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Start: 5:00 pm
In her memoir, Mad Lyfe of an
NBA Wife (Free Flow Writing & Publishing, $14.95), Sherri Patterson will take you on the journey of her life as a teenage
girl growing up in the heart of Miami, doing her best in pursuit of a
life beyond Overtown. Little did she know that meeting Doug that summer
day would begin the ultimate remix of life! From high school
sweethearts to teenage parents and eventually husband and wife. From a
townhouse in Miami's notorious Overtown ghetto to the acquisition of
several million dollars in real estate. From the Miami High gymnasium to
the acclaimed NBA. It appeared that Sherri had escaped the hood and was
living the glamorous life with the finest things money could buy at her
disposal. But Mad Lyfe will prove that bling and cha-ching ain't
everything. With God's grace, presence and guidance, Sherri left the
so-called "glamorous life" behind and transformed into a woman of
passion and purpose.
Start: 7:00 pm
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent—meek, mild, and myopic—than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales. Jerry wrote stories, and Joe illustrated them. In 1934, they created a superhero who was everything they were not. It was four more years before they convinced a publisher to take a chance on their Man of Steel in a new format—the comic book. The author includes a provocative afterword about Jerry and Joe’s long struggle with DC Comics when they realized they had made a mistake in selling all rights to Superman for a mere $130.Marc Tyler Nobleman’s Boys of Steel (Knopf, $16.99) captures the excitement of Jerry and Joe’s triumph, and the energetic illustrations by Ross MacDonald, the author-artist of Another Perfect Day, are a perfect complement to the time, the place, and the two young visionaries.
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