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:20120524T060533Z 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.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100911T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100911T170000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/michelle_richmond URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/michelle_richmond SUMMARY:Michelle Richmond - Workshop for UM - Gables DESCRIPTION:Join bestselling author Michelle Richmond for a workshop in which she'll share her secrets and tricks in crafting vital\, mesmerizing flash fiction. With in-depth exploration of samples\, writing exercises\, and an open discussion not only of fundamentals of fiction but of the broader writing world. Free and open to the public\, but space is limited\, so please reserve early. RSVP to jalison@miami.edu.
Michelle Richmond (UM MFA ’98) is the author of four books of fiction\: The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress\, Dream of the Blue Room\, No One You Know\, and the New York Times bestseller The Year of Fog. She received the Hillsdale Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers\, the AWP Award\, and the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in Playboy\, Glimmer Train\, Oxford American\, Salon\, The Guardian\, The Believer\, Best American Fantasy\, The Kenyon Review\, The Missouri Review\, and elsewhere. She also blogs for the San Francisco Chronicle. She has taught creative writing at the University of San Francisco\, California College of the Arts\, St. Mary’s College of Moraga\, and Bowling Green State University. She currently serves on the executive council of The Authors Guild.
NOTE\: This event has been filled to capacity and if you have not yet RSVp'd we will be unable to accommodate you. Sorry for the inconvenience. If you'd like to attend a similar event\, please check out Justin Kramon's workshop on Sunday\, September 12 - http\://www.booksandbooks.com/justin_kramon
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100912T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100912T143000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/kate_mcmullan URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/kate_mcmullan SUMMARY:Kate and Jim McMullan - I'm Big - Westhampton Beach DESCRIPTION:He's a great big sauropod. He's a whole lotta lizard. And he's . . . lost. Have you seen his herd? Help the big guy find his pals—before he becomes lunch for some hungry predators. Yikes! Kate and Jim McMullan’s I’m Big! (Blazer &\; Bray\, $16.99) is the perfect way for the whole family to celebrate Grandparents’ Day. This will be a Big Day for I’m Big! Kate and Jim have created some of your favorite picture books\, like I’m Dirty! and I Stink!\, and Kate has written scores of early readers books\, so kids can progress with stories they love.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100912T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100912T150000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/lane_smith URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/lane_smith SUMMARY:Lane Smith - It's a Book - Gables DESCRIPTION:It’s a Book. It’s a special book. It’s a special event. It’s a special book and a special event for the whole family! Meet Caldecott Honor winning author and illustrator Lane Smith for a special multimedia and interactive event for his amazing new book\, It’s a Book (Roaring Brook\, $12.99) . It’s about a monkey\, a mouse\, a jackass\, a book and our digital world. It’s thoughtful\, poignant and funny – with a mischievous little wink in its tone. It’s a book for our ever-changing age. And it’s a book for all ages. Lane Smith is the author and illustrator of the bestselling John\, Paul\, George &\; Ben and Madam President. He has also collaborated with Jon Scieszka on The True Story of the Three Little Pigs\, Math Curse\, and The Stinky Cheese Man\, for which he received a Caldecott Honor award. He has also illustrated books by Dr. Seuss\, Jack Prelutsky\, and Roald Dahl. And now there’s It’s a Book. Book-loving and/or tech savvy adults\, buy this book for yourselves. Parents\, buy this for your kids. Grandparents\, buy it for your kids AND your grandkids. Read it together\; laugh together. Celebrate Grandparents’ Day with an event sure to entertain kids of all ages – even the kids who are old enough to collect Social Security!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100912T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100912T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/justin_kramon URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/justin_kramon SUMMARY:Justin Kramon - Finny - Gables DESCRIPTION:Debut novelist Justin Kramon will conduct a workshop designed to provide resources for writers trying to publish their short stories\, find an agent\, or place a novel with a
publisher. It took an embarrassing number of attempts to find the publisher for his novel\, so he thought it might be helpful to other beginning writers to compile some of the resources he drew from to get Random House to take pity on him. While he was writing and selling his debut novel\, Finny (Random House\, $15)\, he often wished that all of this information were gathered in one place\, so he’s structured this seminar in order to convey concrete and specific information\, such as lists of agents and places to submit
fiction\, and will also share examples from his own successes
and failures in publishing\, such as the query letter he sent to his
current agent. Please feel free to bring questions about the publishing
process. 6pm
Playwright\, actor\, and professor Anna Deavere Smith\, hailed by Newsweek as “the most exciting individual in American theatre\,” will present “The Changing Landscape of Doctor-Patient Relationships”. Deavere Smith is University Professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts\, and is affiliated with the NYU School of Law. She has held appointments at Stanford and at the Yale School of Medicine. She was recently commissioned by the Stanford University Medical School to create a project on diversity in the medical school. She was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation “genius” Fellowship for creating “a new form of theatre — a blend of theatrical art\, social commentary\, journalism and intimate reverie.”
Smith has a recurring role on the Showtime series Nurse Jackie\, played National Security Advisor Nancy McNally on NBC’s The West Wing\, and has appeared in such films as Rachel Getting Married\, Philadelphia\, and The American President. She is perhaps best known as the author and performer of two one-woman plays about racial tensions in America — Fires in the Mirror (Obie Award-winner and runner-up for the Pulitzer) and Twilight\: Los Angeles 1992 (Obie-winner and Tony Award nominee). Interviewing subjects from all walks of life\, Smith recreates their words in performance\, transforming herself into an astonishing number of characters. Her latest book is Letters to a Young Artist\: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts (Doubleday\, $14.95). Registration is required for Professor Smith’s presentation. Tickets are free of charge. There will be advance registration for the UM Community from August 23rd to September 1st. Tickets will be available to the public beginning September 2nd. For further information and to register please visit http\://humanities.miami.edu/programs/lectures/anna-deavere-smith Event begins at 7pm.
Brian Lutz is the author of Knoll (Rizzoli\, $75.00) the first full monograph on the furniture of the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen
The history of Knoll is the history of modern design. Founded in 1938 by
Hans Knoll and joined by his wife\, Florence Knoll\, the company is
credited for bringing European modern design to America\, then nurturing
the best homegrown talents at mid-century to build the most successful
and prestigious high-end furniture company in the world. Throughout its
history Knoll has been at the forefront of cutting-edge and chic
design\, the first company to produce Mies van der Rohe’s and Marcel
Breuer’s tubular furniture for a receptive domestic market\, making
Bauhaus ideals a reality to an American audience. Knoll also leveraged
America’s newfound economic and cultural status after World War II by
commissioning now-iconic furniture pieces\, such as Eero Saarinen’s Tulip
chair and Harry Bertoia’s Wire chairs. More recently Knoll has produced
instant classics from Frank Gehry and Richard Meier. Equally
significant is Knoll’s pioneering foray into office planning\, which
resulted in Florence Knoll’s iconic furniture and later one of the first
office systems. Knoll also fully integrated graphic design into its
program\, with photography and advertising by masters such as Herbert
Matter and Massimo Vignelli. Comprehensive in narrative and scope\, this
monograph will be a classic in its own right with images and texts on
furniture\, furnishings\, systems\, graphics\, and unique insight into the
modern world that is Knoll.
Monthly Art table lecture and discussion. More information to come...
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100915T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100915T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/Lisa%20_Unger URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/Lisa%20_Unger SUMMARY:Lisa Unger – Fragile – Coral Gables DESCRIPTION:Despite their mostly happy marriage\, when their son Ricky's girlfriend vanishes\, Maggie and Jones find themselves at odds—Maggie is positive Ricky had nothing to do with Charlene's disappearance\, while Jones isn't as sure. With Charlene gone\, the memory of another young girl who went missing some twenty years ago is haunting the town. That story didn't have a happy ending\, and almost everyone has an unrevealed reason to keep the horror of it firmly in the past.
As Jones and the police turn their focus on Ricky\, Maggie must find out the truth about what happened all those years ago. In order to save her son and the young woman whose life hangs in the balance\, she'll test the bonds of her community—and find out just how fragile they can be. (Shaye Areheart Books\, $24)
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100915T223000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100915T223000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/robert_landori URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/robert_landori SUMMARY:Robert Landori - Havana Harvest - Gables DESCRIPTION:Robert Landori's Havana Harvest (Emerald Book Co.\, $15.95) follows the maneuvers of two adversarial intelligence services in their attempts to inflict maximum damage on each other as they move through a maze of high-tension suspense. In Cuba\, General Patricio Casas must decide whether to support the revolution he has defended for so many years or do what is good for his people and challenge the selfish authoritarianism of the Castroite regime.
Meanwhile\, CIA operative Robert Lonsdale is tasked with determining why a
captain in Fidel s army who recently arrived in Miami with a suitcase
full of money seeks U.S. protection from a Colombian drug cartel and the
Cuban secret police. Lonsdale is quickly drawn into a maelstrom of
intrigue and murder from which there seems to be no escape unless he can
convince General Casas to help. Apparently double-crossed by his
colleagues and a self-serving Agency director\, Lonsdale struggles on
alone in an attempt to outfox the shadowy tormentors who intend to
silence him forever.
Tess Livingston met Ian Ritter at a roadside stop high in the Andes\, waiting for a bus to the mysterious town of Esperanza.
Tess is an FBI agent who remembers being on the track of a group of international counterfeiters. But she doesn’t remember booking a trip to Esperanza. Ian is a journalist who was planning to vacation to the Galapagos Islands. He\, too\, isn’t quite sure why he has a ticket to Esperanza.
Their meeting will change their lives forever. For they have been brought together because they hold the key in a mystical war between the kind spirits of the dead who guard humanity\, and the hungry ghosts who exist only to possess living human bodies\, and return however briefly to life.
In the midst of this war\, Tess and Ian will find a love that can transcend time\, and a cause that not even death will overcome.
TRISH J. MACGREGOR is an astrologer and student of metaphysics. She was raised in Caracas\, Venezuela\, near the South American setting of Esperanza. She now lives in Florida\, where she writes the Sidney Omarr Day-By-Day Astrology Guides.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100915T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100915T230000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/venus_williams URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/venus_williams SUMMARY:Venus Williams - Come to Win - Bal Harbour Shops DESCRIPTION:AUTOGRAPHING ONLY\: Multiple grand slam tennis champion and entrepreneur\, Venus Williams and 46 of her colleagues\, friends\, and mentors deliver a volume of invaluable wisdom\, motivation\, and inspiration. Come to Win (Amistad\, $25.99) demonstrates how the principles of competitive athletics translate into business success. With contributions from a wide range of men and women who reached the very top of their games —including former CEO and bestselling author Jack Welch\, fashion designer Vera Wang\, actor Denzel Washington\, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — Venus Williams’ Come to Win is a book every aspiring professional\, coach\, and sports enthusiast should read.
You must purchase a copy of Come to Win from Books &\; Books to enter the signing line. Venus will only sign her book COME TO WIN\, not memorabilia. There is no limit on the number of books that she will sign. Venus will sign her name but will not have time to personalize. She will not pose for pictures\, but pictures can be taken from the line. Thanks for your cooperation.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100916T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100916T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/chenjerai_hove URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/chenjerai_hove SUMMARY:Chenjerai Hove - Blind Moon - Gables DESCRIPTION:In anticipation of Banned Books Week\, Miami City of Refuge writer-in-residence\, Chenjerai Hove will read entries from his book of poetry\, Blind Moon (Michigan State\, $22.95) \, and speak of his plight as a censored writer in Zimbabwe. Presented in collaboration with Florida Center for the Literary Arts. For more information about Hove visit http\://www.flcenterlitarts.com/mcor/index.htm.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100916T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100916T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/ashli_white URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/ashli_white SUMMARY:Ashli White - Encountering Revolution\: Haiti\, and the Making of the Early Republic- Gables DESCRIPTION:Encountering Revolution (John Hopkins University Press\, $63.25) looks afresh at the profound impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. The first book on the subject in more than two decades\, it redefines our understanding of the relationship between republicanism and slavery at a foundational moment in American history.
For postrevolutionary Americans\, the Haitian uprising laid bare the contradiction between democratic principles and the practice of slavery. For thirteen years\, between 1791 and 1804\, slaves and free people of color in Saint-Domingue battled for equal rights in the manner of the French Revolution. As white and mixed-race refugees escaped to the safety of U.S. cities\, Americans were forced to confront the paradox of being a slaveholding republic\, recognizing their own possible destiny in the predicament of the Haitian slaveholders.
Historian Ashli White examines the ways Americans -- black and white\, northern and southern\, Federalist and Democratic Republican\, pro- and antislavery -- pondered the implications of the Haitian Revolution.
Encountering Revolution convincingly situates the formation of the United States in a broader Atlantic context. It shows how the very presence of Saint-Dominguan refugees stirred in Americans as many questions about themselves as about the future of slaveholding\, stimulating some of the earliest debates about nationalism in the early republic.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100916T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100916T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/hannibal_travis URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/hannibal_travis SUMMARY:Hannibal Travis - Genocide in the Middle East - Gables DESCRIPTION:Hannibal Travis’ Genocide in the Middle East (Carolina Academic Press\, $70) describes the genocide of the Armenians\, Greeks\, and Assyrians of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\; of the Kurds and other persons living under Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq in the late 1980s\; and of the Dinka\, Nuba\, Fur\, Masalit\, and Zaghawa peoples of Sudan from the 1970s to the present. The field of genocide studies has grown rapidly in recent years\, fueled by interest in the Armenian genocide\, the wars in the former Yugoslavia and Iraq\, and the widespread massacres in southern Sudan and Darfur. While several comparative studies of the Armenian genocide\, the Holocaust\, and other genocides have been published\, none of them focuses on genocide in the Middle East and North Africa since the nineteenth century. This book provides a comprehensive history of genocide in the broader Islamic world\, with a particular focus on the twentieth century. It is of interest to general readers\, undergraduates\, graduate students\, academics\, journalists\, and legal professionals\, and will be useful as a text for courses on International Law\, International Criminal Law\, Law and Religion\, Middle East Studies\, International Relations\, Public Policy\, Criminal Justice\, or World History. Presented in collaboration with School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. 6pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100917T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100917T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/susanna_daniel URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/susanna_daniel SUMMARY:Susanna Daniel - Stiltsville - Gables DESCRIPTION: One sunny morning in 1969\, near the end of her first trip to Miami\,
twenty-six-year-old Frances Ellerby finds herself in a place called
Stiltsville\, a community of houses built on pilings in the middle of
Biscayne Bay.
It's the first time the Atlanta native has been out on the open
water\, and she's captivated. On the dock of a stilt house\, with the
dazzling skyline in the distance and the unknowable ocean beneath her\,
she meets the house's owner\, Dennis DuVal—and a new future reveals
itself.
Turning away from her quiet\, predictable life back home\, Frances
moves to Miami to be with Dennis. Over time\, she earns the confidence of
his wild-at-heart sister and wins the approval of his oldest friend.
Frances and Dennis marry and have a child—but rather than growing
complacent about their good fortune\, they continue to face the
challenges of intimacy and the complicated city they call home.
Stiltsville is the family's island oasis—until suddenly it's gone\,
and Frances is forced to figure out how to make her family work on dry
land. Against a backdrop of lush tropical beauty\, Frances and Dennis
struggle with the mutability of love and Florida's weather\, as well as
temptation\, chaos\, and disappointment. But just when Frances thinks
she's reached some semblance of higher ground\, she must confront an
obstacle so great that even the lessons she's learned about navigating
the uncharted waters of family life can't keep them afloat.
With Stiltsville (Harper\, $24.99)\, Susanna Daniel weaves the beauty\, violence\,
and humanity of Miami's coming-of-age with an enduring story of a
marriage's beginning\, maturity\, and heartbreaking demise
The acclaimed author of Remainder\, which Zadie Smith hailed as “one of the great English novels of the past ten years\,”gives us his most spectacularly inventive novel yet.
Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century\, C (Knopf\, $26.95) is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax\, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister\, Sophie\: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world.
After a fling with a nurse at a Bohemian spa\, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator for reconnaissance planes. When his plane is shot down\, Serge is taken to a German prison camp\, from which he escapes. Back in London\, he’s recruited for a mission to Cairo on behalf of the shadowy Empire Wireless Chain. All of which eventually carries Serge to a fitful—and perhaps fateful—climax at the bottom of an Egyptian tomb . . .
Only a writer like Tom McCarthy could pull off a story with this effortless historical breadth\, psychological insight\, and postmodern originality. He is known in the art world for the reports\, manifestos\, and media interventions he has made as General Secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS)\, a semi-fictitious avant-garde network. His previous books are Remainder and Tintin and the Secret of Literature.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100918T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100918T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/EdwardJ._Neyra URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/EdwardJ._Neyra SUMMARY:Edward J. Neyra – Cuba\: Lost and Found - Gables DESCRIPTION:In 1962\, eleven-year-old Eduardo Neyra fled Cuba without his parents as part of the clandestine Operation Pedro Pan\, an underground network that helped airlift over 14\,000 Cuban children to safety in the United States. Suddenly a foreigner thrust into a new world and faced with new customs and a new language\, it would be years before Ed saw his mother and father again. Cuba Lost and Found (Clerisy Press\, $24) is a moving and insightful true-life narrative capturing the political and cultural upheaval before and after Castro’s Revolution\, from Ed’s carefree early years on the white sand of Varadero Beach\, through his struggles to find a place in his new country\, to his hard-won achievement of the American Dream. At the heart of this life is a powerful Horatio Alger story but also a soul-seeking journey of personal identity.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100918T233000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100918T233000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/nicholas_sparks URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/nicholas_sparks SUMMARY:Nicholas Sparks - Safe Haven - Gables DESCRIPTION:AUTOGRAPHING ONLY\: Bestselling author Nicholas Sparks brings his special story-telling touch to Books &\; Books with his brand new book\, Safe Haven (Grand Central Publishing\, $25.99). When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport\, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing\, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships\: one with Alex\, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children\; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor\, Jo. Despite her reservations\, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard\, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family. But even as Katie begins to fall in love\, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past that set her on a fearful\, shattering journey across the country\, to the sheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo's empathic and stubborn support\, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and that in the darkest hour\, love is the only true safe haven. Presented in collaboration with Florida Center for the Literary Arts. Signing Guidelines\: You must purchase a copy of Safe Haven from Books &\; Books to enter the signing line. 7\:30pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100919T163000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100919T163000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/mahalia_solages URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/mahalia_solages SUMMARY:Mahalia Solages - What Morning is This? - Bal Harbour Shops DESCRIPTION:Sunday Story Time with author Mahalia Solages\: Do you ever feel frazzled trying to get out of the door in the morning? Do you question how your children must feel\, too? What Morning Is This? ($10) explores the hurried pace of today’s world from the child’s point of view. Sessie\, the witty\, spunky 5 year old in the family describes all the mayhem and chaos as Mama Sabina and Papa Lionel Lyon attempt to get everyone ready for school and work. Parents and children ages 2-6 will love the hustle and bustle of activity that comes to life on every page. 12\:30pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100919T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100919T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/fiu_writing URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/fiu_writing SUMMARY:FIU Creative Writing Program - Gables DESCRIPTION:Join us for the annual celebration of the FIU Creative Writing Program\, with readings by newly published alums and future literary lights. Featured are Patricia Engel\, Angela Kelsey\, Jeff Ronci\, and Laura Richardson. Reception and book signing to follow.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100920T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100920T230000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/venus_williams1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/venus_williams1 SUMMARY:POSTPONED -- Venus Williams - Come to Win - Grand Cayman DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, Venus Williams has to postpone her visit to Grand Cayman. We hope to have word of her new event date soon. We'll let you know as soon as it is scheduled. Thank you for your understanding -- and support.
AUTOGRAPHING ONLY\: Multiple grand slam tennis champion and entrepreneur\, Venus Williams and 46 of her colleagues\, friends\, and mentors deliver a volume of invaluable wisdom\, motivation\, and inspiration. Come to Win (Amistad\, $25.99) demonstrates how the principles of competitive athletics translate into business success. With contributions from a wide range of men and women who reached the very top of their games —including former CEO and bestselling author Jack Welch\, fashion designer Vera Wang\, actor Denzel Washington\, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — Venus Williams’ Come to Win is a book every aspiring professional\, coach\, and sports enthusiast should read. You must purchase a copy of Come to Win from Books &\; Books to enter the signing line. 7pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100920T233000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100920T233000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/susanna_daniel1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/susanna_daniel1 SUMMARY:Susanna Daniel - Stiltsville - Bal Harbour Shops DESCRIPTION:Join Miami native Susanna Daniel for the Stiltsville Soiree – a Book Club Mini Mixer event in honor of Daniel’s acclaimed debut novel\, Stiltsville (Harper\, $24.99). Daniel has written a rich story\, full of vivid characters and those spot-on details that make people and places come alive\, especially so here in Miami as her story charts the course of our town’s maturation\, along with that of main characters Frances and Dennis and their marriage. There are the still waters of daily life and the ferocious winds of Hurricane Andrew. Stiltsville is the sort of book that book clubs really sink their teeth into – full of the small details that have huge impact. And along with great discussion with Susanna about the Stiltsville and writing and reading\, there will be free Galley Giveaways of other worthy books\, true book club literature\, great reads. Plus tasty treats from The Newsstand by Books &\; Books – now INSIDE our Bal Harbour Shops bookstore. So\, bring your book club or bring yourself to our Stiltsville Soiree. We’ll see you there. 7\:30pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100921T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100921T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/Mark_Mustian URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/Mark_Mustian SUMMARY:Mark Mustian – The Gendarme - Gables DESCRIPTION:What would you do if the love of your life\, and all your memories\, were lost – only to reappear – but with such shocking revelations that you wish you had never remembered? Mark Mustian has written a remarkable novel about the power of memory-and the ability of people\, individually and collectively\, to forget in The Gendarme (Putnam\, $25.95) . Emmett Conn is an old man\, near the end of his life. A World War I veteran\, he's been affected by memory loss since being injured during the war. In Emmett's dreams he's a gendarme\, escorting Armenians from Turkey. A young woman among them\, Araxie\, captivates and enthralls him. But then the trek ends\, the war separates them. He is injured. Seven decades later\, as his grasp on the boundaries between past and present begins to break down\, Emmett sets out on a final journey\, to find Araxie and beg her forgiveness. Depicting how love can transcend nationalities\, politics\, and religion\, how racism creates divisions where none truly exist\, and how the human spirit fights to survive even in the face of hopelessness\, is a transcendent novel. Presented in collaboration with the Florida Psychoanalytic Society. 8pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100921T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100921T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/heather_brewer URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/heather_brewer SUMMARY:Heather Brewer - The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod\: Twelfth Grade Kills - Gables DESCRIPTION:Has September 21 been declared an official Minion Holiday? Heather Brewer’s brand new book in her to-die-for Vladimir Tod series comes out on September 21. And her birthday (!) is September 21. So\, Heather knew there was only one place she wanted to be on September 21\: That’s right – Books &\; Books! Come one Minion\, come Minion Hordes – celebrate all the fabulousness that is Heather with a Birthday(s) Bash for The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod\: Twelfth Grade Kills (Dutton\, $16.99) AND for Heather herself. Party up without LIVE MUSIC from Courtesy of Paco and yummy birthday cake and prizes\, too. There’s no better way to sink your teeth into the blood-chilling\, darkly humorous final book in the New York Times bestselling series. Vladimir Tod has spent the last four years trying to handle the pressures of high school while sidestepping a slayer out for his blood. Now he’s a senior\, and it looks like things have gotten even suckier. The Elysian Council has given him weeks to live\, and that’s if the Slayer Society doesn’t kill him and all the citizens of Bathory first. Then there’s the issue of Vlad’s father\, who may (or may not) still be alive after all these years. And oh yeah\, that tiny little detail in the Pravus prophecy about Vlad enslaving Vampirekind and the human race. Oh\, that. Hear all about it on the book’s birthday from the birthday author herself. Sounds like a party even Vlad himself might enjoy! 6pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100922T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100922T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/patricia_engel URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/patricia_engel SUMMARY:Patricia Engel - Vida - Gables DESCRIPTION:In Patricia Engel's Vida (Grove Press\, Black Cat\, $14.00) Sabina navigates her shifting identity as a daughter of the Colombian diaspora and struggles to find her place within and beyond the net of her strong\, protective\, but embattled family.
“Between the pop culture and politics of our time\, we have become accustomed to language that does not clarify\, but clouds. This is why Patricia Engel’s work\, with its taut focus\, its pained illumination\, is so important. In Vida\, as much as we come to know her narrator\, Sabina\, we come to know more fully the inside of our own hearts.”—Asha Bandele\, author of The Prisoner’s Wife
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100923T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100923T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/diana_kennedy URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/diana_kennedy SUMMARY:Diana Kennedy - Oaxaca al Gusto - Gables DESCRIPTION:No one has done more to introduce the world to the authentic\, flavorful cuisines of Mexico than Diana Kennedy. Acclaimed as the Julia Child of Mexican cooking\, Kennedy has been an intrepid\, indefatigable student of Mexican foodways for more than fifty years and has published several classic books on the subject\, including The Cuisines of Mexico (now available in The Essential Cuisines of Mexico\, a compilation of her first three books)\, The Art of Mexican Cooking\, My Mexico\, and From My Mexican Kitchen. Her uncompromising insistence on using the proper local ingredients and preparation techniques has taught generations of cooks how to prepare--and savor--the delicious\, subtle\, and varied tastes of Mexico.
In Oaxaca al Gusto\, Kennedy takes us on an amazing journey into one of the most outstanding and colorful cuisines in the world. The state of Oaxaca is one of the most diverse in Mexico\, with many different cultural and linguistic groups\, often living in areas difficult to access. Each group has its own distinctive cuisine\, and Diana Kennedy has spent many years traveling the length and breadth of Oaxaca to record in words and photographs "\;these little-known foods\, both wild and cultivated\, the way they were prepared\, and the part they play in the daily or festive life of the communities I visited."\; Oaxaca al Gusto is the fruit of these labors--and the culmination of Diana Kennedy's life's work.
Organized by regions\, Oaxaca al Gusto presents some three hundred recipes--most from home cooks--for traditional Oaxacan dishes. Kennedy accompanies each recipe with fascinating notes about the ingredients\, cooking techniques\, and the food's place in family and communal life. Lovely color photographs illustrate the food and its preparation. A special feature of the book is a chapter devoted to the three pillars of the Oaxacan regional cuisines--chocolate\, corn\, and chiles. Notes to the cook\, a glossary\, a bibliography\, and an index complete the volume.
An irreplaceable record of the infinite world of Oaxacan gastronomy\, Oaxaca al Gusto belongs on the shelf of everyone who treasures the world's traditional regional cuisines.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100923T223000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100923T223000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/doncha_freeman URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/doncha_freeman SUMMARY:Doncha Freeman - HEADS\: A Neurosurgeon's Memoir - Gables DESCRIPTION:In HEADS\: A Neurosurgeon's Memoir (Booksurge\, $13.99)\, Doncha Freeman tells the story of several rather spectacular years in the life of world-class neurosurgeon\, Bernard R. Lerner. An iconoclast to the core\, a product of a liberal generation\, Lerner’s surgical skills are in full bloom when his carefully constructed world crashes around him in the decade of decadence\, the 1980s. Encouraged by the FBI\, Lerner becomes involved in an undercover sting. Obsessed as he is with saving lives\, the good doctor chooses to continue “cutting.” He is indicted on suspicious drug felony charges and then sentenced to three and a half years in a Federal Prison Camp. We get an in depth look at the daily life of those inside the federal prison system\, housing white-collar felons\, who become Lerner’s friends and patients. After more than a year of incarceration\, Lerner is released because of an “error” in his legal papers. Running from the top of his game to the depths of despair\, and through an atypical and passionate love story\, comes Bernard Lerner’s tale. 6\:30pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100925T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100925T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/carolina_garcia-aguilera URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/carolina_garcia-aguilera SUMMARY:Carolina Garcia-Aguilera - Bloody Twist - Gables DESCRIPTION:Carolina Garcia-Aguilera is a unique figure in the mystery-writing world. In addition to being an award-winning author\, Garcia-Aguilera has taken on the roles of private investigator\, historical researcher\, wife and mother\, and invested each with her own indomitable spirit and infectious enthusiasm. She is the Cuban-born author of the popular Lupe Solano Series (three murders per book or your money back)\, featuring Lupe Solano\, a wealthy\, sultry and quick-witted Cuban-American private investigator who lives and works in Miami. Now\, Garcia-Aguilera returns with Bloody Twist (Miramar Publishing\, $12.95)\, her highly-anticipated new book in the series\, the first since Bitter Sugar was published in 2001. Bloody Twist draws readers into a fast-paced race against time with Lupe\, as she finds herself conducting two investigations\: figuring out who murdered three men\; and discovering the "\;real"\; Madeline Marie Meadows. Along the way\, Lupe has to contend with Ms. Meadow’s killer Chihuahuas\, Napoleon and Josephine\, as well as the Loredo twins\, Ms. Meadows’ pimps and marketing geniuses who thought up the hook of labeling her as "\;Miami’s highest paid call girl who is a virgin."\; Lupe enlists the help of her friend\, Sweet Suzanne\, the well-known Miami madam\, and Nestor\, the crack investigator\, to achieve that goal. Bloody Twist's cast of colorful characters\, exotic action and masterful story-telling is quintessential Garcia-Aguilera. It is an irresistible page-turner\, teeming with unforgettable characters. Her loyal readers may have waited many years for this book\, but surely they will agree that it was well worth the wait. 8pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100925T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100925T150000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/curiousity_day URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/curiousity_day SUMMARY:Curiosity Day - Gables DESCRIPTION:CURIOSITY DAY\: In honor of the birthday of H. A. Rey\, the creator of the beloved children's book icon Curious George\, Books &\; Books is having a Curiosity Day party. Meet Curious George himself! Come for the special Curious George Story Time. And join us as the Miami Children’s Museum leads games and activities designed to bring out the curious nature in your little ones. Free tickets required and available at our Coral Gables store. Each family needs just one ticket. There will be two sessions so we can accommodate all Curious Kids\: Session I at 10am and Session II at 11am. (Activities are the same at both sessions.)
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100925T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100925T230000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/Lip_Service2 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/Lip_Service2 SUMMARY:Lip Service - Gables DESCRIPTION:Lip Service is true stories out loud. Every Quarter Books &\; Books in Coral Gables hosts the most popular literary event in Miami. Eight people\, eight stories\, eight minutes each. The stories are hilarious\, heartbreaking\, poignant\, embarrassing\, inspiring\, and all true.
Lip Service lets you become a voyeur. It's like reading a person's diary\, or better\, having that person read his or her diary to you. Lip Service is a mix of theater and literature. The stories are editied and rehearsed\, but you never really know what you're going to get until you get it. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll cringe. And you are guaranteed to feel inspired to tell your own story. Come early- It's standing room only!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100926T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100926T180000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/pam_voelkel URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/pam_voelkel SUMMARY:Jon and Pam Voelkel - Middle World - Gables DESCRIPTION:In Jon and Pam Voelkel's Middle World (EgmontUSA\, $8.99)\, fourteen-year-old Max Murphy is looking forward to a family vacation. But his parents\, both archaeologists and Maya experts\, announce a change in plan. They must leave immediately for a dig in the tiny Central American country of San Xavier. Max will go to summer camp. Max is furious. When he's mysteriously summoned to San Xavier\, he thinks they've had a change of heart.
Upon his arrival\, Max's wild adventure in the tropical rainforests of San Xavier begins. During his journey\, he will unlock ancient secrets and meet strangers who are connected to him in ways he could never have imagined. For fate has delivered a challenge of epic proportions to this pampered teenager. Can Max rescue his parents from the Maya Underworld and save the world from the Lords of Death\, who now control the power of the Jaguar Stones in their villainous hands? The scene is set for a roller-coaster ride of suspense and terror\, as the good guys and the bad guys face off against a background of haunted temples\, zombie armies\, and even human sacrifice!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100927T223000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100927T223000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/jean-christophe_voltat URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/jean-christophe_voltat SUMMARY:Jean-Christophe Valtat - Aurorarama - Gables DESCRIPTION:A startling\, seductive literary novel that entwines suspense\,
science fiction\, adventure\, romance and history into an intoxicating new
genre.
1908\: New Venice--"\;the pearl of the Arctic"\;--a place
of ice palaces and pneumatic tubes\, of beautifully ornate carriage-sleds
and elegant victorian garb\, of long nights and vistas of ice.
But as the city prepares for spring\, it feels more like qaartsiluni\,
"\;the time when something is about to explode in the dark."\; Local
"\;poletics"\; are wracked by tensions with the Eskimos circling the city\,
with suffragette riots led by an underground music star\, with drug
round-ups by the secret police force known as the Gentlemen of the
Night. An ominous black airship hovers over the city\, and the Gentlemen
are hunting for the author of a radical pamphlet calling for revolt.
Their lead suspect is Brentford Orsini\, one of the city's most
prominent figures. But as the Gentlemen of the Night tighten the net
around him\, Orsini receives a mysterious message from a long-lost love
that compels him to act.
What transpires is a literary adventure novel unlike anything you've
ever read before. Brilliant in its conception\, masterful in its prose\,
thrilling in its plot twists\, and laced with humor\, suspense\, and
intelligence\, it marks the beginning of a great new series of books set
in New Venice-and the launch of an astonishing new writer. Jean-Christophe Valtat Aurorarama (Melville House\, $25.95).
An enraged man abducts his estranged wife and child\, holes up in a secluded mountain cabin\, threatening to kill them both. A right wing survivalist amasses a cache of weapons and resists calls to surrender. A drug trafficker barricades himself and his family in a railroad car\, and begins shooting. A cult leader in Waco\, Texas faces the FBI in an armed stand-off that leaves many dead in a fiery blaze. A sniper\, claiming to be God\, terrorizes the DC metropolitan area. For most of us\, these are events we hear about on the news. For Gary Noesner\, head of the FBI’s groundbreaking Crisis Negotiation Unit\, it was just another day on the job.
In Stalling for Time (Random House\, $26.00)\, Noesner takes readers on a heart-pounding tour through many of the most famous hostage crises of the past thirty years. Specially trained in non-violent confrontation and communication techniques\, Noesner’s unit successfully defused many potentially volatile standoffs\, but perhaps their most hard-won victory was earning the recognition and respect of their law enforcement peers.
Noesner pursued his dream of joining the FBI all the way to Quantico\, where he not only became a Special Agent\, but also—in the course of a distinguished thirty-year career—the FBI’s Chief Negotiator. Gaining respect for the fledgling art of crisis negotiation in the hard-boiled culture of The Bureau\, where the shadow of J. Edgar Hoover still loomed large\, was an uphill battle\, educating FBI and law enforcement leaders on the job at an incident\, and advocating the use of psychology rather than force whenever possible. Noesner’s many bloodless victories rarely garnered as much media attention as the notorious incident management blunders like the Branch Davidian disaster in Waco and the Ruby Ridge tragedy.
Noesner offers a candid as well as fascinating look back at his years as a rebel in the ranks and a pioneer on the front lines. Whether vividly recounting showdowns with the radical Republic of Texas militia\, the terrorist hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro\, and self-styled messiah David Koresh\, or clashes with colleagues and superiors that expose the internal politics and power-plays of America’s premier law enforcement agency\, Stalling for Time crackles with breathtaking suspense and insight in equal measure. Case by case\, minute by minute\, it’s a behind the scenes view of a visionary crime-fighter in action.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T223000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T223000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/jennifer_fosberry URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/jennifer_fosberry SUMMARY:Jennifer Fosberry - My Name is not Isabella - Bal Harbour Shops DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Fosberry visits with her book My Name is Not Isabella\: (Sourcebooks\, $16.99) a colorful story about little Isabella’s exploration of the groundbreaking women who changed the world. Learn about strength and science\, history and honor\, and the importance of being yourself through the accomplishments of women such as Sally Ride\, Annie Oakley\, Rosa Parks\, Marie Curie\, and Elizabeth Blackwell. Presented in collaboration with Arts for Learning and our Wonders of Teaching series. 6\:30pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100928T230000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/jose_figueroa URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/jose_figueroa SUMMARY:Jose Figueroa and Cristina Vives - Miami Beach at Design Within Reach DESCRIPTION:Join us for the multimedia and bilingual evening with acclaimed Cuban photographers Jose Figueroa and Cristina Vives at our neighbors\, Design Within Reach. Making his first visit to the United States in nine years\, Jose Figueroa brings us Jose A. Figueroa\: A Cuban Self-Portrait\, edited by Cristina Vives. For more than four decades\, Jose Figueroa (born 1946) has chronicled his nation's trials. Too young to have seen the Revolution\, Figueroa belongs to a generation that was\, nonetheless\, old enough to witness this seismic shift in his nation's infrastructure. A Cuban Self-Portrait describes Cuba's singular character. Its 380 photographs provide an unique glimpse for Cubans inside and aboard. Cristina Vives' new work is Belkis Ayon\: Nkame. This catalogue raisonne provides a complete account of the life and work of Cuban artist Belkis Ayon (1967-1999). Working through the worst years of Cuba's post-Soviet economic crisis\, Ayon developed her engraving and serigraph technique using collaged paper\, and mined Afro-Cuban religious traditions to create an independent and powerful visual iconography. The Abakua religion and secret society were a source of great inspiration for Ayon\, and "\;Nkame"\; -- a word of praise and salutation in the Abakua language\, pays tribute to an artist whose death left behind a message of life.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100929T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100929T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/rafael_cerruto URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/rafael_cerruto SUMMARY:Rafael Cerruto - Desde En El corazón de Irán - Gables DESCRIPTION:This event is in Spanish\: Rafael Cerrato es un escritor español\, nacido en Córdoba\, que vive actualmente en Barcelona. Cursó estudios universitarios para luego dedicarse al ensayo histórico y la literatura. Ediciones Dédalo le propuso editar su primer obra “Carta a Fernando Sánchez Dragó”\, texto que tuvo el reconocimiento del propio Sánchez Dragó. A partir de entonces\, ha publicado “Lepanto\: la batalla inacabada\,” donde aborda la famosa batalla y sus consecuencias. Mas tarde\, “El imperio perdido de los Jázaros\: De Córdoba a Jazaria pasando por Jerusalem”\, relato novelado de la historia de este imperio judío. Esta noche\, nos hablará sobre su nuevo libro\, Desde el Corazón de Irán\, que enfoca nuevamente el tema histórico-religioso\, en relación con la Fe Bahai\, los derechos humanos y la libertad de culto. También participarán los periodistas Adriana Bianco y Jorge José Rodríguez\, y del vicepresidente del Comité Judío-Americano\, Juan Dircie. Se expondrán distintos aspectos de la obra\, de la Fe Bahaí y de los derechos humanos. El doctor iraní Jean Samimy dará su testimonio directo\, traducido por el Prof. Gilberto Grasselly. 8pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100929T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100929T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/hermann_beck URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/hermann_beck SUMMARY:Hermann Beck - The Fateful Alliance - Gables DESCRIPTION:On 30 January 1933\, Alfred Hugenberg's conservative German National People's Party (DNVP) formed a coalition government with the Nazi Party\, thus enabling Hitler to accede to the chancellorship. Hermann Beck's The Fateful Alliance (Berghahn Books\, $34.44) analyzes in detail the complicated relationship between Conservatives and Nazis and offers a re-interpretation of the Nazi seizure of power - the decisive months between 30 January and 14 July 1933. The Machtergreifung is characterized here as a period of all-pervasive violence and lawlessness with incessant conflicts between Nazis and German Nationals and Nazi attacks on the conservative Burgertum\, a far cry from the traditional depiction of the takeover as a relatively bloodless\, virtually sterile assumption of power by one vast impersonal apparatus wresting control from another. The author scrutinizes the revolutionary character of the Nazi seizure of power\, the Nazis' attacks on the conservative Burgertum and its values\, and National Socialism's co-optation of conservative symbols of state power to serve radically new goals\, while addressing the issue of why the DNVP was complicit in this and paradoxically participated in eroding the foundations of its very own principles and bases of support.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100930T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100930T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/robert-straley URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/robert-straley SUMMARY:Robert Straley - The Boys of the Dark - Gables DESCRIPTION:A story that garnered national attention\, this is the harrowing tale of two men who suffered abuses at a reform school in Florida in the 1950s and 60s\, and who banded together fifty years later to confront their attackers.
Michael O’McCarthy and Robert W. Straley were teens when they were termed “incorrigible youth” by authorities and ordered to attend the Florida School for Boys. They discovered in Marianna\, the “City of Southern Charm\,” an immaculately groomed campus that looked more like an idyllic university than a reform school. But hidden behind the gates of the Florida School for Boys was a hell unlike any they could have imagined. The school’s guards and administrators acted as their jailers and tormentors. The boys allegedly bore witness to assault\, rape\, and possibly even murder.
For fifty years\, both men---and countless others like them---carried their torment in silence. But a series of unlikely events brought O’McCarthy\, now a successful rights activist\, and Straley together\, and they became determined to expose the Florida School for Boys for what they believed it to be\: a youth prison with a century-long history of abuse. They embarked upon a campaign that would change their lives and inspire others.
Robin Gaby Fisher\, a Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist and author of the New York Times bestselling After the Fire\, collaborates with Straley and O’McCarthy to offer a riveting account of their harrowing ordeal. The Boys of the Dark goes beyond the story of the two men to expose the truth about a century-old institution and a town that adopted a Nuremberg-like code of secrecy and a government that failed to address its own wrongdoing. What emerges is a tale of strength\, resolve\, and vindication in the face of the kinds of terror few can imagine.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100930T223000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100930T223000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/Heidi_Durrow URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/Heidi_Durrow SUMMARY:Heidi Durrow – The Girl Who Fell from the Sky – Gables DESCRIPTION:Heidi Durrow's debut novel The Girl who Fell From the Sky tells the story of Rachel\, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I.\, who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy.
With her strict African American grandmother as her new guardian\, Rachel moves to a mostly black community\, where her light brown skin\, blue eyes\, and beauty bring mixed attention her way. Growing up in the 1980s\, she learns to swallow her overwhelming grief and confronts her identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.
Meanwhile\, a mystery unfolds\, revealing the terrible truth about Rachel's last morning on a Chicago rooftop. Interwoven are the voices of Jamie\, a neighborhood boy who witnessed the events\, and Laronne\, a friend of Rachel's mother. Inspired by a true story of a mother's twisted love\, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky reveals an unfathomable past and explores issues of identity at a time when many people are asking "\;Must race confine us and define us?"\;
In the tradition of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John\,Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sandra Cisneros' House on Mango Street\, here is a portrait of a young girl—and society's ideas of race\, class\, and beauty.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101001T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101001T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/ricardo_pau-llosa URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/ricardo_pau-llosa SUMMARY:Ricardo Pau-Llosa - Art and the Diasporic Imagination - Gables DESCRIPTION:For over three and a half decades\, Ricardo Pau-Llosa has been a prominent figure in the literary and visual arts of South Florida. An internationally recognized authority on Latin American Modernist art\, Pau-Llosa has attained equal prominence as a poet and essayist. And he has also been collecting art. The University of Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art is featuring a major exhibition this fall – Parallel Currents\: Highlights of the Ricardo Pau-Llosa Collection of Latin American Art (Aug. 29-Nov. 14). Pau-Llosa will be signing copies of the superbly designed and printed\, full-color book accompanying the exhibition\, Parallel Currents which includes a penetrating essay\, “Art and the Diasporic Imagination” (published with facing-page translation into Spanish)\, in which Pau-Llosa discusses the emergence of the Latin American art scene in Miami\, the role art played in his exile family’s struggles to establish themselves in America\, and the development of his original critical model for the interpretation of the region’s art. Also being presented this evening is the just released book\, The Miami of the Poet (Maker’s Press)\, with a selection of Pau-Llosa’s South Florida-inspired works alongside photographs by James Gersing. 8pm
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101001T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T020000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/gallery_night1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/gallery_night1 SUMMARY:Gallery Night - Gables DESCRIPTION:More information to come...
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/nina_romano URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/nina_romano SUMMARY:Nina Romano\, Vicki Hendricks and Pat MacEnulty - Joint Reading - Gables DESCRIPTION:More information to come...
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T180000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/stuart_woods URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/stuart_woods SUMMARY:Stuart Woods - Santa Fe Edge - Gables DESCRIPTION:If you run into trouble in Santa Fe\, Ed Eagle is the man to see.
In Stuart Woods' Santa Fe Edge (Putnam\, $25.95)\, Ed Eagle\, the six-feet-six\, take-no-prisoners Santa Fe attorney\, has recovered from his encounters with Mexican organized crime and-more treacherously-his ex-wife\, Barbara. Now a mysterious new client has come his way\, one who may shed light into some dark corners of Ed's past...and put him in danger once more.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101002T230000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/eunice_tate URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/eunice_tate SUMMARY:Eunice Tate - When God Wasn't looking - Gables DESCRIPTION:
AS A LITTLE GIRL\, Sydnee Price was left in the care of a couple in Jamaica by her mother\, just “for a little while.” Molested by her guardian\, betrayed by the church\, and reviled by the women in the district\, she flees to America\, buries her secrets and keeps her heart sealed tight.
But she discovers that freedom does not give her the peace she sought because ghosts continue to resurface. To reclaim her true self and silence the ghosts of the past\, Sydnee must return to Jamaica\, where it all began\, admit her deepest shame\, and face the child she abandoned. She was not prepared for what was to come.
Sunshine Brown\, Sydnee’s hidden daughter\, believes that there are no mistakes in life\; so when Sydnee arrives in Jamaica searching for her\, she confronts her own dark feelings and draws upon her faith for strength—a faith of which her mother wants no part. Sunshine is the one person who can help Sydnee find redemption. In order to do so\, though\, Sydnee must confront the ghost of her past and be willing to love again. She has to learn to believe once more in the only One who can give her true peace—God.
Written with fresh\, powerful language\, Eunice Tate's When God Wasn’t Looking tells a story of brokenness\, of the baggage of the human heart\, and of finding the way to redemption and healing.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101003T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101003T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/fred_frohock URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/fred_frohock SUMMARY:Fred Frohock - Beyond\: On Life After Death - Gables DESCRIPTION:Fred M. Frohock is the author of eleven books and numerous articles in scholarly journals. His latest book\, Beyond\: On Life After Death (University Press of Kansas\, 2010)\, critically scans the evidence for life after death\, a study that supports a variation on the thesis that evidence underdetermines theory\, or\, roughly put\, that rival theories can be consistent with the same data set and rank ordered only by relying on background considerations.
Professor Frohock's work often combines theory and field work. Special Care (1986) is an ethnographic account of decision-making in an intensive care neonatal nursery\, while Healing Powers (1992) studies alternative medicine and spiritual healing. Both were published by the U. of Chicago Press\, as was Lives of the Psychics (2000)\, an examination of anomalous and mystical experiences. Public Reason\: Mediated Authority in the Liberal State (Cornell U. Press\, 1999) delineates public reasoning on post-Wittgenstein theories of language. Bounded Divinities\: Sacred Discourses in Pluralist Democracies (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2006) is a treatment of religion and politics that uses Santería as a case study in a theoretical examination of the two practices.
Prof. Frohock earned his Ph.D. in Political Science and Philosophy at the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Twice a Social Science Research Council Fellow\, he is currently professor and chair of political science at the University of Miami\, with academic concentrations in political philosophy\, law\, and bioethics.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101004T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101004T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/sierra_michaels URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/sierra_michaels SUMMARY:Sierra Michaels - Intimate Encounters - Gables DESCRIPTION:Intimate Encounters (by Sierra Michaels) is a humorous and occasionally serious account of the inner workings of the sensual massage business and the unique and sometimes pathological characters that work at and visit the apartment\, as well as Cali’s life and struggles as a graduate student in doubt about her chosen field and her future.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101005T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101005T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/edwin_goldbergrabbi URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/edwin_goldbergrabbi SUMMARY:Rabbi Edwin Goldberg - Love Tales from the Talmud - Gables DESCRIPTION:Many people see the Talmud as nothing more than a dry compendium of
legal opinions\, but in fact the Talmud represents a rich repository of
literature encompassing all aspects of the world of the great Rabbinic
Sages. Rabbi Edwin Goldberg\, author of Swords and Plowshares\: Jewish
Views of War and Peace and Heads and Tales\: Stories of the Sages to
Enlighten Our Minds\, presents a window into this world in Love Tales
from the Talmud. Featuring original texts\, translations\, commentary\, and
study questions\, this accessible introduction to the study of Rabbinic
literature explores classic Jewish wisdom on love and relationships.
The Hurricane Murders (Eloquent Books\, $14.50) written by David Holmberg.
A reporter in Florida\, Jake Arnett\, covers the baffling murder of a mother and daughter seeking a new life - a story that requires every ounce of investigative skill\, commitment\, and compassion he can muster. Arnett works against a backdrop of decline and despair in print journalism that jeopardizes the newspaper he works for\, and the life and career of his closest friend.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101006T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101006T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/craig_pittman URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/craig_pittman SUMMARY:Craig Pittman - Manatee Insanity - Gables DESCRIPTION:Why is the manatee just as imperiled today as it was 40 years ago?
Loveable or loathed? Poster child for conservation efforts or impediment
to development? Nuisance or in need of protection? For the past two
decades\, the quiet manatee has been a flash point of frequent
environmental debates. Included on the very first endangered species
list issued in 1967\, the docile creatures have stirred curiosity and
passions for more than a hundred years. They are Florida's most famous
endangered species\, as well as its most controversial. Manatees appear
on hundreds of license plates\, attract hordes of tourists\, and expose
the uneasy relationships between science and the law and between freedom
and responsibility like no other animal. As passions have flared and
resentments have grown\, the battle over manatee protection has evolved
into a war\, and no reporter has followed the story more closely than
Craig Pittman. He's flown with scientists trying to count manatees from
overhead. He's been on the water with the leader of the biggest
pro-boater group. He's observed biologists dissecting the animals and
politicians discussing their fate. Manatee Insanity provides the
first in-depth history of the attempts to provide legal protection for
the manatee. Along the way\, Pittman takes a close look at the major and
minor players in the dispute\, from Jacques-Yves Cousteau to Jeb Bush\,
from Jimmy Buffett to O. J. Simpson\, from a popular children's book
author to a federal lawman who dressed in a gorilla suit for the
ultimate undercover assignment.
The follow up to Mark Bittman's NY Times bestseller\, Food Matters\: The Cookbook offers around 450 recipes that will save your health and the planet.
Schedule for the Evening\:
6\:00 – 7\:00pm – Reception with the Author\, sponsored by Whole Foods
7\:00 – 8\:00pm – Talk and Q&\;A with Mark Bittman
To be introduced by MICHELLE BERNSTEIN\, author of “Cuisine A Latina”
Book signing to follow
TICKETS are required for this event. $10 for Fairchild members and $15 for non-members\, available only at Fairchild\:
astamps@fairchildgarden.com
SPECIAL FOR BOOKS &\; BOOKS CUSTOMERS\: A limited amount of FREE tickets are available at all Books &\; Books\,
with your pre-purchase of The Food Matters Cookbook\, prior to the event\, at any Books &\; Books location.
If you do not purchase the book in advance and would like to purchase at the door that night\, please note that you will have to purchase BOTH the book AND a ticket in order to be allowed entry.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T060533Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101007T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101007T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/rosie_molinary URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/rosie_molinary SUMMARY:Rosie Molinary - Beautiful You - Gables DESCRIPTION:Too often\, women believe that they will finally be content when their
bodies change in some way. In actuality\, they’ll be content only when
their minds change\, when they give themselves permission and the tools
to be content. In Beautiful You\: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance (Seal Press\, $16.95)\, Rosie Molinary provides 365 ways to shore up confidence\, encourage self-awareness\, and get reacquainted with the beautiful\, brilliant you. Part personal
essay\, part action and empowerment guide\, Beautiful You is a
practical and inspirational tool for realizing a healthy self-image by
championing one’s own emotional and physical well-being. 8pm
Jeffrey Reiner is a middle manager’s dream. Predictable\, almost
invisible\, and lacking ambition\, he’s held the same tedious job for
eighteen years\, typing up the calendar listings for a South Florida
weekly. When he is suddenly fired\, Jeffrey has no choice but to push
beyond his comfort zone. As Jeffrey stumbles from one comic catastrophe
to another\, he realizes that in opening up to the world\, he no longer
wants to go back to his safe\, sheltered corner. Full of whimsy\, wry
humor\, and surprising insight\, Terry Shine's Nothing Happens Until It Happens to You (Crown\, $23.00) is a weird\, wonderful journey of self-discovery that proves there’s life after the pink slip after all. 8pm