Location: Pembroke Pines, FL

A chilling work of psychological suspense and forensic memoir, She left me the gun (Penguin, $26.95) is a tale of true transformation: the story of a young woman who reinvented herself so completely that her previous life seemed simply to vanish, and of a daughter who transcends her mother’s fears and reclaims an abandoned past. “One day I will tell you the story of my life,” promises Emma Brockes’s mother, “and you will be amazed.” Brockes grew up hearing only pieces of her mother’s past—stories of a rustic childhood in South Africa, glimpses of a bohemian youth in London—and yet knew that crucial facts were still in the dark. A mystery to her friends and family, Paula was clearly a strong, self-invented woman; glamorous, no-nonsense, and frequently out of place in their quaint English village. Looking to unearth the truth after Paula’s death, Brockes begins a dangerous journey into the land—and the life—her mother fled from years before. Brockes soon learns that Paula’s father was a drunk megalomaniac who terrorized Paula and her seven half-siblings for years. After finally mustering the courage to take her father to court, Paula is horrified to see the malevolent man vindicated of all charges. As Brockes discovers, this crushing defeat left Paula with a choice: take her own life, or promise herself never to be intimidated or unhappy again. Ultimately she chooses life and happiness by booking one-way passage to London—but not before shooting her father five times, and failing to kill him. Smuggling the fateful gun through English customs would be Paula’s first triumph in her new life. A beguiling and unforgettable journey across generations and continents, She left me the gun chronicles Brockes’s efforts to walk the knife-edge between understanding her mother’s unspeakable traumas and embracing the happiness she chose for her daughter.

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

On Tuesday February 3rd 2004 two 14-year old boys entered a school bathroom in a South Miami Middle School. One of the boys, Richard coaxed the other, Jaime Gough into one of the bathroom stalls. Richard told Jaime that he had a surprise to show him. This is the story of what happened to Jaime Gough that fateful day. The secret Richard revealed to Jaime sent shock waves through the boy’s families and community as a whole. Four-time author Jason Wood takes you through the story behind the headlines and into the lives of Jaime’s parents. Travel back in time to the journey that brought the Goughs together. Delve into the heartache of losing a child and the power to overcome hate and actually forgive. From the chilling confession of the murderer to the Gough’s actual letters of forgiveness to their son’s killer, From Fighting to Forgiving takes you on an unexpected journey. Learn first hand how challenging it is to let go of hate and seek love after a tragedy.

El martes 3 de febrero del 2004, dos adolescentes de 14 años entraron a un baño en South Miami Middle School. Uno de ellos, Richard, embaucó al otro, Jaime Gough a que entrara en uno de los baños. Richard le dijo a Jaime que le tenía una sorpresa. Esta es la historia de lo que le ocurrió a Jaime Gough en ese fatídico día. La sorpresa que Richard le tenía a Jaime cambió la vida de la familia Gough y escandalizó a toda la comunidad. Jason Wood, autor de cuatro libros, nos cuenta la historia detrás de los encabezados y dentro de la vida de los padres de Jaime. Su novela es un viaje al pasado que nos muestra el camino que unió a los Gough. Nos lanza dentro de la agonía de perder a un hijo y la fuerza para sobreponerse al odio para poder perdonar. Desde la escalofriante confesión del homicidio, hasta las cartas de perdón que los Gough escribieron al asesino de su hijo, De la lucha al perdón, es un viaje esperanzador.

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Liliana Paez, a sales entrepreneur and CEO of Global Smarts Products will discuss specific strategies and techniques to reach economic growth. She will also address the challenges women often face professionally and how to overcome them. Additionally, Paez will answer questions during a Q&A session. Female Power A Women’s Guide to Becoming a Millionaire equips readers with the necessary tools to succeed in business and embark on new business ventures. The program includes Liliana’s inspiring biography, an easy to follow 15-step guide, a CD audio book, a CD to program the listener’s subconscious and a strategic agenda for the reader to keep up with their action plan and make it happen. Some of the topics addressed in the book include: working for yourself, the magic of visualization, ambition as your best friend, tips on taking the “no” out of life, sales as a path toward financial success when investing isn’t an option, among others. Paez is the founder and CEO of Global Smarts Products, a company headquartered in Brickell with a global presence. The firm focuses on creating, designing and selling cutting edge, innovative products, which are currently sold at major retailers in over 35 countries, via e-commerce and Direct Response Television. She has gone from selling cakes door to door, to engaging in multiple successful business ventures to founding her own company.

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

David Ebenbach's collection of short fiction, Into the Wilderness, winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize, explores the powerful and complicated experience of parenthood from many angles: an eager-to-connect divorced father takes his kids to a Jewish-themed baseball game; a lesbian couple tries to decide whether their toddler son needs a man in his life; one young couple debates the idea of parenthood while another struggles with infertility; a reserved father uses an all-you-can-eat buffet to comfort his heartbroken son. But the backbone of the collection is Judith, who we follow through her challenging first weeks of motherhood, culminating in an intense and redemptive baby-naming ceremony. In the words of author Joan Leegant, “These stories are fearless, honest and true. They are also a joy to read.” David’s guide to the creative process, The Artist's Torah, is an uplifting and down-to-earth guide to the creative process, wide open to longtime artists and first-time dabblers, to people of every religious background—or none—and to every creative medium. In this book, you’ll find a year-long cycle of weekly meditations on a life lived artistically, grounded in ancient Jewish wisdom and the wisdom of artists, composers, writers, and choreographers from the past and present. The Artist’s Torah teaches us that creativity is a natural and important part of the human spirit, a bright spark that, week after week, this book will brighten.

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

In Jenni Rivera: The Incredible Story of a Warrior Butterfly, Leila Cobo—pianist, TV host, writer and Executive Director for Latino content and programming at Billboard—brings us Jenni Rivera’s intimate and moving biography, reflecting on the party girl, the elegant woman, the great diva, the friend, the mother, and the grandmother. Discover the humble beginnings of Jenni’s life and career, as well as the emotional and sometimes turbulent moments that defined her persona and spirit. Like a candle blown out before her time, we not only lost the “Unforgettable One,” the “Queen of Queens,” the “Warrior Butterfly,” we also lost a brave woman who fearlessly faced life’s ups and downs to attain the happiness she so fervently wanted for herself and her family. With Jenni’s departure, we celebrate a shining legacy that will forever reverberate within every note of her voice.

En Jenni Rivera: La increíble vida de una Mariposa Guerrera, Leila Cobo—pianista, escritora, presentadora de televisión y directora ejecutiva del contenido y la programación latina de Billboard— nos regala una biografía íntima y conmovedora sobre Jenni Rivera, la parrandera, la elegante, la gran diva, la amiga, la mamá y la abuela. Descubrirás los comienzos de la vida y la carrera de Jenni y los momentos emocionantes y a veces turbulentos que conformaron su persona y su espíritu. Como una luz que se apaga antes de tiempo, con la partida de Jenni no solo perdimos a la inolvidable, la reina de reinas, la mariposa guerrera, sino que se fue también una mujer valiente que no temía enfrentar los altibajos de la vida en busca de la felicidad. Jenni nos dejó un ejemplo de vida, que resonará por siempre en cada nota de su voz.

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Muchos hablan ya del misterioso caso de Matías de Stefano, el joven que recuerda la Atlántida y vidas en otros planetas. Se trata de un Niño Índigo que nació en agosto de 1987 en la Ciudad de Venado Tuerto, Argentina. Como él mismo dice, no explica nada nuevo ni inventado porque la Sabiduría Perenne siempre ha estado ahí, pero sí es una novedad que nos la cuenten con un lenguaje juvenil, cercano, comprensible, desdramatizado y sincero. Vivir en la Tierra presenta la visión general de Matías de Stefano sobre qué somos, dónde estamos y cuál es nuestra misión, dándonos información de primera mano sobre temas tan diversos como el espíritu y el alma, la astrología, las razas humanas, la economía y la política, la educación, Adán y Eva, la historia desconocida, el sistema solar, la vida y la muerte.

En Vivir en el Universo, Matías de Stefano responde, con su claridad y sencillez habitual, a multitud de preguntas interesantes e inquietantes como: ¿Qué es Dios? ¿Qué nos diferencia a nosotros de Dios? ¿Qué es el Ego? ¿Existe el libre albedrío? ¿Qué es el amor incondicional? ¿Qué es el Mer-ka-bah?

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Debut author Solange Mayo about her new book, A Very Bright Sun: “At the age of 29, I had three professional degrees and came from a family in which my parents had been married for 31 years, when I suddenly found myself in the darkest and loneliest place I had ever been. I was pregnant and divorced. I had no hope, no direction, and no guidance. I was completely lost in a tunnel and no matter where I looked; I couldn't see any glimpse of light. One night I cried myself to sleep saying, "God please take me out of this darkness and show me the light at the end of this tunnel. Please God do it." The very next day God showed me the way out of the darkness and into the light, and my life was forever transformed. It was the beginning of a journey where I would do what no one in my entire blood lineage had ever done. I would defy and break all of my family's beliefs and traditions and fight against all odds. I only had one person by my side and I was willing to walk on the water for Him.”

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Lucky O’Toole, the newly promoted vice president of Customer Relations for the Babylon, Las Vegas’s primo Strip property, has never met a problem she couldn’t handle. But when a young woman is found dead, sprawled across the hood of a new, bright red Ferrari California in the Babylon’s on-site dealership, a Jimmy Choo stiletto stuck in her carotid, Lucky’s skills are maxed out. Of course her life is already on overload and The Smack-Down Poker tournament, the second-largest poker tournament in the world, is holding its final round at the Babylon. Hookers, thieves, players, cheaters, media, and hangers-on descend, looking to win or to score. When one of the players turns up dead, Lucky starts to make connections between the two murders, putting her in the crosshairs of the killer. After a revelation by someone close to her sends her world reeling even further, Lucky struggles to keep her life in balance, and a murderer from killing again as bodies pile up. Then, just when she’s losing control… life deals another major complication to her personal life… and it’s not going to be pretty. Lucky struggles to keep her life in balance, and a murderer from killing again as bodies pile up.

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

What's the easiest way to make delicious and adorable desserts? Without an oven! That's No Bake Makery (Grand Central, $19.99) -- all of the fun, but none of the fuss. These creative, two-bite treats of all kinds are impossible for anyone to resist-on any occasion. In addition to tips for perfecting your technique, ideas for decorating, and sidebar recipes, Cristina Suarez Krumsick serves up simple step-by-step instructions for her favorite no-bakems, from Cinnamon & Spice Bark, Bite o' Joe Truffles, and Key Lime Pie to Mintamelon Pops, Applesauce Cake, Fluffy Cracker Cookies, and beyond! They're all cute. They're all bursting with flavor. And you don't need an oven to make any of them.

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek’s 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection—to the body, the self, and the world

Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body—how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body—a disconnection brought on by her father’s sexual abuse and her mother’s remoteness. “Because I did not, could not inhabit my body or the Earth,” she writes, “I could not feel or know their pain.”

But Ensler is shocked out of her distance. While working in the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a body—pricked, punctured, cut, scanned. It is then that all distance is erased. As she connects her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life force to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, fully—and gratefully—joined to the body of the world.

Unflinching, generous, and inspiring, Ensler calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world. This event is presented in collaboration with the Women's Chamber of Commerce of Miami-Dade County and The Cener for Literature and Theatre at Miami Dade College. Free tickets available at Books & Books in Coral Gables or online at Eventbrite.com.

Location: Street: 3010 De Soto Boulevard City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Sara Shepard is the author of two New York Times bestselling series, Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game. She graduated from New York University and has an MFA from Brooklyn College. Sara's Pretty Little Liars novels were inspired by her upbringing in Philadelphia's Main Line.

Katie Sise is an author, jewelry designer, and television host. Lucky magazine has called her a "Designer to Watch," and her company has appeared in most major fashion magazines, including Vogue, W, Elle, Self, and many more. Katie is also the author of Creative Girl: The Ultimate Guide for Turning Talent and Creativity into a Real Career. Sarah Strohmeyer is a bestselling and award-winning novelist whose books include The Cinderella Pact (which was made into a Lifetime Original Movie called Lying To Be Perfect), The Sleeping Beauty Proposal, The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives, Sweet Love, and the Bubbles mystery series. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Plain Dealer and the Boston Globe. She lives with her family outside Montpelier, Vermont. This is her first novel for teens.

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Raquel Cepeda is an award-winning journalist, cultural activist, and documentary filmmaker. A former magazine editor, her byline has appeared in The Village Voice, CNN.com, the Associated Press, and many others. Cepeda directed and produced Bling: A Planet Rock, the critically acclaimed documentary about American hip-hop culture’s obsession with diamonds. She lives with her husband, a writer and TV producer, daughter, and son in her beloved New York City. (added from Simon & Schuster)… (more)