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Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
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. | 30
Start: 7:00 pm
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. 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 | 31
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Start: 8:00 pm
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. | 2
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Start: 7:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
Debbie Orta plays live in the Books & Books Courtyard! Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
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 | 4
Start: 6:00 pm
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 |
