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COMPLETE CALENDAR... Wednesday, October 1, Gables
   In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world’s leading intellectuals, revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. At a time of ideological and political transition in America, Left in Dark Times (Random House, $25) is a polemical, incendiary articulation of the threats we all face–in many cases without our even being aware of it–and a riveting, cogent stand against those threats. Surprising and sure to be controversial, wise and free of cynicism, it is one of the most important books yet written by one of the crucial voices of our time. 8pm   Thursday, October 2, Gables
 Dr. William R. Butler was Vice President for Student Affairs and Professor of Education at the University of Miami from 1965-1997. Embracing the World: The University of Miami – From Cardboard College to International and Global Acclaim (published by buddenbrooks, boston, $29.95 paperback, $45 hardcover) follows the passage of time as the University of Miami’s temporary Cardboard College, chartered in 1925, became the present institution of international and global acclaim. The University’s international history, from 1925 to 2005, brings to the reader wonderful stories involving hundreds of students, faculty members, administrators and trustees. Some unrecognized visionaries, who served collegially, are included, along with each of the five University presidents. Dr. Butler’s story is personal and engaging. He believes that the future path of the University is being shaped by a solid conviction that “The University of Miami has an international rendezvous with greatness.” 6pmThursday, October 2, Miami Beach
  Editorial Ultramar, a new Miami-based publishing division of the non-profit organization Hispanic Events, Inc., presents Poesía Gourmet this evening, a poetry reading by Cuban-American poet Rodrigo de la Luz and an optional dinner to follow at the Café at Books & Books. Come for the reading only, or stay for dinner. $40 covers dinner and includes a copy of de la Luz’ Poesía Viva, a collection of poems, recently published by Editorial Ultramar. After 13 attempts to leave Cuba, de la Luz arrived in Miami by boat in 1998. Since then, he has written five books, and created hundreds of paintings and sculptures. Local critics have praised de la Luz’ clever and profound poems, calling him a modern minstrel. To guarantee dinner, please send a check payable to Hispanic Events, Inc., 445 Grand Bay Drive, #501, Key Biscayne, Florida 33149, by September 25. For additional information, call Aida Levitan at (305)361-7831. The reading begins at 7:30pm, followed by dinner at 8:30pm. Friday, October 3, Banker’s Club of Miami, 2 South Biscayne Blvd., 14th Floor
  Candace Bushnell’s Sex and the City tapped into a zeitgeist about New York and its denizens. With each of her three subsequent novels she has continued to explore the lives of women as they navigated the city—from their halcyon days through careers and family. Now she has broadened her canvas and conjured up men and women who are all part of the dazzling panoply of this famed address. One Fifth Avenue (Voice/Hyperion, $25.95) is a mordantly observed novel of manners seen through the lens—or room with a view—of New York’s real estate anxiety. It’s a story of old and new money, that same combustible mix that Edith Wharton chronicled in her novels about New York’s Gilded Age. More than a century later, Bushnell’s New Yorkers have changed in the details, but not the essentials: the thirst for power, social prominence, and successful marriages that matter, at least in public. Here, in Miami, where the desire for love, for success and its baubles, and for the right address, keeps pace with the Big Apple – we’ll be hosting a luncheon to celebrate Candace and her new novel. Books & Books, The Women’s Chamber of Miami-Dade, The Florida Association for Women Lawyers and the 20/30 Group of the Coral Gables Chamber, have joined forces to bring you this wonderful opportunity. Lunch at the Banker’s Club with Candace Bushnell: The $60 ticket includes lecture, lunch and a signed copy of the book. Seating is limited and assigned on a first-come, first serve basis. Please RSVP to www.JBGevents.com Seating begins at 11:30am. Friday, October 3, Saks Fifth Avenue, Level 3, Bal Harbour Shops
Come frolic among the frocks with the famed and acclaimed author of Sex and the City and Lipstick Jungle. Candace brings us her latest novel – One Fifth Avenue (Voice/Hyperion, $25.95) – for an event tailor-made for Saks Fifth Avenue. With her astute observations and laugh-out-loud humor, Bushnell captures life in Manhattan, the women who live there and the fashion they wear. With that same pitch-perfect tone you adore from Sex and the City, Bushnell brings us One Fifth Avenue, a one-of-a-kind address. It’s the sort of building you have to earn your way into — and it defines the lives of the women within. From the hedge fund king’s wife to the aging gossip columnist to the free-spirited actress, each person’s game plan for a rich life comes together under the soaring roof of this landmark building. Tickets are required for this event. Pick up complimentary tickets at Saks Fifth Avenue in the Bal Harbour Shops and all Books & Books locations, while supplies last. Limit two per person. Cocktail reception at 6:30pm, followed by talk and booksigning at 7:30pm. Friday, October 3, Gables
 In Witness Number 4 ($40), Eduardo del Valle and Mirta Gómez present photographs taken in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico where for over twenty years they have focused on the metamorphosis of the vernacular domestic architecture of the region. The husband and wife team’s selection for this volume is comprised of “Sections of Time,” a voluminous on-going project where the same dwellings are photographed from the same spot over a number of years, bearing witness to how the structures are affected by seasonal changes and the passage of time. The fascination that del Valle and Gómez have with these houses has come to epitomize their own transformation as first generation immigrants – and like the houses they photograph, they, too, have had to adapt, change and evolve in order to survive. 8pm Coral Gables Gallery Night: Exhibit of behind-the-scenes field portraits from the award-winning film, The Sugar Babies: The Plight of Children of Agricultural Workers in the Sugar Industry of the Dominican Republic, www.sugarbabiesfilm.com Still photographs by Tico Pujals and Cynthia Hernandez-Cassano, music in courtyard by film's composer, Bill Cruz. Also present, Amy Serrano, director, writer, cinematographer and Salvador Longoria, Associate Producer. 7-10pmLive Music in the Courtyard: Rose Max & Ramatis, 7-11pmSaturday, October 4, Gables
 After a full day of creating beautiful interiors for the rich and famous, Lew Smith would come home, take off his tie, and get down to his real work as a psychic healer who miraculously cured thousands of people. For his son, Philip, watching his father transform himself, at a moment's notice, from gracious society decorator into a healer with supernatural powers was a bit like living with Clark Kent and Superman. By turns hilarious and profound, Walking Through Walls (Simon & Schuster, $24) recounts Philip Smith's often bizarre but always magical coming of age in a household that felt like a cross between Lourdes and the set of Rosemary's Baby, and shows how he managed to map out his own identity in the shadow of a father who, truly, loomed larger than life itself. 7pm WE READ BANNED BOOKS! Books & Books celebrates Banned Books Week with short readings by staff and friends, including Nicole Swift, Victor Santiago, Susie Horgan, Michael Hettich, Mia Leonin, Andrea Askowitz, Emma Trelles and few surprise guests. Our readers have picked their favorite book from a list of the fifty top banned books of history, reminding us that the freedom to read cannot be negotiated! Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than a thousand books have been challenged since 1982. The challenges have occurred in every state and in hundreds of communities. People challenge books that they say are too sexual or too violent. They object to profanity and slang, and protest against offensive portrayals of racial or religious groups–or positive portrayals of homosexuals. Their targets range from books that explore the latest problems to classic and beloved works of American literature. According to the American Library Association, more than 400 books were challenged in 2007. What’s your favorite banned book of all time? Bring it with you and join us for a celebration of the values we hold dear. 8pmSATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, GRAND CAYMAN
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. Meet bestselling author Candace Bushnell as she reads from and dishes about her new book, One Fifth Avenue (Hyperion, $25.95). Cosmos and (Jimmy) Choos optional. Tickets are required for this event. Receive one (1) ticket with the purchase of One Fifth Avenue from Books & Books. 7pm   Sponsored by Cayman Islands Department of Tourism and The Ritz Carlton Grand Cayman. Sunday, October 5, Gables Note: This event is in Spanish. Coloquios de Ego Group Inc., celebra el Mes de la Hispanidad. Encuentro poético musical con la participación de los estudiantes ganadores del concurso Delia Carrera, el actor Gilberto Reyes y el pianista Jorge Luis Prat. 4pm Note: This event is in Spanish. En Diario de un perucho a la mexicana, Ricardo Edelsztein nos brinda un relato de su vida universitaria la cual realizó en Mexico. “Algunas de estas vivencias son anécdotas y otras ficciones de me vida estudiantil que me sucedieron durante mi estadía en el país charro. Como buen diario este libro tiene muchas jergas (modismos) peruanos y mexicanos los cuales fueron integrandose en mi lexico a medida que pasaba el tiempo. Asi tambien aventuras amorosas y diversas locuras de adolescente.” 6pmMonday, October 6, Gables
  Industrial agriculture depends on honey bees to pollinate most fruits, nuts, and vegetables—more than a third of the food we eat. Yet this system is falling apart. The number of these professional pollinators has become so inadequate that they are now trucked across the country and flown around the world, pushing them ever closer to collapse. By exploring the causes of Colony Collapse Disorder and the even more chilling decline of wild pollinators, Rowan Jacobsen’s Fruitless Fall (Bloomsbury, $25) does more than just highlight this growing agricultural crisis. It emphasizes the miracle of flowering plants and their pollination partners, and urges readers not to take for granted the Edenic garden Homo sapiens has played in since birth. 8pm Tuesday, October 7, Bal Harbour Shops
 Drs. Debra Luftman and Eva Ritvo, the authors of The Beauty Prescription (McGraw-Hill, $24.95) know beauty is beyond skin deep; in their individual practices they have seen that women who feel good on the inside also look good on the outside. The Beauty Prescription provides you with psychological advice as well as the latest information about skin care and health to help you make sound choices and increase self-confidence. Dr. Debra and Dr. Eva share their practical, low-cost "quick fixes," easy-to-do tricks ranging from enhancing your mood to relieving puffy eyes. The women also debunk myths about beauty, mental health, and cosmetic surgery. Each chapter closes with Dr. Debra’s and Dr. Eva’s action-oriented prescriptions to help you feel more beautiful, inside and out. 7:30pm Wednesday, October 8, Gables
 Joaquín Roy (Lic. Law, University of Barcelona, 1966; Ph.D, Georgetown University, 1973), is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Director of University of Miami European Union Center and Co-Director of the Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence. He has published over 200 academic articles and reviews, and is the author, editor, or co-editor of 30 books. Tonight, Dr. Roy joins us to address The European Union: What Americans Should Know, with an explanation of the basic history, institutional framework and functions of the European Union. Founded in 1952, it is the largest economic bloc on earth (more than 500 million people of 27 European Countries) and it has become the model ands point of reference for any other attempts at regional integration (MERCOSUR, ASEAN, etc.). A Power Point presentation will support the talk, which is presented in collaboration with the International Views Discussion Group at Books & Books. 8pmThursday, October 9, Gables
Since 1986, the Hesburgh Lecture Series has brought a taste of Notre Dame’s academic excellence to alumni and friends as an opportunity for the Alumni Association and the Notre Dame clubs to work together to showcase some of the University’s finest faculty. Tonight, the series comes to Books & Books, where they are hosting Dr. Jonathan Noble. Noble will lecture on Going for the Gold: China, the Olympics and Notre Dame. He’ll be looking at the Beijing Olympics and how they have impacted Beijing. Will they have bolstered the world’s understanding of China? What are the opportunities for Notre Dame in China? How is the University enhancing its profile in China and Chinese studies? Presented in collaboration with the Notre Dame Alumni Association. 7pm Brian Turner is a soldier-poet whose debut book of poems, Here, Bullet, won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, the New York Times “Editor's Choice” selection, the 2006 Pen Center USA "Best in the West" award, and the 2007 Poets Prize, among others. Turner served seven years in the US Army, to include one year as an infantry team leader in Iraq. His poetry has been published in Poetry Daily, The Georgia Review and other journals, and in the Voices in Wartime Anthology published in conjunction with the feature-length documentary film of the same name. Turner's Here, Bullet is a harrowing first-person account of the Iraq war and reflects his experiences as a soldier with penetrating lyric power, compassion, sensitivity, and eloquence. Presented in collaboration with Florida Center for the Literary Arts. 8pm Friday, October 10, Gables
 Miami Modernism, or MiMo, is the exotic brand of mid-century architecture ubiquitous in the world-famous city. Designing the Good Life: Norman M. Giller and the Development of Miami Modernism (University Press of Florida, $39.95) is a personal account of the post-World War II movement that shaped a city and defined an era. This captivating story offers a unique look at the architecture of Norman M. Giller, one of the early godfathers of MiMo. Giller made an indelible mark on the urban landscape with architecturally progressive structures ideally suited to their surroundings, including the Ocean Palm Motel, the Carillon Hotel, the North Shore Band Shell, the Diplomat Hotel and Country Club, and the Giller Building. Tonight, Giller’s daughter, co-author of the book, and art and architectural historian Sarah Giller Nelson, discusses how her father’s vision helped to define Florida architecture since World War II. 8pm Live Music in the Courtyard: Stitchcraft, 7-11pmFriday, October 10 and Saturday, October 11, Coral Gables Congregational Church
 Leading biblical scholar and world renowned theologian, John Dominic Crossan, is Professor Emeritus of biblical studies at DePaul University, Chicago, cofounder of the Jesus Seminar and a well-known figure to many who are interested in the search for the Jesus of history. Dr. Crossan is the author of more than 20 highly acclaimed books on the historical Jesus, including Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts, and In Search of Paul: How Jesus’ Apostle Opposed Rome’s Empire with God’s Kingdom. Indulge yourself in a religious adventure as Dr. Crossan brings the message of both the actual and historical Paul to the modern world in this weekend lecture series, Paul: An Appealing or Appalling Apostle? Don’t miss this thought-provoking experience of spiritual and intellectual growth by attending one or all of the lectures held at Coral Gables Congregational Church in Coral Gables, Florida. For more information, call 305-448-7421 or visit www.coralgablescongregational.orgSaturday, October 11, Gables
Lunch Special: A private book club meeting and meal with author Patricia Wood for her book Lottery (Berkley Publishing). $40. Limit 12. Call 305-442-4408 or email bookclubs@booksandbooks.com to make your paid reservation. 12:30pm    In the manner of Rizzoli’s acclaimed Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley, Great Houses of Florida (Rizzoli, $55) presents the greatest and most intriguing houses of the state, including John and Mabel Ringling’s fabulous Venetian Palazzo Ca d’Zan, James Deering’s spectacular Italianate Villa Vizcaya in Miami, the Audubon and Hemingway houses in Key West, and the exquisite villa of Prince Murat in St. Augustine. With all new color photography by Steven Brooke, this lavish book provides a rare look into the very finest houses from the one-time premier winter playground of America’s rich and famous. Beth Dunlop (author of Miami: Mediterranean Splendor, editor-in-chief of Home Miami magazine and architecture critic for the Miami Herald) has joined forces with Joanna Lombard (practicing architect and professor at the University of Miami) to bring us a sumptuous and fascinating study of our region’s architecture. 5pm  Perry's IQ is only 76, but he's not stupid. His grandmother taught him everything he needs to know to survive: She taught him to write things down so he won't forget them. She taught him to play the lottery every week. And, most important, she taught him whom to trust. When Gram dies, Perry is left orphaned and bereft at the age of thirty-one. Then his weekly Washington State Lottery ticket wins him 12 million dollars, and he finds he has more family than he knows what to do with. Peopled with characters both wicked and heroic who leap of the pages, Patricia Wood’s Lottery (Berkley, $14) is a deeply satisfying, gorgeously rendered novel about trust, loyalty, and what distinguishes us as capable. 7pm Live Music in the Courtyard: Nicole Yarling Trio, 8-11pmSunday, October 12, Gables
 From the acclaimed author of Pretty Little Dirty ("a first novel of complex truth and beauty"–San Francisco Chronicle), Amanda Boyden, comes a glittering, gritty, and unflinching story of five families--black, white, and Indian–living along one block of Uptown, New Orleans. Told in five achingly real voices, Babylon Rolling (Pantheon, $23.95) is the story of one year on Orchid Street, a place where lives clash and collide, and where the humid air is charged with constant wanting. Offering a bold understanding of human nature and the hidden prejudices we harbor, Babylon Rolling is a powerful portrait of racism in America and a city on the edge of transformation. 6pm Monday, October 13, Gables
  Haiti Panel Discussion with the Miami Herald: Discussion of the current situation in Haiti with Miami Herald editors, reporters and photographers. In the wake of the recent hurricanes that have struck Haiti, Herald staffers who witnessed the devastation share their experience and expertise, including a presentation of gripping photographs.Tuesday, October 14, Gables
 When his family moves to a new neighborhood, Jin Wang suddenly finds that he’s the only Chinese-American student at his school. Jocks and bullies pick on him constantly, and he has hardly any friends. Then, to make matters worse, he falls in love with an all-American girl...Three apparently unrelated tales come together with an unexpected twist, in a modern graphic novel fable that is hilarious, poignant, and action-packed. American Born Chinese (First Second, $17.95) is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax - and confirms what a growing number of readers already know: Gene Luen Yang is a major talent. Presented in collaboration with the Florida Center for the Literary Arts. 7pm  Bloom is the kind of guy who ends most social gatherings with an alternately raging and despairing conversation about The State of the World. And recently things have taken a turn for the worse. His marriage is on the rocks, his teenage son is becoming increasingly unknowable, and his sense of hopeless impotence has reached a stage of spiritual crisis. So he decamps to his home office to work on his fifteenth screenplay, this time about a federal agent and a nameless assassin. Soon Bloom realizes that his screenplay hits too close to home: He really does want these people dead, so much so that this revenge fantasy takes over his life. In Todd Hasak-Lowy’s Captives (Spiegel & Grau, $24.95), Bloom will either fix our broken world in his imagination or destroy his real life trying. 8pm Tuesday, October 14, Miami Beach
 David Leddick, the popular and acclaimed author of 2001’s Male Nude Now, brings us the latest and most current survey of the male nude form, as seen through the eyes of today’s most important and influential artists who recognize the inherent physical and emotional beauty of the subject. Nude Male: 21st Century Visions (Universe Publishing, $39.95) showcases such prominent photographers and illustrators as David Hockney, Sam Taylor-Wood, Clive Barker, Mark Beard, Tom Bianchi, Reed Masengill, Nan Goldin, Bruce La Bruce and Duane Michals, presenting images ranging from the erotic, to fantastic, romantic, dangerous, and funny. 8pm Wednesday, October 15, Coral Gables Congregational Church, 3010 De Soto Boulevard
  According to super pollster John Zogby, whom The Washington Post calls “the maverick predictor,” the conventional wisdom about the United States–that we’re isolated from the world, politically fragmented, and inclined toward material pleasure–isn’t just flawed; it may be 180 degrees from the truth. In this far-reaching and illuminating look at contemporary American life, Zogby reveals nothing less than The Way We’ll Be (Random House, $26). Drawing on thousands of in-depth surveys conducted especially for the book, Zogby points out where we’re headed–politically, culturally, and spiritually. Presented in collaboration with the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce. 7:30pm Wednesday, October 15, Gables
 In his new book The Way of Innovation: Master the Five Elements of Change to Reinvent Your Products, Services and Organization (Platinum Press, $14.95), Kaihan Krippendorff presents a sure-fire prescription that entrepreneurs, managers and executives can follow in order to constantly keep their businesses on the cutting-edge of innovation. Weaving Eastern philosophy and cognitive science with engaging modern examples, The Way of Innovation details the five phases through which all innovations must pass to have lasting impact. Loaded with step-by-step tutorials and action items anybody can put into practice, the book also provides intensely detailed case studies of how some of the world’s most recognizable companies implemented innovation, including Infosys, Microsoft, Urban Outfitters, Nokia and Puma. 8pm Wednesday, October 15, Arsht Center for the Performing Arts>
  "One of America's most prickly and most delicious, young comic talents (The Washington Post)," the celebrated NPR humorist David Sedaris, comes to the Knight Concert Hall for an evening of cutting wit and social satire! Experience in a live event, the hilarious brilliance that has made the acclaimed bestsellers Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and the brand new When You Are Engulfed in Flames some of the funniest books ever written. Nominated for two Grammy® Awards for Best Spoken Word Album (Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim) and Best Comedy Album (David Sedaris: Live at Carnegie Hall), Sedaris is "brutally honest and brilliantly eloquent" (Booklist).Showtime: 8pm. Meet David after the show for a special book signing! Books will be on sale in the lobby, courtesy of Books & Books. For more tickets and more information, visit www.arshtcenter.org Thursday, October 16, Hyatt Regency Hotel, 50 Alhambra Plaza, Coral Gables
  Douglas R. Andrew has extensive experience in business management, economics, accounting, gerontology (as it relates to the economics of aging), financial and estate planning, and advanced business and tax planning. He is currently the owner and president of Paramount Financial Services, Inc., a comprehensive personal and business financial planning firm with several divisions. Doug helps people find their missed fortune using his asset optimization, equity management, and wealth empowerment strategies. His first two books, Missed Fortune and Missed Fortune 101, are national bestsellers. The Last Chance Millionaire became a New York Times bestseller in 2007. His newest book, Millionaire by Thirty, written with his two sons, Aaron and Emron Andrew, was recently released in May of 2008. As a financial strategist and retirement specialist, Doug shows people how to accumulate money on a tax-favored basis to achieve the highest possible net spendable retirement income. Doug also specializes in helping people optimize not only financial assets but also the Core, Experience, and Contribution assets – comprising “True Wealth” – on the family balance sheet. For reservations and more information, visit www.missedfortuneevents.com/coralgables or call 305-416-0100. Event is free and open to the public and begins at 6:30pm. Thursday, October 16, Gables
 In My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy (Cleis Press, $14.95), her memoir of 40 weeks and five days in hell, Andrea Askowitz takes an unflinching look at her pregnant life from struggling with hormones to poor body image to a self imposed exile from family to take us on a ride through the turbulence of single lesbian motherhood. Along the way we meet her liberal parents as they struggle with their daughter's choices, the lover she longs to reconnect with who goes M.I.A. before the pregnancy, the friends who turn out to be no help at all and strangers who offer up some unlikely kindness. Andrea presents herself real, raw, impossibly cranky yet deeply touching with her self-deprecating dark sense of humor that will make you wince or better yet send you into uncontrollable fits of laughter. Presented in collaboration with Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. 8pm Thursday, October 16, Lehrman Community Day School, 727- 77th St., Miami Beach
As part of the Lehrman Community Day School’s Baby University, Books & Books presents Reading to Baby. Kristen McLean, the executive director of the American Booksellers for Children, will discuss the keys to reading to your baby, toddler and pre-schooler, what to look for in a book for the little ones, and what are the best new books for your children. For information or to register, go to www.lehrmanschool.org/BU or call 305-866-2771. 9:30amFriday, October 17, Gables
 Gema Pérez-Sánchez argues that the process of political and cultural transition from dictatorship to democracy in Spain can be read allegorically as a shift from a dictatorship that followed a self-loathing “homosexual” model to a democracy that identified as a pluralized “queer” body. Focusing on the urban cultural phenomenon of la movida, she offers a sustained analysis of high queer culture, as represented by novels, along with an examination of low queer culture, as represented by comic books and films. Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture (State University of New York Press, $24.95) highlights the contributions of women writers Ana María Moix and Cristina Peri Rossi, as well as comic book artists Ana Juan, Victoria Martos, Ana Miralles, and Asun Balzola. Its attention to women’s cultural production functions as a counterpoint to its analysis of the works of such male writers as Juan Goytisolo and Eduardo Mendicutti, comic book artists Nazario, Rubén, and Luis Pérez Ortiz, and filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. 8pm Live Music in the Courtyard: Miami Collective, 7-11pmSaturday, October 18, Gables
 Back by popular demand Actors’ Playhouse kicks off their new season with The Wizard of Oz. Join us for a preview of this magical tale. The wondrous world of Oz enchants and captures the hearts of audiences of all ages as a tornado whisks Dorothy away to the magical Land of Oz, where she befriends a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodsman and a Cowardly Lion. Together they avoid the Wicked Witch of the West and find the mighty Wizard who can help send Dorothy back home. Come and see the characters you love in this heartwarming version and unforgettable adventure. See the full performance at the Miracle Theatre, Saturdays at 2pm October 15 through November 8. 11am  In Perla Sarabia Johnson’s Global Warning (Publish America, $19.95), danger lurks in Dallas and spans around the planet. Creatures undergo a strange transformation. Dustin Jones must find a way to keep humans safe from these constant threats. In 2028, he goes to Miami to share his vision, but Mother Nature paves a deadly path for revenge. Drastic change sweeps the globe in 2031. Military strength depends on skillful assassins. The tides of terror tumble in Cuba. An epidemic hits the civilized world. Dustin finds comfort in an attractive woman, Heidi Hendricks, with a mysterious past. His career takes him to Poland where he must design a safe haven for citizens, but he gets tangled in a web of murder and corruption. The action moves to 2040 when Dallas residents must meet harsh guidelines to avoid painful measures. Dustin’s mother, Maria, struggles for survival. He grants his mother’s last wish even though he might risk his life to fulfill it. 5pm  State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America (Ecco, $29.95) features the reflections of 50 prominent authors and artists. Each contributor addresses one state, for example, Sarah Vowell on Montana, Jonathan Franzen on New York, and Dave Eggers on Illinois. The brainchild of editors Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey, State by State resurrects a project from the 1930s, when the WPA created the Federal Writers' Project, commissioning America's best writers to describe their states. Tonight, Books & Books is screening a 42-minute feature starring many of the book's most prominent contributors, a film that will be screened in upwards of 100 cities and towns around America as the 2008 election approaches, serving as a catalyst for powerful conversation and personal connection in communities large and small. Is America truly so divided between blue regions and red? What remains of the country that Saul Bellow, John Cheever, and Zora Neale Hurston wrote about seventy years ago? Have we changed beyond recognition? As a momentous election fast approaches, State by State looks at the nation anew through some of its most articulate, insightful, and engaging storytellers. 8pm Saturday, 18 October, Grand Cayman
  Russell Shorto's Descartes' Bones (Doubleday, $26) is a historical detective story about the creation of the modern mind, with twists and turns leading up to the present day — to the science museum in Paris where the philosopher's skull now resides, and to the church a few kilometers away where, not long ago, a philosopher-priest said a mass for the bones. "Learning lightly worn but hard won; would that all philosophical history were so accessible," praises Kirkus Reviews. 7pm Sponsored by Cayman Islands Department of Tourism and The Ritz Carlton Grand Cayman. Sunday, October 19, Gables
Note: This event is in Spanish. La poetisa Ema Fonseca leerá algunos poemas de sus libros, 4pm  Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as “reporting of the highest quality imaginable,” we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkins’s narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes: deserts, mountains, and streets of carnage; a public amputation performed by Taliban; children frolicking in minefields; skies streaked white by the contrails of B-52s; a night’s sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero. Like no other book, The Forever War (Knopf, $25) allows us a visceral understanding of today’s battlefields and of the experiences of the people on the ground, warriors and innocents alike. It is a brilliant, fearless work, not just about America’s wars after 9/11, but ultimately about the nature of war itself. Presented in collaboration with the Florida Center for the Literary Arts. 6pm Monday, October 20, Gables
On a brutal winter's day in 1650 in Stockholm, the Frenchman Renés, the most influential and controversial thinker of his time, was buried after a cold and lonely death far from home. Sixteen years later, the French Ambassador Hugues de Terlon secretly unearthed Descartes' bones and transported them to France. Why would this devoutly Catholic official care so much about the remains of a philosopher who was hounded from country to country on charges of atheism? Why would Descartes' bones take such a strange, serpentine path over the next 350 years—a path intersecting some of the grandest events imaginable: the birth of science, the rise of democracy, the mind-body problem, the conflict between faith and reason? The answer lies in Descartes’ famous phrase: Cogito ergo sum—"I think, therefore I am." Descartes’ Bones (Doubleday, $26) is Russell Shorto’s historical detective story about the creation of the modern mind, with twists and turns leading up to the present day—to the science museum in Paris where the philosopher’s skull now resides and to the church a few kilometers away where, not long ago, a philosopher-priest said a mass for his bones. 8pm Tuesday, October 21, Gables
 “When you meet Cindy Papale-Hammontree, you would never know she’s a breast cancer survivor. She’s positive, joyful, and incredibly generous in giving her time and energy to something she cares very much about – informing young women about the real risks of breast cancer. In The Empty Cup Runneth Over: Answers about Breast Cancer from the Experts ($23), Cindy has brought together some of the leading experts in the medical field to offer the latest information about breast cancer – what to watch for, how to determine when an exam is necessary, and what to do when, in the worst-case scenario, you hear he words ‘It’s malignant.’ Going beyond just technical information, Cindy has brought together a number of young women to share their personal stories.” – Ellen Jaffe, Afternoon Host, 101.5 LITE FM Radio. 8pmWednesday, October 22, Gables
  When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night-dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge – he follows her. Margo's always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she's always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q... until day breaks and she has vanished. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. But there are clues. And they're for Q. With Paper Towns (Penguin, $17.99), Printz Medalist John Green returns with the trademark brilliant wit and heart-stopping emotional honesty that have inspired a new generation of readers. 7pm  The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization (Berrett-Koehler, $24.95) vividly illustrates the challenges and contradictions of U. S. immigration policy, and argues that, just as there is a free flow of capital in the world economy, there should be a free flow of labor. Author Rinku Sen alternates chapters telling the story of one "accidental American"—coauthor Fekkak Mamdouh, a Morrocan-born waiter at a restaurant in the World Trade Center whose life was thrown into turmoil on 9/11— with a thorough critique of current immigration policy. Sen and Mamdouh describe how members of the largely immigrant food industry workforce managed to overcome divisions in the aftermath of 9/11 and form the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY) to fight for jobs and more equitable treatment. This extraordinary story serves to illuminate the racial, cultural, and economic conflicts embedded in the current immigration debate and helps frame the argument for a more humane immigration and global labor system. 8pmThursday, October 23, Bal Harbour Shops
 What is the price of brilliance? Why are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive? From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollack, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to Janis Joplin, to Kurt Cobain, and on and on, authors and artists throughout history have binged, pill-popped, injected, or poisoned themselves for their art. Fully illustrated and addictively readable, Genius and Heroin (HarperCollins, $15.95) is Michael Largo’s indispensable reference to the untidy lives of our greatest artists and thinkers, entertainingly chronicling how the notoriously creative lived and died—whether their ultimate downfalls were the result of opiates, alcohol, pot, absinthe, or the slow-motion suicide of obsession. 7:30pm Thursday, October 23, Gables
 If you’ve been searching for your soul mate without success, maybe it’s time to try a new approach: Yehuda Berg’s The Spiritual Rules of Engagement (Kabbalah Centre, $12.95). Kabbalah teaches that we are not alone, and that we are destined to be happy, Find out how the Laws of the Universe work in your favor, once you being to understand them and recognize the full potential for true love and sharing that lies within all of us. If you are willing to make the spiritual effort, you will see that real connection, both with the Light and with another human being, comes down to a matter of consciousness and certainty. The power is in your hands. Actor Ashton Kutcher writes, “I credit the success of my marriage to the teachings of Yehuda Berg... The wisdom shared in this book has led to a greater happiness than I ever thought possible.” Join teacher and Kabbalah expert Batya Solomon and learn these RULES. Presented in collaboration with The Kabbalah Centre. 8pm Friday, October 24, Gables
   Grdankl the Strong, president of Kprshtskan, is plotting to take over the American government. His plan is to infiltrate the science fair at Hubble Middle School, located in a Maryland suburb just outside Washington. The rich kids at Hubble cheat by buying their projects every year, and Grdankl's cronies should have no problem selling them his government-corrupting software. But this year, Toby Harbinger, a regular kid with Discount Warehouse shoes, is determined to win the $5,000 prize-even if he has to go up against terrorists to do it. With the help of his best friends, Tamara and Micah, Toby takes on Assistant Principal Paul Parmit, aka "The Armpit", a laser-eyed stuffed owl, and two eBay buyers named Darth and the Wookiee who seem to think that the Harrison-Ford-signed BlasTech DL-44 blaster Toby sold them is a counterfeit. The bestselling Peter and the Starcatchers duo is back with Science Fair (Disney/Hyperion, $18.99, ages 9+)! Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson now set their sights on a rogue nation, a terrorist plot and of course, levitating frogs and the Wienermobile. 7pm Saturday, October 25, Gables
 Katharine Murray's elegant Atlanta home has been viciously vandalized! She's prepared to devote all her time to getting it back in tip-top shape—until she meets Bara Weidenauer. Once a picture-perfect socialite, Bara has fallen on some hard times. Her husband, Foley, has hightailed it out of their marriage, and she's convinced he'll try to take her for every penny she's got. While scouring her house for anything of value to hide from her greedy ex, Bara finds a box of military medals that once belonged to her father, a beloved war hero. Eager to know the story behind these precious trinkets, she enlists Katharine's help. But as Katharine digs deeper into Weidenauer family history, she discovers that everything Bara believed about her father may have been a lie. And when Foley is found shot to death, Bara's world turns to complete chaos. It's up to Katharine to expose this family's secrets from the past and the present...or the future will be very grim indeed. Become enthralled by Patricia Sprinkle’s newest novel, Daughter of Deceit (HarperCollins, $6.99). 5pm  With Beranabus, Grubbs, and Kernel off exploring the universe of the Demonata for clues about the Shadow behind the demon invasion, Bec is left behind in Carcery Vale for safekeeping. But with Dervish's health on the decline, Lord Loss knows she's the most vulnerable piece of the Kah-Gash. As hoards of demons, werewolves, and zombies advance, Bec needs to figure how to reach Beranabus with crucial information about the Shadow – and quickly. Death’s Shadow (Little Brown, $16.99, ages 12+), the highly anticipated seventh book in the bestselling Demonata series by Cirque du Freak author Darren Shan, is sure to make sure shudder. Don’t miss tonight’s bone-chilling event. 7pm Saturday, October 25, Grand Cayman
 Dick and Felix Francis present their latest book, Silks (Putnam Adult, $25.95). Starting with his first novel, Dead Cert, in 1962, Dick Francis combines the best of the horse racing world with page-turning writing for classic fiction. In his latest book, Silks, he does it again. Setting aside his barrister’s gown and wig, Geoffrey Mason heads to Sandown racetrack to don his colorful racing silks. As an amateur jockey, he fulfills his true passion by pounding the turf in the heat of a steeplechase. Yet when a fellow rider is brutally murdered –a pitchfork driven through his chest – Mason’s racing hobby soon becomes too close to his work. The prime suspect is one of their brethren, champion jockey Steve Mitchell, and the evidence against him seems overwhelming. Mason is reluctant to heed Mitchell’s pleading for legal help, but he soon finds himself at the center of a sinister web of violence, threats and intimidation. Mason is left fighting a battle of right and wrong, and more immediately, a battle of life and death – his own. 7pm Sponsored by Cayman Islands Department of Tourism and The Ritz Carlton Grand Cayman. Sunday, October 26, Gables
 Note: This event is in Spanish. Camino a la luz de Shirley Venegas es una colección de cuentos en la cual podemos sentir las virtudes y mediocridades de la naturaleza humana, pensar en la vida, la muerte y en el sentido de nuestra existencia. Es un viaje a la realidad, pero también a la fantasia, al límite del conocimiento y la duda. Cada cuento es una experiencia, una lágrima, una tenue sonrisa o una reflexión. Camino a la luz, tiene un corazón grande, que late suave y fuerte, con desilusión y esperanza, con dolor y amor. Venegas nació en La Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba. Estudió Artes Plásticas, Edición y Guión para Televisión. Al emigrar a los Estados Unidos, en 2006, cursaba Estudios Socioculturales en la Universidad de la Habana. 4pmMonday, October 27, Gables
 Join the Company members of Shakespeare Miami for a professionally performed and dramatically presented reading of “The Scottish Play” accompanied by music and sound effects. Macbeth is one of the most accessible and archetypal of Shakespearean tragedies. After compressing the time line, the Bard deftly mixed bits of the true story of King Macbeth with Crown-pleasing tales of witchcraft and crowd-pleasing morality plays. The combined result is a dizzying tale of lust, greed, betrayal and bloodshed. Shakespeare Miami is a professional theatrical company dedicated to promoting and patronage of the arts through free performances of the plays of William Shakespeare in parks throughout the South Florida area. Fully staged performances of Macbeth will take place in Miami Beach, Coconut Grove and Miami Gardens this January. Visit the website at www.shakespearemiami.com for more information. 7pmMonday, October 27, Bal Harbour Shops  The dynamic and some never-before-told stories of Greater Miami's Jewish community are recounted here in L’Chaim: The History of the Jewish Community of Greater Miami (History Press, $19.99) by renowned local historian Seth H. Bramson. Beginning with the arrival of Miami's first Jewish settler, Isidor Cohen, in 1896, Bramson's exciting story takes us through Miami's early days to the present and includes the years of "restricted clientele," as well as the Jewish-owned buildings, businesses, stores, clubs, hotels, restaurants, schools, temples and philanthropic organizations. Bramson's unique writing style, coupled with a host of never-before-published photographs and a website of special features, invites the reader to take a historic look at the people and places that have made the Jewish impact and influence on the area such an important part of the fabric of the community. 7:30pm Tuesday, October 28, Gables
 City Theatre Play Readings: Preview strong finalists for the National Ten-Minute Play Contest, under production consideration for City Theatre’s acclaimed annual Summer Shorts Festival and new Shorts for Kids Festival. Attendees will evaluate and discuss plays with company artists and Artistic Director Stuart Meltzer. For information call City Theatre at 305-755-9401 or visit www.citytheatre.com 7:30pm Gabrielle Segovia, Ph.D., is struggling to build a career as a Latina scientist, to cope with her third miscarriage, and to resuscitate her marriage to fellow biology professor Benito Cruz. Becoming a santera is not in her plans. But everything changes when her best friend, the feisty Patricia Muñoz, drags her into a French Quarter voodoo shop during a conference in New Orleans. When Gabrielle gets home to the San Francisco Bay Area, the predictions from her on-a-whim reading begin to come true. That’s when she learns she hails from a long line of practitioners of Santeria, the religion created when Yoruba slaves combined their ancient rituals with Catholicism. In The Accidental Santera (St. Martin’s Press, $24.95), Irete Lazo captures a vibrant world still unknown to many and relates a journey that is at once funny, heart-wrenching, and, ultimately, triumphant. Presented in collaboration with the University of Miami Department of Religious Studies. 8pm Tuesday, October 28, Bal Harbour Shops
 I’d Bark But You Never Listen: An Illustrated Guide to the Jewish Dog (Red Rock Press, $11.99) is Hollywood humor writer Harold Kimmel’s edgy collection of illustrated jokes revealing the innermost thoughts of independent-minded dogs. What marks the breed is a quirky mindset--given both to philosophical debate and picky pragmatism, not to mention personal pride: I'd fetch, but it's embarrassing. The Jewish greyhound, foxhound or chosen mutt always has an excellent and very funny reason for leading his or her distinguished version of a dog's life. 7:30pm Wednesday, October 29, Gables
 The Wonder of Teaching: A Discussion Group for Educators and Parents: Lucia Gonzalez, the author of the award-winning picture book, The Storyteller’s Candle (Children’s Book Press, $16.95, Ages 6+), and the associate director for Programming and Youth Services for Broward County Libraries, offers a unique perspective on the growing bilingual and Spanish-language market for children’s books. As both an author and a librarian, Lucia will discuss how to use these kinds of books to help reinforce bilingualism and present children with characters and cultural situations that are familiar to them. The Wonders of Teaching is a discussion group for parents and educators that meets every other month during the school year. Each session features speakers from around the world who talk about methods used to excite and inspire children both at home and in the classroom. Presented in collaboration with Arts for Learning, the Miami Affilliate of Young Audiences. 6:30pm  Reaching back to nature primordial and coming to life through existential transformation, Michele Oka Doner’s sculptured figures act as human archetypes. They share the inevitability and undeniability of a natural order. The artist pares back the skin, focusing on the components that convey life. The structure of the veins and the inner anatomy of the body are re-formed into rich textures of coral, roots, rock and bark that express the essential geology of the structure of the earth. HumanNature ($49.95) begins with Oka Doner’s tattooed porcelain torsos, created in the mid-1960s, and culminates with the visceral power of her most recent life-size cast bronze figures. Designed by award-winning graphic designer Massimo Vignelli, this survey includes an essay by distinguished contemporary art historian Donald Kuspit. 8pmWednesday, October 29, Bal Harbour Shops
 Freakishly tall. Flat-chested. Far from wealthy. Peyton Grady is a nobody at her Boca Raton prep school until she makes varsity cheerleader. As a base, she's at the very bottom of the pyramid, where she can bask in the glow of the Alphas but never quite belong to their sparkling world. An opportunity arrives in the form of Ellika Garret—a graceless, "barrel-shaped" new student—who is granted instant cheerleadership in exchange for a hefty school donation. In retaliation, the squad hatches a plan to force dorky Ellika to quit. Going along with the hardcore hazing wins Peyton the Alpha celebrity she longs for. But at what cost? Alex Flinn (Breathing Underwater) calls Debbie Reed Fischer’s Swimming with the Sharks (Flux, $9.95) “a sizzling take on girl hazing and cheer pressure mixes the perfect ratio of humor to anger for a compelling, un-put-downable read." 7pm Thursday, October 30, Gables
 From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. They get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls; in elementary school, they’re diagnosed with learning disorders four times as often. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level. And by high school, they’re heavily outnumbered in AP classes and, save for the realm of athletics, show indifference to most extracurricular activities. Perhaps most alarmingly, boys now account for less than 43 percent of those enrolled in college, and the gap widens every semester! Interviewing hundreds of parents, kids, teachers, and experts, award-winning journalist Peg Tyre drills below the eye-catching statistics to examine how the educational system is failing our sons. The Trouble with Boys (Crown, $24.95) gives parents, educators, and anyone concerned about the state of education a manifesto for change—one that should be undertaken right away lest school become, for millions of boys, unalterably a “girl thing.” 7pm  “I admit that it was a strange idea,” Richard Fleming writes in the opening chapter of his engaging debut as a writer. Despite having a wonderful girlfriend, a downtown Manhattan apartment, and a thriving career, he is afraid that his life is spiraling into “nightmarish mediocrity.” After obsessing over the notion for years, he finally decides that crossing the island of Cuba on foot might somehow rescue him from the fate he fears. Walking to Guantánamo (Commons Books, $27) is the chronicle of that journey. And a thoroughly self-deprecating and wry chronicle it is. Rarely has a book about Cuba been so shorn of pretension, ideological blinders, or misplaced romanticism—and hardly ever has it been so genuinely funny. Fleming’s vision of the Pearl of the Antilles is, in the phrase of Madison Smartt Bell, truly “ground-level.” A discerning observer of daily life who rejects the clichés of Cuba’s enemies and friends alike, Fleming ranges over the Cuban countryside with a rare ability to distinguish reality from façade and slogan from fact—and to do it all in often hilarious if singularly modest style. 8pmThursday, October 30, Miami Beach
 The world of tap dance has never been explored more thoroughly—nor in such an intimate, witty, and astute style—than in the pages of Shoot Me While I’m Happy (Woodshed Productions), by New York writer/dancer, Jane Goldberg. Her deep connection with tap comes from years of performing and talking with such luminaries as her late friend Gregory Hines (a moral force throughout the book), Sammy Davis, Jr., Savion Glover, Ginger Rogers, Honi Coles, Cookie Cook, Buster Brown, and Sandman Sims. She draws on interviews conducted over thirty years, illustrating her book with photos from her vast archive, many of which have never before been published. Goldberg’s interest in the subject grew out of her coming of age in the 1960s, when tap was emerging from the decline it experienced in the years after World War II. Part memoir, part essay, with an introduction by the late Gregory Hines, the book embeds tap in an eyewitness account of bohemian life as it was lived in a New York City that no longer exists. 8pm Friday, October 31, Gables
  AUTOGRAPHING ONLY: Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics (Crown, $35) is the essential Ina Garten cookbook, focusing on the techniques behind her elegant food and easy entertaining style, and offering nearly a hundred brand-new recipes that will become trusted favorites. In Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics, Ina truly breaks down her ideas on flavor, examining the ingredients and techniques that are the foundation of her easy, refined style. The recipes—crowd-pleasers like Lobster Corn Chowder, Tuscan Lemon Chicken, and Easy Sticky Buns—demonstrate Ina’s talent for transforming fresh, easy-to-find ingredients into elegant meals you can make without stress. For longtime fans, Ina delivers new insights into her simple techniques; for newcomers she provides a thorough master class on the basics of Barefoot Contessa cooking plus a Q&A section with answers to the questions people ask her all the time. With full-color photographs and invaluable cooking tips, Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics is an essential addition to the cherished library of Barefoot Contessa cookbooks. Please Note: This event is an autographing only. Ina will sign multiple copies, but will not be able to personalize. Only those books purchased at Books & Books will be eligible for signing. Photos will be allowed in passing, but not posed. Presented in collaboration with the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival. 12 noon  Stalled in his writing career and feeling overwhelmed by his charismatic, successful boss Sir Henry Irving, Bram Stoker returns to London in the summer of 1888 determined to turn his life around. Moving from Manhattan to London's West End and Whitechapel, from Dublin to a ritualistic denouement in Edinburgh, this sweeping, magnificent novel is a suspenseful trip into the heart of literature and history, as Stoker sets out on the "true" adventure that will later inspire him to write Dracula. James Reese has been praised for his "sweeping narrative" (Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MS), "vivid characters" (Washington Post Book World), and "imaginative wizardry" (Orlando Sentinel), and The Dracula Dossier (HarperCollins, $24.95) is perhaps his most stunning achievement to date. 8pm Live Music in the Courtyard: Negroni Trio, 7-11pm |
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| OCTOBER READING & DISCUSSION GROUPS 10/2 - First Thursday of the Month, 7:30pm 10/4 - First Saturday of the Month, 9:30am 10/5 - First Sunday of the Month, 4pm 10/6 - First Monday of the Month, 7pm 10/7 - First Tuesday of the Month, 7:30pm 10/8 - Second Wednesday of the Month, 8pm 10/11 - Second Saturday of the Month, 10:15am 10/13 - Second Monday of the Month, 7:30pm 10/14 - Second Tuesday of the Month, 6:30pm 10/16 - Third Thursday of the Month, 8pm 10/18 - Third Saturday of the Month, 10am 10/20 - Third Monday of the Month, 7:30pm 10/21 - Third Tuesday of the Month, 7:30pm 10/23- Fourth Thursday of the Month, 8pm 10/29- Last Wed. of the Month Reading Group, 7:30pm 10/31 - Las Friday of the Month, 7:30pm |
 Coral Gables Story Time Wednesdays at 1:00pm Saturdays at 10am followed by a craft. Oct. 4 – Celebrate National Book Month with Books & Books. Oct. 11 – Watch out! It’s Dinosaur Month & here they come! Oct. 18 – Get ready for a preview of The Wizard of Oz. Oct. 25 – Boo! Halloween is just around the corner. Bal Harbour Shops Story Time Sundays at 12:30pm followed by a craft. Oct. 5 – Play with the cool cats. Oct. 12 – Were you Born to Read? Oct. 19 – This piggy is everyone’s favorite. Oct. 26 – Soup’s on! |
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