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COMPLETE CALENDAR... Monday, March 1, Gables
  Law of the Jungle (HarperCollins, $25.99)  by John Otis places the Colombian hostage story in its full context by exploring the inner workings of the FARC, the U.S.-backed war on drugs, and Colombia's efforts to free the rebel-held prisoners. 6:30 In her riveting memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me (William Morrow, $25.99) , Kaylie Jones—the daughter of author James Jones (From Here to Eternity) and an acclaimed author in her own right (A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries; Celeste Ascending; As Soon As It Rains)—tells the poignant story of her relationship with her famous father and her alcoholic mother, and of her own struggles with the disease. 8pm Tuesday, March 2, Gables
Parents and neighbors – come to the Courtyard at Books & Books for Coffee & Conversation with Miami-Dade Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. 9-10:30am  Join us for this YA doubleheader: In Conversation with authors Alexandra Diaz and Bonnie J. Doerr. Diaz and Doerr will interview each other about their new young-adult novels. Diaz wrote Of All the Stupid Things (Egmont USA, $16.99) : When a rumor starts circulating that Tara's boyfriend Brent has been sleeping with one of the guy cheerleaders, the innuendo doesn't just hurt Tara. It marks the beginning of the end for an inseparable trio of friends. Tara's training for a marathon, but also running from her fear of abandonment after being deserted by her father. Whitney Blaire seems to have everything, but an empty mansion and absentee parents leave this beauty to look for meaning in all the wrong places. And Pinkie has a compulsive need to mother everyone to make up for the mom she's never stopped missing. This friendship that promised to last forever is starting to break under the pressure of the girls' differences. And then new-girl Riley arrives, and suddenly Tara starts to feel things she's never felt before for a girl--and to reassess her feelings about Brent and what he may/may not have done. Is Tara gay--or does she just love Riley? And can her deepest friendships survive when all of the rules have changed?... Doerr’s newest is Island Sting (Leap Books, $11.99) : Kenzie trades New York streets for Keys pollution cleanup. When city girl Kenzie Ryan moves to a Florida wildlife refuge, she plunges straight into an eco-mystery. Instead of hailing cabs, she’s tracking down a poacher of endangered Key deer. Her new home does have some benefits—mainly Angelo, an island native, who teams up with her to nab the culprit. But will they both survive when the killer turns from stalking deer to hunting humans? 7pm With relentless faith, and against all odds, Cantor Estherleon Schwartz is singing. Schwartz weaves a poetic, self-effacing tale of how she finally came to find her voice in her newly released book, Tears of Stone: And My Deal with God (Estherleon Publishing, $14.95) . From German-occupied France where the nuns sheltered and hid her from the Nazis. To a narrow escape over the barbed wire fence at the Swiss border where her father cried to the heavens, "Save my daughter and she will always serve you." To America at age 8 with an emotionally destructive, embittered mother. To single motherhood at 23, and welfare in a cockroach infested apartment. To an empire of clothing stores. To personal tragedy... and, finally, with steadfast faith, to the fulfillment of her father's covenant and her own search for purpose and healing. 8pmTuesday, March 2, Bal Harbour Shops
  At its heart, bestselling author Lisa See’s Shanghai Girls (Random House, $15) is a story of sisters: Pearl and May are inseparable best friends who share hopes, dreams, and a deep connection, but like sisters everywhere they also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides. Along the way they face terrible sacrifices, make impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding novel hold fast to who they are – Shanghai girls. 7:30pm
LUNCH WITH LISA SEE at GROVE ISLE CLUB – Embraced by Biscayne Bay, The Grove Isle Hotel & Spa is a private getaway that feels like it’s miles away, yet stands right in the heart of Miami, just offshore of the exciting village of Coconut Grove; and is where Gibraltar’s star chef, Jeff O'Neill, provides its guests with a menu that delights and intrigues the sophisticated palate. Tickets are $50 and include an autographed copy of the book and lunch. RSVP: Monique McCartney, Director of Club Membership, 305-860-4319 or mmccartney@groveisle.com Tuesday, March 2, 11:30am, located at Four Grove Isle Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133. Wednesday, March 3, Coral Gables
 Movie screening: A unique collaboration between two indigenous filmmakers and an anthropologist, Owners of the Water is a compelling documentary with groundbreaking ethnographic imagery. A central Brazilian Xavante, a Wayuu from Venezuela, and a US anthropologist explore an indigenous campaign to protect a river from devastating effects of uncontrolled Amazonian soy cultivation. Owners highlights a civic protest showing strategic use of culture to bring attention to deforestation and excessive use of agritoxins in unregulated soy cultivation. The film features a diversity of Xavante opinions and evidence that non-indigenous members of the local population both support and oppose indigenous demands. 6:30pm Josephine Johnson’s S.S. Asteroid Or Tell It To The Bees (Cone Editions Press, $27.95) is the nostalgic, poetic and often humorous story of three actual and metaphorical voyages within the historic landscape of two world wars. On the first voyage, a young schoolgirl evacuates to America just before the Blitz; a second is made to recapture forty lost years in her beloved wealds and downs of Sussex; the last voyage she is unable or unwilling to complete. A fusion of history, personal memories and fiction, Johnson has written a moving account. 8pmThursday, March 4, Gables
 Dalis Freixa, the founder and chief executive officer of the nonprofit H.E.R.O. Foundation (an organization that offers homeowners strategic foreclosure prevention resources and advice), has written a book to help homeowners keep their homes – The American Dream: It's Not Forgottens. In a time where foreclosures are on the rise and home-prices are on the decline, homeowners are in desperate need of assistance. Freixa’s book provides help. It will help homeowners understand guidelines, organize their paperwork, and answer strategic questions so they do not miss out on the opportunity for more affordable mortgage payments while they remain in their home. Whether readers need a loan modification, foreclosure, or short sale, Freixa has found a way to explain all of their options in a very clear way. 6:30pm Despite the proven fact that stress is among the most common cause of health issues, most Americans do not know how to manage and reduce it. Author Bill Cortright presents The Stress Response Diet and Lifestyle Program (Xlibris, $19.99), an informative book based on his proven and highly successful program. His program has helped thousands face the challenges presented by our modern and hectic lifestyles and become more balanced, healthy individuals by countering stress-related weight gain and other illnesses. The Stress Response Diet and Lifestyle Program is a richly layered health guide that renders vital information useful to any and everyone, while underscoring that each individual has his/her own response to stress, hence, the detrimental effects present themselves differently in each person. Throughout this stress-response diet program, Cortright shares his innovative approach, built on hormone-balancing diets, supplement recommendations, and exercise routines that will help each individual create the lifestyle they need to counteract the damage done by their respective stress response. 8pmFriday, March 5, Gables
Global Caribbeans Symposium, 8pmLive Music in the Courtyard: Emmet Cohen Trio, 7-11pm (Gables) NEW! Live Music in the Breezeway, Miami Beach: Shawn Snyder, 8-11pm. Coral Gables Gallery Night: Officer’s Row: Photographs by Johanna Wolfe – Artist’s Statement: Decommissioned in 1966, the Brooklyn Navy Yard today functions as a busy industrial park. A small section of land within the Navy Yard was originally designated Officers’ Row, housing high-ranking officers and their families. Dating back to the 1860s, these once-elegant homes have been abandoned for decades and are rapidly turning to dust. Last winter, with an escort from the Army Corps of Engineers, I made several visits to the site and entered the remaining buildings that were still structurally sound. I was thinking of Aaron Siskind and Lewis Baltz, and focused on romanticizing the glorious decay. 7-10pmSaturday, March 6, Gables
Minister Willie Wilkins – The Last Chapter, 5pm.International Views Foundation Event: Lost Art of the Short Story– Lester Goran – In his 50th year at the University of Miami, Professor Goran’s work often draws on his upbringing, such as Tales from the Irish Club: A Collection of Short Stories. 7pmLive Music in the Courtyard: Sirens & Sealions, 8-midnightSunday, March 7, Gables
 Note: This event is in Spanish. Roberto A. Solera’s newest book is El jardin de mis recuerdos. Solera is the author of two previous books Cuba: Viaje al Pasado, Cuba en el Recuerdo. As a journalist Solera worked for the Miami Herald and its successor El Nuevo Herald for many years as a Copy Editor and translator from English into Spanish. Also he was a columnist for the news organization and later on worked as a translator from English for Newsweek in Spanish. Through his long career first in Cuba, later on in Costa Rica and until recently in the USA Solera has been involved in various fields in the private and public sector in Cuba in different capacities. 4pm For more than thirty years, writer Donna Schaper, author of Living Well While Doing Good has been known as a "crunchy" activist. She has supported community gardens, school lunch movements, and now the slow food movement. Her latest book, Sacred Chow: Some Holy Ways to Eat (Hansen-McMenamy Books, $12.99) is a comic and spiritual addition to the voices that are touting the greening and local and slow food movements. She uses sacred texts to talk about deep changes that will let us be green and safe. She writes of eating in a sustainable way on all levels at once - biologically, spiritually, politically, economically, and aesthetically. Sacred Chow is as much about spiritual sustenance as it is about food, and both topics are treating in a gloriously engaging fashion. 6pmMonday, March 8, Gables
 Much talk and practice about human rights proceeds without much regard to and often in ignorance of the interests and views of non-Western peoples and traditions. Human Rights: Southern Voices (Cambridge U. Press) presents in their own words writings on human rights by four different thinkers who deserve to better known: Dr Francis Deng, Adviser to the Secretary-General of the U.N. on prevention of genocide, is the author of many books on his own people, the Dinka of Southern Sudan. Professor Abdullahi An-Na’im, also from Sudan, is a leading liberal Muslim and theologian; Professor Yash Ghai (Kenya) has been a leading constitutional adviser in Asia and the South Pacific and Chair of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission; and Professor Upendra Baxi (India) is a former Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University and a leading public intellectual and activist. William Twining, a regular Visiting Professor at the University of Miami Law School, introduces the authors and compares their perspectives. 6:30pm Jeff Garlin has dedicated the filming of an entire season of Curb Your Enthusiasm to completely making over his lifestyle in two major ways—by lightening his physical and his ecological footprints. After many false starts, he believes that writing a book about the experiment – My Footprint (Simon Spotlight, $25) – is the only possible way to help him lose weight and go green. The hardest part of the endeavor is overcoming his food addiction. In addition to cutting calories, Jeff accidentally falls into a love affair with pilates, sweats with Richard Simmons, and twice visits the Pritikin Longevity Center, which he says is "rehab for people who eat too much pizza." Larry David’s rooting for him. Jerry Seinfeld’s plotting against him. And his wife is just plain annoyed by everything. `As far as going green, Jeff has always been a big recycler, but he has a lot to learn. For example, actor Ed Begley Jr. is the guy to call if you want to reduce your environmental impact. Jeff does, and it changes everything. He hopes that being healthy and green becomes a big part of who he is—if not now, when? 8pmMonday, March 8, Beach
 In his third book of poems, War Bird (Univ. of Chicago Press, $18) , David Gewanter takes on wartime America, showing our personal costs and inextricable complicities. The constructs of our social lives, the conventions of our political values, the ambitions of our private fantasies—all these collide comically and tragically. Here, the far right marries the far left, and the sacred is undone by the profane. Gewanter's ironic vision pulls together details from science, history, philosophy, the disappearing dailies, and the emotional life of an engaged and singular mind into poems on the move with tense rhythms, rich correspondences, and daring hairpin turns. War Bird gives the lie to the shining moral complacencies of the homefront. Unsettling yet radiant, this collection is a book for troubled times, for what Whitman called, in “1861,” our “hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year.” 7pmTuesday, March 9, BAL HARBOUR SHOPS
A Voyage Through Time is Margo Young’s story, the story of how a plucky 18 year old made her way out of pre-war Germany because she heard the goosesteps of the Nazis trampling her middle-class comfort before their boots actually bore down. Her story is about success, it’s about how to overcome adversity and succeed. It’s about how to enjoy the opportunities life gives us. 7:30pmTuesday, March 9, Gables
 When Henry Oades accepts an accountancy post in New Zealand, his wife, Margaret, and their children follow him to exotic Wellington. A single night of tragedy shatters the family when the native Maori stage an uprising, kidnapping Margaret and her children. For months, Henry scours the surrounding wilderness, until all hope is lost and his wife and children are presumed dead. Grief-stricken, he books passage to California. There he marries Nancy Foreland, a young widow with a new baby, and it seems they’ve both found happiness in the midst of their mourning—until Henry’s first wife and children show up, alive and having finally escaped captivity. Narrated primarily by the two wives, and based on a real-life legal case, The Wives of Henry Oades (Ballantine Books, $15) is Johanna Moran’s page-turning story of what happens when Henry, Margaret, and Nancy face persecution for bigamy in the changing world of the late 1800s. 8pmWednesday, March 10, Gables
 In less than a decade, a new breed of progressive media projects–from the Huffington Post to Air America to Brave New Films--not only have captured huge, nontraditional audiences, they also have shaped political campaigns, public debates, and policy in ways that could never have been imagined in a previous era. As the upstarts struggle to gain attention and respect in a media sphere dominated by corporate and entertainment interests and roiled by an influx of user-driven content, the fight is clearly on. In Beyond the Echo Chamber (New Press, $19.95) , media experts Jessica Clark and Tracy Van Slyke lay out a clear, hard-hitting theory of media impact, drawing on years of research, extensive interviews, and case studies with key media players and new media experts across the country. The book showcases influential projects such as TPM Café, FireDogLake, and Feministing, suggesting ways in which media makers can exploit changes in journalism, technology, and politics. 6:30pm A dynamic blend of history, science, psychology, dreams, and visions, Deborah DeNicola’s memoir – The Future That Brought Her Here (Ibis Press, $16.95) – is a compelling account of self-discovery that is provocative and humble. A poet, dream analyst, and college professor DeNicola writes about her struggle to live in the ordinary world of academia while honoring the competing call of the creative and the spiritual. Her visionary quest takes her to the American West, Israel, and Southern France. Along the way she weaves together references from the Bible and the Gnostic Gospels, the story of Mary Magdalene, medieval history, the Templar Knights, the Black Madonnas, String Theory and quantum physics to find the repeated linkage between divinity and humanity. Sharing the process of her awakening and how dreams and visions guide her, DeNicola stirs readers to listen courageously to their own inner voices. 8pmThursday, March 11, Bal Harbour Shops
 Meet Ruthie: a recently widowed New York City Jewish grandmother who doesn't necessarily come to yoga with the most open of minds (“The problem with yoga is it hasn’t mastered the art of kvetching.”). But when her granddaughter Stephanie gives her a year of yoga classes as a gift ("I think it will help you grieve, Bubbe"), she doesn't want to risk offending her. As Ruthie's journey progresses from week to week she forges new paths, new postures, and unexpected friendships, slowly overcoming her grief. Lisa Grunberger’s Yiddish Yoga (Newmarket Press, $15) is a poignant, witty, and human story of love in its many expressions–between grandmother and granddaughter, between an older woman and her younger yoga teacher, between a widow and her beloved husband of fifty years. As Ruthie learns to let go of her past without forgetting, she shows us how to embrace the present with new vigor, strength, and courage–and above all, makes us laugh. 7:30pmThursday, March 11, Gables
 Thriving in the New Economy (Wiley, $24.95) by Lori Ann LaRocco gives you a unique look into some of today's best economic and business minds. A series of close profiles, the book offers inspirational personal stories, useful advice, and actionable strategies you can use immediately to skirt financial peril, seize opportunities, and flourish in the New Economy. Profiles include financial publisher Steve Forbes, The Vanguard Group founder Jack Bogle, Former National Economic Council Director and Former Special Assistant to the President on Economic Policy Lawrence Lindsey, former FDIC chair Donald Powell, Saks CEO Steve Sadove, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. President Jim Lentz, legendary vulture investor Wilbur Ross and more. With a foreword by H. Wayne Huizenga and an afterword by Rudy Giuliani. Presented in collaboration with SCORE. 6:30pm Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her father entrusted her to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in upstate New York. Now, at twenty-three, her discovery of a 1943 letter from the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller to the late mother superior of Saint Rose Convent plunges Evangeline into a secret history that stretches back a thousand years: an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim. Rich in history, full of mesmerizing characters, and wondrously conceived, Angelology (Viking Adult, $27.95) by Danielle Trussoni blends biblical lore, the myth of Orpheus and the Miltonic visions of Paradise Lost into a riveting tale of ordinary people engaged in a battle that will determine the fate of the world. 8pmMonday, March 11, Beach
 From British interior designer Nicholas Haslam, comes this dazzling and witty account of a frenetic and full life – Redeeming Features (Random House, $30) – in Europe and America, in a crowd of friends and acquaintances that includes virtually all of the cultural icons of our time. Haslam has found himself at the center of some of the most interesting circles wherever he is—at parties, opening nights, royal weddings. In London in the late 1950s he crossed paths—and more—with Cecil Beaton, Francis Bacon, Diana Cooper, Greta Garbo, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, David Bailey, and Noël Coward. In Paris he met Jean Cocteau and Janet Flanner, and, in Saint-Tropez, danced with Brigitte Bardot. In the 1960s, in New York, he encountered Dorothy Parker, Cole Porter, Andy Warhol, Jack Kennedy, Joan Didion, and Marilyn Monroe while working in the art department at Vogue. Haslam moved to a ranch in Arizona to raise Arabian horses—Truman Capote and John Richardson, among others, came to stay—and he began designing and commuting to Los Angeles to decorate for the stars. 7pmFriday, March 12, Gables
 James Grippando's newest thriller, Money to Burn (Harper, $25.99) , takes readers to the inner circle of Wall Street, illustrating the very real dangers of what Warren Buffett called "financial weapons of mass destruction." At thirty-one, Michael Cantella is a rising star at Wall Street's premier investment bank, Saxton Silvers. Everything is going according to plan until Ivy Layton, the love of his life, vanishes on their honeymoon in the Bahamas. Fast-forward four years. It's the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, and Michael is still on track: successful career, beautiful new wife, piles of money. Reveling in his good fortune, Michael logs in to his computer, enters his password, and pulls up his biggest investment account: Zero balance. He tries another, and another. All of them zero. Someone has wiped him out. His only clue is a new e-mail message: Just as planned. xo xo. Michael is left alone, framed, and facing divorce, with undercover FBI agents afoot, spyware on his computer, and mysterious e-mails from a "JBU." Embroiled in corporate espionage, he's desperate to clear his name and realizes that several signs point to his first wife, Ivy, as a key player. But what if Ivy has come back from the dead, only to visit on Michael a fate worse than death? 8pmLive Music in the Courtyard: Federico Britos, 7-11pm (Gables) NEW! Live Music in the Breezeway, Miami Beach: D-Cadencia Flamenca, 8-11pm.Saturday, March 13, Gables
  Did you let the Pigeon drive the bus? Did you worry about finding Knuffle Bunny? Are you friends with Elephant & Piggie? Well, then it’s time for you to meet the man behind them all – Mo Willems. He’s an author, an illustrator and more fun than a pigeon driving a bus. And he’ll be sharing the newest from his “Easy Reader” series, An Elephant & Piggie Book: I Am Going! (Disney Book Group, $8.99) : Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In I Am Going, Piggie ruins a perfectly good day by telling Gerald he is going. But if Piggie goes, who will Gerald play ping-pong and wear silly hats with? Mo Willems, a master at comic pacing, delivers another perfectly delightful Elephant &Piggie tale that will have kids laughing as they learn to read. And there will be two new Cat the Cat books: Cat the Cat, Who Is That? and Let’s Say Hi to Friends Who Fly (Balzer + Bray, $10.99 each) . Cat the Cat sure likes her friends. You will too! Join this spunky feline as she introduces the very youngest readers to her world, where a surprise is waiting in every book! 4pm Zack Chasteen's old friend Mickey Ryser pays a surprise visit to deliver some bad news: doctors tell him he has only a few weeks to live and he plans to spend it on his private-island hideaway in the Bahamas. But Ryser has a favor to ask. He needs Zack to find his estranged daughter, Jen, whom Ryser hasn't seen in more than twenty years. He wants to make amends and spend what little time he has left with her. With little to go on, Zack embarks on a mission that will take him from one end of the Bahamas to the other. It's home to all sorts of rogues and rascals, with plenty of places to hide–a wonderment of islands that Zack calls Baja Florida (Minotaur, $24.99) . And it’s the newest thriller from Bob Morris. 5:30pm Note: This event is in Spanish. Olga Menendez’s Rompiendo Lazos (Obelisco, $14.95) is aimed at introducing the reader into the subtle and energetic world that exists beyond our perception. It is an invitation to become reconciled with our emotional body and to solve this way the energetic blockades that so often cause our misfortune, our diseases, and what is worse, our manifold incarnations. Everybody is wrapped in hanks of organic ropes and stagnant energies of very low vibrations caused by negative emotions, which prevent us from advancing and from fully developing. Knowing our energetic links is the first step to become independent and to feel free, light and happy. 7pmLive Music in the Courtyard: Max Farber Trio, 8-midnightSunday, March 14, Gables
 PJ Library Story Time: We’ve got one question – not four – for you: Are you ready for Passover? Get in the matzah mood with the PJ Library story and craft this month. The national PJ Library program supports families in their Jewish journey by sending Jewish-content books and music on a monthly basis to children. Presented in collaboration with the Greater Miami Jewish Federation. 3pm – Note the new time!Sunday, March 14, Bal Harbour Shops
PJ Library Story Time: We’ve got one question – not four – for you: Are you ready for Passover? Get in the matzah mood with the PJ Library story and craft this month. The national PJ Library program supports families in their Jewish journey by sending Jewish-content books and music on a monthly basis to children. Presented in collaboration with the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, the Miami Beach JCC and the Lehrman Community Day School. 12:30pmMonday, March 15, Gables
 Based on the life of the author’s own grandmother, The Blue Orchard (Touchstone Books, $16) , a debut novel by Jackson Taylor, is a beautifully drawn portrait of a woman with an indomitable spirit who is willing to do anything to build a better life for herself and eventually for her son. Verna is not afraid to ask if the color of a person’s skin is actually a reflection of his worth, whether life is better with faith or without, and how a woman might become keeper of her own fate. The child of dirt-poor Irish immigrants living in the hills outside of town, young Verna is taught to submit to her lot, and to stay small. On the eve of the Great Depression, her mother orders her out of school so that she can support her family by working as a maid. Verna’s first employer takes inappropriate liberties, leading to a shameful pregnancy and a lasting mistrust of the men. Yet, through sheer force of will and a few chance encounters, she continues to educate herself, becomes a nurse, and begins to defy the forces aligned against her. Taylor, the Associate Director of The New School’s Graduate Writing Program, interviewed nearly 300 people tied to the events he so artfully fictionalizes. Exploring issues of race, class, and gender, The Blue Orchard re-creates the experiences of the poor, agrarian, and uneducated people from the 1920s to 1950s.8pmTuesday, March 16, Gables
 Bestselling author Thomas Cahill tells the absorbing, heartbreaking tale of the hard life and tragic death of Dominique Green—wrongly accused, then executed in Huntsville, Texas—and shines a light on our racist and deeply flawed criminal justice system in A Saint on Death Row (Anchor, $14) . Green, an extraordinary young man from the urban ghettos of Houston, was utterly failed by every echelon of society—the Catholic Church, numerous U.S. courts of law, and even his own mother. But from the depths of despair on Death Row, he transcended his earthly sufferings and achieved enlightenment and peace, inciting an international movement against the death penalty and inspiring his personal hero, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to plead publicly for mercy. A Saint on Death Row is an unforgettable, sobering, and deeply spiritual account that illuminates the moral imperatives too often ignored in the headlong quest for judgment. 6:30pm In this hilarious and ultimately moving memoir – You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story (Crown Publishing Group NY, $24) – comedians and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that in marriage, all you need is love–and a healthy dose of complaining, codependence, and pinot noir. After thirteen years of being married, Annabelle and Jeff have found "We're just not that into us." Instead of giving up, they've held their relationship together by ignoring conventional wisdom and fostering a lack of intimacy, by using parenting as a competitive sport, and by dropping out of couples’ therapy. The he-said/she-said chronicle of their intense but loving marriage includes an unsentimental account of the medical odyssey that their family embarked upon after their infant son was diagnosed with VACTERL, a very rare series of birth defects. Annabelle and Jeff's unforgivingly raw, uproariously funny story is sure to strike both laughter and terror in the hearts of all couples (not to mention every single man or woman who is contemplating the connubial state). 8pmTuesday, March 16, Bal Harbour Shops
 Prepare for Passover with Poopa Dweck and the history, recipes and tips from her stunningly beautiful and extremely popular book, Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews (HarperCollins, $49.95) . When the Aleppian Jewish community migrated from the ancient city of Aleppo in historic Syria and settled in New York and Latin American cities in the early 20th century, it brought its rich cuisine and vibrant culture. Most Syrian recipes and traditions, however, were not written down and existed only in the minds of older generations. Dweck, a first generation Syrian–Jewish American, has devoted much of her life to preserving and celebrating her community's centuries–old legacy. Dweck relates the history and culture of her community through its extraordinary cuisine, offering more than 180 exciting ethnic recipes with tantalizing photos and describing the unique customs that the Aleppian Jewish community observes during holidays and lifecycle events. Dweck shares recipes from the traditional twelve–course seder. 7:30pmThursday, March 18, Bal Harbour Shops
Audiences have been flocking to the Contemporary Art Boot Camp lectures that Museum of Contemporary Art Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater delivers at the museum each month during MOCA by Moonlight. These lively talks are based on Ms. Clearwater’s original research and contact with artists who defined contemporary art. Join us at Books & Books Bal Harbour Shops for cocktails and a special Contemporary Art Boot Camp Preview where Clearwater will discuss the work of such influential artists such as Frank Stella and Andy Warhol and sign copies of her book, The Rothko Book (Tate/Abrams, $29.95). 7pm RSVP required. Call 305.893.6211 or email rsvp@mocanomi.orgThursday, March 18, Gables
 The king of the sports novel for middle-grade kids, Mike Lupica brings us his newest, The BatBoy (Philomel, $17.99) . It is every baseball kid’s dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, in the end he couldn’t leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father. There is no winning back some people, though. Just ask Hank Bishop—once the most popular player in baseball before he was banned for using steroids. Now he is making his comeback. And an unlikely friendship slowly develops between this man in need of a family and this boy in need of a father. 7pm Abandoned by his parents as an infant, Scully was reared in an orphanage, Huntington House. The only positive thing in his young life was the attention of the Home’s director, Walter “Pop” Dix. Pop, an avid surfer, would take a small group of kids for early morning surfing. He was the father none of them had ever had. That was thirty years ago. Now, Shane is forced to revisit these memories when Pop is found dead, the victim of an apparently self-inflicted shotgun blast in Stephen J. Cannell’s The Pallbearers (St. Martin’s Press, $25.99) . He leaves a message asking six specific people, all of whom attended Huntington House, to be his pallbearers, and Shane is one of the chosen. He and his fellow pallbearers don’t believe it was a suicide. That leaves murder. But why, and by whom? Together, the pallbearers embark on a dangerous odyssey in pursuit of justice for Pop, and for retribution against those responsible for his death. 8pmFriday, March 19, Gables
 Joanna Smith Rakoff 's richly drawn and immensely satisfying first novel – A Fortunate Age (Scribner, $15) , – details the lives of a group of Oberlin graduates whose ambitions and friendships threaten to unravel as they chase their dreams, shed their youth, and build their lives in Brooklyn during the late 1990s and the turn of the twenty-first century. There's Lil, a would-be scholar whose marriage to an egotistical writer initially brings the group back together (and ultimately drives it apart); Beth, who struggles to let go of her old beau Dave, a onetime piano prodigy trapped by his own insecurity; Emily, an actor perpetually on the verge of success – and starvation – who grapples with her jealousy of Tal, whose acting career has taken off. At the center of their orbit is wry, charismatic Sadie Peregrine, who coolly observes her friends' mistakes but can't quite manage to avoid making her own. This brilliant and ambitious debut captures a generation and heralds the arrival of a bold and important new writer. 6:30pm Into an austere community of Christian believers at the Church of Our Blessed Redeemer Who Walked Upon the Waters come the star-crossed Romeo and Juliet. In the world of Preston L. Allen’s Jesus Boy (Akashic Books, $15.95) , Romeo is sixteen-year-old Elwyn Parker, a devout and sincere piano prodigy, who learns too late that the saintly girl he has had a crush on all his life is inexplicably pregnant and soon to be wed to another. Juliet is the beautiful widow, Sister Morrisohn, age forty-two, who in the pain and confused emotions of her grieving, ends up in Elwyn's arms. Despite the problems posed by their age difference and the strict prohibitions of their strong religious beliefs, Elwyn and Sister Morrisohn's love is true, and as it grows among the ascetics, abstainers, and holy ghost rollers of their church, it exposes with wit, poignancy, and insight the dark secrets and ancient crimes of the pious. In Jesus Boy, Elwyn learns through tragedy and epiphany that the holy are no different from the rest of us. 8pmLive Music in the Courtyard: Negroni Trio, 7-11pm (Gables) NEW! Live Music in the Breezeway, Miami Beach: Nunca Siempre, 8-11pm.Saturday, March 20, Gables
 Naseem Rakha, author of the acclaimed novel The Crying Tree (Broadway, $22.95) presents a mini writing workshop on using fiction as a tool for social awareness, based on her own experience writing The Crying Tree. In the wake of her son’s murder, Irene Stanley turns her eagerness for his murderer’s execution into an unlikely and secret connection with that man, Daniel Robbin. Years later, Irene receives the notice that she had craved for so long--Daniel Robbin has stopped his appeals and will be executed within a month. This announcement shakes the very core of the Stanley family. Irene, it turns out, isn't the only one with a shocking secret to hide. As the execution date nears, the Stanleys must face difficult truths and find a way to come to terms with the past. Dramatic, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting, The Crying Tree is an unforgettable story of love and redemption, the unbreakable bonds of family, and the transformative power of forgiveness. 5pm Do you find yourself ruminating about things you can't control? Worrying about those yet-to-complete goals and projects? What about just feeling like you're not the person you want to be? People who worry and ruminate find it difficult to stop anxiously anticipating future events and regretting or rethinking past actions. Left unchecked, this tendency can lead to mental health problems such as depression and generalized anxiety disorder. The Mindful Path Through Worry and Rumination Letting Go of Anxious and Depressive Thoughts (New Harbinger, $16.95) by Dr. Sameet Kumar offers powerful mindfulness strategies derived from Buddhist spiritual practices and proven psychological techniques to help you stop overthinking what you can't control-the future and the past-and learn how to find contentment in the present moment. 7pmLive Music in the Courtyard: Emmet Cohen Trio, 7-11pmSunday, March 21, Gables
 Families, join us for this delightful presentation of the new book Pete the Cat (HarperCollins, $16.99) by James Dean and Eric Litwin. Kids will be enthralled and involved with this engaging event full of banjo playing, drawing demonstrations and story telling. Pete the Cat goes walking down the street wearing his brand-new white shoes. Along the way, his shoes change from white to red to blue to brown to WET as he steps in piles of strawberries, blueberries, and other big messes But no matter what color his shoes are, Pete keeps movin' and groovin' and singing his song . . . because it's all good. 3pm In addition to being a religious country-over ninety percent of Americans believe in God-the United States is also home to more immigrants than ever before. Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City (Rutgers U. Press, $24.95) focuses on the intersection of religion and civic engagement among Miami's immigrant and minority groups. The contributors examine the role of religious organizations in developing social relationships and how these relationships affect the broader civic world. Essays, for example, consider the role of leadership in the promotion and creation of "civic social capital" in a Haitian Catholic church, transnational ties between Cuban Catholics in Miami and Havana, and several African-American congregations that serve as key comparisons of civic engagement among minorities. This afternoon, Alex Stepick, professor of anthropology and sociology at Florida International University, explains why his book is important not only for its theoretical contributions to the sociology of religion, but also because it gives us a unique glimpse into immigrants' civic and religious lives in urban America. 4pm The traditional golf swing requires a level of coordination that few golfers have. So it's no surprise that, despite huge advances in club and ball technology, the average golf handicap in America has dropped by only one stroke since 1990. Maverick golf instructors Michael Bennett and Andy Plummer spent a decade researching the swing, eventually combining physiology and physics to create a method they dubbed the "Stack and Tilt." The result? Big-name pros like Mike Weir, Tommy Armour III, and Aaron Baddeley are already converts, and Bennett and Plummer are now two of the most soughtafter swing coaches in the game. Making these breakthroughs available to everyone, The Stack and Tilt Swing (Penguin, $30) is a handsome, fully illustrated, complete course, packed with more than two hundred full-color photographs that make it easy for golfers at all levels to adopt this radical yet simple approach. Enhanced with practice routines, a troubleshooting list, test cases, and point-by-point assistance, this is the breakthrough guide to golf's hot new secret weapon. Presented in collaboration with Green Monkey. 6pmMonday, March 22, Gables
 Virginia Jacko was a highly successful senior financial executive at Purdue University when she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa-in her case, she would go completely blind. The Blind Visionary (Governance Edge, $19.95) tells Virginia's true, inspiring journey-from having to start over in life as a vocational rehabilitation student at the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired to becoming the Lighthouse's president and CEO just four years later. One of only a handful of blind chief executives in the country, Virginia became an outstanding chief executive, doubling the Lighthouse's revenues and dramatically diversifying its program offerings. The coauthors discuss in the closing chapter four practical lessons, drawn from Virginia's odyssey, that will help readers find the courage to take action, create positive change, and live fully in the face of whatever challenges might come their way. 6:30pm  Chris Cleave wrote Little Bee (Simon & Schuster, $14) , and it has earned great praise and much acclaim. This haunting novel is about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers—one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London. But we don’t want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it. We can tell you that the author is a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London. His first novel, Incendiary, was published in twenty countries; won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award; was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize; won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Award; and won the Prix Special du Jury at the French Prix des Lecteurs 2007. His second novel, Little Bee, was shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Award for Best Novel. He lives in London with his French wife and three mischievous Anglo-French children. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn't. And it's what happens afterward that is most important. Once you have read it, you'll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds. 8pmTuesday, March 23, Bal Harbour Shops
 Does your heart race when your credit card bill arrives? Are you one flat tire or one emergency room visit from financial ruin? If you think a secure financial future is out of reach, you're wrong. Let Marianna Olszewski teach you how to love your money instead of running scared from it in Live It, Love It, Earn It: A Woman’s Guide to Financial Freedom (Portfolio, $24.95). Marianna didn't start out rich, happy and fabulous. A strapped-for-cash childhood motivated her to strive for abundance and financial independence-goals she exceeded by age thirty as a successful business owner and respected Wall Street player. Now Marianna reveals the lessons she learned on her own road to success and the savvy strategies of other amazing women. She shows how to let go of stress, break your bad money habits, take control of your finances, and finally achieve your goals and a happier, richer life. Live It, Love It, Earn It is full of true stories of ordinary women who have overcome tough challenges, such as climbing the corporate ladder, getting out of debt, and changing jobs mid-career, to get the life you want. 7:30pmTuesday, March 23, Temple Judea, 5500 Granada Blvd., Coral Gables
  Bestselling author and internationally acclaimed playwright Eve Ensler writes fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe in I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World (Villard, $20) . Moving through a world of topics and emotions, these voices are fierce, alive, tender, complicated, imaginative, and smart. Girls today often find themselves in a struggle between remaining strong and true to themselves and conforming to society’s expectations in an attempt to please. They are taught not to be too intense, too passionate, too smart, too caring, too open. I Am an Emotional Creature is a celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to speak up, follow their dreams, and become the women they were always meant to be. Among the girls Ensler creates are an American who struggles with peer pressure in a suburban high school; a Masai girl from Kenya unwilling to endure female genital mutilation; a Bulgarian sex slave, no more than fifteen, a Chinese factory worker making Barbies; an Iranian student who is tricked into a nose job. I Am an Emotional Creature is a call, a reckoning, an education, an act of empowerment for girls, and an illumination for parents and for us all. TICKETS REQUIRED. 7:30pmTuesday, March 23, Gables
 Art Deco in Shanghai and Miami Beach ($40) was published as a coffee table book by Don and Nina Worth as the culmination of a cultural exchange program between the two cities. The limited edition book features 100 color photographs, 50 of each city, taken by noted photographer Deke Erh, who grew up amongst the art deco buildings of Shanghai. Deke is recognized as the first freelance photographer in modern China. Introductory texts were written by Tess Johnston, Deke's collaborator in Shanghai and Clotilde Luce of Miami Beach. In pictorial form, the book reveals two disparate cities with surprising architectural similarities. Shanghai has the largest collection of Art Deco buildings in Asia. Tonight, the Worths, who initaited the project and produced the book, will do a power point presentation featuring the Art Deco buildings of Shanghai and Miami Beach. 8pmWednesday, March 24, Gables
 Email marketing is an incredibly cost-effective way to establish and build relationships that drive business success. But, it can also be a challenge because the inbox is a hostile environment. Whether your email is noteworthy—or an annoying waste of your customer's time—depends on your ability to stick to stick the fundamentals of good marketing and authentic relationship building. The Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing (Wiley, $24.95) by company founder Eric Groves presents best practices and relationship-building principles from America’s leading email marketing firm. With over 280,000 small business and non-profit clients, Constant Contact is constantly testing and learning what works and what doesn't, and it's all here. Whether you're starting your own small business or need to grow on a shoestring budget, this book will get you up to speed fast. 6:30pm From Lionel Shriver – the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World – comes So Much for That (Harper, $25.99) , a searing, ruthlessly honest new novel about a marriage both stressed and strengthened by the demands of serious illness. Shep Knacker has long saved for his retirement at an idyllic retreat to the Third World where his nest egg can last forever, and he’s ready to go. But Shep can't go anywhere because she desperately needs his health insurance. But their policy only partially covers the staggering bills for her treatments, and Shep's nest egg for The Afterlife soon cracks under the strain. Enriched with three medical subplots that also explore the human costs of American health care, So Much for That follows the profound transformation of a marriage, for which grave illness proves an unexpected opportunity for tenderness, renewed intimacy, and dry humor. In defiance of her dark subject matter, Shriver writes a page-turner that presses the question: How much is one life worth? 8pmThursday, March 25, Bal Harbour Shops
 Professor and legal expert Frederick Golder’s Uncivil Rights: A Guide to Workers' Rights (Beachfront Press, $15) is perfectly suited for these tough economic times. People are losing jobs at a record pace. The unemployment rate is the highest it has been in 26 years. As the job market continues to tighten, workers seem more expendable, and a more cavalier attitude toward workers' rights has a tendency to develop. Uncivil Rights describes in detail the laws that affect workers and provides strategies to use to avoid being one of the millions of American workers who will lose their jobs. With unemployment reaching record levels and a severe economic recession not seen since the Great Depression, this is the book you need to protect yourself. What are your rights at work? How can you resolve workplace disputes, and keep your job and your sanity? What resources are available for workers? What if you decide to sue your employer? What can you expect? 7:30pmThursday, March 25, Gables
FCLA Women’s History Month Group Reading, 8pmFriday, March 26, Gables
 Autographing only: Life doesn't get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays – Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang (Grand Central, $25.99) , the #1 bestselling author of Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea delivers one laugh-out-loud moment after another as she sets her sights on the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood. Family moments are fair game, whether it's writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or teaching her father social graces by ordering him to stay indoors. It's open season on her love life, from playing a prank on her boyfriend (using a ravioli, a fake autopsy, and the Santa Monica pier) to adopting a dog so she can snuggle with someone who doesn't talk. And everyone better duck for cover when her beach vacation turns into matchmaking gone wild. You must purchase a copy of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang from Books & Books in order to enter the signing line. 3pm  The bestselling, award-winning writer of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life and Aloft returns with his biggest, most ambitious novel yet: a spellbinding story of how love and war echo through an entire lifetime. With his three critically acclaimed novels, Chang-Rae Lee has established himself as one of the most talented writers of contemporary literary fiction. Now, with The Surrendered (Riverhead Hardcover, $26.95) , Lee has created a book that amplifies everything we've seen in his previous works, and reads like nothing else. It is a brilliant, haunting, heartbreaking story about how love and war inalterably change the lives of those they touch. June Han was only a girl when the Korean War left her orphaned; Hector Brennan was a young GI who fled the petty tragedies of his small town to serve his country. When the war ended, their lives collided at a Korean orphanage where they vied for the attentions of Sylvie Tanner, the beautiful yet deeply damaged missionary wife whose elusive love seemed to transform everything. Thirty years later and on the other side of the world, June and Hector are reunited in a plot that will force them to come to terms with the mysterious secrets of their past, and the shocking acts of love and violence that bind them together. 8pmLive Music in the Courtyard: Cat 5 Jam Session, 7-11pm (Gables) NEW! Live Music in the Breezeway, Miami Beach: Rose Max & Ramatis, 8-11pm.Saturday, March 27, Gables
 B z z z z z z z The buzzing sound? Do you hear that? There it is again. No? Well, I really shouldn't have asked. Most people can't hear it, anyway. But, if you could, you'd think it sounds like you're teetering on the edge of the universe. That's what Isabelle Bean thinks...and she's not that far from the truth. And when Isabelle starts listening to the buzz instead of, say, her boring teacher, strange things happen. She gets sent to the principal's office ("that's" not so strange), but then while awaiting her punishment, she tumbles into an adventure – into another world that's a little bit different, a little bit Hansel & Gretel-y, a little bit like a fairy tale, which would be great, but...did I mention that Isabelle is an unusual dresser? When she shows up in fairy-tale land wearing her favorite high, pointy boots, the fairy-tale people start thinking that Isabelle is a witch – and not just any witch, but "the" witch. From Edgar Award-winning author Frances O'Roark Dowell comes Falling In (Antheneum Books, $16.99) the unlikely story of Isabelle Bean – an ultimate misfit, an outsider extraordinaire, and "not" a witch. 11am Autographing only: As the co-host of MSNBC’s popular morning show Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski has established herself as a leading political news journalist and beloved television personality. But success hasn’t always come easy for Mika. Growing up the only daughter of a former National Security Advisor, she struggled to find an identity in a family of over-achievers. She found her dream job early on and was hailed as the "It Girl" of CBS, only to be fired just a few short years later. After an unsuccessful stint as a stay-at-home mom, Mika went back to the workplace with encouragement from her 8-year-old daughter. She took a job that seemed a long-shot at best, and against all odds achieved the greatest success of her career. Now, in a time when many women are losing their jobs or struggling to find the perfect balance between work and home, Mika guides women of all ages to a place where they can find peace and fulfillment in their lives in All Things at Once (Weinstein, $24.95) . You must purchase a copy of All Things at Once from Books & Books in order to enter the signing line. 2pm How To Never Look Fat Again (Grand Central Publishing, $26.99) is the new groundbreaking style-guide from bestselling author Charla Krupp on how to look 10 pounds lighter, 10 years younger and 10 times sexier every day, all year--in summer, winter, at the gym, even in a swimsuit! you’ll never get dressed the same way again once you discover smart, easy ways to hide arm flap, a big bust, a muffin top, back fat, Buddha belly, a big booty, wide hips, thunder thighs, and heavy calves-and that's only half the book. So, if you've ever put on a piece of clothing and asked "Does this make me look fat?" Finally, here is the book that will answer your question. 6pmSUDNAY, March 28, Gables
 Join us for this Post-Brunch Special with the editor-in-chief of Town & Country, Pamela Fiori and her book, In the Spirit of Capri (Assouline, $45): Jutting proudly out of the Mediterranean Sea, like a miracle of nature, Capri is one of the worlds chicest destinations the European pleasure island. It is a place where well-tanned Italians joyfully share the islands beauty with celebrities and emphatic island lovers: from limoncello, the native digestivo, to its eponymous Capri pants, to the bright turquoise jewelry and bejeweled sandals made famous by its glamorous denizens. In The Spirit of Capri is a colorful tribute to the isle adored by literary icons and the jet set alike. Fiori explains with resonant texts and vibrant images the effortless charm of this fabled island. 2:30pmShirley Dixon earned her Dental Hygiene degree from Northwestern Dental School in 1941. After spending twenty years in the dental field, she returned to school at the University of Miami, receiving a BA in Sociology with a minor in Elementary Education. She earned a Masters Degree in Special Education and taught special needs children until becoming Placement Specialist for the Dade County Public Schools. Retiring in 1988, she began writing children’s books and poetry. She won the grand prize in a contest sponsored by the Academy of American Poets for her poem, Uncle Misha. Join Shirley this evening, as she reads from her new collection of poems, Sighs and Echos ($9.95) and Wild Guesses: A Book of Riddles ($10.95). 7pmLIVE MUSIC, 8-12am Monday, March 29, Gables
Books & Books 2nd Annual Autism Awareness Forum: Please join our moderator – Books & Books’ own Jennifer Bird, who is the mother of two children with autism – as we present a Q&A session and networking opportunity for anyone interested in learning more about autism, including those people who are already living with someone "on-the-spectrum". Panelists will include Lula Folgosa from Autism Speaks, Jennifer Stella-Durocher from the UM-CARD Center, Haley Moss, a middle schooler and author who has Asperger's Syndrome, and pediatric neurologist Dr. Sara Dorison. 7pm Please note – there will be NO CHILDCARE at the event. Tuesday, March 30, Gables
Note: This event is in Spanish: Descubre Tu Estilo: Tu Guía Para Vestir Mejor (Random House Mondadori, $19.99) por Martin Llorens es un libro dedicado a la mujer latina para orientarla en el arte de vestir según su tipo de cuerpo. El reconocido experto de moda y belleza, Martín Llorens revela los secretos que hasta ahora estaban reservados para un grupo reducido de estilistas y celebridades. Con un lenguaje sencillo, imágenes de mujeres latinas y ejercicios prácticos, las lectoras descubrirán todo lo que necesitan saber para sentirse bellas, elegantes y seguras. A través de ejemplos visuales y cientos de consejos, Martín presenta de forma sencilla y amena la mejor manera de aprender a reconocer los diferentes tipos de cuerpo y cómo vestirlos. Descubre Tu Estilo presenta la clave para proyectar la mejor imagen en cualquier ocasión, seleccionando ropa y accesorios de acuerdo a la forma del cuerpo y el estilo propio de cada mujer. Para demostrar los puntos positivos y negativos de cada tipo de cuerpo que deben considerarse a la hora de vestir, Martín seleccionó 15 mujeres latinas de todas las edades, tallas y estaturas, y las clasificó en cinco categorías. 6:30pm For millions of us, reunions whether a milestone high school reunion or extended-family get-together offer a wake-up call and the chance to check in with friends, relatives, and long-lost loves we once knew well. For many, they also shore up weight-loss motivation. In fact, some of us are only interested in losing weight when we've got a major event like a reunion on the horizon. In The Reunion Diet (Sunrise River Press, $12.95) , nutritionist and weight-loss performance coach Lisa Dorfman and health and nutrition writer Sandra J. Gordon offer a practical, self-help guide showing readers how to set specific weight-loss and other lifestyle goals and achieve them within the time allowed. At the core of the book is a diet plan that is calibrated by calorie levels according to how much time readers have to lose weight before their reunion. The book also includes a last-minute diet plan for those who may be reading the book without much time remaining before their reunion. Whether you've got 10, 20, 30 pounds or more to lose before your reunion, The Reunion Diet can help you look and feel great when mingling and reconnecting with those you may not have seen in decades. 8pmWednesday, March 31, Gables
 With Once a Spy (Doubleday Books, $25.95) , Keith Thomson makes his debut on the thriller stage with energy, wit, and style to spare. Drummond Clark was once a spy of legendary proportions. Now Alzheimer's disease has taken its toll and he's just a confused old man who's wandered away from home, waiting for his son to fetch him. When Charlie Clark takes a break from his latest losing streak at the track to bring Drummond back to his Brooklyn home, they find it blown sky high–and then bullets start flying in every direction. At first, Charlie thinks his Russian "creditors" are employing aggressive collection tactics. But once Drummond effortlessly hot-wires a car as their escape vehicle, Charlie begins to suspect there's much more to his father than meets the eye. He soon discovers that Drummond's unremarkable career as an appliance salesman was actually a clever cover for an elaborate plan to sell would-be terrorists faulty nuclear detonators. Drummond's intricate knowledge of the "device" is extremely dangerous information to have rattling around in an Alzheimer's-addled brain. The CIA wants to "contain" him–and so do some other shady characters who send Charlie and Drummond on a wild chase that gives "father and son quality time" a whole new meaning. Presented in collaboration with Association of Former Intelligence Officers. 6pm |
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