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Celebrate Pride Month with these recommended titles!
Pride Month is a time to reflect on how far the LGBTQ+ community has come after decades of activism and what we can do to go further still. It is also a time to celebrate all gender and sexual identities. Get into the spirit with one of these books centered around LGBTQ+ characters and the community.…
Calling all teachers & librarians!
Are you a local educator or librarian? We’d love to hear from you! Send us your reading lists and tell your students we’ll have their titles available all summer long! Book your summer! Stop by any of our locations to pick up your summer reading titles and get 10% off your purchase, just mention…
Events
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Event Category: Author Event 
Mary Beth Keane
ASK AGAIN, YES, by Mary Beth Keane, is a stunningly ambitious novel with the scope and resonance of Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth and the character-driven plot, broad appeal, and suburban setting of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere. Keane is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and the author of the highly acclaimed novels THE…
June 18 @ 8:00 pmBooks & Books in Coral Gables
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Event Category: Ticketed Event 
An Evening with Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski & Daniela Pierre-Bravo
Join New York Times bestselling author Mika Brzezinski and MSNBC producer Daniela Pierre-Bravo, moderated by MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host, Joe Scarborough, as they discuss Earn It!: Know Your Value and Grow Your Career in Your 20s and Beyond, a practical career guidebook that not only helps you get your foot in the door; it also shows…
June 27 @ 6:30 pmBooks & Books in Coral Gables
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Event Category: Ticketed Event 
An Evening with Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning Oprah’s Book Club selection The Underground Railroad, will be in Miami for an exclusive appearance to celebrate the highly-anticipated follow-up, THE NICKEL BOYS: A Novel (Penguin Random House)—a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his…
July 26 @ 7:30 pmAdrienne Arsht Center, Knight Concert Hall
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Event Category: Author Event 
Julie Satow
Journalist Julie Satow’s thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today’s Billionaire Row. From the moment in 1907 when New York millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt strode through the Plaza Hotel’s revolving doors to become its first guest,…
June 19 @ 8:00 pmBooks & Books
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Event Category: Author Event 
Mamta Chaudhry in conversation with Debra Dean
A timeless story of love and loss is transformed when a bereaved pianist discovers a mysterious letter among her late lover’s possessions, launching her headlong into a decades-old search for a child who vanished in the turbulence of wartime Paris. In the summer of 1989, while all of Paris is poised to celebrate the bicentennial…
June 20 @ 8:00 pmBooks & Books in Coral Gables
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Event Category: Author Event 
Jonathan M. Hansen
Note: Books & Books is sensitive to the feelings of our Cuban community in southern Florida where passion about Cuba runs deep and want to preface this presentation with a note stating that while we like to present all viewpoints and authors, we do not necessarily endorse this point of view. We have tapped the…
June 27 @ 8:00 pmBooks & Books in Coral Gables
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Owners, customers thankful for Books & Books | May 09, 2019 BY MAXINE LOPEZ-KEOUGH Florida Weekly Correspondent COURTESY PHOTO I t’s just after 6:15 p.m. in Key West when a family of three pulls to a shuddering stop atop their rented bicycles. After fiddling with cumbersome locks and a fussy child strapped into a bucket seat mounted over the back wheel of one of the bikes, the trio makes their way to a set of glass doors — clearly marked with the words HOURS 10-6 — and, after finding the doors...
Mitchell Kaplan Literary Weekly Podcast
Mitchell Kaplan has been a bookseller and has owned the independent bookstores Books & Books for over 35 years. If you love books, writers or are a passionate reader, this podcast is for you. Enter The Literary Life where every Saturday you’ll hear candid conversations with Mitchell and his guests.
The Story of Books & Books
This is the story of how one bookstore, Books & Books, has been able to continue to grow and change and ultimately survive and thrive in what remains an incredibly challenging environment. It’s the story of how the hard work of a virtual generation of booksellers built a bookstore that finds itself making a difference. Mitchell Kaplan, the store’s founder, started his career working part-time for one of those chains that populated every suburban mall so many years ago. He was a recovering law student – leaving after two years...
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