Books & Books, Coral Gables. Apr 20, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Anchee Min was born in Shanghai and lived in China for 27 years. During the Cultural Revolution, she was ordered to denounce Pearl Buck as an American imperialist. Here is the incident in her own words, as well as what led Min back to Pearl Buck:
Books & Books, Coral Gables. Apr 25, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Acclaimed writer Francisco Goldman was a self-professed niñote, or man – child – unlucky in love, resistant to commitment – when he met the beautiful Aura Estrada, and the contours of his world shifted absolutely. Aura was a brilliant graduate student in creative writing whose forthrightness and passion for life was finally … +
Books & Books, Coral Gables. Apr 13, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Intensely lyrical and profoundly moving, One Hundred Names for Love is at once a tender love story and an inspiring chronicle of illness and recovery. Diane Ackerman brings us an absorbing, uplifting account of the near-miraculous recovery of her husband, the gifted writer Paul West, after a massive stroke that rendered him … +
Books & Books Bal Harbour Shops. Apr 20, 2011. 7:00 p.m. Drawn from the many workshops Elizabeth Berkley has conducted with teen girls across the country, Ask Elizabeth brings these revealing and intimate conversations to life on the page.
Apr 1 through 30, 2011. Is it possible to get all 2.5 million people in Miami-Dade County to encounter a poem in just thirty days? Who would even try? University of Wynwood is proud to announce the most ambitious project in its three-year history: O, Miami, a county-wide celebration of contemporary poetry.
Books & Books. Mar 18, 2011. 8:00 p.m. A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness – until she meets Ernest … +
Books & Books. Feb 24, 2011. 8:00 p.m. From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine.
Jan 2011. The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University has entered into an agreement with Books & Books, one of the nation’s most well respected bookstores, to bring noted authors, books and programming to the museum. With the addition of a café and culinary offerings by Chef Allen Susser, the museum becomes an even more popular destination in downtown Fort … +
Feb 13, 2011. 2:00 p.m. On Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. at the Jewish Museum of Florida, Ron Ruthfield will discuss his book, The Capital Underground. This program is free to members and free with museum admission.
Jan 22, 2011. 4:00 p.m. Edwidge Danticat will be at Books & Books Coral Gables on January 22, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. reading and signing her recent book Haiti Noir, with contributing writers M.J. Fievre and Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel.
Jan 15, 2011. 4:30 p.m. Whoopi Goldberg will be signing her two latest books Is It Just Me? and the newest in her children’s series, Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Terrible Terrel on January 15, 2011 starting at 4:30 p.m. in Books & Books Coral Gables.
Books & Books. Jan 11, 2011. 8:00 p.m. Joan Nathan will be discussing and signing her book Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France on Jan 11, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. at Books & Books, Coral Gables.
Temple Judea. Jan 16, 2011. 2:00 p.m. Mary Pope Osborne will be on Books & Books Coral Gables this month for a special talk about the newest in her series, Magic Tree House #45: A Crazy Day with Cobras. Also, author Natalie Pope Boyce will be present that evening to present her companion book titled Research Guide #23: Snakes and Other Reptiles. … +
Books & Books. Dec 16, 2010. 8:00 p.m. Enjoy Linda Gassenheimer’s tour of the food, sites and characters of the Florida Keys. Taste Keys samples by chefs from Hawks Kay Resort and Marina, along with Margaritaville’s Tropical Margarita’s. Entrance is free and open to the public.
Books & Books. December 28, 2010. 8:00 p.m. Tigertail takes great pleasure in launching the WordSpeak 2010 book and CD by Tigertail’s award-winning 2010 WordSpeak teen team.
Nov 29th, 2010. 6 p.m. Free enterprise and entrepreneurialism can be the driving force in creating a world that all people want to see
Books & Books Coral Gables. Oct 27th, 2010. 7:00 p.m. In 2002, a New York Times article about the DNA identification of the heart of Louis Charles – the young son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette – caught the eye, and emotions, of Jennifer Donnelly.
Jewish Museum of Florida. Nov 7th, 2010. 2:00 p.m. On Sunday, November 7th, 2010 at 2:00 p.m., Ann Helen Wainer will reveal how an old faded photograph prompted her to rescue the memories of her family’s plight during and after the Holocaust.
Oct 22nd and 23rd, 2010. Irish poet Paul Perry returns to the UM Coral Gables campus October 22nd and 23rd as part of the Goran Reading Series to honor his professor, Lester Goran’s 50-year teaching legacy.
From Nov 14th through 21st, 2010. The 27th edition of the nation’s finest and largest literary gathering, Miami Book Fair International, presented by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts (FCLA) at Miami Dade College (MDC), will take place November 14th – 21st, 2010 at the college’s Wolfson Campus,
Sept 30th, 2010. 8:00 pm. Author Ricardo Pau-Llosa, will be a Books and Books to discuss and share his newest novel, Living with Art, Philosophy, and Poetry on September 30th, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.
Oct 10th, 2010. 2:00 p.m. Hera Becker shocks the world by revealing a family secret in her book, My Cousin Killed Hitler, about Russian Marshal Georgi Zhukov.
Sept 27th, 2010. 8:00 p.m. An enraged man abducts his estranged wife and child, and holes up in a secluded mountain cabin, threatening to kill them both.
Oct 14th, 2010. 8:00 p.m. Tigertail Productions is launching Tigertail, A South Florida Poetry Annual: Selected Collective, Poetry, Prose and Projects by The Miami Poetry Collective.
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