Tag: Books & Books
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A new biography revisits one of America’s most contested first ladies
By Coral Gables Gazette staff History has been cruel to Mary Todd Lincoln. The received portrait — demanding, erratic, financially reckless, a burden to the president and an embarrassment to…
Rhodes brings America’s contested story to Coral Gables
By Coral Gables Gazette staff Two days after its publication, a newly released work of American political history comes to Coral Gables. Books & Books presents an evening with Ben…
What ‘Survivor’ reveals about 25 years of American culture
By Coral Gables Gazette staff For 25 years, Americans have watched strangers lie, manipulate, betray allies, reinvent themselves, and compete for survival on a tropical island before a national television…
Ada Ferrer spent decades writing Cuba’s history. Her new memoir turns inward.
By Coral Gables Gazette staff Ada Ferrer has spent three decades writing about Cuba — its revolutions, migrations, political ruptures, and complicated relationship with the United States. Her latest book…
