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Start: 12:30 pm
Sunday Story Time Special: Author Carol Casey and illustrator Jason Oransky bring us adorable cast of multi-cultural babies making their way through vibrantly colored landscapes to learn about recognizing and naming colors in Dear Baby, It’s a Colorful World (Dearbaby Books, $14.95). Join us for the interactive presentation and craft. The dazzlingly bright pages are paired with simple poems to evoke the different moods of each color. A gentle message about appreciating all color in nature is made visually and with the simple question to the reader: What happens if color goes away? Wouldn't the world look gloomy and grey? The ending brings together all the colors of the book and the entire cast of babies to reassure Lucky children and Lucky world: Beautiful color is here to stay. Presented in collaboration with MiamiMunchkins.com 12:30pm Start: 4:00 pm
In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction – No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Harper, $25.99) -- New York Times reporter Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most dramatic tales of death and survival in mountaineering history, vividly taking readers through the tragic 2008 K2 ascent that claimed the lives of eleven climbers, severely injured two others, and made headlines around the world. With its near-perfect pyramid shape, the 28,251-foot K2—the world's second-highest mountain, some 800 feet shorter than the legendary Everest hundreds of miles to the south—has lured serious climbers for decades. In 2008, near the end of a brief climbing season cut even shorter by bad weather, no fewer than ten international teams—some experienced, others less prepared—crowded the mountain's dangerous slopes with their Sherpas and porters, waiting to ascend. Based on in-depth interviews with surviving climbers and many Sherpas, porters, and family and friends of the deceased, No Way Down reveals for the first time the full dimensions of this harrowing drama. 4pm | 9
Start: 8:00 pm
In this fifth book in the Wine Country Mystery series, Lucie Montgomery journeys to Washington D.C., as she searches for a missing friend. (Scribner, $24) | 10
Start: 8:00 pm
What if you knew that just by being aware of a problem, you could fix it? In seconds? That is the premise of The Secret of Instant Healing ($13.95), the best-selling natural book by Dr. Frank Kinslow. Quantum Entrainment (QE) is a scientific procedure that promotes rapid healing by expanding self-awareness. It is a combination of quantum science, meditation, and ‘the Power of Now’. Meet Dr. Kinslow tonight. 8pm | 11
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Start: 6:30 pm
Guided Wine Tasting Dinner 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 Start: 7:00 pm
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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Start: 6:00 pm
Ah, “beach week”: a time-honored tradition in which the D.C. suburbs’ For Jordan Adler and her family, though, this rite of passage With the wit of Nora Ephron and the insight of Tom Perrotta, Susan Start: 7:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
Live MUsic in the courtyard: Escaleno, 7-11pm Start: 8:00 pm
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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Start: 6:00 pm
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 Start: 7:00 pm
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 |
