Promotional graphic showing the cover of Ken Salazar’s memoir “Borderlands,” alongside portraits of Maria Elena Salinas and Salazar wearing a white cowboy hat.
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Ken Salazar discusses new memoir “Borderlands” with Maria Elena Salinas at Books & Books

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Former U.S. Sen. and Ambassador Ken Salazar, whose career has taken him from a family ranch in Colorado to the U.S. Senate, a presidential Cabinet…

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Black-and-white portrait of a bald man beside the red cover of Peter Santenello’s book Your Fellow Americans.
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Journalist with 4 million YouTube subscribers stops in Coral Gables

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Peter Santenello has traveled to 85 countries and lived in five. For his first book, he turned his lens homeward. “Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from…

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Portrait of Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello beside the red cover of Relative Strangers, featuring an illustrated DNA double helix, with a Miami Book Fair logo at lower left.
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Books & Books event explores the family secrets DNA tests uncover

By Coral Gables Gazette staff What happens when a DNA test reveals a sibling, a parent or an entire branch of the family no one knew existed? Books & Books…

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Portraits of Charles Salzberg and Traci Hall beside the blue cover of The Beginning of Everything.
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Salzberg brings psychic mystery ‘The Beginning of Everything’ to Books & Books

By Coral Gables Gazette staff A man who has spent most of his life hiding an unwanted ability to see into other people’s pasts is forced to use it when…

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Composite image showing two women beside the cover of Ruinous Ends, a dark fantasy novel with purple floral and skull imagery.
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Local author I.V. Marie brings afterlife fantasy finale to Books & Books

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Books & Books in Coral Gables will host Miami-born author I.V. Marie on Saturday, July 18, at 6 p.m. for a discussion of Ruinous Ends,…

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Composite image showing author Christina Diaz Gonzalez beside the cover of Offside, a graphic novel featuring middle school soccer players.
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Local author brings co-ed soccer story to Books & Books

By Coral Gables Gazette staff A Miami author with deep South Florida roots returns to Coral Gables this weekend with a new middle-grade graphic novel about a soccer team forced…

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Graphic showing the cover of The Namaste Club by Asha Elias beside a smiling woman’s portrait against a colorful tropical background with palm imagery.
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Yoga, scandal and an alligator: Asha Elias launches ‘The Namaste Club’ at Books & Books

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Most book launches involve an author, a podium and a line of readers waiting to have a title page signed. The Coral Gables launch of…

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Promotional graphic showing the cover of Disneyland and the Rise of Automation beside portraits of author Roland Betancourt and moderator Didier Ghez.
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When the factory became magic: Disneyland’s automation story comes to Books & Books

By Coral Gables Gazette staff When Disneyland in California opened in 1955, it did more than introduce America to Sleeping Beauty Castle, riverboats, jungle cruises and a new kind of…

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Image of Bobby Hicks holding a chocolate drink beside the cover of his cookbook, Retro Recipes: Vintage Dishes with a Modern Twist.
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From bartender to food historian, Bobby Hicks brings retro recipes home to Coral Gables

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Bobby Hicks has a theory about why Americans keep reaching for the dishes their grandparents made. It is not sentimentality exactly, he has said, and…

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Image showing Bruce D. Baker beside the cover of Segregation and School Funding: How States Reinforce Inequality and What to Do About It.
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A UM scholar asks why, more than 70 years after Brown, school funding still follows the color line

By Coral Gables Gazette staff More than 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education struck down racial segregation in public schools, American education remains divided by race, income and…

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