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Start: 8:00 pm
Fiction. Night is falling, and so is the snow. As the blizzard buries the ground, it uncovers the resentments, hopes, and aches of a small town in northeastern Arkansas, where, like in any Southern small town, there are unwanted pregnancies to agonize over, surgeries to be paid for and love to be made. Julie's two daughters have just run off to Hollywood to be famous when she suddenly finds herself, at forty-six, unexpectedly expectant. She's not sure she can bear to be a mother again. And her husband, Charlie, won't come home to talk it over with her. Charlie wants another child more than anything, but he doesn't know how to deal with Julie. His affair with Wilson, his best friend, is over, but he's found a different and unusual kind of intimacy. Wilson works in the Singer factory that keeps the town alive. She wants more than anything to be loved, but she knows that Charlie wasn't the way to get there. She's in love with Dol. Dol is a transsexual, a divorced father of two children, who can't afford the transition that would make his body make sense - although the doctors visiting from Atlanta might change that. Their very different voices converge as the blizzard gathers force, their stories violently mapping in the snow the ways that memory, gender, and history carve themselves upon our bodies. THE DRIFTS (Coach House, $17.95) is dexterously told, a cacophony of four affecting voices melding into one exquisite chord. | 2
Start: 8:00 pm
Divided into two parts, Mañana in Cuba begins with the exploration of the mindset Cubans have developed living under a totalitarian system. Here, Dr. Jose Azel explores the historic, political and economic obstacles present in modern-day Cuba and introduces the framework he believes will most effectively facilitate a democratic civil society. Part two of Mañana in Cuba discusses practical policies to work with the current disposition of the Cuban nation and lead it to a prosperous future, while maintaining the society’s culture and history. Notably, 100 percent of the author proceeds from sales of Mañana in Cuba will benefit the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-America Studies at the University of Miami, where Dr. Azel is a Senior Scholar. | 3
Start: 7:30 pm
A poignant tale about pushing limits and challenging destiny Humiliated by his hoofed legs, the flies on his haunches, and the grass in his mouth, a bull named Etre tells his tender story about the brutal insignificance of cow life at Gorwell Farm. In a world where the line between disgrace and dignity is drawn by a pasture fence, Etre finds himself alone in his awareness and utterly powerless to change his circumstances. Etre searches for understanding among the broads, bulls, and calves on the pasture, but finds none. On the best of days, Etre listens to the farmer's boy sing lullabies at the fence. He likes those songs and loves the boy. But the grasses thin as the seasons pass, the cows hunger, and Etre grows desperate. He is the only cow truly starving. (Health Communications, $11.95) As neurologist Sean Kenniff explains, self-sabotagers perpetually fall victim to their internal enemy. Kenniff knows about outsmarting enemies: As one of the original cast members on the first season of the hit show, Survivor, he outwitted eleven castaways before being voted off during the finale. As he explains, on the show and in life, sometimes the biggest enemy is truly within. Drawing on cutting-edge research and contemporary examples, Kenniff shows anyone how to outsmart their subversive subconscious; the internal enemy that resists change, and fools us into making big blunders. Discovering the psychological underpinnings of self-sabotage and how it appears in everyday life, Kenniff explains, is key to breaking the cycle of self-defeat. By revealing the top *effing mistakes people make in health, love, money and career, and providing solutions, Kenniff gives readers the tools to get out of their own way. Overcoming self-sabotage is not a passive process. Positive actions are the most effective way to rewrite the self-sabotage script and Kenniff will show anyone how to begin. (Health Communications, $14.95) Start: 8:00 pm
Women of True Grit (John F. Blair Publisher, $24.95) relates the stories and secrets from the women who attained the pinnacles of success in their various fields. Forty profiles offer readers first-person narratives from women who have reached the top despite adversity and great personal suffering. | 4
Start: 8:00 pm
Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he's still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery. He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. At once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, The Magicians (Viking Adult, $16) boldly moves into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions. Lev Grossman creates an utterly original world in which good and evil aren't black and white, love and sex aren't simple or innocent, and power comes at a terrible price. Start: 9:30 pm
Come to our Night for Newborns MIDNIGHT RELEASE PARTYfor Stephenie Meyer’s brand new book, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella (Little Brown, $13.99). LIVE MUSIC from Courtesy of Paco Bree Tanner got just 10 pages in Eclipse, but now she’s getting her due: Her own book in the Twilight family, and her own daylight-kickin’ party at Books & Books. Live music, Twilight trivia contests, costume contests, prizes and oh so much more! It’s a Books & Books Midnight Release Party, where time flies with all the fun. And then – before you can say, “What the Cullen?!” – we’ll be counting down the final seconds before the midnight release of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. 10, 9, 8, 7 … At the stroke of midnight, you get your pre-paid copy of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. Pay for your copy of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner at any Books & Books bookshop in South Florida and get a voucher to pick it up at midnight at the Midnight Release Party. And then you can be first among your friends to read The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. You won’t be able to put down this riveting story of Bree Tanner, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits. It’s all the stuff that happened in Seattle that you were dying to know about. This will be Night for Newborns, full of new fun. Play the Twilight Quiz Show. Enter our Bree To Be You and Me Contest. And our What the Cullen?! Test. Dress the part for the night’s fun: Come as your favorite character. And while all you Bellas, Edwards and Jacobs are welcome, we’ll be giving prizes for the best of the lesser-knowns with our Supporting Character Costume Contest. (Bree much? Jane, anybody?) So, start dressing as the New Moon rises that night. All the fun of our Night for Newborns Party will Eclipse your anxiety over the book’s impending release. And then starting at midnight, you can begin reading The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, turning the pages until the Breaking Dawn and reading on until Twilight… And we’ll see you there!... | 5
Start: 8:00 pm
Mary Magruder Katz is about to find herself in the eye of storm. Miami in June: it’s raining, it’s pouring, but her life as a criminal defense attorney is anything but boring—especially when she gets caught up in a whirlwind of three different cases in Barbara Levenson’s Justice in June (Oceanview Press, $24.95 ) . Judge Liz Maxwell’s job, sanity, and reputation are at stake, and she needs Mary to ferret out wrongdoing in Miami’s courts. Solving this case won’t just mean going out on a limb; it will mean risking life and limb. Luis Corona, a family friend of Mary’s boyfriend, Carlos, needs help with a legal matter that, to Mary’s horror, turns out to be a terrorism charge. And this case will leave some catastrophic damage—and unwelcome notoriety—in its wake. Just when Mary thought things couldn’t get worse, Carlos gets in his own nasty legal quandary—one that could cost him everything. |
