TONIGHT:
ANNE LAMOTT & HODA KOTB
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WHEN: Friday, March 5, 7pm EST | On Zoom
In Dusk Night Dawn (Riverhead Books, $20), Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad news piles up—from climate crises to daily assaults on civility—how can we cope? Where, she asks, “do we start to our world and joy and hope and our faith in life itself back…with our sore feet, hearing loss, stiff fingers, poor digestion, stunned minds, broken hearts?”
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TOMORROW:
KAZUO ISHIGURO & NEIL GAIMAN
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Saturday, March 6, 6PM EST | Live on ZOOM
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Klara and the Sun is a radiant new novel about the bond between Klara, an Artificial Friend, and Josie, her human companion. Nobel-winner Kazuo Ishiguro returns to a familiar dystopian realm but, this time, with a brilliant tale of hope and love. Join Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, in a live, virtual conversation with award-winning and bestselling author Neil Gaiman!
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ANNABELLE GURWITCH & DAVE BARRY
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WHEN: Thursday, March 11, 8pm EST | On Zoom
From the New York Times bestselling author of I See You Made an Effort comes a timely and hilarious chronicle of downward mobility, financial and emotional. With signature “sharp wit” (NPR), Annabelle Gurwitch gives irreverent and empathetic voice to a generation hurtling into their next chapter with no safety net and proving that our no-frills new normal doesn’t mean a deficit of humor.
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SHARON STONE & GLORIA ESTEFAN
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WHEN: Thursday, April 1, 8pm EST | On Zoom
“In this courageous, daring and tender-hearted memoir, Sharon Stone interrogates her own trauma and a myriad of losses and discovers the gift of clear seeing. The Beauty of Living Twice is so much more than a celebrity tell-all. It is an act of reckoning, contrition, and above all, love.”
—Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance
The Beauty of Living Twice (Knopf, $27.95) is a celebration of women’s strength and resilience, a reckoning, and a call to activism. Sharon Stone tells her own story to Gloria Estefan in what promises to be a remarkable evening.
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🚨 NEW EPISODE ALERT 🚨
The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan
featuring
Carol Edgarian
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Carol Edgarian on VERA, Her New Historical Fiction Book
Carol Edgarian’s VERA, takes the reader on a grand adventure set in 1906 San Francisco, a city leveled by the quake, fire, greed and corruption. On this episode, Edgarian takes listeners inside the world of Vera Johnson, a fifteen-year-old survivor who tells her story of reinvention, resilience, and the many characters she meets on her way to a new kind of life. A striking parallel with these times. Edgarian’s conversation with Mitchell is one that you will not want to miss. Recorded in Miami and San Francisco.
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Take us wherever you go! Check out our new stylish totes featuring Bob Eckstein's beautiful illustration of Books & Books, Coral Gables. This mid sized tote is made of 100% cotton canvas and has side gussets.
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Here are a few titles she recommends this week...
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FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ONLINE ORDERS OVER $50
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An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice.
In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life’s journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career–six years as the top-ranked woman in the world, twenty Wimbledon championships, thirty-nine grand-slam titles, and her watershed defeat of Bobby Riggs in the famous “Battle of the Sexes.”
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Here are a few titles she recommends this week...
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FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ONLINE ORDERS OVER $50
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Birds of a Feather: A Virtual Morning with Sita Singh and Stephanie Fizer Coleman
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Saturday, March 6, 11am EST | Live on Crowdcast
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Differences are gorgeously illustrated in a heartwarming picture book about a colorless peacock who learns to love himself in a jungle full of color.
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Come Fly the World: An Evening with Julia Cooke
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WHEN: Monday, March 8, 7pm EST | Via Crowdcast
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Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up.
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Chasing My Cure: An Evening with David Fajgenbaum and Dr. Mikkael A. Sekeres
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WHEN: Tuesday, March 9 @ 7pm EST | Via Crowdcast
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The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cure--and became a champion for a new approach to medical research.
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Presented in collaboration with
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Sea Wife: A Virtual Evening with
Amity Gaige and Megha Majumdar
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WHEN: Wednesday, March 10 @ 7pm EST | Via Crowdcast
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From the highly acclaimed author of Schroder, a smart, sophisticated page literary page-turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a yearlong sailing trip that upends all of their lives.
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Brickell Avenue Literary Society presents...
Foregone: A Virtual Lunch with
Russell Banks
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WHEN: Thursday, March 11, 1pm EST | Via Crowdcast
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A searing novel about memory, abandonment, and betrayal from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks. Each Virtual Event is FREE with a Paid 2020-21 Membership and is exclusive to current members of Brickell Avenue Literary Society.
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Infinite Country: A Virtual Evening with
Patricia Engel and Edwidge Danticat
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Thursday, March 11, 6:30PM EST | Via Crowdcast
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A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK!!
“I’ve admired Engel’s writing a long time, and her new book deepened that admiration. An exquisitely told story of family, war, and migration, this is a novel our increasingly divided country wants and needs to read.” —R.O. Kwon, Electric Literature “Books by Women of Color in 2021”
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Valentine: An Evening with
Elizabeth Wetmore and Ron Charles
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WHEN: Friday, March 12, 7pm EST | Via Crowdcast
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Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s.
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