Guided Wine Tasting Dinner
with Chef Allen Susser and Robin Goldstein &\; Alexis Herschkowitsch of The Wine Trials
Chef Allen Susser – yes\, South Florida’s beloved Chef Allen\, the James Beard award-winning patriarch of the New World Cuisine movement – has created this perfectly paired and decidedly delectable menu to match the sparkling wines featured in tonight’s blind wine tasting. Join Chef Allen and the wine experts Robin Goldstein &\; Alexis Herschkowitsch for this three-course treat – just $58 a person (plus sales tax and gratuity) and including a glass of wine with each course – in our “Algonquin Room” at the Gables store at 6\:30pm.
Space is very limited\, so please call our Gables Café today to pay for your spot. RSVP to George or Gianina – 305-448-9599 – by Tuesday\, Aug. 10\, please.
Organic Arugula\, Goat Cheese\, Pear\, sweet cherries and pine nuts with aged sherry vinaigrette
Pan Roasted Mahi Mahi served with White Beans\, cracked Green Olives\, Celery\, Wild Garlic Broth and Fresh Mint
Citrus Ricotta
Cheese Cake
served with Raspberry Coulis and Summer Berries
ALGONQUIN NIGHT is back – and Dorothy Parker herself would be jealous of all the Algonquin fun. And this time\, there’s even some alcohol involved (Dorothy would approve). Algonquin Publishing of Chapel Hill’s book god and director of marketing Craig Popelars brings us another night of authors and books\, wine and books\, beer and books\, books and books\, and maybe even a song about Books &\; Books (if you heard the first ode last year\, then you know it’s not to be missed).
We’ll kick things off at 7pm with a blind wine tasting with Robin Goldstein &\; Alexis Herschkowitsch\, the impartial experts behind FearlessCritic.com and the book The Wine Trials (Workman\, $14.95 each). This breakthrough wine guide details the blind-tasted wines for less than $15. Sample each of the three wines tonight (now\, now\, just a sip or two) at our Courtyard bar and jot down your thoughts on each. Then we’ll head inside at 7\:45 or so for the big “reveal” of which wine was which. You might be surprised. You just might have cheap taste (and that’s a good thing). Robin will share his insight from the wine trials world.
And then it’s onto acclaimed novelist Brock Clarke\, author of The Arsonist’s Guide to New England Writers’ Home. Brock is bringing us an exclusive early release of his brand new novel\, Exley (Algonquin\, $24.95). Even though Exley is earning praise already for its story of 9-year-old Miller and his search for his father’s favorite author\, Frederick Exley\, the book doesn’t have its official release until October. But we very lucky folks at Books &\; Books get a special sneak peak. You’ll be able to buy copies NOW – and get them signed\, too. Exley is part literary satire\, part mystery\, wholly engaging. It’s not your ordinary book\, and Brock Clarke is an extraordinary writer.
And speaking of not-ordinary\, Craig Popelars will also share the joys and wonders of Algonquin Publishing’s extraordinary fall book list. He dazzles us with the wit and wisdom of each book\, using his own brand of wit and wisdom. This is the publishing house with the spot-on taste that brought you Water for Elephants\, Mudbound\, A Reliable Wife and oh so many more that you loved. Plus\, if you buy ANY Algonquin book tonight\, you’ll receive a FREE advance copy of one of Algonquin’s upcoming fall titles. It’s buy one book\, get another book before you can even buy it. But wait\, there’s more… Then we’ll head back to the Courtyard bar for the beer tasting with Robin &\; Alexis as they sign copies of their two books in the Courtyard and share their tasty beer insight from their brutally honest blind taste tests in The Beer Trials (Workman\, $14.95). So\, don’t miss a moment of Algonquin Night 2010 – great for book-club planning or just plain book planning. It’s a reader’s dream\, a tasty treat\, an evening for wine and words. Beer\, too.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100813T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100813T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/susan_coll URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/susan_coll SUMMARY:Susan Coll - Beach Week - Westhampton Beach DESCRIPTION:Ah\, “beach week”\: a time-honored tradition in which the D.C. suburbs’
latest herd of high school grads flocks to Chelsea Beach for seven
whole days of debauched celebration. In this dark comedy\, ten teenage
girls plan an unhinged blowout the likes of which their young lives have
never seen. They smuggle vodka in water bottles and horde prescription
drugs by the dozen. Meanwhile\, their misguided\, affluent parents are too
busy worrying about legal liabilities to fret over some missing pills
or random hookups.
For Jordan Adler and her family\, though\, this rite of passage
threatens to become more than just frivolous fun. The teen’s parents\,
Leah and Charles\, might not let their only child go at all. Their
marriage is in shambles\, their old house is languishing on the market\,
and the bills are stacking up. With all that stress\, it soon seems
they’re behaving as irresponsibly as their daughter and her friends.
With the wit of Nora Ephron and the insight of Tom Perrotta\, Susan
Coll satirizes a new teenage rite of passage\, in the process dismantling
the lives of families in transition. Beach Week Ferrar\, Straus\, Giroux\, $25) is a hilarious\, well-observed look at the end of childhood and the human need to commemorate it—expensively. 6pm
Live MUsic in the courtyard\: Escaleno\, 7-11pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100814T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100814T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/maria_elvira_salazar URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/maria_elvira_salazar SUMMARY:Maria Elvira Salazar - POSTPONED DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED\: Please check our website for updates about the rescheduled date for Maria Elvira Salazar. This event is in Spanish\: No importa cuál sea tu camino\, cuáles sean tus sueños\, ni cuántos obstáculos tengas que vencer\, este libro es un conmovedor testimonio del triunfo de la fe sobre la maldad. En ocasiones la vida nos pone pruebas que parece imposible superar. Puede tratarse de una crisis personal\, de un problema de salud o de la crisis financiera internacional. Tal vez hayas perdido tus ahorros o hasta tu casa\, y tus sueños y planes parecen cancelarse para siempre. En esas ocaciones el camino se torna largo y cuesta arriba\; sin embargo\, si mantienes tu fe la solución puede llegar de manera inesperada. María Elvira Salazar vivió una de las peores crisis que uno pueda imaginar en medio de una historia de intriga\, poder y envidia que involucró a la tristemente célebre Laura Bozzo\, quien se presentaba en televisión internacional como una defensora de los pobres y los desvalidos\, buscando escalar cada vez más los ratings\, sin importar por encima de quién pasaba. Fue así como la periodista María Elvira Salazar vio de pronto su carreras irse a pique. Y ella discute ese en su libro Si Dios contigo quien contra ti? (Random House\, $18.95). 8pm
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100814T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100814T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/roger_rosenblatt URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/roger_rosenblatt SUMMARY:Roger Rosenblatt - Making Toast - Westhampton Beach DESCRIPTION:When his daughter\, Amy—a gifted doctor\, mother\, and wife—collapses and dies from an asymptomatic heart condition\, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife\, Ginny\, leave their home on the South Shore of Long Island to move in with their son-in-law\, Harris\, and their three young grandchildren\: six-year-old Jessica\, four-year-old Sammy\, and one-year-old James\, known as Bubbies. Long past the years of diapers\, homework\, and recitals\, Roger and Ginny — Boppo and Mimi to the kids — quickly reaccustom themselves to the world of small children\: bedtime stories\, talking toys\, playdates\, nonstop questions\, and nonsequential thought. With the wit\, heart\, precision\, and depth of understanding that has characterized his work\, Rosenblatt peels back the layers on this most personal of losses to create both a tribute to his late daughter and a testament to familial love in Making Toast (Ecco\, $21.99). The day Amy died\, Harris told Ginny and Roger\, "\;It's impossible."\; Roger's story tells how a family makes the possible of the impossible. 6pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100814T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100814T230000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/ari_pinelli URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/ari_pinelli SUMMARY:Ari Pinelli - Historias cortas del planeta Cuba - Gables DESCRIPTION:Historias cortas del planeta Cuba ($14.99)\, cuentas por Ari Pinelli\, plasma situaciones de la vida cotidiana en una isla\, que a pesar de haberla hecho Dios un día en que estaba contento\, se encuentra sumida en un mar de confusiones y gravemente enferma de presente. A través del prisma maravilloso de su escritor se revela un mundo que muchos se imaginan\, pero que pocos pueden describir con tanta propiedad como quienes lo han vivido\, o aún mejor\, quienes lo han sufrido\, porque entre diáspora y odio\, todo el mundo sale lastimado\, independientemente de hacia dónde se incline su filiación política o ideological. 7pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100815T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100815T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/annie_cohen-solal URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/annie_cohen-solal SUMMARY:Annie Cohen-Solal - Leo and HIs Circle\: The Life of Leo Castelli - Westhampton Beach DESCRIPTION: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 his incalculably influential and astonishing life in Leo and His Circle (Knopf\, $35). After emigrating to New York in 1941\, Castelli would not open a gallery for sixteen years\, when he had reached the age of fifty. But as the first to exhibit the then-unknown Jasper Johns\, Castelli emerged as a tastemaker overnight and fast came to champion a virtual Who’s Who of twentieth-century masters\: Rauschenberg\, Lichtenstein\, Warhol\, and Twombly\, to name a few. Leo and His Circle brilliantly narrates the course of one man’s power and influence. But Castelli had another secret\, too\: his life as an Italian Jew. Annie Cohen-Solal traces a family whose fortunes rose and fell for centuries before the Castellis fled European fascism. Drawing on her friendship with the subject\, as well as an uncanny knack for archival excavation\, Annie Cohen-Solal gives us in full the elegant\, shrewd\, irresistible\, and enigmatic figure at the very center of postwar American art\, bringing an utterly new understanding of its evolution. 6pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100818T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100818T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/Michael_Largo URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/Michael_Largo SUMMARY:Michael Largo – God's Lunatics -- Gables DESCRIPTION: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 often\, driven seekers in regrettable directions--toward the comically ridiculous and irrational but also the frighteningly horrific and maniacal.
Arm yourself with God's Lunatics (Harper\, $16.99) before your next encounter with those who have been blinded by the light. Award-winning author Michael Largo\, "\;the Capote of kaput"\; ("\;Atlanta Journal-Constitution"\;)\, chronicles history's vast and colorful cast of true believers--from the hidden side of the Bible's eccentric characters to today's street-corner doomsayers\, and from extraterrestrial communicators\, levitating hermits\, and flagellating ascetics to self-serving preachers of overindulgence who believed money\, sex\, and drugs were the keys to the portal to divine understanding. In addition to the firewalkers\, serpent handlers\, cultists\, terrorists\, and alleged time travelers\, God's Lunatics also reveals the dubious foundations of the world's major faiths and the many religious customs and laws that continue to influence governments and society\, whether you are a believer or not.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100818T210000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100818T210000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/jeff_kinney URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/jeff_kinney SUMMARY: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Ice Treat Truck - Gables DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100818T233000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100818T233000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/seth_bramson URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/seth_bramson SUMMARY:Seth Bramson - Hallandale Beach Florida - Bal Harbour DESCRIPTION:Beginning in 1897 with the arrival of Luther Halland\, the story of Hallandale Beach is one of steady growth and enduring prosperity. Hallandale Beach\, Florida (History Press\, $21.99) became a town during the great Florida boom of the 1920s\, and in 1947\, when its boundaries expanded to the Atlantic Ocean\, Hallandale Beach became a city. Today\, this quintessential South Florida community has grown to offer all the luxuries of a big city without losing any of its hometown charm. Balancing world-class restaurants and exciting entertainment with welcoming residential neighborhoods\, Hallandale Beach truly has it all. Join South Florida expert Seth H. Bramson as he takes you on a journey through Hallandale Beach's proud past and budding future to show why\, for more than ninety years\, it has been Broward County's city of choice. 7\:30pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100819T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100819T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/lauren_weisberger URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/lauren_weisberger SUMMARY:Lauren Weisberger - Last Night at the Chateau Marmont - Westhampton Beach DESCRIPTION:Lauren Weisberger is the author of The Devil Wears Prada\, which spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller lists. The film version\, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway\, won a Golden Globe Award and grossed over $300 million worldwide. Her second novel\, Everyone Worth Knowing\, was also a New York Times bestseller. In her newest novel\, Last Night at Chateau Marmont (Simon &\; Schuster\, $25.99)\, Brooke is drawn to the soulful\, enigmatic Julian Alter the very first time she hears him perform “Hallelujah” at a dark East Village dive bar. Now five years married\, Brooke balances two jobs—as a nutritionist at NYU Hospital and as a consultant to an Upper East Side girls’ school\, where privilege gone wrong and disordered eating run rampant—in order to help support her husband’s dream of making it in the music world. Things are looking up when after years of playing Manhattan clubs and toiling as an A&\;R intern\, Julian finally gets signed by Sony. All that changes after Julian is asked to perform on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno—and is catapulted to stardom\, literally overnight. At first the newfound fame is fun—who wouldn’t want to stay at the Chateau Marmont or visit the set of one of television’s hottest shows? When rumors about Brooke and Julian swirl in the tabloid magazines\, she begins to question the truth of her marriage and is forced to finally come to terms with what she thinks she wants—and what she actually needs. 6pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100820T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100820T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/jill_zarin URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/jill_zarin SUMMARY:Jill Zarin\, Lisa Wexler & Gloria Kamen - Secrets of a Jewish Mother - Gables DESCRIPTION:In what could be thought of as the Jewish Mother's Guide to Life\, Jill Zarin\, the breakout star of Bravo's hit series\, The Real Housewives of New York\, teams up with her sister\, Lisa Wexler\, award-winning host of daily radio program The Lisa Wexler Show\, and her mother\, the estimable Gloria Kamen who made a splash on Jill's series last year. Secrets of a Jewish Mother (Dutton\, $25.95) shows readers that being clear about what you want is the best policy\, and standing up for yourself and your family is always the right way to go. Using real life examples\, stories from Jill\, Lisa and Gloria\, this mother/daughter trio reveals their secrets to life\, love\, and happiness. 6pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100820T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100821T030000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/jazilla URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/jazilla SUMMARY:LIve Music - Jazzilla - Gables DESCRIPTION:Jazzilla plays live in the Gables Books &\; Books courtyard!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100821T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100821T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/jeffrey_wands URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/jeffrey_wands SUMMARY:Jeffrey Wands - Knock and the Door Will Open - Gables DESCRIPTION:In Knock and the Door Will Open (Simon &\; Schuster\, $18) 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 up to discover our personal treasures. When you are brave enough\, you can change your mind and change your life. Wands’ six keys will allow you to dig deep inside\, to look at every aspect of your life\, and to achieve your greatest potential. 8pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100822T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100822T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/dan_rattiner URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/dan_rattiner SUMMARY:Dan Rattiner - In the Hamptons Too - Westhampton Beach DESCRIPTION:As the editor and publisher of Dan's Papers\, the area's popular free newspaper\, Dan Rattiner has been living in and covering the Hamptons for over fifty years\, and has watched it change from a sleepy backwater of fishing villages and potato farms to a playground for the rich and famous. In this follow-up to his popular book In the Hamptons\, Rattiner continues to regale us with tales of the people who live\, work\, and play in one of America's best-known summer colonies\, ranging from colorful locals like former East Hampton Town Supervisor Richard T. Gilmartin and marine patrol policeman Ralph George\, to more well-known figures like Kurt Vonnegut\, Betty Friedan\, Alger Hiss\, and Martha Stewart. In the Hamptons Too\: Further Encounters with Farmers\, Fishermen\, Artists\, Billionaires\, and Celebrities (State University of New York\, $19.95) tells these stories of the Hamptons as only he can tell them\: with dry wit\, unassuming language\, and as keen an awareness of his own quirks and foibles as he is of those of his fellow human beings. 6pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100825T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100825T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/avery_heavenrich URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/avery_heavenrich SUMMARY:Avery Heavenrich - The Creative Rebuilding of Your Investment Portfolio - Gables DESCRIPTION:Avery Heavenrich\, a 20 year veteran investor of the stock market\, will address the global credit implosion and its aftermath this evening with a talk on The Creative Rebuilding of Your Investment Portfolio. The greatest debt bubble of the century has permanently altered the financial landscape. Making creative investment choices now could affect your long-term investment portfolio\, and its preservation and growth. Here are a couple of books that are recommended on the subject and available at Books &\; Books\: This Time is Different by Carmen M. Reinhart &\; Ken Rogoff (Princeton University Press) and Manias\, Panics\, and Crashes\: A History of Financial Crises by Charles P. Kindleberger &\; Robert Ailber (Wiley Investment Classics). 8pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100825T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100825T230000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/node/18759 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/node/18759 SUMMARY:Homeschooling Orientation - Gables DESCRIPTION:Learn about homeschooling requirements. Have all your questions answered. Come and meet leaders from various homeschooling and enrichment groups in the Miami area. Meet teachers and organizations that provide invaluable services to homeschoolers. Get to know representatives of various homeschooling philosophies and curricula. 7pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100826T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100826T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/alexandra_lebenthal URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/alexandra_lebenthal SUMMARY:Alexandra Lebenthal - The Recessionistas - Westhampton Beach DESCRIPTION:It's the day after Labor Day\, 2008\, and the elite universe of New York's Upper East Side is about to unravel along with the economy. Socialite Grigsby Somerset is barely aware of her changing world\, and has no idea her investment banker husband Blake is about to enter into a devil's bargain with hedge fund owner John Cutter. As autumn unfolds\, Grigsby's fairytale life starts to unwind. Street-smart Renee Parker has been hired as John's executive assistant and is convinced that something is amiss with her new boss. Renee enlists her friend Sasha Silver\, CEO of Silver Partners\, to help her decipher what is happening. They soon discover that John is nearly ruined\, except for the assets he is hiding in the Cayman Islands from his wife Mimi\, and has concocted with Blake a scheme to redeem himself. This tale of expulsion from a modern-day Garden of Eden captures what happens when economic decline spells ruin for Manhattan's pampered elite.
Alexandra Lebenthal\, author of The Recessionistas (Grand Central Publishing\, $24.99)\, is the socially prominent President and CEO of Lebenthal &\; Co\, and its wealth management division\, Alexandra &\; James Inc. Her father is Jim Lebenthal\, who made his name in municipal bonds. She also serves as a board member of the School of American Ballet and is involved with several other leading New York cultural institutions including The Business Council of The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Capital Campaign for the Museum of the City of New York\, the American Museum of Natural History\, and the New York Botanical Garden.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100827T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100827T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/martin_amis URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/martin_amis SUMMARY:Martin Amis - The Pregnant Widow - Westhampton Beach DESCRIPTION:Bitingly funny\, full of wit and pathos\, Martin Amis’ The Pregnant Widow (Knopf\, $26.95) is a trenchant portrait of young lives being carried away on a sea of change. The year is 1970\, and the youth of Europe are in the chaotic\, ecstatic throes of the sexual revolution. Though blindly dedicated to the cause\, its nubile foot soldiers have yet to realize this disturbing truth\: that between the death of one social order and the birth of another\, there exists a state of terrifying purgatory—or\, as Alexander Herzen put it\, a pregnant widow. Keith Nearing is stuck in an exquisite limbo. Twenty years old and on vacation from college\, Keith and an assortment of his peers are spending the long\, hot summer in a castle in Italy. The tragicomedy of manners that ensues will have an indelible effect on all its participants\, and we witness\, too\, how it shapes Keith’s subsequent love life for decades to come. 6pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100827T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100827T230000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/node/18764 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/node/18764 SUMMARY:LIve Music - Negroni Trio - Gables DESCRIPTION:The Negroni Trio plays live in the Gables Books &\; Books courtyard.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/adam_scholer URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/adam_scholer SUMMARY:Adam Scholer - Brother Duke - Gables DESCRIPTION:Brother Duke (Booksurge\, $14.99) is the first novel from Adam Scholer\, a high school English teacher and Miami native. The main character finds himself hitch-hiking on a bet and when he meets a deranged taxidermist who preserves a cursed dog\, mayhem ensues. Brother Duke is for all types of readers ages sixteen to one hundred and six. 8pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/pamela_flori URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/pamela_flori SUMMARY:Pamela Flori - In the Spirit of Capri - Westhampton Beach DESCRIPTION:Jutting proudly out of the Mediterranean Sea\, like a miracle of nature\, Capri is one of the world’s chicest destinations—the European pleasure island. It is a place where well-tanned Italians joyfully share the island’s beauty with celebrities and emphatic island lovers\: from limoncello\, the native digestivo\, to its eponymous Capri pants\, to the bright turquoise jewelry and bejeweled sandals made famous by its glamorous denizens. In the Spirit of Capri (Assouline\, $45)\, a colorful tribute to the isle adored by literary icons and the jet set alike\, author and Town &\; Country editor emeritus Pamela Fiori explains with resonant texts and vibrant images the effortless charm of this fabled island. 6pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100828T230000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/sheldon_frank URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/sheldon_frank SUMMARY:Sheldon Frank & Denise Duhamel - Narrative Medicine event - Gables DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of Holism\, Humor\, and Hormones in the Poetry of Healing. Denise Duhamel\, award-winning poet and Professor in FIU’s Creative Writing Department\, has infused much of her poetry with an uncanny ability to portray the inner life of children and teens. Along the way—or maybe to start with—she discovered the power of humor\, of taking a step back to view better\, and of integrating mind and body. Her poems bring us\, often\, to laughter\, and poignancy\, and recognition. Denise will read from her collections. Sheldon Frank has had a first career as child-adolescent psychiatrist and medical school teacher\, working to help children maintain self-esteem and growth in the face of both normal and disease-caused assaults from physical and emotional traumas. As a growing number of his medical colleagues\, he has found the power of literature to both express and fortify his patients’ journeys. He will read from the M.F.A. thesis he will present this fall. 7pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100829T140000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100829T160000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/megan_nicolay URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/megan_nicolay SUMMARY:Camp Books & Books - Workman Publishing - Westhampton Beach DESCRIPTION:Join us for Camp Books &\; Books Day with Workman Publishing. There won’t be any bug spray or sharing bunks. There will be crafts and activities – and fun\, fun\, fun! -- for kids ages 6-12. Megan Nicolay\, author of Generation T\: 108 Ways to Transform a T-shirt (Workman\, $15.95)\, will help you make your own T-shirt into the coolest T you’ve ever seen. There will be Brain Quest Brain Fest challenges\, Jokelopedia joke telling and mask-making. There will be Totally Irresponsible Science experiments and You’ve Got to Be Kidding challenges and questions. Plus prizes and more with Page Edmund\, associate publisher of Workman. Free. 10am-12 noon.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100830T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100830T230000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/carl_hiaasen URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/carl_hiaasen SUMMARY:Carl Hiaasen - Star Island - Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden DESCRIPTION:Star Island (Knopf\, $26.95) is Carl Hiaasen’s hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane. Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman)\, a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry again\: in the person of her “undercover stunt double\,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”—meaning wasted—to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherry’s handlers (über–stage mother\; horndog record producer\; nipped\, tucked\, and Botoxed twin publicists\; weed whacker–wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry’s public—and from Cherry herself.
The situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink—the unhinged former governor of Florida living wild in a mangrove swamp—and now he’s heading for Miami to find her . . .Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private photo session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherry’s motley posse does?
Tickets are required for this event which includes a reception with the author sponsored by Whole Foods\, and a reading/Q&\;A/signing. Purchase a copy of Star Island at any Books &\; Books location and you will receive a FREE ticket to the reception/talk/signing at Fairchild Garden. 7pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100902T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100902T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/paul_reyes URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/paul_reyes SUMMARY:Paul Reyes - Exiles in Eden - Gables DESCRIPTION:An on-the-ground\, intimate tour of the human toll of the nation's foreclosure crisis
While working with his father's small company that "\;trashes out"\;— enters and empties—foreclosed homes in Florida\, Paul Reyes wrote Exiles in Eden\, a hard-hitting\, personal\, and poetic portrayal of his own family and the people and communities affected by the foreclosure crisis.
Grounded in Florida and Reyes family history\, and with character-driven visits to the dark corners of this crisis—including with those who are calling for revolution—Reyes explores the human element of this frightening rattling of the American Dream. From examining the unique "\;ecosystems"\; of each failed mortgage to witnessing parts of abandoned Florida returning to its wild natural state\, Reyes takes the reader far from the machinations of Wall Street to the sun-baked side streets where the true costs of this crisis can be seen. The result is an extraordinary book about the allure and dream of home—and a portrait of an America where the exiled insist on the right to their own America dreams\, even as the terms are forcibly redrawn.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100903T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100904T020000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/cecilia_sesnick URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/cecilia_sesnick SUMMARY:Cecilia Dubon Slesnick - A Slice of Miami Pie- Gables Gallery Night DESCRIPTION:Cecilia Dubon Slesnick was born in Managua\, Nicaragua but grew up in Coral Gables\, FL. She’s been getting in trouble for drawing instead of paying attention since about the 3rd grade. A museum professional by day and artist by night\, Cecilia pays attention to just about everything and everyone who colors her world\, and trying to capture all the special moments. You never know- if you meet her you may end up the subject of a piece or two. This series “A Slice of Miami Pie” painted this summer focuses on all things delicious and Miami. The pieces are unique and whimsical while drawing inspiration from our community
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100904T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100904T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/hilary_hamann URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/hilary_hamann SUMMARY:Hilary Hamann - Anthropology of an American Girl - Westhampton Beach DESCRIPTION:Self-published in 2003\, Hilary Thayer Hamann’s Anthropology of an American Girl (Spiegel and Grau\, $26.00) touched a nerve among readers\, who identified with the sexual and intellectual awakening of its heroine\, a young woman on the brink of adulthood. A moving depiction of the transformative power of first love\, Hamann’s first novel follows Eveline Auerbach from her high school years in East Hampton\, New York\, in the 1970s through her early adulthood in the moneyed\, high-pressured Manhattan of the 1980s.
Centering on Evie’s fragile relationship with her family and her thwarted love affair with Harrison Rourke\, a professional boxer\, the novel is both a love story and an exploration of the difficulty of finding one’s place in the world. As Evie surrenders to the dazzling emotional highs of love and the crippling loneliness of heartbreak\, she strives to reconcile her identity with the constraints that all relationships—whether those familial or romantic\, uplifting to the spirit or quietly detrimental—inherently place on us. Though she stumbles and strains against social conventions\, Evie remains a strong yet sensitive observer of the world around her\, often finding beauty and meaning in unexpected places.
Newly edited and revised since its original publication\, Anthropology of an American Girl is an extraordinary piece of writing\, original in its vision and thrilling in its execution. 6pm
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Michael K. just started fifth grade at a new school. As if that wasn't hard
enough\, the kids he seems to have made friends with apparently aren't
kids at all. They are aliens. Real aliens who have invaded our planet in
the form of school children and a hamster. They have a mission to
complete\: to convince 3\,140\,001 kids to BE SPHDZ. But with a hamster as
their leader\, "\;kids"\; who talk like walking advertisements\, and Michael K
as their first convert\, will the SPHDZ be able to keep their cover and
pull off their assignment?
Jon Scieszka was born in Flint\, Michigan on September 8\, 1954. It was a Wednesday. Right around lunchtime. He earned his MFA in Fiction from Columbia University in New York in 1980\, then painted apartments.Not knowing what he was getting into\, Jon applied for a teaching job at an elementary school called The Day School in New York City. Teaching school\, Jon re-discovered how smart kids are\, and found the best audience for the weird and funny stories he had always liked to read and write. He took a year off from teaching to write stories for kids. He sent these stories around to many publishers\, and got rejected by all of them. He kept painting apartments and writing stories.
Through his wife Jeri\, who was working in NY as a magazine art director\, he met a funny guy named Lane Smith. Lane was painting illustrations for magazine articles\, and working on his first children's book. Jon gave Lane his story—A. Wolf's Tale. Lane loved it. Lane drew a few illustrations for the story and took it to show many publishers. He got rejected by all of them. "\;Too dark\,"\; they said. "\;Too sophisticated\,"\; they said. "\;Don't ever come back here\, okay?"\; they said.Jon and Lane liked A. Wolf's Tale. They kept showing it around. They kept getting rejected. Finally\, Regina Hayes\, an editor at Viking Books said she thought the story and the illustrations were funny. She said she would publish the book. And she did\, in 1989\, with the title changed to\: The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!.
Jon is now working on a giant pre-school publishing program called Trucktown. It's a world where all of the characters are trucks. And all of the trucks act like real preschoolers—loud and crazy and wild and funny.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100907T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100907T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/chad_carns URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/chad_carns SUMMARY:Chad Carns - The Gourmet Bachelor - Gables DESCRIPTION:
In Gourmet Bachelor – Global Flavor\, Local Ingredients\, Chad Carns brings
exciting global dishes to your home in minutes. Elegantly designed with
vivid photography and slick black pages\, The Gourmet Bachelor cookbook
includes simple cooking instructions with basic ingredients found at
your local market. Become the wine expert at your next cocktail party
after you read the essential wine guide. Carns also provides a glossary
of gourmet terms if you are just learning how to sear\, chop or sauté!
Learn how to cook mouth watering recipes such as Orange-Scented Ricotta
Pancakes or a Lobster Club stacked with creamy avocado and double-thick
bacon. The Gourmet Bachelor cookbook offers a culinary-roller coaster of
exciting\, global recipes for any occasion.
Chad Carns put his award-winning\, graphic design career on hold to study
global cuisine and wine at the Institute of Culinary Education. He has
been featured several times on Toni On! NY (WPIX)\, Marie Claire\, The
Villager\, Next magazine and has been giving live cooking demos at
culinary destination around the country. Carns currently works as a NYC
private chef for special events and intimate dinner parties.
In Jilliane Hoffman's Pretty Little Things\, thirteen-year-old Lainey Emerson is the middle child in a household that police are already familiar with\: her mother works too much and her step-father favors his own blood over another man’s problems—namely\, Lainey and her wild older sister\, Liza. So when Lainey does not come home from a Friday night out with her friends\, it is dismissed by the Coral Springs Police Department as just another disillusioned South Florida teen running away from suburban drama and an unhappy home life.
But Special Agent Bobby Dees\, who has headed up the department’s di4cult Crimes Against Children (CAC) Squad in Miami for more than a decade\, is not quite so sure. Nicknamed “The Shepherd” by colleagues\, he has an uncanny ability to find the missing and bring them back home—dead or alive. Haunted by the still unsolved disappearance of his own daughter\, Bobby recognizes the all too familiar up-swell inside him\, the gut feeling that Lainey Emerson is no runaway.
A search of Lainey’s computer and a talk with her best friend reveal Lainey was involved in a secret Internet relationship\, spawned over a chat room\, and nurtured through untraceable instant messages. Bobby fears she may be the victim of an on-line predator\, and he fears she may not be the only one.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100909T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100909T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/scott_eyman URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/scott_eyman SUMMARY:Scott Eyman - Empire of Dreams - Gables DESCRIPTION:BEST KNOWN AS THE DIRECTOR of such spectacular films as The Ten Commandments and King of Kings\, Cecil B. DeMille lived a life as epic as any of his cinematic masterpieces. As a child DeMille learned the Bible from his father\, a theology student and playwright who introduced Cecil and his older brother\, William\, to the theater. Tutored by impresario David Belasco\, DeMille discovered how audiences responded to showmanship\: sets\, lights\, costumes\, etc. He took this knowledge with him to Los Angeles in 1913\, where he became one of the movie pioneers\, in partnership with Jesse Lasky and Lasky’s brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn). Working out of a barn on streets fragrant with orange blossom and pepper trees\, the Lasky company turned out a string of successful silents\, most of them directed by DeMille\, who became one of the biggest names of the silent era. With films such as The Squaw Man\, Brewster’s Millions\, Joan the Woman\, and Don’t Change Your Husband\, he was the creative backbone of what would become Paramount Studios. In 1923 he filmed his first version of The Ten Commandments and later a second biblical epic\, King of Kings\, both enormous box-office successes. Although his reputation rests largely on the biblical epics he made\, DeMille’s personal life was no morality tale. He remained married to his wife\, Constance\, for more than fifty years\, but for most of the marriage he had three mistresses simultaneously\, all of whom worked for him. He showed great loyalty to a small group of actors who knew his style\, but he also discovered some major stars\, among them Gloria Swanson\, Claudette Colbert\, and later\, Charlton Heston.
DeMille was one of the few silent-era directors who made a completely successful transition to sound. In 1952 he won the Academy Award for Best Picture with The Greatest Show on Earth. When he remade The Ten Commandments in 1956\, it was an even bigger hit than the silent version. He could act\, too\: in Billy Wilder’s classic film Sunset Boulevard\, DeMille memorably played himself. In the 1930s and 1940s DeMille became a household name thanks to the Lux Radio Theater\, which he hosted. But after falling out with a union\, he gave up the program\, and his politics shifted to the right as he championed loyalty oaths and Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anticommunist witch hunts.
As Scott Eyman brilliantly demonstrates in Empire of Dreams\: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille (Simon &\; Schuster\, $35.00)\, this superbly researched biography\, which draws on a massive cache of DeMille family papers not available to previous biographers\, DeMille was much more than his clichéd image. A gifted director who worked in many genres\; a devoted family man and loyal friend with a highly unconventional personal life\; a pioneering filmmaker\: DeMille comes alive in these pages\, a legend whose spectacular career defined an era.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T162804Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100910T223000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100910T223000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/fashion_night URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/fashion_night SUMMARY:Fashion Night Out - Bal Harbour Shops DESCRIPTION:Books &\; Books is proud to join its neighbors in the Bal Harbour Shops for
a celebration of Fashion’s Night Out\, with a portion of proceeds from
our sales that night to benefit Miami Book Fair International. And we’ll be celebrating the opening of The Newsstand by Books &\; Books in its new location –
upstairs inside our bookshop…
America’s most-read\, most-watched\, and most beloved serial killer—Dexter Morgan—is back with Dexter is Delicious (Doubleday\, $25.95). After selling more than one million copies and inspiring the wildly popular #1 Showtime series and top-rated crime drama on pay-cable television\, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lindsay returns with his most hilarious\, macabre\, and purely entertaining novel yet.
Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal life. He keeps his
dark urges in check by adhering to one steadfast rule . . . he only kills very bad people. But
now Dexter is experiencing some major life changes—don’t we all?—and
they’re mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his
newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short\, however\, when Dexter is
summoned to investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl
who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves
to be vampires. As Dexter gets closer to the truth of what happened to
the missing girl\, he realizes they are not really vampires so much as
cannibals. And\, most disturbing . . . these people have decided they
would really like to eat Dexter.
Jeff Lindsay’s bestselling\, dark\, ironic\, and oftentimes
laugh-out-loud hilarious novels about the lovable serial killer with no
soul (but a redeeming desire to kill only people who deserve it) have
gained a legion of fans and assumed a place in our culture.
JEFF LINDSAY is the New York Times bestselling author of Darkly Dreaming Dexter\, Dearly Devoted Dexter\, Dexter in the Dark\, and Dexter by Design. He lives in South Florida with his wife and three daughters. His novels are the subject of the hit Showtime and CBS series Dexter.
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