Feb 10th, 2009. 8:00 p.m.  Share Carol Sue Gershman’s ageless passion as she discusses her sexy, racy, inspiring, obsession- driven true memoir. A late 60 year-old interracial and innovative couple travel from Mami to Montreal in a hot yellow mustang convertible visiting family and friends. Witness the evolution of a strong determined woman whose love for romance, ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. Feb 10th, 2009. 8:00 p.m.  Barbara Levenson, a longtime Miami resident who currently serves as a senior judge in the circuit court of Miami-Dade County, celebrates the release of her debut novel this evening. Fatal February (Oceanview Publishing) introduces protagonist Mary Magruder Katz. For Mary, a half Jewish, half Southern Baptist Miami criminal defense attorney, things are ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. Jan 13th, 2009.  The author Ronald C. White, Jr. will be discussing and signing his recent release A. Lincoln at 8:00 p.m. on January 13th, 2009 at Books and Books Coral Gables. Everyone wants to define the man who signed his name “A. Lincoln.” In his lifetime and ever since, friend and foe have taken it upon ... +

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Jan 30th, 2009. 7:30 p.m.  Bestselling author Azar Nafisi will be reading and discussing her new memoir, Things I’ve Been Silent About at the University of Miami's Gusman Concert Hall on January 30th, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. This event is presented in collaboration with the University of Miami, Florida Center for the Literary Arts and the Women’s Chamber of Commerce. Azar Nafisi ... +

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Thursday, January 15th 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.Art Deco in Shanghai and Miami Beach was published as a coffee table book by Don and Nina Worth as the culmination of a cultural exchange program between the two cities. It began in 2005 when the authors visited Shanghai and met by chance with acclaimed architect Xing Tong He of China. The limited edition book ... +

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Books & Books Bal Harbour Shops. Dec 29th, 2008.  Meet novelist Sarah Mlynowski reading, signing and partying for her new novel Parties and Potions on Monday, December 29th, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. at Books & Books Bal Harbour Shops. Perfect hair, cute clothes, healthy tans – life's a breeze when you're a witch! Even special witchcraft classes Rachel agrees to attend with ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. Dec 19th, 2008. 7:00 p.m.  Meet author James Grippando at Books and Books Coral Gables reading and signing his book Born to Run on December 19th, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. Bestselling author James Grippando is back with another innovative and action-packed thriller featuring his ever-popular hero. Jack Swyteck gets caught in a dangerous web of intrigue and ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. November 11th, 2008. 1:00 p.m.  Lemony Snicket will be reading and discussing his book The Lump of Coal at Books and Books Coral Gables on November 11th, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. This is a story about a lump of coal who can think, talk, and move itself around. Will this lump of coal get the holiday miracle ... +

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Books and Books Bal Harbour Shops. October 27th, 2008.   The dynamic and some never-before-told stories of Greater Miami's Jewish community are recounted in L’Chaim: The History of the Jewish Community of Greater Miami by renowned local historian Seth H. Bramson. Beginning with the arrival of Miami's first Jewish settler, Isidor Cohen, in 1896, Bramson's exciting story takes us through Miami's early days ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. October 16th, 2008. 6:00 p.m.  From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as "reporting of the highest quality imaginable," ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables October 24th, 2008. 7:00 p.m.  Grdankl the Strong, president of Kprshtskan, is plotting to take over the American government. His plan is to infiltrate the science fair at Hubble Middle School, located in a Maryland suburb just outside Washington. The rich kids at Hubble cheat by buying their projects every year, and Grdankl's cronies should have no ... +

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October 16th, 2008. 6:30 p.m.  If you think the financial landscape is scary now, wait until you retire. That’s the message acclaimed financial guru and best selling author Douglas R. Andrew is telling his clients. And now you have an opportunity to hear what this world-class speaker and financial expert is telling his clients at a special, by-invitation-only, seminar and discussion. Do ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. October 31st, 2008. Noon.  Contessa Back to Basics is the essential Ina Garten cookbook, focusing on the techniques behind her elegant food and easy entertaining style, and offering nearly a hundred brand-new recipes that will become trusted favorites. Ina Garten’s bestselling cookbooks have consistently provided accessible, subtly sophisticated recipes ranging from French classics made easy to delicious, ... +

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Wolfsonian Museum – FIU. November 20th, 2008. 7:00 p.m.  The Wolfsonian Museum presents a conversation with Wolfgang Schivelbusch on November 20th, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. Book signing to follow the discussion. Historian and author Wolfgang Schivelbusch and Alex Lichtenstein, FIU associate professor of History, discuss Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, contrasting them to programs of the regimes of Italy’s Mussolini and ... +

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Temple Judea. September 23rd, 2008. 7:30 p.m.  Author Alan Alda will be discussing and signing his book Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself at Temple Judea on September 23rd, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. On the heels of his acclaimed memoir, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, beloved actor and bestselling author Alan Alda has written Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, ... +

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January 2009.  Since its birth in 1983, the Key West Literary Seminar has been dedicated to the celebration of the written word and the support of American writers. Each January the Seminar explores a different literary theme through lectures, panel presentations, readings, informal gatherings, and discussions. For this year's theme, Historical Fiction and The Search for Truth, a star-studded roster of novelists ... +

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The Lincoln Road Theatre. September 26th, 2008. 7:00 p.m.  Meet the #1 bestselling author of Eragon and Eldest Christopher Paolini as he presents the newest book in The Inheritance Cycle at the The Lincoln Road Theatre on September 26th, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. Following the colossal battle against the Empire’s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly ... +

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Coral Gables Congregational Church. Sep 21st, 2008. 6:00 p.m.  Author Kathleen Norris will be discussing and signing her most recent novel Acedia and me: A Marriage, Monks and a Writer’s Life at Coral Gables Congregational Church on September 21st, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn't drag herself out of bed in the morning, ... +

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Books and Books. September 10th, 2008. 7:30 p.m.  Author Kristy Kiernan will be reading and discussing her new book Matters of Faith at Books and Books Bal Harbour Shops on September 10th, 2008. 7:30 p.m. Kristy Kiernan brings us a novel of a young man's search for faith – and its unintended consequences – with her smashing second book, Matters of Faith. ... +

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Temple Judea. September 27th, 2008. 8:00 p.m.  Garrison Keillor will be reading and signing his most recent book titled Liberty at Temple Judea on September 27th, 2008. 8:00 p.m. A national holiday in Lake Wobegon is always gaudy and joyful. But what is going on between Clint Bunsen and Miss Liberty? Clint Bunsen is one of the old reliables in Lake Wobegon ... +

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August 22nd, 2008. 7:00 p.m.  Join the Wolf Pack and the Association of Yale Alumni on Friday, August 22nd, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. for a public talk and book signing with Joshua Hawley, author of Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness. The book explores the dimensions of Roosevelt’s politics – its historical context, intellectual sources, practice, and its effect on his era and ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. August 22nd, 2008. 8:00 p.m.  Frances de Pontes Peebles will be reading and signing his recent novel The Seamstress at Books and Books Coral Gables on August 22nd, 2008. 8:00 p.m. As seamstresses, the young sisters Emília and Luzia dos Santos know how to cut, how to mend, and how to conceal. These are useful skills in ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. August 19th, 2008. 8:00 p.m.  Sadia Shepard, a writer and documentary filmmaker, will be discussing and signing her novel The Girl from Foreign at Books and Books Coral Gables on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. The story of a young woman’s search for self, The Girl from Foreign weaves stories of author Sadia Shepard’s cross-cultural ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. August 14th, 2008. 8:00 p.m.  Author Bryan Christy will be discussing and signing his most recent book The Lizard King at Books and Books Coral Gables on August 14th, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. When Bryan Christy began investigating the world of reptile smuggling, he had no idea what he would be in for. In the course of ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. August 12th, 2008. 8:00 p.m.In "Legally Dead", the most recent book by Edna Buchanan, US Marshal Michael Venturi of the Witness Protection Program relocates a mobster, now a government witness, to a small rural town after creating a new identity for him. The man proves to be a monster unleashed on an unsuspecting community. The results are ... +

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Books and Books. August 8th, 2008. 8:00 p.m.New York Times bestselling author Barbara Parker introduces one of the most unforgettable female characters in suspense fiction: high-profile Miami defense attorney C.J. Dunn. C.J. is an expert at spinning her clients' image in the media – the perfect lawyer to deflect suspicion from Rick Slater, head of security for an influential U.S. congressman. A ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. August 7th, 2008. 8:00 p.m.Meet Daniel Silva at Books and Books Coral Gables reading and signing his novel Moscow Rules on August 7th, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. Over the course of ten previous novels, Daniel Silva has established himself as one of the world’s finest writers of international intrigue and espionage – “a worthy successor to such ... +

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Coral Gables Congregational Church. August 25th, 2008. 7:30 p.m.Books and Books is presenting an evening with Senator Mel Martinez discussing and signing his book A Sense of Belonging on August 25th, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. at the Coral Gables Coral Gables Congregational Church, located at 3010 De Soto Boulevard. The swift and improbable rise of Mel Martinez to the top echelon of ... +

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Reading and signing Requiem, Mass. July 23rd, 2008. 8:00 p.m.Books and Books, in collaboration with the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College, presents an evening of reading and signing with author John Dufresne at Books and Books Coral Gables, located at 265 Aragon Avenue. John Dufresne takes us to Requiem, Mass, heart of the Commonwealth, where Johnny’s mom, ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. July 1st, 2008.Julia Reed went to New Orleans in 1991 to cover the reelection of former (and currently incarcerated) governor Edwin Edwards. Seduced by the city's sauntering pace, its rich flavors and exotic atmosphere, she was never entirely able to leave again. After almost fifteen years of living like a vagabond on her reporter's schedule, she got ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. June 30th, 2008. 8:00 p.m.In the course of his 40-year career as one of America’s most admired journalists, Robert Scheer’s work has been praised by Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, and Joan Didion, who deems him “one of the best reporters of our time.” now, Scheer brings a lifetime of wisdom and experience to one of the most ... +

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Temple Judea. June 24th, 2008. 7:30 p.m.Books and Books presents Rabbi David G. Dalin discussing and signing the book "Icon of Evil: Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam" at Temple Judea, located at  5500 Granada Boulevard in Coral Gables. In 1921, the beneficiary of an appointment the British would live to regret, Haj Amin al-Husseini became the mufti of Jerusalem, ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. June 28th, 2008. 2:00 p.m.This event is an autographing only.  You must purchase a copy of Crafty U at Books and Books in order to join the signing line. Rosie will sign unlimited copies of Crafty U, other books she has written, and memorabilia. Rosie will personalize and will take photos with fans. From television personality, children's advocate, ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. June 26th, 2008. 7:00 p.m.Barbara Ehrenreich’s first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of Our Lives, about the Reagan era, was received with bestselling acclaim. The one problem was the title: couldn’t some prophetic fact-checker have seen that the worst years of our lives – far worse – were still to come? Here they are, the ... +

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Robert Thurman. June 25th, 2008. 7:30 p.m.Books and Books presents Robert Thurman, the Dalai Lama's man in America, discussing and signing his book Why the Dalai Lama Matters at the University of Miami Gusman Concert Hall, located at 1314 Miller Drive in Coral Gables on June 25th, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Having been ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. June 9th, 2008. 8:00 p.m.In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin’ and continued with Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old stepson. He learns, right from the start, ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. June 6th, 2008. 7:00 p.m.Emily Giffin will be reading and signing her most recent book Love the One You’re With at Books and Books Coral Gables on June 6th, 2008. Ellen and Andy’s first year of marriage doesn’t just seem perfect, it is perfect. There is no question how deep their devotion is, and how naturally they ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. June 5th, 2008. 8:00 p.m. Dalia Sofer will be reading and discussing her most recent book The Septembers of Shiraz at Books and Books Coral Gables this week. In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new ... +

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Temple Judea. July 8th, 2008. 7:30 p.m.The Temple Judea, in collaboration with Books and Books, is presenting an evening of reading, discussion and signing with the author of The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie. The Temple is located at 5500 Granada Boulevard in Coral Gables. A tall, yellow-haired, young European traveler calling himself "Mogor dell’Amore," the Mughal of Love, arrives at the ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. June 14th, 2008. 2:00 p.m.From Oscar De La Hoya, one of the most celebrated fighters in the history of boxing, comes a frank and touching memoir about achieving the American Dream: his rise to the top, the power of a solid work ethic, his mother's painful death from cancer, the pitfalls of stardom, and a very personal ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. June 4th, 2008. 8:00 p.m.Come to Books and Books in Coral Gables and enjoy an evening of reading and signing the book So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Minnesota based author Leif Enger. One of Time magazine’s top-five novels of the year and a New York Times best seller, Leif Enger’s first novel, Peace Like a River, ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. June 2nd, 2008. 8:00 p.m.In the late 1970s, Neal I. Rosenthal set out to learn everything he could about wine. Today, he is one of the most successful importers of traditionally made wines produced by small family-owned estates in France and Italy. Rosenthal has immersed himself in the culture of Old World wine production, working closely with ... +

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Cintas Foundation. May 2008.The Board of Directors of the Cintas Foundation recently announced Adrian Castro as the winner of the 2008 Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Creative Writing. The 2008 jury for this award included Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist and Cintas fellow; Cristina García, novelist, Cintas and Guggenheim fellow; and Lillian Manzor, professor of literature at the University of Miami. The award ... +

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Alper JCC. June 1st, 2008. 11:00 a.m.Come to Alper JCC, located at 11155 SW 112 Avenue in Miami, and meet renowned Artistic Director Rafael de Acha and celebrated playwright Mario Diament, while enjoying a tour of the current exhibit Waldsee 1944 and a complimentary brunch. Nominated for a Carbonell award, The Book of Ruth was written by a Miami treasure: playwright Mario ... +

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Books and Books. May 2nd and 3rd, 2008. 8:00 p.m. Come hear Michael Tonello’s hilarious insider’s account of his years spent globe-trotting in search of the holy grail of handbags: the Birkin. For more than twenty years, the Hermès Birkin bag has been the iconic symbol of fashion, luxury, and wealth. Though the bag is often seen dangling from the arms of ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. April 28th, 2008. 8:00 p.m. “I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.” So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. April 30th, 2008. 8:00 p.m. A genuine psychological thriller, Trauma is McGrath’s most addictive and enthralling novel yet. McGrath’s hero, Charlie Weir, is a psychiatrist specializing in trauma victims in Manhattan in the 1970s. His family is comprehensively dysfunctional – abandoned by his father, his mother ravaged by that betrayal, and his brother Walt, a successful artist, ... +

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April 29th, 2008. 8:00 p.m. Author Alexander McCall Smith will be reading and signing his recent book The Miracle at Speedy Motors at Books and Books Coral Gables on April 29th, 2008. In the latest installment of this infinitely enjoyable and best-selling series, Precious Ramotswe is doing what she does best – helping people with their problems and enjoying the simple pleasures ... +

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Coral Gables Congregation Church. May 6th, 2008. 7:30 p.m. With her trademark passion, intelligence, and devastating wit, Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington tackles the issues that are crucial to this year’s presidential election and, even more so, to the fate of the country. Huffington makes the case that America has been hijacked from within by a radical element – the ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. April 26th, 2008. 5:00 p.m. The National Book Critics Circle and Books and Books present Good Reads Poetry Panel with poets Richard Blanco, Spencer Reece, Emma Trelles, Elisa Albo and moderator Chauncey Mabe, Sun-Sentinel book editor. Join the conversation – as close to divine as they can take it – as Books and Books celebrates National Poetry ... +

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Books and Books Bal Harbour. April 21st, 2008. 7:30 p.m. Casey Han’s four years at Princeton gave her many things, “but no job and a number of bad habits.” Casey’s parents, who live in Queens, are Korean immigrants working as dry cleaners, desperately trying to hold on to their culture and their identity. Their daughter, on the other hand, has entered into ... +

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Books and Books. April 10th, 2008. 8:00 p.m. Books and Books Coral Gables is presenting an evening of reading and discussion with author David Meyer about his most recent work Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music. Gram Parsons lived fast, died young, and left a beautiful corpse – a corpse his friends stole, took to ... +

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Presented by Tigertail. From Mar 24th through Mar 28th, 2008. Tigertail Productions presents WordSpeak with Dasha Kelly. Wisconsin-based African-American writer and performer Dasha Kelly comes to Miami for an artist residency from March 24th through March 28th to launch the third year of Tigertail Productions WordSpeak, an ongoing spoken word program for South Florida teens. Kelly’s work blends the musical cadences of ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. March 19th, 2008. 8:00 p.m. We raise our children to be independent and lead fulfilling lives, but when they finally do, staying close becomes more complicated than ever. And for every bewildered mother who wonders why her children don’t call, there is a frustrated son or daughter who just wants to be treated like a grownup. Now, ... +

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January 30th, 2008. On Wednesday, January 30th 2008, 131 projects invites the public to celebrate the book release of "Deconstruction". This Book features artwork produced during the past seven years as well as photography depicting the environment and experiences that influenced it. Miami's ongoing transformation as a city is potrayed with a series of pictures that create the theme of this book. ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. January 8th, 2008. 8:00 p.m. Meet author Eric Weiner as he reads his most recent book The Geography of Bliss and takes readers on a whirlwind tour of countries that are quietly pursuing the most American of obsessions – the pursuit of happiness – or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." Weiner doesn't profess to ... +

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Bill Cosford Cinema. January 18th, 2008. 7:30 p.m. The Bill Cosford Cinema at the University of Miami, located at 1111 Memorial Drive in Coral Gables, is presenting a night of film screening and discussion with author Paul Auster, who will be presenting his newest film The Inner Life of Martin Frost to be followed by a discussion about the process of screenwriting, ... +

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Celebrating 25 years of Cagney and Lacey. December 21st, 2007. Books and Books Coral Gables is hosting a night of reading and discussion with two special guests; author Barney Rosenzweig and actress Sharon Gless who will be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the famous television series Cagney and Lace and the launching of Rosenzweig's new book Cagney and Lace …and Me. Barney ... +

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Books and Books. October 29th, 2007. 8:00p.m. Books and Books Coral Gables, in collaboration with the Women of Distinction Series, FIU Women’s Studies Center, invites the public to share an evening with Susan Faludi for reading and discussing her most recent book The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post 9/11 America. In this most original examination of America’s post-9/11 culture, Faludi ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. October 19th, 2007. 6:00 p.m. While most think of Cuba as a mythical island of rum, rumba, and revolution, period photographs reveal a more complex place. I Was Cuba is an original look at Cuban history as seen through the Ramiro Fernandez Collection – arguably the world's leading archive of Cuban photos and ephemera. I Was Cuba ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. October 13th, 2007. 8:00 p.m. David Dunn will be offering a lecture, performance and book signing titled Why Do Children and Whales Sing at Books and Books Coral Gables.  For over 30 years, David Dunn has been recording the natural world as a sound artist, composer, and bioacoustician. This has led him to explore a wide range ... +

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Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce. October 17th, 2007. 6:30 p.m. On October 17 at 6:30 p.m., the Miami Beach Historical Association presents a reading, book signing and discussion by Laura Cerwinske, author of South Beach Style at the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center located at 1920 Meridian Avenue. Free and open to the public, the event sponsored by Books and ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. October 11th, 2007. 8:00 p.m. Meet author Amy Cohen in a reading and discussion on her latest novel, The Late Bloomer's Revolution. This book is a sparkling and reassuring memoir, funny, heartwarming, and above all, real. Filled with observations sweet and bittersweet, this reading will be irresistible to all who believe their greatest moments are yet to ... +

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Miami Science Museum. October 6th, 2007. 1:00 p.m. Miami Science Museum is presenting a lecture by David Dunn titled Listening at the Edges at its Space Gallery located at 3280 South Miami Avenue. For over three decades there has been an ongoing discourse addressing the role that the sonic arts can play in increasing our collective awareness to environmental issues. A variety ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. October 1st, 2007. 8:00 p.m. In this return to nonfiction after two critically acclaimed works of fiction, Mary Gordon gives us a rich, bittersweet memoir about her mother, their relationship and her role as daughter in her newest title Circling My Mother: A Memoir. Anna Gagliano Gordon, who died in 2002 at the age of 94, lived ... +

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Books and Books Coral Gables. September 26th, 2007. 8:00 p.m. Books and Books Coral Gables invites the public to enjoy an evening of reading and book signing with author Jeff Lindsay. His most recent book tells the story of a Miami crime scene investigator named Dexter Morgan, who is accustomed to seeing evil deeds, particularly because, on occasion, he rather enjoys committing ... +

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