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Start: 5:00 pm
Sandra Dijkstra is the founder, owner, and president of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. Over these years, Newsweek dubbed her "the best agent in the West;" Esquire chose her as one of the nation's "top five literary agents;" and the Los Angeles Times proclaimed her "the most powerful literary agent on the West Coast." If you’re interested in finding an agent or finding the path to getting published, this is your chance to hear the straight story straight from an "über-agent," as the L.A. Times called her. Her hallmark is an eye for quality fiction that sells well, her roster of authors includes Chitra Divakaruni (One Amazing Thing, Spring 2010), Anchee Min (Pearl of China, Spring 2010), Lisa See (Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and more recently, Shanghai Girls), and Amy Tan (Joy Luck Club, and more recently, Saving Fish From Drowning). Start: 6:00 pm
Through sensitive, sometimes humorous, experienced-based writing from teachers, clinicians, and parent activists in the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) community, this book will help educators and others to better understand the world inhabited by ASD children. Contributor Teresa Becerra shares stories contained in Embracing Autism (Jossey-Bass, $24.95) that will inspire and inform readers who are working day-to-day with children in the autism spectrum. It provides valuable insights into what makes these kids tick and useful information on how they communicate, learn, and succeed. | 26
Start: 7:00 pm
Author Frec Baggs explains: “The recipes in Classic Southern Recipes came from my mother's notebook of "receipts" which I still remember today. Many of them are now hard to find. Several recipes are special through the use of Southern white corn meal. Old-fashioned ingredients and methods are a large part of their success. Surprisingly, they are all easy to prepare. This book contains delicious and simple-to-make recipes, all with Old South familiar flavors, and they are fun to rediscover.” Start: 8:00 pm
Deborah DeNicola’s memoir, The Future That Brought Her Here (Nicholas-Hays, Inc,$16.95) shows her range of intellectual pursuits and spiritual experiences as she battles an inner war between depressive cynicism and faith and shares her lifelong search to heal the trauma of her father's tragic death when she was a teenager. Struggles between cynicism and faith, depression and hope, independence and attachment, creativity and financial security in the midst of spiritual searching, motherhood, teaching and writing are inextricably woven into the fabric of her story. | 27
Start: 8:00 pm
Cultural Competency for Health Administration and Public Health (Jones & Bartlett, $52.95) is a clear and concise introduction to the topics and tools necessary for the application of cultural competency processes in various healthcare settings. The chapters offer an overview of demographic changes in the United States, as well as accreditation requirements and cultural competency, cultural nuances of specific groups, and a comprehensive review of the Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards and beyond. Author Dr. Patti Rose acquired her Master’s Degree (MPH) in Health Services Administration from the Yale University School of Public Health followed by her Doctorate (Ed.D) in Health Education from Columbia University, Teachers College. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor for the University of Miami (UM) Africana and American Studies Programs for which she has developed new courses entitled Black Women in Medicine and Healing, Race and Healthcare in America, African Women in the Diaspora and Contemporary Issues in America. | 28
Start: 8:00 pm
Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth (Henry Holt & Company, $24). That new planet is filled with new binds and traps. A changing world costs large sums to defend—think of the money that went to repair New Orleans, or the trillions it will take to transform our energy systems. But the endless economic growth that could underwrite such largesse depends on the stable planet we've managed to damage and degrade. We can't rely on old habits any longer. Our hope depends, McKibben argues, on scaling back—on building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community (in the neighborhood, but also on the Internet) that will allow us to weather trouble on an unprecedented scale. Change—fundamental change—is our best hope on a planet suddenly and violently out of balance. This event is presented in collaboration with Green Monkey. | 29
Start: 7:30 pm
About Face (Fair Winds, $24.99) is a compendium of everything make-up artist Scott Barnes has learned during his career working with A-list celebrities including Jennifer Lopez, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jennifer Aniston. About Face is packed with techniques for every area of makeup application. Part One focuses on dramatic makeovers of real women with a twist: each woman comes in looking the best she thinks she can look. The author then deconstructs and debunks their look taking them from attractive to amazing. Step-by-step photos outline makeup techniques and products while Scott provides commentary on how he pinpointed the woman’s strongest asset and built a look around it. Part Two highlights beauty rituals, must-have makeup items, and inner and outer preparations that a woman must embrace in order to look beautiful and radiate charisma. Part Three focuses on the celebrities Scott Barnes has worked with. Start: 7:30 pm
Unfortunately, we’ve just heard that Ruth Reichl has broken her foot at the L.A. Times Book Festival and will not be able to come to Miami for her scheduled event on Thursday, April 29, 7:30pm at Temple Israel. Books & Books will honor all tickets as coupons toward the purchase of any book at Books & Books. Books & Books extends our sincere wishes for Ruth’s speedy recovery and we look forward to the possibility of an event with her in the future, once she has healed. Thanks for your understanding. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused you. | 30
Start: 7:30 pm
Before Carrie Bradshaw hit the big time in the City, she was a regular girl growing up in the suburbs of Connecticut. How did she turn into one of the most-read social observers of our generation? Candace Bushnell’s The Carrie Diaries (Balzer & Bray, $18.99) opens up in Carrie's senior year of high school. She and her best friends -- Walt, Lali, Maggie, and the Mouse -- are inseparable, amid the sea of Jens, Jocks and Jets. And then Sebastian Kydd comes into the picture. Sebastian is a bad boy - older, intriguing, and unpredictable. Carrie falls into the relationship that she was always supposed to have in high school-until a friend's betrayal makes her question everything. With her high school days coming to a close, Carrie will realize it's finally time to go after everything she ever wanted. Rabid fans of Sex and the City will love seeing Carrie Bradshaw evolve from a regular girl into a sharp, insightful writer. They'll learn about her family background -- how she found her writing voice, and the indelible impression her early friendships and relationships left on her. We'll see what brings Carrie to her beloved New York City, where the next Carrie Diaries book will take place. This event is presented in collaboration with The Biltmore Hotel. TICKETS required, available at all Books & Books locations, beginning Monday, April 5th. Start: 8:00 pm
Publishers Weekly called Chase Twichell “a major voice in contemporary poetry,” and this long overdue retrospective supports the claim. Selected from six award-winning books, Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been (Copper Canyon Press, $19) collects the best of Twichell’s meditative and startling poems. A longtime student of Zen Buddhism, Twichell probes how the self changes over time and how the perception of self affects the history and meaning of our lives. Her poems exhibit a deep and urgent love of the natural world amidst ecological decimation, while also delving into childhood memories and the surprise and nourishment that come from radical shifts in perception. Twichell is the author of six books of poetry and the best-selling writer’s manual Practice of Poetry. She is the founding editor of Ausable Press and lives in rural New York with her husband, the novelist Russell Banks. Tonight, Twichell is joined by fellow poet and friend, Lynn Emanuel, for a joint reading of their latest work. Emanuel is the author of three previous poetry collections: Hotel Fiesta; The Dig; and Then, Suddenly—. Her work has been included in the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best American Poetry, and The Oxford Book of American Poetry. Emanuel is the recipient of numerous awards including the Eric Matthieu King Award from The Academy of American Poets, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a National Poetry Series Award. She is professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Her newest book is Noose and Hook (University of Pittsburgh Press, $14.95). | 1
Start: 7:00 pm
Interpreting the present in light of the past, eleven renowned architects, historians, scholars, preservationists, and urban planners in Cuba and the United States provide a rigorous examination of Havana old and new that provokes exploration of the ways we look at all cities. These authoritative policy makers and thinkers raise issues of how the most important city in Spanish colonial America developed and changed over several centuries and the extent to which it is being restored and preserved today. More than 350 illustrations juxtapose historical colored postcard images of Havana with recent digital color photographs of the same views. The imagery, based on years of exhaustive research and investigation, draws from Cathryn Griffith's collection of more than 600 postcards of Havana from 1900 to 1930, over 3,000 photographs made there during multiple trips since April 2003, and extensive interviews with experts in Havana and the United States. (W.W. Norton & Company, $49.95) |
