Renovating a home is an expensive undertaking even when things go right. When things go wrong\, unexpected costs and delays can be financially devastating. “We’ve all heard the horror stories\,” says Kia Ricchi\, a Florida-based contractor and author of the new book\, Avoiding the Con in Construction. “But there are steps homeowners can take to ensure that a construction project goes smoothly.” In her book\, Ricchi teaches homeowners how to use state websites to ensure that a contractor is properly licensed\, insured and of sound character. Ricchi also explains the permitting and inspection process\, and how it protects the homeowner. Pitfalls such as liens\, jobsite injuries\, and cost overruns are explained as well as the methods to avoid them. Hurricanes are like houseguests from out of state—whether we like them or not\, we can expect them to visit every year. Ricchi explains that hurricanes can cause a shortage of qualified contractors because of the abundance of repair work that must be performed. As a result\, what Ricchi calls “CONtractors” show up en masse to target desperate homeowners. “Sometimes the con artist disappears with the (deposit) money and other times the repairs are worse than the damage itself\,” Ricchi says. 8pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T091643Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100729T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100729T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/Alex_Kava URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/Alex_Kava SUMMARY:Alex Kava – Damaged - Gables DESCRIPTION:On Pensacola Beach\, the Coast Guard prepares for a Category 5 hurricane that has entered the Gulf of Mexico. When the air crew patrols the waterways\, they spot a huge fishing cooler about a mile offshore. Drug traffickers have been known to dump coolers with smuggled product to avoid detection and pay fishermen to retrieve them. But when the crew open this cooler\, they’re shocked by what they find\: body parts tightly wrapped in plastic. Though she is putting herself in the projected path of the hurricane\, Special Agent Maggie O’Dell is sent to investigate.
Eventually\, she’s able to trace the torso in the cooler back to a man who mysteriously disappeared weeks earlier after a hurricane hit Port St. Lucie\, Florida. Only Port St. Lucie is on the Atlantic side. How did his body end up six hundred miles away in the Gulf of Mexico? Cliffhanger chapters\, behind-the-scenes forensic details\, colorful characters\, and satisfying twists have become the trademarks of Alex Kava’s psychological thrillers. In Damaged (Doubleday\, $24.95)\, she ratchets up the suspense a notch by sending Maggie into the eye of an impending monster hurricane to track down a killer.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T091643Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100729T223000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100729T223000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/AllyCarter_MelissadelaCruz URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/AllyCarter_MelissadelaCruz SUMMARY:Ally Carter & Melissa de la Cruz – Gallagher Girls\, book 4\: Only the Good Spy Young/Blue Bloods\: Keys to the Repository – Gables DESCRIPTION:When Cammie Morgan enrolled at the Gallagher Academy\, she knew she was preparing for the dangerous life of a spy. What she didn’t know was that the serious\, real-life danger would start during her junior year of high school. But that’s exactly what happened two months ago when Cammie faced off against an ancient terrorist organization dead set on kidnapping her. Now the danger follows her everywhere\, and even Cammie “The Chameleon” can’t hide. When a terrifying encounter in London reveals that one of her most-trusted allies is actually a rogue double-agent\, Cammie no longer knows if she can trust her classmates\, her teachers—or even her own heart. In this fourth installment of the New York Times best-selling series\, the Gallagher Girls must hack\, spy\, steal\, and lie their way to the truth as they go searching for answers\, recognizing that the key to Cammie’s future may lie deep in the past.
Lavish parties. Passionate meetings in the night. Bone-chilling murders. Midterms. The day-to-day life of Schuyler Van Alen and her Blue Bloods friends (and enemies) is never boring. But there's oh-so-much more to know about these beautiful and powerful teens. Below the streets of Manhattan\, within the walls of the Repository\, exists a wealth of revealing information about the vampire elite that dates back before the Mayflower. In a series of short stories\, journal entries\, and never-before-seen letters\, New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz gives her hungry fans the keys to the Repository and an even more in-depth look into the secret world of the Blue Bloods.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T091643Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100730T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100730T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/Enrique_Enriquez URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/Enrique_Enriquez SUMMARY:Enrique Enriquez – Tarot con Calvino - Gables DESCRIPTION:Enrique Enríquez will be revisiting Italo Calvino's Castle of Crossed Destinies. In 1973\, Italian writer Italo Calvino wrote The Castle of Crossed Destinies\, a novel in which characters who cannot speak to each other recount their tales using tarot cards. Enrique Enríquez will be re-enacting Calvino’s feat\, turning Books &\; Books into a Bookshop of Crossed Destinies. Some members of the audience will be encouraged to tell their tales using tarot cards. Working as the narrator\, Enríquez will put these tales into words. This event is FREE.
TAROT READINGS
On Friday\, July 30th and July 31st\, from 8\:00 to 10\:00 p.m.\, Enrique Enríquez will be giving short tarot readings at Books&\;Books cafe. There will be no fixed fee\, and every person is encouraged to give a retribution that fits their possibilities.TAROT WORKSHOP
On Sunday\, August 1st\, from 6 pm to 8 pm.\, Enrique Enríquez will be giving a workshop on The Marseilles tarot’s Visual Language. In this workshop\, Enríquez shares his phenomenological approach to the tarot that doesn’t focus on symbolism but rather on the way we can use our body experience to understand images. By contrasting the the medieval notion of symmetry with our current understanding of the way our brain makes meaning\, we will be able to apprehend the tarot’s language of shape. The cost of this workshop is $ 25
About Enrique Enríquez
A visual thinker and tarot reader. In 2009 his ‘Gestural Keys to the Tarot’ were published as a prologue for the Jean Dodal tarot\, re-edited by Jean-Claude Flornoy. He has been called“one of the most brilliant minds in the tarot world of the 21st Century”\, by members of the international Association for Tarot Studies. The British Society of Mystery Entertainers described his work as one that “challenges many preconceptions about the tarot”.
Juan Martin\: Como una sombra de mi mismo
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