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Start: 6:00 pm
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ADOPTING: Experienced adoption professionals will discuss the current options available in adoption. It will cover topics including: preparing for adoption, the home study process, an overview of the differences between domestic and international adoption, costs of adoption, the risks associated with the process and the future of international adoption. Suggested books
available for purchase, include The Adoption Answer Book (Sphinx, $14.95), by Brette McWhorter Sember and Adoption: The Essential Guide to Adopting Quickly and Safely by Randall Hicks (2007). 6pm
Start: 7:00 pm
In its forty-year existence, the 5th Street Gym housed the training grounds for three of the greatest fighters the sport has ever known - Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, and Sugar Ray Leonard - and became the locus for a grand total of fourteen world champions. The site was also a magnet for a wide range of international celebrities including Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, and Sylvester Stallone, who were all absorbed into the gym's legend. The 5th Street Gym's beginnings trace back to 1950, when Chris Dundee, along with his brother Angelo, began promoting big-time boxing at Miami Beach. Tales from The 5th Street Gym includes a wealth of never-before-seen photographs and is the first to chronicle the fascinating history of the 5th Street Gym from one of its insiders - Dr. Ferdie Pacheco - with crucial contributions from Tom Archdeacon, Angelo Dundee, Suzanne Dundee Bonner, Enrique Encinosa, Howard Kleinberg, Ramiro Ortiz, Edwin Pope, Bob Sheridan, and Budd Schulberg. Discover the secret history of one of boxing's most hallowed grounds, as Pacheco recalls the rise, heyday, and fall of the 'sweet science' at Miami Beach.
Start: 7:30 pm
Charting the Unknown (Behler Publications, $16.95) describes the adventures of Kim Petersen, a Colorado native who, at twenty years old, married college sweetheart, Mike. While at Trinity Western University outside Vancouver, British Columbia, the couple created a bucket list of achievements they hoped to accomplish before they died, including building a boat and sailing it across the Atlantic. The Petersens homeschooled their two children, started a construction company, built three custom homes themselves, and carved out a life in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. After losing their second child to SIDS, Kim and Mike rediscovered their forgotten bucket list. Inspired, they decided to sell their belongings and take their two children, ages 14 and 11, on a boating adventure across the Atlantic aboard the 65-foot power catamaran, Chrysalis. Charting the Unknown describes Petersen’s journey of self-discovery as she travels the world with her young family. 7:30pm
Start: 8:00 pm
While working with his father's small company that "trashes out" — enters and empties — foreclosed homes in Florida, Paul Reyes wrote Exiles in Eden (Henry Holt and Co., $25), 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. 8pm
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