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Greg Gutfeld -- The Joy of Hate -- Gables
Start: 12:00 pm
From Greg Gutfeld, the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, comes  hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture. Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must endure of these harebrained liberal hypocrisies. In fact, most of the time liberals uses the mantle of tolerance as a guise for their pathetic intolerance. And what we really need is smart intolerance, or as Gutfeld reminds us, what we used to call common sense. The Joy of Hate (Crown, $26) tackles this conundrum head on--replacing the idiocy of open-mindness with a shrewd judgmentalism that rejects stupid ideas, notions, and people. With countless examples grabbed from the headlines, Gutfeld provides readers with the enormous tally of what pisses us all off.  Funny and sarcastic to the point of being mean (but in a nice way), The Joy of Hate points out the true jerks in this society and tells them all off. 
Mauricio Bergstein -- Adiós Niassa -- Bal Harbour Shops
Start: 6:30 pm
Please note this event is in Spanish: Adiós Niassa rememora la odisea de tres viajeros –dos uruguayos y un portugués- embarcados hacia la remota reserva de Niassa, olvidada durante el conflicto bélico que arrasó a Mozambique y hoy custodiada por catorce mil elefantes.Muy pronto el destino de ese viaje cambia cuando una donación de útiles escolares en la escuela Eduardo Mondlane de Beira, donde el portugués había aprendido a leer y escribir, tuerce el timón y desemboca en un periplo a través de un sinfín de escuelas rurales que van apareciendo a la vera del camino.La incursión en aldeas remotas,  la sorpresa de sus habitantes cuando ven irrumpir en su territorio a una furgoneta descomunal apellidada Daktari –“la máquina de dormir y sacar agua” como la llama el jefe de una de esas pequeñas comunidades-, y la alegría de decenas de niños que no saben para qué sirve un bolígrafo, pasan a formar parte del viaje a través de ese mar de aldeas que es el Mozambique profundo.La realidad del país va imponiendo su propio ritmo a un recorrido plagado de incertidumbre -250 mil minas terrestres diseminadas aleatoriamente que han quedado sin desactivar desde el cese del fuego hace 20 años; misteriosas ceremonias en poblados cuyos nombres no aparecen en los mapas; un partido de fútbol con soldados empecinados en vencer; o el encuentro con un cazador que habría de conducirlos hasta la utópica reserva de Niassa- y sirven para que el autor reflexione sobre el acto de viajar y su escurridizo significado. “Dicen que detrás de cada línea de llegada hay una de partida. Llegar no se llega nunca a ninguna parte. Después de Niassa aparecerá otra Niassa. De espejismo en espejismo arrastrando pesadas pertenencias. ¿Cuántas Niassas hay en el mundo? ¿De qué sino de Niassas están repletas nuestras vidas?"
Ally Condie -- Reached -- Gables
Start: 7:00 pm
Cassia faces the ultimate choices in the long-anticipated conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Matched Trilogy. After leaving Society and desperately searching for the Rising--and each other--Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again: Cassia has been assigned to work for the Rising from within Society, while Ky has been stationed outside its borders. But nothing is as predicted, and all too soon the veil lifts and things shift once again. In Reached (Dutton, $17.99) by Ally Condie, the gripping conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Matched Trilogy, Cassia will reconcile the difficulties of challenging a life too confining, seeking a freedom she never dreamed possible, and honoring a love she cannot live without.
Brenna M. Munro -- South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come -- Gables
Start: 8:00 pm
After apartheid, South Africa established a celebrated new political order that imagined the postcolonial nation as belonging equally to the descendents of indigenous people, colonizing settlers, transported slaves, indentured laborers, and immigrants. Its constitution, adopted in 1996, was the first in the world to include gays and lesbians as full citizens. In South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come (Univ of MN, $30), Brenna M. Munro examines the stories that were told about sexuality, race, and nation throughout the struggle against apartheid in order to uncover how these narratives ultimately enabled gay people to become imaginable as fellow citizens.  Employing a wide array of texts—including prison memoirs, poetry, plays, television shows, photography, political speeches, and the postapartheid writings of Nobel Laureates Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee—Munro reports on how contemporary queer activists and artists are declining to remain ambassadors for the “rainbow nation” and refusing to become scapegoats for the perceived failures of liberation and liberalism. 
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