MDC Wolfson Campus. Nov 11, 2011. 7:30 p.m. Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in American journalism and for the New York Times bestsellers The Greatest Generation and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections on how we can restore America’s greatness.
Books & Books, Coral Gables. Oct 29, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Join Michael Connors at Books & Books for an unprecedented tour of stunning and architecturally significant Cuban palacios, mansions, and private homes that have been meticulously preserved, previously un-photographed, and inaccessible to visitors.
Temple Judea Coral Gables. Oct 27, 2011. 7:30 p.m. Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this … +
Books & Books, Coral Gables. Oct 22, 2011. 7:00 p.m. Sam Shaw (New Yorker, b. January 15, 1912 d. April 5, 1999) was born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Internationally recognized for his photographs of films and movie stars, his interests and talents covered a wide array of subjects including music, theater, sculpture, painting, literature, journalism, and social … +
Books & Books, Coral Gables. Oct 11, 2011. 8:00 p.m. The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This … +
Books & Books, Coral Gables. Sept 23, 2011. 8:00 p.m. With honesty and heart-rending emotion, actress and filmmaker Dyan Cannon tells the story of her topsy-turvy relationship with Hollywood legend Cary Grant.
Books & Books Coral Gables. Sept 26, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Long one of our most acute and insightful novelists, Russell Banks often examines the indistinct boundaries between our intentions and actions. With his uncompromising and morally complex new novel, Lost Memory of Skin, the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist is at the peak of his powers as a writer.
Alliance Francaise of Miami. Sept 20, 2011. The comeback of South Beach in Miami Beach is one of the most interesting urban and cultural revivals of a city in modern American History. South Beach: Stories of A Renaissance captures the individual accounts of economic, cultural and political renewal that has created the dynamic international resort influenced by French Art Deco that is … +
Sept 20 at 6:30 p.m. and Sept 21 at 8:00 p.m. Randolph Henning will be discussing and signing his book The Architecture of Alfred Browning Parker: Miami’s Maverick Modernist on September 20th at 6:30 p.m., at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, and on September 21st at 8:00 p.m., at Books & Books, Coral Gables.
Books & Books, Coral Gables. Sept 20, 2011. 8:00 p.m. During World War II, German U-boats prowled the Atlantic, sinking hundreds of U.S. ships along the east coast, including the largest cruise ship in the world, Normandie, destroyed at a Manhattan pier after Pearl Harbor. Nazi agents even landed on Long Island with explosives and maps of railways, bridges, and defense plants.
Books & Books Bal Harbour Shops. Sept 17, 2011. 2:00 p.m. He was born that way – The Boy with Pink Hair. He had a cotton candy colored mop that no one had ever seen before…
Books & Books Coral Gables. Sept 17, 2011. Set against the maze of Madrid’s congested and contested streets, Learning to Lose follows four individuals as they swerve off course in unexpected directions. Each of them is dodging guilt and the fear of failure, but their shared search for happiness, love, purity and redemption, and above all, a way to survive, forms a … +
Bob Graham: The Keys to the KingdomSept 24, 2011. 1:00 p.m. Senator Bob Graham, former two-term Governor of Florida and eighteen-year US Senator, discusses his suspenseful novel, The Keys to the Kingdom (Vanguard Press, 2011). Following an explosive New York Times op-ed piece about the 9/11 investigation, a former Senator and co-chair of the Congressional Inquiry Commission is found dead near his … +
Sept 9, 2011. 7:00 p.m. This September, the Wolfonian Museum at FIU presents the film Twilight at the World of Tomorrow: Genius, Madness, Murder and the 1939 World’s Fair’s on the Brink of War by James Mauro (2010).
Wolfson Campus. Jul 27, 2011. 7:30 p.m. A story of body and spirit, rooted in the hungers of flesh and of the soul, The Kid brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones. We meet him at age nine, on the day of his mother’s funeral.
Books & Books Coral Gables. Jun 23, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Oscar Hijuelos has enchanted readers with vibrant characters who hunger for success, love, and self-acceptance. In his first work of nonfiction, Hijuelos writes from the heart about the people and places that inspired his international bestselling novels.
Books & Books Coral Gables. Jun 25, 2011. 5:00 p.m. Ozzy Inguanzo is a writer, independent producer, and lifelong movie geek with over a decade’s worth of professional experience in feature films. From development and pre-production, into production, post-production, and marketing, he has trained and collaborated with award-winning directors, producers, writers, designers, editors, and motion picture studios.
From Jun 13 through Aug 6, 2011. South Regional Broward College Library in Pembroke Pines will be hosting an adult summer reading program entitled “Novel Destinations”. Kick-off starts with a performance by Bluegrass Band, “The Shade Tree Pickers” at 3:00 p.m. on June 13th.
May 22, 2011. 2:00 p.m. On Sunday, May 22, 2011, at 2:00 p.m., Ellen Brazer will present a review at the Jewish Museum of Florida of her book, “Clouds Across the Sun.”
April 2011. A guest poet had Archbishop Curley Notre Dame High School students dynamically engaged in the celebration of poetry month. David Marcillo, author of “Terror to All Who Belong To This World” returned to interact with the current honors students of his former English teacher, Brother John Corcoran.
Books & Books Coral Gables. May 12, 2011. 8:00 p.m. As the first of 78 million baby boomers turn 65 this year, the discussion about longer lives in America has been entirely about the staggering economic costs of a dramatically aging society. But in this game-changing new book, renowned social entrepreneur Marc Freedman argues that we’re having an extraordinarily hard time acknowledging … +
Apr 28, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle. Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative, and discreet, means of income. In Georgia’s case it is six well-heeled lovers-one for each day … +
Books & Books Coral Gables. Apr 27, 2011. 8:00 p.m. New York Times bestselling author Charles Fishman brings us The Big Thirst, a fascinating journey into the secret life of water, a book that upends everything we think we know about the most vital substance in our lives. He takes readers from the wet moons of Saturn to the water-obsessed hotels of … +
Books & Books, Coral Gables. Apr 29, 2011. 8:00 p.m. For centuries we believed that humans were the only ones that mattered. The idea that animals had feelings was either dismissed or considered heresy. Today, that’s all changing. New scientific studies of animal behavior reveal perceptions, intelligences, awareness and social skills that would have been deemed fantasy a generation ago. The implications … +
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