A FEW HIGHLIGHTS…

william rothman: 11/8, 6:30pm @ Gables University of Miami-based film scholar examines the ever-fascinating Hitchcock, A Murderous Gaze (SUNY, $29.95). more»	Matt Rigney: 11/8, 8pm @ Coral Gables Museum A veteran fisherman launches Zoo Miami’s “Talks on the Wild Side” with a lecture on The Pursuit of Giants (Viking, $26.95). more»
Angie Dudley: 11/9, 8pm @ Gables The force behind the worldwide sensation brings us Cake Pops Holiday (Chronicle $14.95). more»	Bob and Shay Griese: 11/10, 5pm @ Gables A sports legend and his wife bring us recipes from the world of sports and entertainment in The Griese Spoon (Wimmer, $29.99). more»
Cristhiano Aguiar & Vinicius Jatobá: 11/26, 8pm @ Gables Two bright talents are featured in English for the first time in Granta’s Best of Young Brazilian Novelists. more»	Norman & Justin Van Aken: 11/27, 8pm @ gables A father-son chef’s love letter to cooking in My Key West Kitchen (Kyle Cathie, $29.95). more»

THE COMPLETE CALENDAR…

Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande’s bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he’s also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting. Over the last ten years, neither error rates nor costs have come down, despite scientific progress and efforts to curb expenses. Why? Accountability in healthcare would expose dangerous doctors, reward good performance, and force positive change nationally, using the power of the free market. Unaccountable (Bloomsbury, $26) is a powerful, no-nonsense, non-partisan diagnosis for healing our hospitals and reforming our broken healthcare system. 6:30pm
In 25,000 Seeds, Helen Noble takes her readers on a journey of body, mind, and soul, liberally laced with old-world wisdom and healthy recipes made from the local produce. Her elegant writing style gently reminds us not to hold on too tightly to what we think most important. It is only by letting go can we find deeper happiness at any age. 6:30pm
This event has been cancelled due to storm and travel delays. We hope to reschedule again in early December. American photographer Andrew Moore began photographing in Cuba in 1998, and over the next fourteen years he made ten further visits, working to reveal the many facets of the island’s unique character and life. Working with a large format camera, Moore insightfully records the shifting fortunes of Cuba, in superb photographs full of painterly light and dynamic color. His images span a tremendous variety of subjects, ranging from humble interiors to magnificent modernism, as well as portraits and landscapes. One theme introduced is the contrast between the frayed patinas of Cuban homes and the great, unspoiled beauty of the island’s nature. Cuba (Damiani, $75) is a stirring portrait of a country isolated from the globalized world, overflowing with its own remarkable riches. 8pm

Bunny Yeager’s Darkroom (Rizzoli, $60) gathers more than 250 lens-fogging photographs embodying the naughty girl-next-door eroticism of pin-up culture. Culled from Yeager’s extensive archive, the collection includes her most iconic shots of the legendary Bettie Page as well as many previously unpublished images, some of which have never even been scanned. Bunny Yeager’s pioneering self-portraits and excerpts from her charming 1960s how-to manuals are featured alongside dozens of wholesome beauties shot in the studio and on location. 7pm

Van Stone has it all, the perfect family, great friends and the best job in the world. Then, his life falls apart. Thrust into a deadly plot masterminded by unknown enemies, Van is in a race against time to save those closest to him. As The Card barrels forward, Van, armed with only his best friends, draws on his deductive powers and inner strength, to battle the corrupt forces. Set in Seattle, Washington, this faced paced mystery takes you behind-the-scenes in professional baseball. Full of unexpected twists and high stakes drama, this first in a series adventure will keep you guessing until the final scene. As fresh as today’s headlines, Jim Devitt, in his debut novel, weaves a suspenseful ride that blows the lid off scientific advancement, in a story of breathtaking action and suspense. 7:30pm
In Dispatches from the Department of Supernatural Explanation (Kitsune, $12) , the second full-length collection of poetry from award-winning poet Jesse Millner, the numinous infuses the mundane with every whippoorwill’s call, every rush of breeze over the nighttime waters of Florida swamps, with a seasoned, often sardonic view of the world. The antichrist walks into a bar, flies Southwest Airlines, and wonders about subject-verb agreement. Millner’s poetic voice is in fine form, whether pondering the intricacies of fast food or the vast landscape of myth and dream. 8pm
Coral Gables Gallery Night: Photographs of the Famous and Infamous. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Smith shares the lessons he’s learned photographing celebrities in Secrets of Great Portrait Photography: Photographs of the Famous and Infamous . In this sexy, bold, beautiful book, Smith gives you the inside scoop on what goes on at a celebrity photo shoot with the stories behind breathtaking images of Venus and Serena Williams, Dwayne Wade, Shaquille O’Neal, Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, The Bee Gees, Antonio Banderas, Anne Hathaway, Christopher Walken, Cindy Crawford, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone, Dave Barry, Don King, Carl Hiaasen, William H. Macy and many more. Secrets of Great Portrait Photography blends lavish celebrity portraits of a coffee table book with technical how-to insights with a side dish of behind-the-scenes celebrity stories. The prints in the show include South Florida authors Dave Barry and Carl Hiaasen. 7-10pm
Live Music in the Courtyard: Steve Kornicks & Marianna Martin, 7:30-11:30pm

Books & Books’ founder/owner MITCHELL KAPLAN will host a day’s worth of festivities at his home store in Coral Gables to celebrate your locally-run, independently-owned bookstore’s 30th anniversary in our community. The party is dedicated to South Florida’s Readers & Writers, those whose support has allowed the bookstore to do business and stay open for 30 years. We’re saying THANK YOU for letting us serve you and nurture the literary community for 30 years! The event is FREE and OPEN to everyone and includes a 30% OFF Sale at the Gables location, all-day. Children and Family Activities begin at 11am and run through 3pm and include live musical performances, costume character photo-ops, giveaways and snacks! Come back later that evening from 7-9pm when we’ll have a street party designed to showcase the select Miami culinary authors that have toured their books through Books & Books and to celebrate their culinary talent. Participating chefs and friends who will highlight their signature dishes at the party include: Allen Susser, Bernie Matz, Michelle Bernstein, Norman Van Aken, Douglas Rodriguez, Thomas Buckley, Abe Ng, Steve Haas and Cindy Hutson. Café manager Irving Fields will co-host and help to coordinate the effort. DJ Max Torres will spin music from across the decades for a sampling of free food and drinks – on the house. Please join us! This party is FOR YOU.
Live Music in the Courtyard to follow from 9pm-Midnight: Federico Britos Gypsy Jazz Trio with Special Guest Nanami Morikawa

In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba’s six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba (Univ of NC, $60.50) , Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical change and mutual self-sacrifice.  Mass rallies and labor mobilizations of unprecedented scale produced tangible evidence of what Fidel Castro called “unanimous support” for a revolution whose “moral power” defied U.S. control. Using previously unexplored sources, Guerra focuses on the lived experiences of citizens, including peasants, intellectuals, former prostitutes, black activists, and filmmakers, as they struggled to author their own scripts of revolution by resisting repression, defying state-imposed boundaries, and working for anti-imperial redemption in a truly free Cuba. 4pm

He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of The Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six countries, secretary of state, senator, congressman, and president. John Quincy Adams was all of these things and more. In John Quincy Adams (Da Capo, $27.50) , awardinning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals Quincy Adams as a towering figure in the nation’s formative years and one of the most courageous figures in American history, which is why he ranked first in John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Profiles in Courage. A magisterial biography and a sweeping panorama of American history from the Washington to Lincoln eras, Unger’s follows one of America’s most important yet least-known figures. 8pm

The Teachers Will Save U.S. is an inspiration for American teachers. “The economic crisis and the tumultuous international climate have propelled teachers into the forefront, making them indispensable in the struggle to save our children and our nation. In their hands rests the American dream, economic progress, social stability, and world peace.” According to Dr. Jose Rodelgo, we are living a crisis that is much more than just economic, political, or social; it is a human crisis. Therefore, educators have a crucial role because it is through education that we can address the crisis. Many school leaders would like to implement an education that can respond effectively to the challenges of the twenty-first century. However, it is difficult to know how to do so. The issue at hand is finding the appropriate method of education. In this country, many educational reforms have been implemented in the last hundred years, but these reforms have not tackled the root of the problem. 6:30pm
Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History (Cambridge Univ, $103.95) offers a new framework for understanding globalization over the past century. Through a detailed analysis of ports, shipping, and trading companies whose networks spanned the world, Michael B. Miller shows how a European maritime infrastructure made modern production and consumer societies possible. He argues that the combination of overseas connections and close ties to home ports contributed to globalization. Miller also explains how the ability to manage merchant shipping’s complex logistics was central to the outcome of both world wars. He chronicles transformations in hierarchies, culture, identities, and port city space, all of which produced a new and different maritime world by the end of the century. Presented in collaboration with the University of Miami’s Center for the Humanities. 8pm

First published in 1982, William Rothman’s Hitchcock is a classic work of film criticism. Written in an engaging style that is philosophically sophisticated yet free of jargon, and using over nine hundred images from the films to illustrate and back up its critical claims, the book follows six different Hitchcock films as they unfold, moment by moment, from first shot to last. With exemplary precision, Hitchcock, The Murderous Gaze, Second Edition(SUNY $32.95) shows how Hitchcock films express, cinematically, serious thoughts about such matters as the nature and relationships of love, murder, sexuality, marriage, and theater—and about their own medium. By attending to the films themselves and to the ways we experience them, rather than allowing some theory to dictate what to say about them, the book proves the fruitfulness of an approach that is open and responsive to the ways serious films are capable of teaching us how to think seriously about them. 6:30pm

Talks on the Wild Side with Zoo Miami and the Zoological Society: In Pursuit of Giants (Viking, $26.95) is an account of the high adventure of offshore sportfishing and a clarion call to preserve the last of the world’s great fish. The story follows Matt Rigney’s global pilgrimage to encounter surviving populations of giant marlin, swordfish, and bluefin tuna hundreds of miles offshore New Zealand and Nova Scotia; in the sportfishing mecca of Cabo San Lucas; off Japan, South Australia, and the Great Barrier Reef; and in the Mediterranean. Rigney goes deep into the spiritual experience of the offshore world and introduces us to swordfish harpooners, sportfish captains, marine biologists, fish- farming pioneers, and Greenpeace activists. Rigney explores the crisis in fisheries management and considers what the loss of healthy, vibrant oceans means to us-to our health, our children’s future, and our ability to experience the divine in nature. In Pursuit of Giants combines the romance of a great sport narrative with the passionate advocacy of the best environmental writing. It recalls the spiritual power of Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard and will win comparisons to Mark Kurlansky’s Cod. Presented in collaboration with the Zoological Society and Coral Gables Museum. 8pm

Release your body’s own full potential and learn how to reinforce its perfect health and balance with Nutripuncture. Explore the wealth of benefits emerging from this ground-breaking science, with Patrick Veret, M.D.as he presents, Nutripuncture: Stimulating the Energy Pathways of the Body Without Needles (Healing Arts Press, $19.95) . Nutripuncture is an effective, easy-to-use, all natural nutrient approach which originated in Europe over 25 years ago and is drawn from Western, Homeopathic, and Traditional Chinese Medicines. It works like acupuncture and acupressure – but without needles or pressure points, stimulating the energetic pathways of the body to bring about its own best health. Nutripuncture accelerates your innate self-healing abilities to overcome illness, relationship conflicts, allergies, injuries, behavioral imbalances and many other physical, emotional, and mental stressors – often with rapid results.  This book is a key go-to-guide for all-natural remedies that is simple to follow. Nutripuncture was the guest of honor at the World Health Organization conference on alternative medicines in Florence – Italy in October 2008, and is officially recognized in China at the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. 6:30pm
Bakerella aka Angie Dudley is the force behind the worldwide sensation that is cake pops and now she’s back for the holidays. In Cake Pops Holidays (Chronicle, $14.95) she celebrates the holiday season with more than twenty winter-themed cake pop creations including adorable Christmas trees, sweet Santas, tiny gingerbread houses, snowflakes and many more. These cute and clever designs include step-by-step instructions and plenty of Bakerella’s expert guidance, giving you the skills to make and decorate them like a professional. Follow Bakerella’s tips for displaying, gifting, boxing and shipping your precious pops and spread lots of smiles this holiday season. 8pm
Live Music in the Courtyard: With vocals, guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and a wealth of traditional folk songs, Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band bring the spirit of America’s past into the present. Throughout the show Matthew tells the stories behind the songs, weaving the performance into an engaging narrative that features the music and instruments of colonists, pioneers, sailors, lumberjacks, immigrants, ’49ers, farmers, mountaineers, slaves, soldiers, cowboys, railroaders, and activists for social justice. Along the way you’ll enjoy folk songs, fiddle tunes, Old World ballads, work songs, spirituals, love songs, sea shanties, reels, play parties, breakdowns, blues, and more. The Rambling String Band features Matthew Sabatella (vocal, guitar, banjo, harmonica, mountain dulcimer), Jack Stamates (fiddle), and Sean Edelson (mandolin and guitar). 7:30-11:30pm

Coral Gables Art Cinema – 3D Nautical Adventure The Pirates! Band of Misfits at 11am: A pirate captain sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Special ticket prices are $5 for everyone, and includes free popcorn and a soda.

Coral Gables Museum – Gingerbread House-Making Workshop at 1pm: Bring the whole family to participate in this fun workshop and learn about our GingerBuild competition! With the skills you learn, you’ll be ready to enter our 2012 GingerBuild Competition (December 9-10). Workshop requires pre-registration and payment. $10 for family of up to 4, $5 for each additional person; includes all supplies to build your own gingerbread house which is yours to keep! At 3pm – Performance by FIU Collegium Musicum of “Bach and Before” in the Abraham Family Gallery. FREE. For more information, call 305.603.8067

Books & Books – Family Game Hour at 2pm: Come discover new quality board games with other local families. Compete in challenging multiple-round competitions, win amazing prizes and just have some Saturday fun! Join us for an hour’s worth of Blue Orange Games, in collaboration with a toy company based in San Francisco. The company’s dedication to quality, safety and the environment has earned them more than 50 industry awards in the past five years as well as the first-time ever conferred and prestigious “Green Toy Company Award”. Free and open to everyone. For more information call our children’s event specialist, Becky Quiroga Curtis, 305-442-4408.

Would you like to try Roger Staubach’s Chicken Pot Pie? How about Bobby Hull’s Easy Fruit Salad? The Griese Spoon Cookbook by Bob and Shay Griese (Wimmer Cookbooks, $29.99) is filled with recipes from many celebrities and friends in the world of sports and entertainment. From Reggie Jackson’s Smoothie to Bryant Gumble’s Creole Stuffed Mirlitons…there are many recipes that you will enjoy. Dan Marino has contributed his Bolognese Sauce, Don Mattingly his Bird Nest, and Jack Nicklaus has a Red Velvet Cake recipe that is wonderful. Drew Brees has shared his delicious White Bean Chili recipe, Don Shula loved sharing Shula’s Steak Soup recipe (YUM) and many more! 7pm
Written from a real-world perspective by Margo Berman, an award-winning copywriter/producer/director, this comprehensive guide is what every writer needs to create powerful, strategic ad copy. Focusing on strategy, technique, and the skills needed to write for different media, The Copywriter’s Toolkit (Wiley-Blackwell, $62.95) book will sharpen your copywriting skills whatever your level. 6pm
Live Music in the Courtyard: 7:30-11:30pm

Ibis Literary Reading and Performance Series: Barbara Jane Reyes & Oscar Bermeo: As the University of Miami celebrates the year of Humanities and Arts, the MFA in Creative Writing formal reading series carries on its polyglot theme, exploring stories and poems in multilingual form and cross-cultural and political content in the Ibis Literary Reading and Performance Series.  This year, UM has invited five extraordinary writers and poets who write within and outside of the borders and expectations of contemporary American literature. Tonight, we continue the series with poets Oscar Bermeo and Barbara Jane Reyes. Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is the author of the poetry chapbooks Anywhere Avenue, Palimpsest, Heaven Below and To the Break of Dawn. Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Diwata, recently noted as a finalist for the California Book Award. She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Gravities of Center and Poeta en San Francisco, which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Presented in collaboration with the University of Miami’s Creative Writing Department. 8pm

Live Music in the Courtyard: Jeff Kipperman Trio, 7:30-11:30pm

Live Music in the Courtyard: Daniel Susnjar Trio, 7:30-11:30pm

There is no better way to understand America than by understanding the cultural history of the American Dream. Tracing the history of the phrase in popular culture, Larry Samuel gives readers a field guide in The American Dream: A Cultural History (Syracuse Univ, $24.95) to the evolution of our national identity over the last eighty years. Relying mainly on period magazines and newspapers as his primary source material, the author demonstrates that journalists serving on the front lines of the scene represent our most valuable resource to recover unfiltered stories of the Dream. The problem, Samuel reveals, is that it does not exist; the Dream is just that, a product of our imagination. That it is not real ultimately turns out to be the most significant finding and what makes the story most compelling. 8pm

Happy Thanksgiving!

Live Music in the Courtyard: Nelson Polanco 7:30-11:30pm

Books & Books, the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce, FIU and The LAB Miami are excited to announce their first collaboration: ‘The $100 Startup’ Competition. Inspired by the bestselling book by Chris Guillebeau, we are challenging local entrepreneurs to bring their most innovative ideas for businesses that can be launched with a mere $100. Applicants must complete a 1-page business plan and mission statement in 140 characters or less. Finalists will be invited to pitch their startup in a public event at Books & Books on Small Business Saturday, November 24th, where a panel of judges will fund the most promising ventures and additional prizes will be awarded 4pm
Live Music in the Courtyard: Steve Kornicks & Marianna Martin, 7:30-11:30pm

FOR KIDS: Fans of the Max and Ruby book series and Nickelodeon show, rejoice! Everyone’s favorite bunny duo is back with their best adventure yet in Max and Ruby’s Treasure Hunt (Viking, $17.99) . Max and Ruby have planned a picnic with their friends Louise and Lily, but when it is rained out, Grandma has a great idea: an indoor treasure hunt. Grandma plants the clues, each one a Mother Goose or nursery rhyme that has to be completed to find the next clue, and the grand prize is a treasure chest containing gold-wrapped chocolate coins. Young readers will find the Mother Goose characters and nursery rhymes are fun to recognize and complete. Max and Ruby’s Treasure Hunt is bound to be a new favorite! Rosemary Wells is the author of 120 books for children, including more than 40 about the beloved bunnies, Max and Ruby, who star in their own television show on Nick Jr. She travels all over the country as a tireless advocate for literacy. Wells was born in New Jersey to a playwright father and ballet dancer mother who encouraged her artistic bent. She worked as an art director and designer before illustrating her first book. She is the mother of two grown daughters, Victoria and Marguerite, and grandmother to five girls. 6pm

Granta 121: The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists : The Miami Launch: As part of the international launch series for the Best of Young Brazilian Novelists, Granta and Books & Books introduce two bright talents from Brazil whose work is appearing for the first time in English. Cristhiano Aguiar is currently a researcher at University of California, Berkeley, and in addition to his own writing was an editor of two experimental fiction journals in Brazil. As well as writing fiction, Vinicius Jatobá is a critic and filmmaker. The Best Young Novelists will be joined by Clifford Landers, a translator who worked on the Granta issue, and writer and critic Chauncey Mabe for an evening of readings and conversation that spans the stories being told about modern Brazil and debuting their work in the United States. 8pm

Legendary Chef Norman Van Aken is known internationally as “the founding father of New World Cuisine,” a celebration of Latin, Caribbean, Asian, African and American flavors. He is also known for introducing the concept of “fusion” to the culinary world in a symposium on American cooking in Santa Fe in 1988. He is the only Floridian inducted into the prestigious James Beard list of “Who’s Who in American Food and Beverage.” He is the Chef and Director of Restaurants at The Miami Culinary Institute as well as the Chef-Owner of “NORMAN’S at the Ritz-Carlton, Grande Lake, Orlando”. The New York Times deemed his fine dining restaurant, “NORMAN’S”, “the Best Restaurant in Florida and Norman Van Aken its best Chef.” Now all food lovers can enjoy the diverse flavors of Key West with Norman’s new cookbook, co-written with his son, chef Justin Van Aken, My Key West Kitchen: Recipes and Stories (Kyle Books, $29.95) , which literally is the father-and-son team’s love letter to the island. Part cookbook, part travelogue, part memoir, follow the two as they stroll through the streets of Key West, reminiscing and recreating dishes from “little joints,” established restaurants, and from the kitchens of friends and family past and present. 8pm

From Greg Gutfeld, the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, comes hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture. Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. The Joy of Hate (Crown, $26) tackles this conundrum head on–replacing the idiocy of open-mindness with a shrewd judgmentalism that rejects stupid ideas, notions, and people. With countless examples grabbed from the headlines, Gutfeld provides readers with the enormous tally of what pisses us all off. Funny and sarcastic to the point of being mean (but in a nice way), The Joy of Hate points out the true jerks in this society and tells them all off. This event is an autographing only. You must purchase a copy of The Joy of Hate at Books & Books to enter the signing line. 12pm

FOR TEENS: Cassia faces the ultimate choices in the long-anticipated conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Matched Trilogy. After leaving Society and desperately searching for the Rising–and each other–Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again: Cassia has been assigned to work for the Rising from within Society, while Ky has been stationed outside its borders. But nothing is as predicted, and all too soon the veil lifts and things shift once again. In Reached (Dutton, $17.99) by Ally Condie, the gripping conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Matched Trilogy, Cassia will reconcile the difficulties of challenging a life too confining, seeking a freedom she never dreamed possible, and honoring a love she cannot live without. 7pm

After apartheid, South Africa established a celebrated new political order that imagined the postcolonial nation as belonging equally to the descendents of indigenous people, colonizing settlers, transported slaves, indentured laborers, and immigrants. Its constitution, adopted in 1996, was the first in the world to include gays and lesbians as full citizens. In South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come (Univ of MN, $30) , Brenna M. Munro examines the stories that were told about sexuality, race, and nation throughout the struggle against apartheid in order to uncover how these narratives ultimately enabled gay people to become imaginable as fellow citizens.  Employing a wide array of texts—including prison memoirs, poetry, plays, television shows, photography, political speeches, and the postapartheid writings of Nobel Laureates Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee—Munro reports on how contemporary queer activists and artists are declining to remain ambassadors for the “rainbow nation” and refusing to become scapegoats for the perceived failures of liberation and liberalism. 8pm

Christo’s Surrounded (Pink) Islands 30th Anniversary and Inspiration for Art Basel’s Gator in the Bay: In 1983 international artist Christo along with the help of over 400 volunteers “surrounded” 13 islands off the coast of Miami and made Miami smile again especially on the heels of the 1980 riots. He also inspired many artists like Photographer Lloyd Goradesky and Historian Cesar Becerra who will discuss Christo’s legacy and give a behind the scenes discussion of their upcoming 230 foot Art Basel Week moving installation “Gator in the Bay”. 6:30pm
In the short span of 17 years, the first 17 years of his life, he was known as Peter Korytowski, Pierre Engglenger and Pierre Boivin, depending on who was hunting him at the time. Nine years old and his world had collapsed. It was 1940 and Hitler had unleashed the Blitzkrieg–bombs were exploding all around him, changing everything. This moment of terror catapulted him into an epic nine-year adventure during the Second World War. He was forced to abandon his home, his family and his childhood. Like a bad dream from which he could not awake, he began an alternate existence–that of a refugee, prey for the Nazis, part of old French nobility, a resistance participant and a rebellious orphan. But most of all, he learned how to be a survivor. Learn the harrowing true story of Peter Kory in Sheltered from the Swastika (McFarland & Co, $42) . 8pm

A groundbreaking narrative–a historical political thriller–that explores the role of the Sons of Liberty in the American Revolution. More than two hundred years ago, a group of British colonists in America decided that the conditions under which they were governed had become intolerable. Angry and frustrated that King George III and the British Parliament had ignored their lawful complaints and petitions, they decided to take action. Knowing that their deeds–often directed at individuals and property–were illegal, and punishable by imprisonment and even death, these agitators plotted and conducted their missions in secret to protect their identities as well as the identities of those who supported them. Calling themselves the Sons of Liberty, they gathered together in a radical society committed to imposing forcible change. Those determined men–including second cousins Samuel and John Adams, Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, and John Hancock–saw themselves as patriots. Yet to the Crown, and to many of the Sons’ fellow colonists, the revolutionaries were terrorists who deserved death for their treason. In Desperate Sons (Harper, $27.99) , a gripping narrative, Les Standiford reveals how this group of intelligent, committed men, motivated by economics and political belief, began a careful campaign of interlocking events that would channel feelings of vague injustice into an armed rebellion of common cause, which would defeat an empire and give birth to a radical political experiment–a new nation known as the United States. 8pm
Live Music in the Courtyard: Alex Weitz Group, 7:30-11:30pm

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