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Annie Cohen-Solal - Leo and HIs Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli - Westhampton Beach
Start: 6:00 pm

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

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Michael Largo – God's Lunatics -- Gables
Start: 8:00 pm

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.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid Ice Treat Truck - Gables
Start: 5:00 pm
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Seth Bramson - Hallandale Beach Florida - Bal Harbour
Start: 7:30 pm

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

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Lauren Weisberger - Last Night at the Chateau Marmont - Westhampton Beach
Start: 6:00 pm

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

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Jill Zarin, Lisa Wexler & Gloria Kamen - Secrets of a Jewish Mother - Gables
Start: 6:00 pm

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

LIve Music - Jazzilla - Gables
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm

Jazzilla plays live in the Gables Books & Books courtyard!

Jeffrey Wands - Knock and the Door Will Open - Gables
Start: 8:00 pm

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

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