Promotional graphic featuring Carlos Gutierrez in a dark suit and glasses beside the red cover of his memoir, "Sheer Will: Learning to Lead When There Is No Path."
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From cereal van to Cabinet, Carlos Gutierrez brings his story to Books & Books

Carlos Gutierrez began his career selling breakfast cereal from a van in Mexico. A quarter-century later, he was running Kellogg, one of the world’s best-known food companies. Before another decade…

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Author Michael Lewis appears at left and Dave Barry at right, with the cover of Lewis’s book Blockers centered between them.
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Michael Lewis brings his new book on DOGE to Coral Gables Congregational Church

Since Liar’s Poker in 1989, Michael Lewis has made a career of finding the people inside institutions most readers rarely think about, from bond traders and baseball executives to the…

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Promotional graphic for Galit Atlas’s Come Closer virtual book launch showing Atlas, Miranda July, Adam Phillips, Gary Gulman, Noga Erez and the book cover.
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Galit Atlas launches ‘Come Closer’ with Miranda July and an eclectic virtual cast

Books & Books, the Coral Gables-born independent bookstore, will host a virtual launch Sunday for Come Closer, the new book by New York psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas, with a cross-disciplinary…

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Haberman brings bestselling Trump book to Coral Gables Congregational Church

New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman comes to Coral Gables Saturday to discuss “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” the bestselling account of President Donald…

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Book cover for Pérez Prado: King of the Mambo shown beside a portrait of the book’s author against a red-and-tan background.
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Author revisits the flamboyant reign of the King of Mambo at Books & Books

Long before Miami Sound Machine and decades before reggaeton, Dámaso Pérez Prado was packing dance floors with blaring brass, pounding percussion and the signature grunts that helped make mambo a…

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Promotional graphic for The Disappearers showing the book cover beside a portrait of Marlon James, with a smaller inset portrait of Kei Miller.
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Booker Prize winner Marlon James brings ‘The Disappearers’ to Coral Gables Congregational Church

Booker Prize winner Marlon James comes to Coral Gables on Saturday with a novel already drawing some of the strongest notices of his career — and one rooted in the…

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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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