Join us for Gallery Night.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111203T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111203T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-gables-18 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-gables-18 SUMMARY:Live Music in the Courtyard -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Join us for live music in the Courtyard.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111203T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111203T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/les-standiford-last-train-paradise-man-who-invented-christmas-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/les-standiford-last-train-paradise-man-who-invented-christmas-gables SUMMARY:Les Standiford -- Last Train to Paradise & The Man Who Invented Christmas -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the holidays and history with the one author who can bring them together and to life – Les Standiford. The brand-new Commemorative Centennial Edition of Last Train to Paradise (B&\;B Press\, $60) opens our eyes once again to Les’ fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West extension of Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway. In celebration of the railroad's centennial\, this commemorative hardcover edition is richly illustrated with more the 150 images from the Flagler Museum Archives. This well-researched treatise features a sumptuous silver foil embossed cloth cover.
From a titan of Florida history to one of literary history\, Les will also be sharing the story behind the story of our Christmas spirit with The Man Who Invented Christmas (Broadway\, $14.99) -- and just in time for the Yuletide season! Just before Christmas in 1843\, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down\, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor\, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution. Both books make perfect holiday gifts for Scrooges and sentimentalists alike.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111203T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111203T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/michael-e-dorcas-invasive-pythons-united-states URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/michael-e-dorcas-invasive-pythons-united-states SUMMARY:Michael E. Dorcas -- Invasive Pythons of the United States DESCRIPTION:Most people think of pythons as giant snakes in distant tropical jungles\, but Burmese pythons\, which can reach lengths of over twenty feet and weigh over two hundred pounds\, are now thriving in southern Florida.
These natives of Asia are commonly kept as pets and presumably escaped or were released in the Everglades. Pythons are now common in this region\; widespread throughout hundreds of square miles\, they are breeding and appear to be expanding their range. Pythons are voracious predators that feed on a variety of native wildlife including wading birds\, bobcats\, white-tailed deer\, and even alligators. Their presence has drawn dramatic media attention and stoked fears among the public that pythons may threaten not just native species but humans as well.
Despite this widespread concern\, information on pythons has been limited to a few scientific publications and news coverage that varies widely in fact and accuracy. With Invasive Pythons in the United States (Univ of Press\, $24.95)\, Michael E. Dorcas and John D. Willson provide the most reliable\, up-to-date\, and scientifically grounded information on invasive pythons. Filled with over two hundred color photographs and fifteen figures and maps\, the book will help general readers and the scientific community better understand these fascinating animals and their troubling presence in the United States.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111204T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111204T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-federico-britos-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-federico-britos-gables SUMMARY:Live Music in the Courtyard\: Federico Britos -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Join us for live music in the Courtyard.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111206T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111206T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/shaquille-oneal-shaq-uncut-autobiography-coral-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/shaquille-oneal-shaq-uncut-autobiography-coral-gables SUMMARY:Shaquille O'Neal -- Shaq Uncut\: The Autobiography -- Coral Gables DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111207T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111207T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/michael-ondaatje-cats-table-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/michael-ondaatje-cats-table-gables SUMMARY:Michael Ondaatje -- Cat's Table -- Gables DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111208T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111208T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/bari-lyman-meet-marry-dating-revolution-marriage-minded-miami-beach-design-within-reach URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/bari-lyman-meet-marry-dating-revolution-marriage-minded-miami-beach-design-within-reach SUMMARY:Bari Lyman -- Meet to Marry\: A Dating Revolution for the Marriage Minded -- Miami Beach @ Design Within Reach DESCRIPTION:Bari Lyman\, founder of MeetToMarry.com\, is dating-for-marriage evangelist who is passionate about helping singles achieve their dreams of finding meaningful love. After years of consistently attracting the "\;wrong ones\,"\; Bari had a revelation that transformed her life. It was this revelation that allowed her to meet and marry her ideal spouse over eight years ago. Meet to Marry\: A Dating Revolution for the Marriage Minded (Health Communications\, $14.95) turns Bari's dating revelation into a marriage readiness revolution! Via her book and the MeetToMarry site and coaching programs\, she encourages singles to have their own dating revelation\, much like she had. Scores of hopeful singles have used her three-step approach—Assess\, Attract\, and Act—to change their mind-set and remove blind spots to find the perfect relationship match.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111208T003000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111208T003000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/robin-wright-rock-casbah-temple-beth-am URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/robin-wright-rock-casbah-temple-beth-am SUMMARY:Robin Wright -- Rock the Casbah -- Temple Beth Am DESCRIPTION:Rock the Casbah (Simon &\; Schuster\, $26.99) takes readers deep into the struggle within the Muslim world where a growing movement defies and challenges extremism and repudiates Osama bin Laden\, his deviant doctrine\, and his violent disciples.
In Robin Wright’s recent reporting\, she discovers a new trend spreading within the Muslim world—the rejection of Islamic extremists. This new jihad\, which Wright describes in its many manifestations\, has various goals. For some Muslims\, it’s about reforming the faith. For others\, it’s about reforming political systems. For all\, it is about achieving basic rights—on their own terms\, not Western ones. What is at its heart is the rejection of venomous ideologies\, suicide bombs\, plane hijackings\, hostage-takings\, and mass violence. Muslims\, Wright demonstrates\, are doing what the West cannot—confronting extremism on its own terms and rescuing the faith from a virulent minority and changing history.
This event is a presentation of the Howard and Sharon Socol Series in collaboration with Books &\; Books.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111208T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111208T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/kathy-anderson-change-your-shoes-live-your-greatest-life-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/kathy-anderson-change-your-shoes-live-your-greatest-life-gables SUMMARY:Kathy Andersen -- Change Your Shoes\, Live Your Greatest Life -- Gables DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111209T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111209T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/wayne-hoffman-sweet-sugar-miami-beach-design-within-reach URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/wayne-hoffman-sweet-sugar-miami-beach-design-within-reach SUMMARY:Wayne Hoffman -- Sweet Like Sugar -- Miami Beach @ Design Within Reach DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111209T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111209T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/rod-stryker-four-desires-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/rod-stryker-four-desires-gables SUMMARY:Rod Stryker -- The Four Desires -- Gables DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-alberto-cabrales-pe%C3%B1-de-trova-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-alberto-cabrales-pe%C3%B1-de-trova-gables SUMMARY:Live Music in the Courtyard\: Alberto Cabrales Peña de Trova -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Join us for Live Music in the Courtyard
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/debra-samuels-my-japanese-table-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/debra-samuels-my-japanese-table-gables SUMMARY:Debra Samuels -- My Japanese Table -- Gables DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T203000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T203000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/edward-bloor-plauge-year-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/edward-bloor-plauge-year-gables SUMMARY:Edward Bloor -- A Plauge Year -- Gables DESCRIPTION:It's 2001 and zombies have taken over Tom's town. Meth zombies. It starts small\, with petty thefts of cleaning supplies and Sudafed from the supermarket where Tom works. But by year's end there will be ruined\, hollow people on every street corner. Meth will unmake the lives of friends and teachers and parents. It will fill the prisons\, and the morgues. Tom's always been focused on getting out of his depressing coal mining town\, on planning his escape to a college somewhere sunny and far away. But as bits of his childhood erode around him\, he finds it's not so easy to let go. Tom begins to see some reasons to stay\, to see that even lost causes can be worth fighting for. In A Plague Year (Knopf\, $15.99) Edward Bloor – author of perennial favorite Tangerine -- has created a searing portrait of a place and a family and a boy who survive a harrowing plague year\, and become stronger than before.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T220000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/mourad-lahlou-mourad-new-moroccan-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/mourad-lahlou-mourad-new-moroccan-gables SUMMARY:Mourad Lahlou -- Mourad\: New Moroccan -- Gables DESCRIPTION:COOKBOOK EVENT\: What Mourad Lahlou has developed over the last decade and a half at his Michelin-starred San Francisco restaurant is nothing less than a new\, modern Moroccan cuisine\, inspired by memories\, steeped in colorful stories\, and informed by the tireless exploration of his curious mind. His book\, Mourad\: New Moroccan (Artisan Publishers\, $40) \, is anything but a dutifully “authentic” documentation of Moroccan home cooking. Yes\, the great classics are all here—the basteeya\, the couscous\, the preserved lemons\, and much more. But Mourad adapts them in stunningly creative ways that take a Moroccan idea to a whole new place. The 100-plus recipes\, lavishly illustrated with food and location photography\, and terrifically engaging text offer a rare blend of heat\, heart\, and palate. This afternoon’s event is presented in collaboration with The Café at Books &\; Books by Chef Allen Susser and will include food samples of recipes in the book. Join us for a New Moroccan Tasting/Signing you won’t soon forget!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111210T230000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/bob-friedman-shadow-fathers-under-dark-sun-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/bob-friedman-shadow-fathers-under-dark-sun-gables SUMMARY:Bob Friedman -- Shadow of the Fathers & Under a Dark Sun -- Gables DESCRIPTION:The ambivalent relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States is the common theme in two recent novels by author Robert Friedman\, who will be introduced this evening by Maurice Ferre. Friedman\, a veteran journalist who worked for the San Juan Star in Puerto Rico for more than 20 years and as Washington correspondent for the paper until it folded in 2008\, will sign and discuss his novels\, Under a Dark Sun ($15) and Shadow of the Fathers ($15).
The novels explore\, among other things\, crime\, corruption and colonialism on the island. Shadow of the Fathers is based on a true incident that occurred in Puerto Rico—the supposed confession of a stateside doctor that he had killed several of his Puerto Rican patients because he found them members of an “inferior race.” El Nuevo Dia said the novel “meticulously and faithfully recreates the Puerto Rican setting...[and] recognizes Puerto Rico’s complex reality\, both the internal struggles and those that come with colonial relations...” The late Puerto Rican novelist Edgardo Vega Yunqué called the work “a masterful literary novel.” Under a Dark Sun explores crime\, corruption\, drugs and politics in Colón\, a Caribbean island stand-in for Puerto Rico. A young woman\, returning from New York to the island of her birth\, witnesses a murder and is caught in the underside of life on the island. A review of the novel in the Puerto Rico Daily Sun noted\: “Friedman sure knows Puerto Rico’s political fauna...and portrays it majestically.”
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111211T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111211T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/bb-press-blue-christmas-party-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/bb-press-blue-christmas-party-gables SUMMARY:B&B Press Blue Christmas Party -- Gables DESCRIPTION:B&\;B PRESS BLUE CHRISTMAS PARTY\: Merry Christmas! Deck the halls! Joy to the World! Really? Year after year\, the forced frivolity\, gratuitous gluttony\, and crass commercialism of the holiday season pegs Christmas with a kind of fairy-tale sentimentality existing in a world where there is no conflict\, no anger\, no hatred\, and no criticism\, a world in which there is no warfare in any form.
Readers now can rest easy\; there’s no trace of this sugarcoated existence in Blue Christmas\: Holiday Stories for the Rest of Us\: An Anthology (B&\;B Press\, $17) . Instead\, they are offered the gift of candor\, suspense\, and substance\, showing them that Christmas can be both the best of times and the worst of times. Edited by award-winning novelist John Dufresne\, Blue Christmas is a collection of 17 original stories written by some of today’s finest contemporary authors exploring a variety of Christmas experiences.
Tonight\, join Mitchell Kaplan\, John Dufresne\, Robert Goolrick\, Lynne Barrett and Les Standiford\, among others\, for a celebration of the new B&\;B Press imprint\, a project of Books &\; Books. We’ll be serving up blue Christmas mojitos\, some yuletide surprises and a few blue Christmas stories of our own!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111211T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111211T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-emmet-cohen-trio-gables-1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-emmet-cohen-trio-gables-1 SUMMARY:Live Music in the Courtyard\: Emmet Cohen Trio -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Join us for Live Music in the Courtyard
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111211T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111211T153000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/pj-library-story-time-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/pj-library-story-time-gables SUMMARY:PJ Library Story Time -- Gables DESCRIPTION:PJ Library Story Time\: Happy Hanukkah! Join us for a reading of Eight Winter Nights\, a book of Hanukkah themed poetry selected by the PJ Library program\, and create a special holiday craft to take home. The national PJ Library program supports families in their Jewish journey by sending Jewish-content books and music on a monthly basis to children. Presented in collaboration with the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and The Gordon Schools of Beth David Congregation.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111211T170000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111211T170000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/pj-library-story-time-bal-harbour-shops URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/pj-library-story-time-bal-harbour-shops SUMMARY:PJ Library Story Time -- Bal Harbour Shops DESCRIPTION:PJ Library Story Time\: Get in the mood to light the lights and celebrate all eight nights with this Hanukkah story time and craft. The national PJ Library program supports families in their Jewish journey by sending Jewish-content books and music on a monthly basis to children. Presented in collaboration with the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and the Lehrman Community Day School
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111211T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111211T190000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/piano-story-time-gables-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/piano-story-time-gables-0 SUMMARY:Piano Story Time -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Get into the winter spirit with story and song at Piano Story Time presented by the Miami Piano Academy. Today\, we’ll be sharing the tale of The Snowman with musical accompaniment. Miami Piano Academy is an educational institution offering individual piano classes to adults and children\, starting as young as 4 years old.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111212T233000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111212T233000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/mario-coyula-catalina-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/mario-coyula-catalina-gables SUMMARY:Mario Coyula -- Catalina -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Catalina (Editorial Renacimiento) by Cuban-born author Mario Coyula celebrates the frustration of searching for the impossible. The novel describes the quest of a man for an extremely beautiful woman who died before he was born and is based on the real-life figure of Catalina de Lasa (1875-1930)\, considered the most beautiful woman in Havana’s Belle Èpoque at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The text is mainly written in long monologues of the three main characters\, Catalina\, the Husband and the Architect\; with frequent overlapping as the architect follows the trail of the couple. He also remembers his own childhood and youth in the 1940s and 1950s. The story covers a social sector and a historical period that has usually been presented in Cuba with a schematic and distorted approach. It depicts the values\, habits and lifestyle of the Cuban upper bourgeoisie from aristocratic descent\, a social class that was displaced from economic and political power three times between 1868-1959.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111213T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111213T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/ann-beattie-mrs-nixon-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/ann-beattie-mrs-nixon-gables SUMMARY:Ann Beattie -- Mrs. Nixon -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures\, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir. Ann Beattie\, like many of her generation\, dismissed Richard Nixon’s wife. Decades later\, she wonders what it must have been like to be married to such a spectacularly ambitious and catastrophically self-destructive man. Drawing on a wealth of sources\, Beattie reconstructs dozens of scenes in an attempt to see the world from Mrs. Nixon’s point of view. This fascinating and intimate account offers readers a rare glimpse into the imagination of a writer. Mrs. Nixon (Scribner\, $26) is a startlingly compelling and revelatory work.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111214T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111214T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/dan-leslie-bowden-truman-capote%E2%80%99s-christmas-memory-coral-gables-museum URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/dan-leslie-bowden-truman-capote%E2%80%99s-christmas-memory-coral-gables-museum SUMMARY:Dan Leslie Bowden -- Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory -- Coral Gables Museum DESCRIPTION:Semi-retired Ransom Everglades teacher Dan Leslie Bowden will read Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory tonight in what has become an annual tradition at Books &\; Books. Bowden\, whose Georgia accent makes the Alabama author’s work come alive\, has read from the book for this event every year since 1999. He began reading it to his students in the 1950s.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111214T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111214T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/joel-levine-corruption-michael-levitt-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/joel-levine-corruption-michael-levitt-gables SUMMARY:Joel Levine -- The Corruption of Michael Levitt -- Gables DESCRIPTION:The Corruption of Michael Levitt ($10.99) by Joel Levine is a rollicking ride through the 1970's seen through the eyes of Michael Levitt. It's a story of a bright yet naïve man who\, while trying to make it in this world is\, with the best of intentions\, gradually corrupted by the universe in which he exists. As Michael moves from the high pressure life of an associate in a prestigious New York law firm\, to the uncharted playground of Miami\, the reader is caught up in Michael's personal and professional fast times. Readers will follow Michael through the maze that becomes his life - underworld business dealings\, sex\, drugs\, friends and enemies\, enjoying his perceptive\, and often hilarious\, view of his own situation.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111214T233000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111214T233000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/xavier-suarez-democracy-america-coral-gables-congregational-church URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/xavier-suarez-democracy-america-coral-gables-congregational-church SUMMARY:Xavier Suarez -- Democracy in America -- Coral Gables Congregational Church DESCRIPTION:Since Alexis de Tocqueville's seminal work on American democracy\, no one has attempted to diagnose the current state of democracy in the United States. Democracy in America (Authorhouse\, $25.20) is a modest attempt to do such an update\, based on both democratic theory and the author's actual practice in governing Miami for three terms. Xavier Suarez reports from his perspective as an immigrant\, but also from the perspective of a trial lawyer\, college professor and politician with half a century of being fully immersed in the American experience.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111215T003000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111215T003000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/rabbi-solomon-schiff-under-yarmulke-bal-harbour-shops URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/rabbi-solomon-schiff-under-yarmulke-bal-harbour-shops SUMMARY:Rabbi Solomon Schiff -- Under the Yarmulke -- Bal Harbour Shops DESCRIPTION:Under the Yarmulke\: Tales of Faith\, Fun and Football (Chai Books\, $15) isan inspiring and touching collection of stories\, lessons and jokes by world-renown rabbi and global leader of interfaith relations\, Rabbi Solomon Schiff. In this long-awaited memoir\, Sol Schiff recaptures his remarkable journey from local cantor in a Bronx Synagogue to internationally recognized rabbi\, whose devotion to community service and interfaith relations has made him a beacon of inspiration for millions of all faiths. He has shared thoughts with five American presidents\, three Israeli Prime Ministers\, two Popes and the Dalai Lama\, along the way collecting a treasure chest of memories.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111215T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111215T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/annette-blaugrund-dispensing-beauty-new-york-beyond-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/annette-blaugrund-dispensing-beauty-new-york-beyond-gables SUMMARY:Annette Blaugrund -- Dispensing Beauty in New York & Beyond -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Harriet Hubbard Ayer established Récamier Preparations\, Inc. in 1883\, the earliest cosmetic company owned and operated by a woman. First with her creams and balms and then with her words about women’s health and beauty\, she influenced several generations of women to look and feel good about themselves. After being committed to an insane asylum\, this former Chicago socialite reinvented herself as the highest paid newspaperwoman in the United States\, editing the women’s pages of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. In Dispensing Beauty in New York &\; Beyond (History Press\, $21.99)\, Annette Blaugrund presents Harriet’s story as never before heard.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111216T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111216T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/mark-derr-how-dog-became-dog-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/mark-derr-how-dog-became-dog-gables SUMMARY:Mark Derr -- How the Dog Became the Dog -- Gables DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-grove-brothers-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-grove-brothers-gables SUMMARY:Live Music in the Courtyard\: Grove Brothers -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Join us for live music in the courtyard
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/hermes-mallea-great-houses-havana-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/hermes-mallea-great-houses-havana-gables SUMMARY:Hermes Mallea -- Great Houses of Havana -- Gables DESCRIPTION: Great Houses of Havana (Monacelli\, $75) celebrates one hundred years of creativity\, design\, and style that made the city "\;the Paris of the Caribbean."\; For four hundred years\, Havana was the center of Spanish trade in the western hemisphere. With the expansion of the sugar industry\, independence from Spain\, and North American investment\, Havana became a city of great wealth\, great style\, and great houses in a vocabulary that was a unique amalgam of European\, American\, and Caribbean elements.
Great Houses of Havana by Hermes Mallea traces the evolution of the Cuban home from the classic\, Spanish colonial courtyard house to the “Tropical Modernist” villas of the 1950s—houses reflecting international architecture trends while remaining true to the Cuban tradition.
Cuba’s social history is woven throughout the book. Vintage photographs illustrate Havana’s sophisticated lifestyle—the masked balls\, yacht club picnics\, and dynastic weddings of fashionable Cubans and their international guests. Popular cafes\, hotels\, theaters\, and weekend resorts are also featured\, creating a view of the privileged life inside the gated mansions of the city’s grandest neighborhoods. For more information on the making of the book\, check out this video on the Great Houses of Havana's YouTube page.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111217T160000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/christina-gonzalez-red-umbrella-coral-gables-museum URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/christina-gonzalez-red-umbrella-coral-gables-museum SUMMARY:Christina Gonzalez -- Red Umbrella -- Coral Gables Museum DESCRIPTION:Join author Christina Gonzalez for this special celebration the paperback release of her award-winning novel The Red Umbrella (Yearling\, $6.99) . This moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan -- an organized exodus of more than 14\,000 unaccompanied children\, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro's revolution – is perfect for all ages and all South Floridians. In 1961\, two years after the Communist revolution\, Lucía Álvarez finds everything begins to change when the soldiers come to her sleepy Cuban town. Freedoms are stripped away. Neighbors disappear. And her family is being watched. Lucía's parents make the heart-wrenching decision to send her and her little brother to the United States. Suddenly plunked down in Nebraska with well-meaning strangers\, Lucía struggles to adapt. But what of her old life? Will she ever see her home or her parents again? And if she does\, will she still be the same girl? The Red Umbrella is a moving story of country\, culture\, family\, and the true meaning of home. Students from Hialeah Gardens High are providing special Pedro Pan-themed decorations for this celebration.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111218T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111218T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-steve-kornicks-and-mariana-martin-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-steve-kornicks-and-mariana-martin-gables SUMMARY:Live Music in the Courtyard\: Steve Kornicks and Mariana Martin -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Join us for live music in the courtyard
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111218T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111218T200000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/holiday-sounds-courtyard-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/holiday-sounds-courtyard-gables SUMMARY:Holiday Sounds in the Courtyard -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Holiday Sounds in the Courtyard\: Enjoy live holiday music performed by the students of the Miami Piano Academy while you shop.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111219T153000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111219T153000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/winter-vacation-story-time-coral-gables-high-english-honor-society-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/winter-vacation-story-time-coral-gables-high-english-honor-society-gables SUMMARY:Winter Vacation Story Time with Coral Gables High English Honor Society -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Make new friends as the students of the Coral Gables High English Honor Society share Peter Brown’s delightful book YOU WILL BE MY FRIEND! at this special winter vacation Story Time. There will be a craft for kids ages 5-7\, too.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111220T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111220T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/carolyn-scott-hamilton-healthy-voyagers-global-kitchen-miami-beach-design-within-reach URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/carolyn-scott-hamilton-healthy-voyagers-global-kitchen-miami-beach-design-within-reach SUMMARY:Carolyn Scott-Hamilton -- The Healthy Voyager's Global Kitchen -- Miami Beach @ Design Within Reach DESCRIPTION:Join author Carolyn Scott-Hamilton\, aka The Healthy Voyager\, for a fun holiday book signing at our Lincoln Road location as she launches her first cookbook\, The Healthy Voyager's Global Kitchen (Fair Winds Press\, $19.99) . Full of fresh new flavors and exciting ethnic eats—all “veganized” for your enjoyment—The Healthy Voyager's Global Kitchen Cookbook features 150 of the best international recipes from more than 20 countries across the globe that also feature options for gluten free\, soy free\, diabetic\, low fat and beyond.
Written by Carolyn Scott-Hamilton\, nutritionist\, chef and creator of the wildly popular website\, with over 700\,000 subscribers at www.healthyvoyager.com\, and respected expert in plant-based and special diet travel and living\, this cookbook gives you the ability to not only explore new cuisines and dishes you've always wanted to try\, but to re-create the meals and tastes you've dreamt of since that honeymoon trip or European vacation you took years ago\, regardless of dietary restriction. If you thought that following a vegan lifestyle meant missing out on the spices and flavors of ethnic cuisine\, think again! Rave reviews from Food Network’s Iron Chef Cat Cora\, P90x’s Tony Horton and even Rikki Rockett of Poison all share one thing in common...They love The Healthy Voyager’s Global Kitchen and you will too!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111220T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111220T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/paul-schmitz-everyone-leads-building-leadership-community-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/paul-schmitz-everyone-leads-building-leadership-community-gables SUMMARY:Paul Schmitz -- Everyone Leads\: Building Leadership from the Community Up -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Where is the leadership we need to solve our most pressing community problems? It’s all around us. Everyone Leads\: Building Leadership from the Community Up (Jossey-Bass\, $29.40) will inspire readers to see new leadership possibilities within themselves and their communities. Paul Schmitz\, CEO of Public Allies\, shares the experiences and lessons his organization has learned from two decades of finding and developing thousands of young leaders across the country. The author uses inspiring stories and practical examples to demonstrate what it means to lead today. He describes the emergence of Public Allies’ leadership model (and the important role played by Michelle Obama\, who left a prestigious legal career to found Public Allies Chicago) and demonstrates its impact through the experiences of young leaders it has nurtured – such as the deli worker who now runs a disability rights organization\, the single mom in community college who now works at the White House\, and the ex-felon now leading a job training program and maintaining a 3.7 GPA in college. Schmitz also describes his own journey from an aimless youth to a national nonprofit leader and Presidential advisor. Everyone Leads offers a hopeful path for citizens\, policy makers\, and nonprofit organizations who want to build and engage the diverse leadership our communities and our democracy badly need.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111221T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111221T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/film-screening-glenn-and-daves-christmas-special-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/film-screening-glenn-and-daves-christmas-special-gables SUMMARY:Film Screening\: Glenn and Dave's Christmas Special -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Artist Glenn Terry will be showing his holiday film\, “Glenn and Dave’s Christmas Special” in which two friends go searching for Coconut Grove's elusive Christmas spirit. This is the 30th anniversary of the 24-minute comedy.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111224T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111224T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-gables-19 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-gables-19 SUMMARY:Live Music in the Courtyard -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Join us live music in the courtyard
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111228T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111228T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/wordspeak-book-launch-reading-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/wordspeak-book-launch-reading-gables SUMMARY:WordSpeak -- Book Launch & Reading -- Gables DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111229T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111229T010000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/peter-richmond-badasses-gables URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/peter-richmond-badasses-gables SUMMARY:Peter Richmond -- Badasses -- Gables DESCRIPTION:They were the NFL’s ultimate outlaws\, black-clad iconoclasts who\, with a peculiar mix of machismo and brotherhood\, of postgrad degrees and firearms\, merrily defied pro football corporatism. The Oakland Raiders of the 1970s were some of the most outrageous\, beloved\, and violent football teams ever to play the game. In this rollicking biography\, Peter Richmond tells the story of Oakland’s wrecking crew of psychos\, oddballs\, and geniuses who won six division titles and a Super Bowl under the brilliant leadership of coach John Madden and owner Al Davis. Richmond goes inside the locker room and onto the field with Ken Stabler\, Willie Brown\, Fred Biletnikoff\, George Atkinson\, Phil Villapiano\, and the rest of this band of brothers who made the Raiders legendary. Funny\, raunchy\, and inspiring\, Badasses (Harper\, $14.99) celebrates the ’70s Raiders as the last teams to play professional football the way it was meant to be played\: down and very\, very dirty. 8pm
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T070239Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111231T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20111231T000000Z UID:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-gables-20 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.booksandbooks.com/event/live-music-courtyard-gables-20 SUMMARY:Live Music in the Courtyard -- Gables DESCRIPTION:Join us for live music in the courtyard
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