For Teens
Who loves YA, baby?! Books & Books does, that’s for sure. We’re all about the coolest YA culture, the newest and hippest books for Young Adults and teenagers. And the books and authors we love inspire the most remarkable events – Teen Band Jam Night, Poetry Slam, Open Mic Night, Vampire Valentine’s Day Bash, Twilight parties and so much more.
Our author events and happenings are so hip, in fact, that a group of Books & Books fans and friends started a super cool blog – YAthenaeum.com – about everything we do and all the authors you can meet or would want to meet (check out the famous YAthenaeum Author Questionnaire). We do contests to win free advance copies of upcoming books or the chance to introduce a visiting author at his event or a chance for your band to play at one of our jam nights or other equally awesome stuff. So click on these pages and links to get all the info...
Upcoming Teens Events...
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…
9700 Collins Ave.
Bal Harbour, FL 33154
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
The Gendarme (Hardcover)
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Putnam Adult, 09/01/2010
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables, FL 33134
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