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Kathia Jiménez Reyes
Kathia Jiménez Reyes
"Tras ver como viven las mujeres, humilladas bajo ciertas reglas, yo quise romper la esquemas y ser libre. Con esta pasión, he escrito esa historia que pretende transmitir emoción, amor, necesidad del otro..." Sintiendo la necesidad de escribir diarios durante más de veinte años, Kathia Jiménez Reyes relata su cotidiano desde los recuerdos de su infancia, con...
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Chef Allen’s Farm-to-Table Dinner: CBD Edition
Chef Allen’s Farm-to-Table Dinner: CBD Edition
Back by popular demand... Have you been waiting to try CBD? Join us for another CBD-infused Farm-to-Table meal created by our very own Chef Allen Susser. The menu will be our signature vegetarian, family-style dinner with a CBD twist. We’re partnering with local CBD distributors to work towards the healthier, more balanced life we all...
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City Theatre @ Wine Down Wednesdays
City Theatre @ Wine Down Wednesdays
Take a SIP of City Theatre's Sparkling Shorts at Books & Book's Wine Down Wednesday on August 28th! City Theatre is serving up a delicious delivery of 3 short plays (10 minutes each) to wet your whistle, while you relax, imbibe, and enjoy your evening. And for a night cap? Get a quick shot, a...
Gables Gallery Night Closing featuring Klara Chavarria
Gables Gallery Night Closing featuring Klara Chavarria
Celebrate the success of August's Coral Gables Gallery Night featuring International artist, Klara Chavarria! An artist and designer with a BFA from Kansas State University that started her career over 15 years ago and currently works in her Coral Gables Studio. The work explores shared human experiences and the mystery of life. The exhibition opened...
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Senator Jeff Merkley
Senator Jeff Merkley
An exposé and cry of outrage at the cruelty and chaos the Trump administration has wrought at the border with child separations, border blockades, and a massive gulag of child prisons housing thousands. Jeff Merkley couldn't believe his eyes. He never dreamed the United States could treat vulnerable young families with such calculated brutality. Few...
Sergio Roitberg
Sergio Roitberg
Presenta Expuestos En las últimas décadas, la vertiginosa sucesión de innovaciones tecnológicas -desde la fabricación de vehículos eléctricos y autónomos hasta la ingeniería genética, pasando por smartphones, redes sociales y aplicaciones- alteró por completo las bases sobre las que la humanidad organizó durante siglos la vida en sociedad. ¿Cómo lidiar con estos cambios, que demuelen...
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Nuevas tendencias en la literatura escrita en español en Estados Unidos
Nuevas tendencias en la literatura escrita en español en Estados Unidos
SOBRE EL MODERADOR DEL PANEL Pedro Medina León nació en Lima, Perú. Es autor de la novela Varsovia (Florida Book Awards 2017 y los libros Mañana no te veré en Miami, Marginal y Tour: una vuelta por la cultura popular de Miami, y editor de las antologías Viaje One Way y Miami (Un)Plugged. Además es creador y editor del portal cultural y...
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Storytime & Craft
Storytime & Craft
Every Saturday in Coral Gables at 10:30am & Suniland Shops at 11am Join us every Saturday for story time! Children of all ages are invited with their parents to read a book, browse our shelves and have some literary fun with our crew! See you there!
CANCELADO: Rene Pineda
CANCELADO: Rene Pineda
Este evento ha sido cancelado hasta nuevo aviso. Vuelva a consultar para obtener información actualizada la próxima semana. Presenta Como piensan los ricos: como lograr la liberta financiera En esta obra, Como piensan los ricos: como lograr la libertad financiera Rene Pineda nos narra su historia de inmigrante en Estados Unidos y luego en...
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RESCHEDULED: Queer Board Game Night
RESCHEDULED: Queer Board Game Night
This event had been RESCHEDULED due to Hurricane Dorian. NEW Date: Sunday, September 29 in Coral Gables Time: 5:00pm Bring your favorite table top board game for a night of victory points, win conditions, and disco classics. Flaming Classics cofounder Juan Barquin and viral drag queen Florida Man bring you an event for queer nerds...
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Xavier Cortada presents the Underwater Homeowners Association
Xavier Cortada presents the Underwater Homeowners Association
Artist’s Statement I travelled to Antarctica in 2006 as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Antarctic Artist and Writers Program fellow. There, I created a series of works on paper by melting ice samples scientists gave me from their research on how human impacts on global climate are melting the Antarctic glaciers. “Underwater HOA” depicts...
Jennine Capó Crucet
Jennine Capó Crucet
From the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers, essays on being an “accidental” American―an incisive look at the edges of identity for a woman of color in a society centered on whiteness In this sharp and candid collection of essays, critically acclaimed writer and first-generation American Jennine Capó Crucet explores the condition of finding herself...
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Un Encuentro con lectores junto a Julio Bevione
Un Encuentro con lectores junto a Julio Bevione
Presentando Vivir en la zona Vivir en La Zona es un bestseller argentino que presenta un enfoque práctico y fácil de la búsqueda de la espiritualidad inspirado en Un Curso de Milagros, un compendio de sabiduría espiritual contenido en un libro que es, sin duda, el más profundo que jamás hayas leído. Un manual que sirve de...
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Irene McKinstry Oria
Irene McKinstry Oria
Mientras el Imperio español y el Reino de la Gran Bretaña se enfrentan en el Caribe en la Guerra del Asiento, la hija de un almirante inglés se enamora de un marino vasco, prisionero de la Real Armada británica. Anne Stewart e Iñigo de Iturriaga deciden romper las rígidas normas de una sociedad que había...
“Small Worlds” Exhibit: Meet the Artist Reception
“Small Worlds” Exhibit: Meet the Artist Reception
Books & Books Bookstore in Coral Gables is proud to showcase “Small Worlds,” a stunning exhibit that captures the soul of nature and wildlife as seen through the eyes of acclaimed conservation photographer Phoenix. From the majesty and frailty of the Florida Everglades to the haunting beauty of Ireland, each fine art photograph shares a...
Francis Luca & Rosa Lowinger
Francis Luca & Rosa Lowinger
The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a golden age of cultural exchange between Cuba and the United States. Beaches, nightclubs, and casinos lured tourists south to a tropical playground, while Hollywood celebrities and Cuban performers fueled a craze for rumba, mambo, and Afro-Cuban jazz up north. With insightful essays and rare photographs, magazines,...
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Storytime with ENRICH Literacy Program
Storytime with ENRICH Literacy Program
Join us for a special story time with ENRICH Literacy Program at our Suniland Shops location! The ENRICH Literacy Program was created in collaboration with clinicians to educate and empower all parents to engage, nurture, and read to infants and children. The program provides resources for parents and educators in our community to increase literacy rates from...
CANCELADA: Doctora Sara Malagold
CANCELADA: Doctora Sara Malagold
“Mas loco que una cabra” tiene un mensaje simple y esclarecedor: todos tenemos una fuerza única y poderosa, capaz de guiarnos positivamente en el desarrollo de nuestra potencialidad. Pero esa energía aparece muchas veces dormida, apagada, y desperdiciada. Vivimos arraigados a convencionalismos incuestionables, llenos de miedos, mitos, mandatos irracionales, imposiciones en vez de explicaciones, o...
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love. Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean and beyond, Everything Inside is at once wide in scope and intimate, as it explores...
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KIDS: Jarod Roselló
KIDS: Jarod Roselló
Two Latinx kids battle supernatural threats to their working-class neighborhood with the power of science, magic, and a pair of very special hoodies. Red Panda and Moon Bear are the defenders of their community! Together, these brave siblings rescue lost cats, scold bullies, and solve mysteries, all before Mami and Papi get home. But lately......
Philip Mudd
Philip Mudd
“An insider’s view of life inside the CIA following 9/11, when all the old protocols were off…A revealing and engaging account of life in the shadows.” —Kirkus Reviews Heated debates about torture were ignited in 2014 after the US Senate published a report of the Program, detailing the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" to draw...
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Daniel Pedreira
Daniel Pedreira
This book presents a meticulously-researched biography on Guillermo Belt Ram rez, one of Cuba's most important diplomats of the 20th century. As Ambassador, Belt represented his homeland in the United States and the Soviet Union as the Cold War turned wartime allies into enemies. He also represented a generation of diplomats who, after bearing witness...
Rick Ross
Rick Ross
The highly-anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming of age amid Miami's crack epidemic, his star-studded controversies, and his unstoppable rise to fame. Making an exclusive appearance in the city that shaped him, Rick Ross will be in conversation with rapper N.O.R.E. with an introduction by DJ Supa Cindy. The event is held...
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¡Tómate una copa y escribe mejor!, con Lourdes Vázquez
¡Tómate una copa y escribe mejor!, con Lourdes Vázquez
Una tertulia literaria guiada. Embriaga a tu editor interno y exprésate con libertad. Así es como funciona: te damos un tema, escribes durante diez minutos. Si quieres, compartes el texto con el resto de los participantes. Hacemos una pausa para socializar y para que tomes una copa. Repetimos la dinámica. Tema: Ese yo, ¿de qué fibra...
An Evening with Zulema Arroyo Farley
An Evening with Zulema Arroyo Farley
The Last Lecture meets The Bright Hour in this poignant account of how the Latina Medium, Zulema Arroyo Farley, lives life to the fullest, refusing to let a rare form of cancer and chronic illnesses determine her destiny. On Zulema’s fourth date with the man who is now her husband, they created a “Life List” of adventures they...
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Suniland Five Minute Pieces
Suniland Five Minute Pieces
Join us for a free reading event! Sign up to read your own creative work to an engaged audience of writers and readers. 5-minute slots for aspiring writers! Sign up @ the door Featuring P. Scott Cunningham and Caridad Moro
Seanne Murray
Seanne Murray
The Art of Submission: The Woman's Guide to Fulfillment is the beginning of a new wave of feminism, moving from #metoo to #iam, away from victimization and toward self-actualization and empowerment on our own terms. The attainable goal is independent, self-created, unadulterated fulfillment. So, sit back, savor and prepare for all the satisfaction you desire...
Joanna Johnson
Joanna Johnson
How do Caribbean writers see the British countryside? Do they feel included, ignored, marginalized? In Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside, Joanna Johnson shows how writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Grace Nichols, Andrea Levy, and Caryl Phillips have very different and unexpected responses to this rural space. Johnson demonstrates how...
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FIRST DRAFT: A Literary Social
FIRST DRAFT: A Literary Social
Have a drink. Write a story. Have another drink. Write a better story. Instructor: TBA Theme: TBA Miami Book Fair presents First Draft, a series of informal writing events that turn happy hours into great stories. You’re inspired. But you’re also thirsty. Swing by a First Draft event for a drink (the first one’s on the...
Ali Wenzke
Ali Wenzke
A comprehensive, upbeat guide to help you survive the moving process from start to finish, filled with fresh strategies and checklists for timing and supplies, choosing which items to toss and which to keep, determining the best place to live, saying farewell and looking forward to hello. Moving is a major life change—time consuming, expensive,...
Héctor Manuel Gutiérrez en conversación con Lilliam Moro
Héctor Manuel Gutiérrez en conversación con Lilliam Moro
Books & Books presenta Cuando el viento es amigo en conversación con la poeta Lilliam Moro. Cuando el viento es amigo es lo que pudiera llamarse un libro que trata de encerrar la lucidez de la convivencia; que mira el discurrir, el vacío y las pequeñas y grandes desventuras de la existencia. Diría que en este...
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Ana Maria Jaramillo
Ana Maria Jaramillo
Este libro es una guia practica para todos aquellos padres que quieran ayudar a sus hijos a atravesar con exito el complicado sistema educativo de Estados Unidos, analizado por una avezada periodista y madre de dos alumnas universitarias. COMPRA EL LIBRO AQUÍ Acera de la autora: Ana Maria Jaramillo es periodista por más de 25 años y...
Michele Gelfand
Michele Gelfand
A celebrated social psychologist offers a radical new perspective on cultural differences that reveals why some countries, cultures, and individuals take rules more seriously and how following the rules influences the way we think and act. In Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, Michele Gelfand, “an engaging writer with intellectual range” (The New York Times Book Review), takes us...
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FOR KIDS: Brad Meltzer
FOR KIDS: Brad Meltzer
Drop your gently-used children’s books into the Read to Learn Books for Free bin and stay to have lunch with us and learn all about Walt Disney and Marie Curie with best-selling New York Times author Brad Meltzer. Brad will sign books after the presentation. California Pizza Kitchen, 300 Miracle Mile, will donate a portion...
Lilyam Martinó
Lilyam Martinó
El escudo de David es una novela que combina hechos reales con ficción, para destacar la lucha por la libertad y la defensa de los valores democráticos en un país llamado Venedicta, gobernado por un régimen despótico que abusó de su autoridad para atropellar los derechos de los ciudadanos a vivir en libertad y con dignidad...
Ryan Stoa
Ryan Stoa
How the future of post-legalization marijuana farming can be sustainable, local, and artisanal. What will the marijuana industry look like as legalization spreads? Will corporations sweep in and create Big Marijuana, flooding the market with mass-produced weed? Or will marijuana agriculture stay true to its roots in family farming, and reflect a sustainable, local, and...
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Encuentro con Margarita Cano
Encuentro con Margarita Cano
Artista visual y promotora de cultura Ven para compartir una noche con nosotros y la Fundación Cuatrogatos en homenaje a la artista visionaria Margarita Cano. Margarita estará en conversación con Sergio Andricaín, escritor y cocreador de la Fundación Cuatrogatos y Alina Interián, directora ejecutiva de el Florida Center for the Literary Arts en Miami Dade College. Ejemplares...
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FOR KIDS: Pablo Cartaya
FOR KIDS: Pablo Cartaya
From award-winning author Pablo Cartaya comes a deeply moving middle grade novel about a daughter and father finding their way back to each other in the face of their changing family and community. RSVP HERE FOR FREE Emilia Torres has a wandering mind. It's hard for her to follow along at school, and sometimes she...
Gina Rippon
Gina Rippon
A breakthrough work in neuroscience and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience, finally debunking the myth that there is a biological distinction between male and female brains For decades if not centuries, science has backed up society's simple dictum that men and women are hardwired differently, that the world is divided into...
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A Taste of Coral Gables: Cookbook Launch Party
A Taste of Coral Gables: Cookbook Launch Party
Sip, taste and celebrate with us as we launch a brand new Coral Gables-centric cookbook, A Taste of Coral Gables, a Culinary Tour and Recipes from the City Beautiful (Books & Books Press, $39.99). From busy Giralda Plaza and Miracle Mile to the outlying coffee houses and eateries, over 70 restaurants and recipes reflect the diverse, multi-cultural...
Valerie Valdes
Valerie Valdes
A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure. Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for...
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Christian Beyer
Christian Beyer
Presenta El ciclo del espíritu: Una matriz de vida En esta obra, Christian Beyer nos introduce de la mano en el mundo de la metafísica más profunda. Sintetizando conocimientos de una gran diversidad de fuentes espirituales consigue que la información contenida en una simple caries nos permita resolver conflictos de todo tipo.Como dice el autor:...
Carol Damian, Michael J. LaRosa & Steve Stein
Carol Damian, Michael J. LaRosa & Steve Stein
Art meets today’s political debate over immigration in this beautifully illustrated exploration of Nicario Jiménez Quispe’s retablos. This full-color book offers a unique depiction of the current immigration debate through the lens of renowned Peruvian artist Nicario Jiménez Quispe, himself an immigrant to the United States. An internationally recognized folk artist, Jiménez creates work that powerfully...
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An Evening with Candace Bushnell
An Evening with Candace Bushnell
Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the wilds and lows of sex and dating after fifty. Set between the...
Cuentomania 2019: Segunda lectura
Cuentomania 2019: Segunda lectura
Con grato orgullo le damos la bienvenida a la primera lectura de Cuentomanía, un concurso de escritura en vivo patrocinado por The Betsy South Beach, Suburbano Ediciones, Gloria Noriega, Miami Book Fair y Books & Books. Un lugar donde nuestra comunidad de escritores y lectores encuentran vida en la peculiaridad de historias y en la gratificante tarea de la expresión....
Michael Touchton
Michael Touchton
American communities face serious challenges when military bases close. But affected municipalities and metro regions are not doomed. Taking a long-term, flexible, and incremental approach, Michael Touchton and Amanda J. Ashley make strong recommendations for collaborative models of governance that can improve defense conversion dramatically and ensure benefits, even for low-resource municipalities. As Salvaging Community...
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An Evening with Candace Bushnell in conversation with Brett Graff
An Evening with Candace Bushnell in conversation with Brett Graff
REGISTER HERE FOR THE EVENT In conversation with BRETT GRAFF Brett Graff is SocialMiami.com’s managing editor and has been a journalist covering money, people and power for over 20 years. Graff contributes to national media outlets including Reuters, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Maxim, and the PBS show, Nightly Business Report. A former U.S. government economist, her nationally syndicated column The Home...
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José Iturriaga
José Iturriaga
La memoria y el recuerdo forman parte del equipaje del que se va y deja atrás parte de una vida. El tiempo pone márgenes y silencios en la fragilidad de un corazón que siente que algo en su interior quedó detenido y de ahí la necesidad de compartir lugares comunes que un día fueron albergue...
South Florida Writers Association
South Florida Writers Association
We cordially invite you to the next installment of the South Florida Writers Association's Authors Showcase Series in collaboration with Books & Books @ Suniland in Pinecrest, featuring authors Mort Laitner & Keitha Burnett. Mort Laitner’s first picture book, The Hanukkah Bunny takes the reader to the Catskill Mountains in the fifties and the sixties, (remember...
LAUNCH EVENT: Making Good Time: True Stories of How We Do, and Don’t, Get Around in South Florida
LAUNCH EVENT: Making Good Time: True Stories of How We Do, and Don’t, Get Around in South Florida
Ever been robbed via canal? Divorced on the 95 express bus? Had your car break-down on an off-ramp? This anthology of “only in Miami” stories embraces the entire, zany experience of getting around in Miami. Edited and with an Introduction by Lynne Barrett Lynne Barrett is the award-winning author of Magpies and editor of Making...
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KIDS: Silvia Lopez
KIDS: Silvia Lopez
Discover the beauty of Handimals: hands modeled and painted into animals paired with facts and photos of the corresponding animals in nature. With a gift for fine art and a lifelong love of nature, Guido paints magnificent animal subjects on an unconventional canvas―human hands. This awe–inspiring collection showcases sixteen creatures ranging from polar bears to...
Lyn Millner
Lyn Millner
For five days in December 1908 the body of Cyrus Teed lay in a bathtub at a beach house just south of Fort Myers, Florida. His followers, the Koreshans, waited for signs that he was coming back to life. They watched hieroglyphics emerge on his skin and observed what looked like the formation of a...
Frances Fox: Mood Mantras
Frances Fox: Mood Mantras
Did you know that particles of negative emotions can congest in your home/ office and even transfer to your family? Learn how to use point specific mantras to purify your mind and your home. About the Speaker: Author and lecturer Frances Fox is a world-renowned shaman, expert in alternative medicine, remote viewing and psychic researcher...
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Einat Admony
Einat Admony
“Fascinating. . . . This energetic and exciting volume serves as an edifying deep dive into Israeli food market culture and cuisine.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review With Shuk, home cooks everywhere can now inhale the fragrances and taste the flavors of the vivacious culinary mash-up that is today’s Israel. The book takes you deeper into this...
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Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot
The storm of the century is about to hit Little Bridge Island, Florida—and it’s sending waves crashing through Sabrina “Bree” Beckham’s love life… When a massive hurricane severs all power and cell service to Little Bridge Island—as well as its connection to the mainland—twenty-five-year-old Bree Beckham isn’t worried . . . at first. She’s already escaped one storm—her...
Letra Urbana presenta Menena Cottin
Letra Urbana presenta Menena Cottin
“Tomo un concepto complejo y lo convierto en algo sencillo pero lleno de significado” Menena Cottin crea libros. Escribe, ilustra y diseña. Libros que se catalogan “para niños”. Pero en realidad no tienen edad. Escribe para un lector activo que usa los cinco sentidos, como es evidente en su emblemático El libro negro de los colores,...
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Andrei Kozyrev
Andrei Kozyrev
Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, he was present when tanks moved in to seize the Russian White House, where Boris Yeltsin famously stood on a tank to address the crowd assembled. He then departed...
Michel Tessier
Michel Tessier
In his sixties, Michel loses first his father and then his mother, one after the other, in the space of four years... On top of the obvious pain of missing them, for Michel, a whole world disappears, the last link he had with his family’s history: Deported grandparents, aunts and cousins, all murdered, swallowed...
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Lynne Buchanan
Lynne Buchanan
Lynne Buchanan began photographing Florida’s inland waters to create artistic records of her connection with those waters and to learn lessons from being in the present moment and aligning with the flow of life. The more time she spent photographing waterways in her native Florida, the more she noticed what was being damaged and lost...
An Evening with Salman Rushdie
An Evening with Salman Rushdie
Books & Books is thrilled to announce that we will be hosting Booker Prize-winning, internationally-bestselling author Salman Rushdie as he launches his new novel, QUICHOTTE (Random House, $28) presented in collaboration with Miami Book Fair at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus Auditorium. Tickets are on sale now and include admission for (2) two guests and (1)...
Michael Deibert
Michael Deibert
A searing investigation of the factors that devastated Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, from acclaimed investigative reporter Michael Deibert. When Hurricane Maria roared across Puerto Rico in September 2017, it devastated the island. It was an unprecedented natural disaster, a category 5 major hurricane, and ultimately responsible for the deaths of more...
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An Evening with Ann Patchett
An Evening with Ann Patchett
Books & Books is pleased to welcome Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, for a discussion of her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. “'Do you think...
Santi y Laurita
Santi y Laurita
El amor puede ser una cosa complicada, pero es la fuerza más grande que mueve al mundo. Esta es la historia de una argentina y un colombiano muy diferentes que se conocieron, se casaron y, en la luna de miel, se dieron cuenta de que eran dos desconocidos. De una manera divertida, y seria a...
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Daisy Hernández in conversation with Andrea L. Pino-Silva
Daisy Hernández in conversation with Andrea L. Pino-Silva
Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of color It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from...
Jane Leavy
Jane Leavy
He lived in the present tense—in the camera’s lens. There was no frame he couldn’t or wouldn’t fill. He swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. Like all the new-fangled gadgets then flooding the marketplace—radios, automatic clothes washers, Brownie cameras, microphones and loudspeakers—Babe Ruth "made impossible events happen." Aided...
NEW DATE: Maika & Maritza Moulite
NEW DATE: Maika & Maritza Moulite
This event had been RESCHEDULED due to Hurricane Dorian. NEW Date: Saturday, September 28 in Coral Gables Time: 8:00pm When a school presentation goes very wrong, Alaine Beauparlant finds herself suspended, shipped off to Haiti and writing the report of a lifetime… You might ask the obvious question: What do I, a seventeen-year-old Haitian American...
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Fefi Teve Presenta: Poesia del Alma!
Fefi Teve Presenta: Poesia del Alma!
Escritoras invitada: Versos del Valle – Vilma Olivares COMPRA EL LIBRO AQUI La Convivencia en Armonía – Yelina Nieto COMPRA EL LIBRO AQUI Mis Huellas – Olga Muñoz COMPRA EL LIBRO AQUI
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Avan Jogia
Avan Jogia
Books & Books is pleased to present actor Avan Jogia and his debut poetry collection, Mixed Feelings: Poems & Stories. Join us as Avan presents excerpts from Mixed Feelings set to musical and visual accompaniment, and explores what it means to be mixed-race within a world increasingly fixated on racial identity. Book signing to follow....
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Phakyab Rinpoche
Phakyab Rinpoche
In 2003, Tibetan lama Phakyab Rinpoche was admitted to the emergency clinic of the Program for Survivors of Torture at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. After a dramatic escape from imprisonment in China, at the hands of authorities bent on uprooting Tibet's traditional religion and culture, his ordeal had left him with life-threatening injuries, including gangrene of...
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Henrique Salas Römer
Henrique Salas Römer
UNA AVENTURA INTELECTUAL A BORDO DEL TREN DE LA HISTORIA HACIA LOS RETOS DEL PRESENTE Y EL FUTURO Si Galileo fue condenado por sostener que la Tierra gira en torno al Sol, nuestro autor bien podría correr una suerte similar al demostrar que la Historia es un proceso conformado por ciclos que, entrelazados, se extienden...
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Rocco Ceo & Joanna Lombard
Rocco Ceo & Joanna Lombard
Building Eden: The Beginning of Miami-Dad eCounty's Visionary Park System is a concise and evocative introduction to the two men most responsible for the development of South Florida's earliest parks and their beginnings as roadside improvements to what is today the nation's third largest county park system. Building Eden tells the story of Depression-era Miami and...
Frederick A. de Armas
Frederick A. de Armas
Presenta Sinfonía salvaje and El abra del Yumurí Havana, July 26, 1959. The disoriented members of Cuba’s high society and petite bourgeoisie realize that their position, wealth, and even life are in danger. Frederick de Armas’ second novel Sinfonía salvaje (Savage Symphony, 2019) deals with panic, delirium, the immense possibilities that open and close, in...
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Victoria Riskin – Fay Wray & Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir — Screening of King Kong at the Coral Gables Art Cinema
Victoria Riskin – Fay Wray & Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir — Screening of King Kong at the Coral Gables Art Cinema
Her mother was King Kong’s love interest and her father, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of It Happened One Night. Victoria Riskin, author of Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir, will introduce this screening of King Kong and take questions from the audience. King Kong has been spun-off (think Godzilla) and remade a number of times,...
J.A. Jance
J.A. Jance
Join Books & Books for a BOOK TALK and BINGO NIGHT with New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance. About Bingo: Each attendee receives a BINGO card with words that may be said by Jance at any time during her talk & Q&A. The first person to be seen waving their card above their head will...