Literature

Coral Gables Congregational Church. July 26, 2012. 7:30 p.m. When last we encountered Gabriel Allon in Portrait of a Spy, he was pitted in a blood-soaked duel with a deadly network of jihadist terrorists. Now, exposed and war-weary, he has returned to his beloved Rome to restore a Caravaggio masterpiece for the Vatican.

July 21, 2012. 7:00 p.m. Local author Tony Kapel will be releasing his fourth novel titled The Halls Ways on July 21st at Swamp space gallery at 7:00 p.m. This event will invite the curious readers to a look inside of the notebooks, sketchpads, and found treasures collected, and used during the books conception. As well as the artwork that made it … +

Presented at GableStage. July 30, 2012. 7:30 p.m. David Kwiat has been a professor in the Theater Division at New World School of the Arts since 1989. He is the recipient of an Endowed Teaching Chair and his many performances in South Florida have earned him two Carbonell Awards; “Best Actor” and “Best Supporting Actor.”

African-American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC)June 30, 2012. 2:00 p.m. Author and former school teacher Robens Chery comes to the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) on Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 2 p.m. to discuss his book, “The Mindset of a Teen” published in a parent’s edition and a teens’ edition.

Books & Books, Coral Gables. June 26, 2012. 8:00 p.m. It is 1977, and in rural upstate New York, Lemuel Higgins has the world on a string: a promising career with the New York Yankees and a beautiful young wife, Sarah, with whom he’s creating a new home and family.

Books & Books, Coral Gables. June 23, 2012. 7:00 p.m. If you think a healthy weight-loss program means choking down dry chicken breasts and “blah” broccoli – think again! In The Fun, Fit Foodie Cookbook, bestselling author, international wellness expert and super fitness model, Jennifer Nicole Lee, reveals her fat-blasting and muscle fueling recipes that your taste buds and your body will … +

From July 17 through 21, 2012. The Tigertail WordSpeak spoken word team will compete in Brave New Voices, the international youth poetry slam festival to be held in the San Francisco Bay area from July 17 to 21, 2012.

Books & Books, Coral Gables. June 30, 2012. 7:30 p.m. Few politicians have risen to national prominence as quickly as Marco Rubio.

Books & Books, Coral Gables. June 24, 2012. 7:00 p.m. Claire Doheney, recovering from a serious illness, agrees to house-sit in an oceanfront mansion on Chappaquiddick Island in Martha’s Vineyard. The New York book editor hopes to find solace, strength, and sufficient calm to finish her biography of the iconoclastic psychotherapist, Wilhelm Reich.

Books & Books, Coral Gables. June 14, 2012. 8:00 p.m. As Lawrence-Lightfoot notes, there are few examples in our culture to suggest how to approach exits with grace and understanding. We are focused instead on the idea of beginnings, the start of something rather than the acknowledgement of an ending. These questions of exiting are particularly timely as we live in a … +

Books & Books, Coral Gables. June 12, 2012. 8:00 p.m. It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, recently back from the war in Europe, shows up in the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy village of a few hundred people, nestled in the Valley of Virginia. All he has with him are two suitcases: one contains his … +

Books & Books Coral Gables. June 8, 2012. 8:00 p.m. The only writer ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel (Independence Day) Richard Ford follows the completion of his acclaimed Bascombe trilogy with Canada.

Books & Books Coral Gables. June 13, 2012. 8:00 p.m. When Sargent “Sarge” Shriver – founder of the Peace Corps and architect of President Johnson’s War on Poverty – died in 2011 after a valiant fight with Alzheimer’s, thousands of tributes poured in from friends and strangers worldwide. These tributes, which extolled the daily kindness and humanity of “a good man,” moved … +

Books & Books, Coral Gables. May 15, 2012. 8:00 p.m. With The Inquisitor’s Key, New York Times bestselling writing team of Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson, who write together as Jefferson Bass, strike off in a bold new direction, writing a high concept thriller that combines an international stage with a religious conspiracy, and of course their trademark authentic forensic investigation.

Books & Books, Coral Gables. May 16, 2012. 6:30 p.m. Books & Books wants to help kick-start someone’s ingenious idea! If you are in attendance tonight and sign-up to participate, Books & Books will invite you to submit your $100 Start-Up Idea by May 31st and with Chris’ help, we will select a winner to receive $100 to develop that idea. We’ll … +

Coral Gables Congregational Church. May 10, 2012. 7:30 p.m. The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in professional basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Procter & Gamble, Allen cashed in his retirement fund for a two-acre plot a half-mile away from Milwaukee’s largest public housing project.

May 4, 2012. 7:00 p.m. Yonnondio follows the struggles of the growing family of Jim and Anna Holbrook in the late 1920s and the Great Depression as they move from the coal mines of Wyoming to a tenant farm in western Nebraska.

Books & Books, Coral Gables . May 6, 2012. 4:00 p.m. Harold Kwalwasser has put together a call to action for education reform that makes a clear case for what has to be done in order to educate all children to their full potential. He visited forty high-performing and transforming school districts, charters, parochial, and private schools, including Miami-Dade and Broward County, … +

Books & Books, Coral Gables. May 4, 2012. 6:30 p.m. Jenny Lawson is an Internet phenomenon. Her irreverent blog, www.bloggess.com, averages millions or page views a month and she is one of the most popular bloggers on Twitter with 200,000+ followers and growing daily.

Books & Books, Coral Gables. April 27, 2012. 8:00 p.m. “One of the best American novelists of his day” (Janet Maslin, New York Times) and 2010 winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award (considered the world’s most prestigious story prize) Ron Rash is a writer of extraordinary power and grace. As he displayed in his New York Times bestselling, Serena, … +

April 30, 2012. 8:00 p.m. Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will visit Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Wolfson Campus to discuss her new book, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948, on Monday, April 30.