Book Club Pick "ROOM" by Emma Donoghue

The BookClub in the Grove

November 9th, 7:30pm.

Told in the pitch-perfect voice of a five-year-old boy raised in captivity, Donoghue’s stunning novel offers a unique portrait of one mother's fiece devotion. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Award, this is a real page-turner. A special discount will be offered to BookClub attendees.



Waffle Sunday!

Good Morning Everyone! Have you had our delicious waffles yet? Made to order with numerous fruit toppings available, (strawberries, bannanas or blueberries) we want to fill your belly with the most delectable treat a Sunday Morning can offer!

I'm sure you have noticed the chill in the air of the past few mornings, we here at The Bookstore have too! Stop by the cafe and enjoy a slice of Hot Apple Pie, a Hot Fudge Sundae or Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Topping! Wash it down with any number of our flavored coffees, including Pumkin Spice now available!

The Bookstore is Making Headlines........

http://grandavenews.com/2010/10/16/a-bookstore-for-the-grove/

Check out this article from the GrandAveNews.com, a local hyperlink. It is a great write up on the store wth fantastic photos thanks to local photographer, Jessica Hodder.

If you ar ein the neighborhood we'd love to see you. Stop in for a cup of joe stay and browse our selection of books before you take home the perfect one to curl up to this fall!

Tonight Tonight Tonight - Open Mic

"Take a Hard Look" - A Writers Read Open Mic for All Genres"

Take a Hard Look at the world around you and what do you see? Writers and artists speak the truth about what we see—that’s what we do. Writers join us to share your truth at our next...“Writers Read” Open Mic—an evening to delight with friends in the magic of the written and spoken word. Poet/Writer Sherwood Ross, our featured writer/reader, will share his truth honed as a long-time civil rights activist. Ross will read from his riveting narrative poem: “America: The Imperial.” Join us and let’s take a hard look—and listen–to our different truths.


Join us Thursday, Oct. 7,7:30-9:30 PM at The Bookstore in the Grove, 3399 Virginia Street, #620, Coconut Grove. Writers Read Open Mic is open to writers of any genre—fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature. Readers should practice your readings—max. 7 minutes. Arrive early to sign up to read.

Info: mikelrm@aol.com or (305) 281-4089 or www.write2theedge.com

Coconut Grove Grapevine: Making history with Arva

Coconut Grove Grapevine: Making history with Arva

What a spectacular event! One that will go down in the history books for The Bookstore in the Grove. Check out more photos on the Coconut Grapevine.

HOT OFF THE PRESS!!!!!! Coconut Grove Book is Here!!

COME AND GET THEM!! Hot off the Presses! A book about US!

We have the long awaited Coconut Grove book and we will host a Book Release Party and Book Signing on This Thursday September 30th, 7:30pm with LIVE music by Bobby Ingrim!

Join Us...See you there!

*****SCIENCE CAFE*****

eat, think, & be merry!

Science Cafe Series

presents

Microbes:

The Scariest Monsters On Coral Reefs?

Who is Florida's "mystery coral killer"?

What can be done to prevent or manage coral disease?

with Marilyn Brandt

of

University of Virgin Islands

MODAY, September 13th starts @ 7:00pm

FREE FOOD

(to the first 40 attendees)

Book Signing:Evelyn Uslar-Pietri Author of Pirate's Gold Treasure to Die For

Mark your Calendars!
Book Signing: September 18th 3pm - 5pm

Meet the Author!
Evelyn Uslar-Pietri

*****The first 20 Books sold will receive a print from the artist Jorgen.*****

This roller coaster of a novel twists and turns and plunges you into a world of dizzying adventure: a place of hideous monsters, evil wizards, ancient curses, enchanting nymphs and unimaginable riches! Tag along (if you dare!) with Captain Johnny B. Wilde and his motley crew as they sail the infamous islands of Vasquez searching for treasure of biblical proportions.
 

http://www.piratesgoldtreasure.com/

BookClub in the Grove September! Tuesday Sept. 14th

Young Professionals Book Club in the Grove

September's Book is The Magician's by Lev Grossman

Tuesday, September 14, 7:30pm. We'll see you there!

Comment from a Book Club Member: "The Magicians is an urban fantasy novel that I found entertaining, suspensful and a little melancholy. I can't wait to discuss it at our book club meeting on Tuesday, September 14 at 7:30pm."

Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. He's a senior in high school, and a certifiable genius, but he's still secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy novels he read as a kid, about the adventures of five children in a magical land called Fillory. Compared to that, anything in his real life just seems gray and colorless.

Everything changes when Quentin finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the practice of modern sorcery. He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. But something is still missing. Magic doesn't bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he thought it would.

Then, after graduation, he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real.

The Magicians was published in August 2009 and was a New York Times bestseller.

Don't Labor This Sunday, Bring the Family to the Bookstore!

Join us in the Cafe for breakfast. Have a bagel, croissant or quiche. Maybe even our delicious waffles, only available on Sundays! Don't worry about getting dressed. Wear your Pajamas everyone else will be!

11 am - FAMILY PAJAMA PARTY

Virginia Street beside the Bookstore, will be closed. We have also got you covered for lunch. Pick a hot dog and then cool down with a tasty ice cream cone!

Prizes will be given out all day for pajamas, for coming up on stage and performing as well as for speed in the obstacle course, there is music and story telling, face painting. Lots of fun things for the kiddies.

After you have worn the kids out, you'll have a little bit of time to chat with your friends before The Great Grove Bed Race begins!

See you there!!

Coconut Grove Grapevine

Coconut Grove Grapevine: "Never a dull moment at The Bookstore

Yesterday, The Bookstore in the Grove was all abuzz with a commerical being filmed for State Representative Carlos Lopez-Cantera. Carlos is up for re-election in November for District 113, which includes Coconut Grove. This will be his last run for this particular office because of term limits.

Felice Dubin & Carlos Lopez-Cantera @ The Bookstore!

Felice Dubin, co-owner of The Bookstore, was in the commercial, giving Carlos an endorsement, who has done great things for our district. He lives right here in the Center Grove and is a big part of our community.

Carlos is one of the judges at this Sunday's Great Grove Bed Race, along with Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, actor Steven Bauer (Rocky Echevarría) of Que Pasa, USA? and possibly Mayor Tomas Regalado among others. Grand Marshall Tony Kanaan will also be judging the beds on Commodore Plaza. They are judged in various categories like Creativity, Theme, Originality, etc. And of course they race and they are judged by their speed."

Check Humorous Authors

In these economic down times, with all the oil spills and celebrity hogwash curl up with a good book using escapism! Forget about what is really going on and live in another world by reading some of these Author’s great raw and edgy tales!



Chuck Palahniuk –Best-selling Cult Author, Born February 21, 1962) is an American fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film. His tales are raw and vivid, often times leaving you with goose bumps His most recent work, Tell All is here at The Bookstore in the Grove!

Chuck’s Book List!
Fight Club (1996)
Survivor (1999)
Invisible Monsters (1999)
Choke (2001)
Lullaby (2002)
Diary (2003)
Haunted (2005)
Rant (2007)
Snuff (2008)
Pygmy (2009)
Tell-All (2010)
Damned (2011)


See more of Chuck Palahniuk -
Official Website is http://chuckpalahniuk.net/
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/chuckpalahniuk



Augusten Burroughs, born October 23, 1965– Screenwriter, Memoirist - Most known for his memoir Running With Scissors that was also made into a film. He has the knack for allowing his thoughts to spill out onto the page just as they occur in his own mind! Let your imagination run wild!



Sellevision (2000)
Running with Scissors(2002)
Dry (2003)
Magical Thinking 2004
Possible Side Effects 2006
A Wolf at the Table 2008
You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas 2009


David Sedaris, born December 26, 1956 - Writer, Humorist, Comedian, a playwright and a regular commentator for National Public Radio. He is also the author of the best-selling Barrel Fever. His books are located in the Humor section in The Bookstore!


Story and essay collections

Barrel Fever (1994)
Naked (1997)
Holidays on Ice (1997)
Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (editor, 2005)
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008)
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (2010)

The Grove is Hopping right into Bed!

The Great Grove Bed Race is on!
Labor Day Weekend
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

Check out http://www.thegreatgrovebedrace.com/

for more information about dates and times of Races and Events!

We will kick off the weekend with

The

Pajama Pub Crawl

Saturday Septmeber 4th, 2010
The Bookstore in the Grove Open 'Til Midnight
Everyone Loves the "D.D."
No, it's not Night of The Living Dead! The streets are filled with people in their pj's for a reason!
 Pajama Crawlers will “crawl” to nine (9) different locations across the village of Coconut Grove, and when they are through can meet their D.D. at the Bookstore in the Grove.

Be sure to let your Designated Driver know that we are their Official Pit Stop and FREE coffee will be available to them until midnight!

Sunday September 5th

Beginning at 11am - 1pm

Here in The Bookstore in the Grove we will be selling "hot" hot dogs and "cold" ice cream. There will be lots of goodies for the kids, including the ever popular Silly Bandz, story time and stickers.

Recommended Reads by Kimberly

I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti by Giulia Melucci

It’s summer… the perfect time of year for some lighter reading. I’m a sucker for the memoir/cookbook genre that has become so popular in recent years. I love them. The thing is, I can actually READ cookbooks so this type of book is perfect for me. “I Loved, I Lost…” was a quick, satisfying morsel – perfect for a day at the beach or a rainy afternoon on the couch. The Italian-American protagonist, Giulia Melucci, is a smart, stylish New Yorker who works in publishing. She also has horrible taste in men. This narrative follows her (miserable) dating exploits which are dotted with fabulous recipes. The one thing about the recipes is that they seem both delicious AND simple which really won me over. I can actually see myself making most of the dishes in the book because they don’t have 1000 ingredients and seem infinitely do-able. In fact, first on my list is the “Morning After Pumpkin Bread” on page 77 and as soon as we get some cooler weather, I’m down for “Levana Kirschenbaum’s Sweet-and-Sour Brisket” on page 89. My only minor complaint is that the poor dear hasn’t found love by the end of the book… just a string of loser boyfriends; but her food world is rich and delicious.

Lookin' for a Fabulous Cookie Cookbook?

Cook Book Review: Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar: 100 Dairy-Free Recipes for Everyone's Favorite Treats by Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope Romero

For those who doubt that cookies can be vegan – no eggs, dairy or meat – I assure you, the recipes in Vegan Cookies Invade are amazing! I recently made the Mexican Chocolate Snickerdoodles for Easter baskets and they were a HUGE success. This deeply chocolate cookie has lots of cinnamon and a hint of cayenne to give just the perfect amount of heat after each bite. They are a bit crispy on the outside, giving way to a tender, chewy center. Delectable. One note: the recipe calls for a half teaspoon of cayenne… I would drop this down to one forth because a full half teaspoon yields some super spicy cookies! If you want a GREAT cookie cookbook… I highly recommend this and all of Isa’s other vegan cookbooks… always in stock at the Book Store in the Grove.

Mexican Hot Chocolate Snickerdoodles
Makes 2 dozen Cookies

A beautiful crackle topped chocolate cookie with a spicy cayenne kick and a sugary cinnamon coating.

For the topping:
1/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

For the cookies:
1/2 cup canola oil
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
3 tablespoons almond milk (Or your preferred non-dairy milk)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon chocolate extract (or more vanilla extract if you have no chocolate)
1 2/3 cups flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cayenne

Preheat oven to 350 F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.

Mix the topping ingredients together on a flat plate. Set aside.

In a medium mixing bowl, use a fork to vigorously mix together oil, sugar, syrup, and milk. Mix in extracts.

Sift in remaining ingredients, stirring as you add them. Once all ingredients are added mix until you’ve got a pliable dough.

Roll dough into walnut sized balls. Pat into the sugar topping to flatten into roughly 2 inch discs. Transfer to baking sheet, sugar side up, at least 2 inches apart (they do spread). This should be easy as the the bottom of the cookies should just stick to your fingers so you can just flip them over onto the baking sheet. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, they should be a bit spread and crackly on top. Remove from oven and let cool for 5 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.