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Coming up at Books & Books:
Tuesday, June 3, 2003 6:30 PM
The Dirty Girls Social Club is a vibrant portrait of six upwardly mobile Latina women who meet during their freshman year at Boston University. After graduating, they get together every few months to rehash old times and update each other on the newest events in their lives. First time author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez says she wrote the book she wanted to read, but could never find - a book about Latinas that I hoped would show how rich, complex and universal that label can be.
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The official countdown has begun and anticipation is rising as the release date for the latest Harry Potter novel draws nearer...
Join us at Books & Books
Friday, June 20 beginning at 9pm
for An Evening of Harry Potter, complete with games, music and magic. Count down 'til the witching hour of midnight when Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix will be released for the first time ever!
Pre-order your copy and you'll be at the head of the line to receive the most spectacular Harry Potter adventure yet! Guaranteed free morning delivery is also available with pre-order. Don't wait! 6...5...4...
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Books & Books presents writers every night of the week in its Coral Gables store. If you are interested in arranging a reading at Books & Books, please send your proposal to Events & Marketing Coordinator Cristina Nosti at cnosti@yahoo.com or call (305) 444-9044. Galleys and copies of the book for consideration should be mailed to her attention at 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, Florida 33134. Title of Event: Arthur Rosenfeld – The Truth About Chronic Pain
When: Monday, June 2, 2003 8:00 PM
Location: Coral Gables
Description: 'It's all in your head.' 'Learn to bear it.' 'That drug will make you a junkie.'
For the more than 75 million Americans affected by chronic pain, these are fighting
words. Here, in their own words, are the stories of more than forty people
whose lives are dictated by pain patients, healthcare professionals, ethicists,
social commentators, and scientists. The Truth About Chronic Pain: Patients
and Professionals on How to Face It, Understand It, Overcome It (Basic
Books, $26.00) by Yale graduate Arthur Rosenfeld shines a powerful
searchlight on America's most misunderstood health problem and provides what
pain-sufferers need just as keenly as physical relief: the knowledge that they
are not alone.
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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Reefer Madness, and Other Tales from the American Underground
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Schlosser, Eric
"In Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser got people to see what many had thought but had not been able to articulate. He does this again, and more, in Reefer Madness -- digging deep and making compelling connections as to how the seldom-measured underground economy really works. Schlosser shows more fully, by numbers and by personal stories, how the larger economy -- and this country -- really work. Bravo -- again!" ? Rick Simonson, The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA |
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The Da Vinci Code
by
Brown, Dan
Harvard professor Robert Langdon, a world-renowned 'symbologist' (a specialist in cracking ancient codes and riddles), receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris. The elderly curator of the Lourve has been found murdered in the halls of the museum, the word "Langdon" scribbled at the scene in invisible ink. Langdon's arrival at the scene unveils other clues about an apparent secret this man was keeping -- a secret his killer sought but never found. Following a string of cryptic messages left by the curator, relating to a series of Leonardo DaVinci's works of art, Langdon begins to piece together a riddle that is astonishing in scope. It becomes clear that the curator was the modern gate keeper of an ancient (and factual) organization called The Priory of Sion -- a European secret society founded in 1188 (members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and DaVinci). The Priory's secret, which the curator died to protect, hints at the knowledge of the secret location of a vastly important religious relic -- something that has been guarded, and hidden, for centuries. Its discovery would radically alter the foundation of modern religion. Langdon is familiar with the legend of such a hidden treasure, and also knows that a second group may be the ones attempting to discover its location. "Opus Del" is a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect, long rumored to be vicious and deadly. As Langdon and a smart young French cryptographer, Sophie Neveu, follow the line of clues, they find their path to be littered with extraordinary pitfalls and dangers."The Davinci Code" is a rocket-fide of an intelligent thriller, an audiobook that demonstrates why DanBrown has already attracted a passionate following. |
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Hip, irreverent, comic, bizarre -- writers at work in today’s international literary scene
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Please Don't Call Me Human
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Shuo, Wang,
Wang, Shuo,
Goldblatt, Howard
Immensely popular among Chinese workers and students, Wang Shuo is regarded as the father of the new school of “hooligan literature.” Understandably, he is not quite appreciated by China’s powers that be, and in the late 1990s his four-volume collected works were pulled from the shelves for being “reactionary” and “vulgar.” Unfazed by the government’s negative response to his oeuvre, Shuo has continued adding to it, and his latest work will probably not improve his image -- at least in the Chinese government’s eyes. Taking its reference point as Beijing’s loss to Sydney in hosting the 2000 Summer Olympics (which many Chinese took as a national loss of face) Shuo creates in Please Don’t Call Me Human a comic, sometimes cartoonish satire about a group of profiteers in search of a national hero -- someone who might restore the nation’s pride after having suffered a shattering defeat at an international wrestling competition. Some highlights include an encounter with Buddha, and a sex-change operation. |
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Spring brings with it a wonderful new crop of children's picture books by author-illustrators!
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Ella Sarah Gets Dressed
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Chodos-Irvine, Margaret
Ella Sarah is a little kiddo, but she has no small sense of style - and plenty of determination that she is not going to dress like her parents and sister do! Brightly colored illustrations by the author (who has won several awards for her other picture books) make reading this book fun...and shows just how interesting things get when Ella's outrageously dressed friends arrive! |
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Travel tales can be both harrowing and hilarious, and can save you thousands by curing you of wanderlust.
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A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean
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Blanchard, Melinda,
Blanchard, Robert
The true story of a trip to the beach that never ends, this is a smart and amusing account of a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise -- only to discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. Filled with calamaties and comedy, culinary disasters and triumphs, a major hurricane, and indelible portraits of people who work in a place where most people -- the rich and famous -- go to play. A Trip to the Beach wonderfully captures the maddening, exhausting, impossible complications of trying to live the simple life -- and the joy that comes when you somehow pull it off. |
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Books & Books hosts a variety of reading and
discussion groups on a monthly basis. We are happy to provide custom recommendations of discussion-inspiring titles to your group.
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