July @ Books & Books

A FEW HIGHLIGHTS…

imageESMERALDA SANTIAGO: 7/19, 8pm @ GABLES
The author of When I Was Puerto Rican brings us Conquistadora (Knopf, $27.50) , an epic novel of love, discovery and adventure. more»
imageLIBBA BRAY: 7/23,
7pm @ GABLES
[YA]
this is teen LIVE: The bestselling, Printz award-winning author of Going Bovine now takes readers into the secret lives of Beauty Queens (Scholastic, $18.99). more»
imageDANIEL SILVA: 7/26, 8pm @ GABLES
Set against the disparate worlds of art and intelligence, Portrait of a Spy (Harper, $26.99) is the bestselling author’s most extraordinary novel to date. more»
image MEG CABOT: 7/23, 7pm @ GABLES [YA]
this is teen LIVE: The bestselling author of the Princess Diaries series and “master of the teen genre” brings us Abandon (Point, $17.99) . more»
imageSAPPHIRE: 7/27, 7:30pm @ MIAMI DADE COLLEGE [T]
In The Kid(Penguin, $25.95) bestselling author Sapphire tells the electrifying story of Abdul Jones, the son of Push’s unforgettable heroine, Precious. more»
image MAGGIE STIEFVATER: 7/23, 7pm @ GABLES [YA]
this is teen LIVE: The bestselling author, artist and musician comes to us with the thrilling conclusion to the Shiver trilogy – Forever (Scholastic, $17.99) . more»


THE COMPLETE CALENDAR…

Friday, July 1, Gables

image arrowAuthor Henry Greenfield brings us his two new novels this evening. In Second Time Around (Createspace, $13) buy, an exceptional young teacher, Jeffrey, becomes a disillusioned idealist who takes action against a corrupt and dysfunctional educational system. When the State Board of Regents investigates charges against Borough Hall High, a national think-tank, The Center for Educational Progress, hires Jeffrey, the whistle-blower, to go undercover as a student. His mission is threatened while falling in love with his math teacher who unsettles and ultimately unmasks him. Jeff’s successes in converting teacher Verna Kimler to his cause are short lived due to inner city riots and Verna’s father, a minister who carries unbelievably negative baggage and hell-fire rule over Verna.
image In The Rabbi’s Girl (Createspace, $16) buy, a startling saga of rejection, revenge, and madness, travels the unmapped roads of the Great Depression. It charts a tossed-off girl’s marriage to a Catskill boy to spite his gangster brother. The triangle infects religious values, loyalties, and family stability in an America plagued by the mob, Murder Incorporated, anti-Semitism, and indenture. 8pm
arrowLive Music in the Courtyard: Federico Britos and Jorge Garcia, 7pm-midnight
arrowCoral Gables Gallery Night Opening: Selected Photography by Miami Dade College Students, curated by Joseph Tamargo, 7-10pm

Friday, July 1, Grand Cayman

image image arrowThe Red Umbrella (Knopf, $16.99) buy by Christina Gonzalez is the moving tale of a 14-year-old girl’s journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan—an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro’s revolution. In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía Álvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to her sleepy Cuban town, everything begins to change. And her family is being watched. As the revolution’s impact becomes more oppressive, Lucía’s parents make the heart-wrenching decision to send her and her little brother to the United States—on their own. Suddenly plunked down in Nebraska with well-meaning strangers, Lucía struggles to adapt to a new country, a new language, a new way of life. But what of her old life? Will she ever see her home or her parents again? And if she does, will she still be the same girl? 6pm


Saturday, July 2, Westhampton Beach

image image arrowMystery and suspense intertwine in Long Gone (Harper, $24.99) buy, the newest novel by bestselling author Alafair Burke. Alice Humphrey finally lands her dream job managing a new art gallery in Manhattan when Drew Campbell, a well-heeled corporate representative, hires her. Everything is perfect until the morning Alice arrives at work to find the gallery gone — the space stripped bare as if it had never been there — and Drew Campbell’s dead body on the floor. And the evidence against Alice mounting. When police discover ties between the gallery and a missing girl, Alice knows she’s been set up. Now she has to prove it — a dangerous search for answers that will entangle her in a dark, high-tech criminal conspiracy and force her to unearth long-hidden secrets involving her own family… secrets that could cost Alice her life. 7pm

Saturday, July 2, Gables

arrowLive Music in the Courtyard: Othello Molineaux, 8pm-midnight


Monday, July 4

arrow Happy Fourth of July!
Celebrate your Independence with a trip to your favorite Independent bookshop. Our Coral Gables store will be open 9am-6pm today. Bal Harbour Shops 12pm-6pm. And the Miami Beach store 10am-11pm.


Thursday, July 7, Gables

imagearrow Join United Teachers of Dade President Karen Aronowitz for coffee and conversation while helping students at the Overtown Youth Center! Aronowitz is hosting a “coffee and conversation” to discuss issues facing Miami-Dade County Public Schools and our students. UTD will be collecting school supplies and gift certificates for our Back-to-School Book Bag Drive. Help them reach their goal of 100 book bags! 7pm
image image arrowBooks for college students tend to be written by committee or college professors or administrators, highly detailed, and pedantic. College Fast Track (Fine Print Press, $12.95) buy isn’t. It is written by a peer student, Derrick Hibbard — a highly successful college student who went on to success in law school. College Fast Track focuses on immediately usable habits. Its goal is to help students improve in measurable ways, and in ways that provide greater — not less — time for enjoyment: success and less stress! College Fast Track is easy to read, pertaining to the essential habits for success in college. It cuts right to the most important issues. Better success, easier study, and higher grades and graduation prospects. 8pm


Friday, July 8, Gables

image arrowAn Iowa Soldier Writes Home (CAP, $25) buy — edited by Parvin’s great-great-grandson, Phillip A. Hubbart is an edited collection of 117 letters that a forgotten Union foot soldier, Pvt. Daniel J. Parvin, wrote home to his wife and family in Muscatine, Iowa, during the American Civil War (1861-64). With a keen eye for critical detail, he recounts the dramatic battles he was in – the Battle of Shiloh (where he narrowly escaped death), the Siege of Vicksburg (where he served in a reserve capacity) and the Atlanta campaign (where he was wounded and almost died). He expresses his views in colorful language on the people, events and politics of his day. And he often pours out his heart on the painful loneliness he felt away from home, and on the deep love he had for his family and country. 8pm
arrowLive Music in the Courtyard: Negroni Trio, 7pm-midnight


Saturday, July 9, Gables

arrowLive Music in the Courtyard: Brazilian Stylings by Mariana Martin & Steve Kornicks, 8pm-midnight

Saturday, July 9, Westhampton Beach

image image arrowFrom the author of the highly addictive and bestselling Blue Bloods series, with almost 3 million copies sold, comes a new novel, Witches of East End (Hyperion, $23.99) buy, Melissa de la Cruz’s first novel for adults, featuring a family of formidable and beguiling witches. The three Beauchamp women — Joanna and her daughters Freya and Ingrid — live in North Hampton, out on the tip of Long Island. They are harboring a mighty secret: They are powerful witches banned from using their magic for centuries. But then Freya, who is about to get married to the wealthy and mysterious Bran Gardiner, finds that her increasingly complicated romantic life makes it more difficult than ever to hide her secret. Soon Ingrid and Joanna confront similar dilemmas. They unearth their wands from the attic, dust off their broomsticks, and begin casting spells on the townspeople. It all seems like a bit of good-natured, innocent magic, but when a young girl disappears over the Fourth of July weekend, they realize it’s time to uncover who and what dark forces are working against them. 7pm


Tuesday, July 12, Gables

arrowThe Importance of Art and Illustration in the New Urbanism: Lively, beautiful, urban places are making a comeback across the United States, and the New Urbanism is an international design movement leading the way in this rebirth. New Urbanists produce vivid illustrations to communicate with communities deciding what they’d like to be when they grow up. These illustrations are both crucial urban design tools, and works of art in their own right. James Dougherty will discuss how New Urbanists are rediscovering the lost art of designing and illustrating beautiful, walkable places for people. Dougherty is Director of Design and Illustrator at Dover, Kohl & Partners, an internationally recognized town planning and urban design practice in Coral Gables. 7pm


Wednesday, July 13, Gables

image arrowAs we age, it’s natural to see some loss of strength, flexibility, balance, and aerobic endurance. But today’s aging population isn’t willing to just sit back and accept these declines. They’re looking for ways to maintain a high quality of life throughout their older years. Bending the Aging Curve: The Complete Exercise Guide for Older Adults (Human Kinetics, $44) buy offers a systematic approach to designing exercise programs that will help older adults bend or straighten these curves of decline, resulting in more years of strength, vitality, and independence. Dr. Joseph F. Signorile provides a unique look at how to address the multi-faceted needs of each individual using functional diagnoses to design targeted exercise programs. 8pm


Thursday, July 14, Museum of Art

image image arrowBefore Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, no federal databases of crimes against children, no pedophile registry. His 1981 abduction and murder—unsolved for over a quarter of a century—forever changed America. While our lives have been significantly altered by Adam Walsh’s case, few of us know the whole story—how, after more than twenty-seven years of relentless investigation, decorated Miami Beach homicide detective Joe Matthews finally identified Adam’s killer. Bringing Adam Home (Ecco, $24.99) buy written by Les Standiford is the definitive account of this horrifying crime — which, like the Lindbergh kidnapping fifty years earlier, captured public attention — and its aftermath, a true story of tragedy, love, faith, and dedication. It reveals the pain and tenacity of a family determined to find justice, the failed police work that allowed a killer to remain uncharged, and the determined efforts of one cop who accomplished what an entire legal system could not. 6:30pm


Friday, July 15, Gables

image arrowGib’s Odyssey (Lyon, $22.95) buy is the true story of Gib Peters, and his solo journey along the Intracoastal Waterway from Key West to New York and back while suffering the ravages of Lou Gehrig’s disease. On an astonishing six-month voyage, Gib and his boat, Ka-Ching, encounter everything from an incompetent sailboat captain who lets his tow-rope wrap around Ka-Ching’s propellers and when he dives into the water to cut it loose accidentally stabs himself with his knife, to the Navy and Coast Guard Zodiacs rushing to stop him from entering a naval bombardment zone. All the while, he is forced to cope with increasing levels of paralysis, steering the boat home with his feet and unable to speak. Authored by Gib’s neurologist, Dr. Walter G. Bradley, Gib’s Odyssey is told in Gib’s own voice through a series of e-mails and articles he wrote for the Key West Citizen. Part travelogue, part soul-searching meditation, it is the uplifting and sometimes hilarious story of one man’s conquest of death and his profound insights into life. 8pm
arrowLive Music in the Courtyard: Capricho, 7pm-midnight


Saturday, July 16, Gables

image image arrowYA doubleheader: Meet Almira Abdul, Middle Eastern mutt and Miamian in Miami Beach author Medeia Sharif’s debut novel, Bestest. Ramadan. Ever. (Flux, $9.95) buy. Almira is also the only Muslim in her school, until Shakira Malik arrives. Shakira, the wearer of super short skirts. Shakira, the man-eater. If only it weren’t for her parents’ “no dating” rule, Almira would make a play for Peter … but then, her best friend Lisa has a crush on him, too. Of course there’s no sanctuary at home either: her gorgeous mom tells her she could stand to lose a few pounds, her dentist dad says she needs braces, and her conservative grandfather spoon-feeds her Arabic and teaches her how to drive — a skill he hasn’t yet mastered himself. On top of it all, it’s Ramadan, so Almira’s family is fasting. Almira does her best to ignore her growling stomach and groaning heart, but finds it difficult to have a balanced diet of religious roots and social sprouts.
image image Meet Violet McKenna in Kristi Cook’s Haven (Simon Pulse, $16.99) buy. Violet isn’t a normal girl with normal teenage issues. Violet thought she was just crazy when she had a vivid vision of her dad’s murder. Then her premonition came true. She’s had flashes of other events, but nobody believed her until she found a new school: Winterhaven. At Winterhaven, Violet quickly finds a close group friends and discovers that they too have psychic ‘gifts’ — as do all the students. But as soon as she feels settled she discovers the most intriguing boy she has ever met, and things quickly go awry. As the attraction between them grows, intense visions of the boy’s death start to haunt her. And to Violet’s horror, she learns that their destinies are intertwined in a critical—and deadly—way. Presented in collaboration with the Florida Center for the Literary Arts. 7pm
arrowLive Music in the Courtyard: Federico Britos & Jorge Garcia, 8pm-midnight


Tuesday, July 19, Gables

image image arrowConquistadora (Knopf, $27.50) buy is an epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by Esmeralda Santiago the author of the best-selling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican. As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente — both in love with Ana — she finds a way to get there. She marries Ramón, and in 1844, just eighteen, she travels across the ocean to a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited on the island. But when the Civil War breaks out in the United States, Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the hacienda’s slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold alongside her own. And when at last Ana falls for a man who may be her destiny—a once-forbidden love—she will sacrifice nearly everything to keep hold of the land that has become her true home. Presented in collaboration with the Florida Center for the Literary Arts. 8pm


Wednesday, July 20, Gables

image image arrowBeyond the streets and buildings that now bear the name Brickell is the rich history of William and Mary Brickell, who worked alongside Julia Tuttle and Henry Flagler to found Miami and Fort Lauderdale. In William and Mary Brickell: Founders of Miami & Ft. Lauderdale (History Press, $19.99) buy Hollywood writer and director Beth Brickell has uncovered the history of this dynamic couple, from William’s origins in Ohio to his adventures in the California and Australian gold rushes and marriage to Mary. This never-before-told story reveals both disappointment and triumph as these two pioneers clashed with Flagler and John D. Rockefeller during the robber baron days of the oil industry and finally tamed the wilderness of South Florida. 8pm


Thursday, July 21, Gables

image arrowDr. Murray Mantell was the founding chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Miami where he taught for 57 years. Dr. Mantell is the author of nine books. His first textbook, published in l955, was adopted by over 200 universities and community colleges. In 1964, he authored the first textbook related to engineering ethics. His newest book, Ethics Problem Solving and Discourse on Living (University Press of America, $20.69) buy, published at 93 years old, was written for a general audience with the intent of providing guidance for everyday living. 8pm

Thursday, July 21, Museum of Art

image image arrowHollywood writer and director Beth Brickell has uncovered the history of the dynamic couple behind South Florida in William and Mary Brickell: Founders of Miami & Ft. Lauderdale (History Press, $19.99) buy. From William’s origins in Ohio to his adventures in the California and Australian gold rushes and marriage to Mary. This never-before-told story reveals both disappointment and triumph as these two pioneers clashed with Henry Flagler and John D. Rockefeller during the robber baron days of the oil industry and finally tamed the wilderness of South Florida. 6:30pm


Friday, July 22, Coral Gables

arrowLive Music in the Courtyard: Brazilian Stylings by Mariana Martin & Steve Kornicks, 8pm-midnight

Friday, July 22, Grand Cayman

image image arrowJeffrey A. Wands is the best-selling author of The Psychic in You. He appears frequently on national television and is a popular guest on radio programs across the country. His latest book, Knock and the Door Will Open (Atria, $18) buy, offers expert advice on how to break free of old habits and change your life for good. Brian L. Weiss, author of Many Lives, Many Masters, calls Wands’ book “a brilliant buffet of wise advise and techniques to help you let go of your fears, transform your life, and reach your highest potential.” Join Books & Books for this special, transformative event! 7pm


Saturday, July 23, Gables

arrowActors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theater presents a preview performance of Madeline and the Gypsies this morning. “In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.” With this classic storybook line, the audience enters the world of Madeline and the Gypsies. When Madeline and her friend, Pepito, get lost during a visit to the carnival and end up being carried away by gypsies, their rousing adventures with a traveling circus begin! But poor Miss Clavel won’t rest until she has brought them safely home. This delightful musical based on the popular Madeline book series by Ludwig Bemelmans, bursts with daring circus acts, song and sweet silliness. Get a copy of Madeline and the Gypsies (Viking, $17.99) buy. 11am

image image imagearrowLibba. Meg. Maggie. this is teen LIVE. Scholastic Publishing brings together this mind-blowing triumvirate of YA authors to take the superfly virtual book world of this is teen Live and Local – and right before your very eyes at Books & Books. Meet Libba Bray. Meet Meg Cabot. Meet Maggie Stiefvater. Be the first fans to get in-person autographed copies of the final book in Maggie’s Shiver trilogy – Forever (Scholastic, $17.99) buy. Get Libba to sign her newest book, Beauty Queens. Get Meg to sign her newest, Abandon. Play the superfly this is teen game on www.SCVNGR.com for the chance to win a Mac Book Air. Take photos. Rock out to this is teen LIVE Music in our Courtyard from the Mann Sisters. In case you didn’t know already – but we think you probably do – here’s a little something about each of the amazing authors and each of their amazing new books:
image In Libba’s Beauty Queens (Scholastic, $18.99) buy, a plane of beauty pageant contestants crashes on a desert island. Beauty queens, a desert island, and the book comes from the hilarious and profound mind of Libba Bray. Nuff said. (Libba fact: She won the Printz Award for her bestseller Going Bovine last year. The Printz Award is a big deal in YA fiction. As big as it gets.)…
image In Meg’s new book, Abandon (Point, $17.99) buy, Pierce tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can’t help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she’s never alone… because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back. (Meg fact: Her books, including The Princess Diaries, have sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. That’s a lot of book. A whole lot.)…
image In Maggie’s Forever (Scholastic, $17.99) buy. the hotly anticipated finale to her No. 1 bestselling Shiver series, the stakes are even higher than before. Wolves are being hunted. Lives are being threatened. And love is harder and harder to hold on to as death comes closing in. (Maggie facts: Her last name is pronounced “Steve-Otter.” Like the name, “Steve,” and the little furry animal otter. She is an award-winning colored pencil artist, and she plays several musical instruments, including the Celtic harp and the bagpipes.) Three amazing authors. One amazing night. this is teen LIVE. TICKETS REQUIRED: You must purchase ONE copy of Beauty Queens, Abandon OR Forever from Books & Books in order to receive ONE ticket to this is teen LIVE on July 23. Click here for the this is teen LIVE event page with all the details. 7pm


Sunday, July 24, Westhampton Beach

image image arrowSusan Lucci has crafted one of the most enduring characters in television history, an achievement that would earn her a record twenty-one Emmy nominations — the most for an actor in the award’s history — and the crown as “Leading Lady of Daytime.” Susan’s character, the beautiful, spirited, and mercurial Erica Kane, was an original—the first vixen viewers loved to hate. But while millions have enjoyed getting to know Erica’s many sides — and have been awed at how this character has continually remade herself — the woman who plays her has remained a mystery. In her long-awaited memoir, this very private actress, wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, sister, friend, and entrepreneur pulls back the curtain to reveal her story. As charming, down-to-earth, and compelling as the woman whose story it tells, All My Life (It Books, $ 25.99) buy shines a spotlight on one of our most popular stars and reminds us of the power of dreams and how we can find the courage and tenacity to make them come true. Advance registration is required by calling the Quogue Library at (631) 653-4224. 5pm


Monday, July 25, Gables

imagearrowAlison Thompson, a filmmaker living in New York City, was enjoying Christmas with her boyfriend in 2004 when she saw the news reports online: a 9.3 magnitude earthquake had struck the sea near Indonesia, triggering a massive tsunami that hit much of southern Asia. As she watched the death toll climb, Thompson had one thought: She had to go help. With $300 in cash, some basic medical supplies, and a vague idea that she’d go wherever she was needed, Thompson headed to Sri Lanka. Along with a small team of volunteers, she settled in a coastal town that had been hit especially hard and began tending to people’s injuries, giving out food and water, playing games with the children, collecting dead bodies, and helping rebuild the local school and homes that had been destroyed. She ended up staying for fourteen months and helped start new businesses and set up the first tsunami early-warning center in Sri Lanka. The Third Wave (Spiegel & Grau, $25) buy tells the inspiring story of how volunteering changed Thompson’s life. It begins with her first real introduction to disaster relief after 9/11 and ends with her more recent efforts in Haiti. 8pm


Tuesday, July 26, Gables

image image arrowIn Daniel Silva’s most extraordinary Gabriel Allon novel yet, Gabriel is drawn into a confrontation with the new face of global terror. At the center of the threat is an American-born cleric in Yemen. Gabriel and his team devise a daring plan to destroy the network of death from the inside, a gambit fraught with risk, both personal and professional. To succeed, Gabriel must reach into his violent past. A woman waits there—a reclusive heiress and art collector who can traverse the murky divide between Islam and the West. She is the daughter of an old enemy, a woman joined to Gabriel by a trail of blood. Set against the disparate worlds of art and intelligence, Portrait of a Spy (Harper $26.99) buy moves swiftly from the corridors of power in Washington to the glamorous auction houses of New York and London to the unforgiving landscape of the Saudi desert – and features  a climax that will leave readers haunted long after they turn the final page. 8pm


Wednesday, July 27, Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, Chapman Center

image image arrowA story of body and spirit, rooted in the hungers of flesh and of the soul, The Kid (Penguin, $25.95) buy by Sapphire brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones. We meet him at age nine, on the day of his mother’s funeral. Left alone to navigate a world in which love and hate sometimes hideously masquerade, forced to confront unspeakable violence, his history, and the dark corners of his own heart, Abdul claws his way toward adulthood and toward an identity he can stand behind. In a generational story that moves with the speed of thought from a Mississippi dirt farm to Harlem in its heyday; from a troubled Catholic orphanage to downtown artist’s lofts, The Kid tells of a twenty- first-century young man’s fight to find a way toward the future. A testament to the ferocity of the human spirit and the deep nourishing power of love and of art, The Kid chronicles a young man about to take flight. TICKETS REQUIRED for this event. Free tickets are available at Books & Books, Coral Gables, Miami Beach or Bal Harbour locations. Reserved, priority seating is available with your pre-purchase of The Kid. Limit 2 free tickets per person, while supplies last. This event is presented in collaboration with the Florida Center for the Literary Arts and Casa Valentina. 7:30pm

Wednesday, July 27, Gables

image image arrowThe novel Iron House (Thomas Dunne Books, $25.99) buy by John Hart weaves the story of Michael and his quest to protect those he loves. In an effort to protect his brother Julian, Michael flees their North Carolina orphanage, taking the blame for a boy’s death. He evolves into a powerful enforcer in New York’s world of organized crime but leaves it behind for a fresh start with the beautiful and innocent Elena, the family life he and Julian never had. But when the mob wants to make him pay for his betrayal, Michael spirits Elena back to North Carolina – where he encounters a whole new level of danger, a thicket of deceit and violence that leads inexorably to the one place he’s been running from his whole life. 8pm


Friday, July 29, Gables

image image arrowOn Hallowed Ground (Arte Publico Press, $16.95) buy by John Lantigua is an exciting thriller about Colombian kidnappers plying their trade in Miami. Carmen Vickers de Estrada has seen her husband and son kidnapped in Colombia. Now in Miami, she hires private eye and former police detective Willie Cuesta to protect her son José and his gorgeous girlfriend Catalina whenever they leave their Key Biscayne estate. And then four men toting automatic weapons take Catalina in broad daylight. But Willie discovers that things don’t add up about the family he has been hired to protect. Does Catalina have ties to Colombia’s guerrilla factions? Could José’s cousin Cósimo, rumored to be a paramilitary leader in Colombia, be involved in the kidnapping? And is there a connection between the Estrada family’s fortune, cocaine bosses and construction projects? 8pm
arrowLive Music in the Courtyard:  Sam Savage Quartet, 7pm-midnight


Saturday, July 30 Coral Gables

image image arrowThere’s a 23 year all time low in job satisfaction according to The Harvard Business School. Eighty-four percent of Americans plan to look for new jobs in 2011 reports the Business News Daily. Where are you in these statistics? Are you feeling stuck and ready to “career shift”? Do you need a push into entrepreneurial action? Do you need help reinventing and re-branding yourself? Career transition, change and reinvention is a current reality that is more of an opportunity now than ever before to move into another field or become an entrepreneur! Join the Author of Career Transition: Make the Shift – The 5 Steps to Successful Career Reinvention (Createspace, $19.95) buy, Deborah Shane for a book talk and interactive, Q&A session on career change, transition and reinvention. She will discuss the 5 steps that she applied to her process and entrepreneurship as a viable solution to career change. 7pm
arrowLive Music in the Courtyard: Negroni Trio, 8pm-midnight

Saturday, July 30, Grand Cayman

image arrowThe Third Wave (Spiegel & Grau, $25) buy tells the inspiring story of how volunteering changed New York filmmaker Alison Thompson’s life. After the tsunami in Southeast Asia in 2004, Thompson headed to Sri Lanka with $300 in cash, some basic medical supplies. She ended up staying 14 months, working with a small team of volunteers to start new businesses and the first tsunami early-warning center in Sri Lanka. The book recounts her first real introduction to disaster relief after 9/11 and ends with her more recent efforts in Haiti, where she has helped create and run, with Sean Penn, an internally-displaced-person camp and field hospital for more than 65,000 Haitians who lost their homes in the 2010 earthquake. In The Third Wave, Thompson provides an invaluable inside glimpse into what really happens on the ground after a disaster—and a road map for what anyone can do to help. As Thompson shows, with some resilience, a healthy sense of humor, and the desire to make a difference, we all have what it takes to change the world for the better. 7pm


Sunday, July 31, Westhampton Beach

image image arrowJeffrey A. Wands is the best-selling author of The Psychic in You. He appears frequently on national television and is a popular guest on radio programs across the country. His latest book, Knock and the Door Will Open (Atria, $18) buy, offers expert advice on how to break free of old habits and change your life for good. Brian L. Weiss, author of Many Lives, Many Masters, calls Wands’ book “a brilliant buffet of wise advise and techniques to help you let go of your fears, transform your life, and reach your highest potential.” Join Books & Books for this special, transformative event! 4pm
image image arrowJoin Books & Books WHB at the Quogue Public Library as Alexandra Styron discusses her book, Reading My Father (Scribner, $25) buy. Few novelists of the past 50 years have enjoyed the huge success and lengthy renown of Alexandra’s father, William Styron. With Sophie’s Choice, Lie Down in Darkness, and the Pultizer Prize-winning The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron established himself as a masterful chronicler of the American experience. But his gift for fiction came at a heavy price. The last 25 years of Styron’s life were marked by episodes of devastating depression. Reading My Father is a portrait of this towering, mesmerizing, occasionally crippled man by his youngest daughter, wrought with intimacy, incisiveness, integrity, and love. Advance registration is required by calling the Quogue Public Library at (631)653-4224. 5pm

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