FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, GABLES, 8PM FABIOLA SANTIAGO has been a writer and editor for The Miami Herald since 1980. Reclaiming Paris (Atria, $24.95) is a paean to place and memory, rich with humor, passion, and unforgettable characters.
Meet ALAN ALDA
Reading and signing Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself (Random House, $15) Wednesday, 24 September, 7pm
Books & Books, Grand Cayman
Free and open to the public.
Tickets are required for this event. Receive one (1) ticket with the purchase of any book by Alan Alda from Books & Books.
In his new autobiography, the beloved actor and bestselling author
offers an insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions
he’s asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is
the good life? (And what does that even mean?)
Meet CANDACE BUSHNELL
Reading and signing One Fifth Avenue (Hyperion, $25.95) Saturday, 4 October, 7pm
Books & Books, Grand Cayman
Free and open to the public.
Tickets are required for this event. Receive one (1) ticket with the purchase of One Fifth Avenue from Books & Books. The
woman who brought us the astute observations and laugh-out-loud humor
of Sex and the City, brings us a new novel that captures life in
Manhattan with that same pitch-perfect tone. Cosmos and (Jimmy) Choos
optional.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, CORAL GABLES CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 6PM KATHLEEN NORRIS is an award-winning poet, writer, and author of The Cloister Walk and Amazing Grace. Acedia & me (Penguin, $25.95) is her masterpiece, a brilliant and moving memoir.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, TEMPLE JUDEA, 7:30PM ALAN ALDA played Hawkeye Pierce for eleven years on the television series M*A*S*H. Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself(Random House, $15), is his insightful and funny look at some of life’s impossible questions. Tickets $5 and can be used as credit toward the purchase of the book.
Join Hal Linden and Tyne Daly as they host our 5th Annual Cascade o' Stars Celebrity Auction right here in the bookstore! Our stable of TV has-beens will spend the evening vieing for your favor, in hopes that they will soon be entertaining once again! Maybe you can get a bargain-rate William Katt to blow up balloons at your niece's birthday party! Or how about David Carradine serving drinks at your next bridge game?
All proceeds will benefit the loser wash-ups who don't get bought up by the end of the evening, so everybody wins!