Registration EXTENDED 1 Week!!!!!

ACT NOW!!! You or that little writer at your house have been given an extra week to register for La Plume. So sharpen your pencils and get writing already will ya!!


The contest is open to all Coconut Grove resident students grades 3 - 12. Check out all the details by walking into The Bookstore in The Grove and grabbing an entry packet!! Or give us a call and we will see how we can help you!!

Printable Invitations for Your Next Event!!!

Never Forget and Truly Remember

Thank you to all those who have served, will serve and are serving including their families for the ultimate sacrifice. We appreciate all you do!

June Book Club Pick

After reading the review of Julie Otsuka's latest book I now want to dive right into both her books. "The Buddha in the Attic" takes you on a journey that begins in Japan and ends in America with young, beautiful girls coming to meet the men the have promised to marry. The only thing they have is a photo of the man, steeping off the boat they have no idea who this man might be.

The novel is a follow up to her novel "When the Emporer was Devine". "In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells the story of one Japanese American family from five flawlessly realized points of view—the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train ride to the camp; the son in the desert encampment; the family’s return to their home; and the bitter release of the father after almost four years in captivity. "

Julie's Book "The Buddha in the Attic" is The Bookstore's latest Book Club pick. The meeting is Tuesday June 5th at 7:30 pm, see you there!

Next Month's Pick is: The Cove by Ron Rash Review Here.

Drink that coffee and feel good!

Coffee drinking linked to longer life...

courtesy CNN.com

Below is an article from Health.com. See! We've been drinking coffee all this time and we knew it was good for us! But did you know HOW GOOD?

By Amanda Gardner, Health.com

updated 9:44 AM EDT, Thu May 17, 2012

Drinking a daily cup of coffee -- or even several cups -- isn't likely to harm your health, and it may even lower your risk of dying from chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests.

The relationship between coffee drinking and health has been a hot topic in recent years, but research has produced mixed results.

Some studies have linked coffee consumption to better health and a lower risk of premature death, while others suggest that coffee -- or rather caffeine -- might contribute to heart disease through negative effects on blood pressure, cholesterol, and heart rate.

The new study is by far the largest of its kind to date. As part of a joint project with the AARP, researchers from the National Institutes of Health followed more than 400,000 healthy men and women between the ages of 50 and 71 for up to 13 years, during which 13% of the participants died.

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Overall, coffee drinkers were less likely than their peers to die during the study, and the more coffee they drank, the lower their mortality risk tended to be. Compared with people who drank no coffee at all, men and women who drank six or more cups per day were 10% and 15% less likely, respectively, to die during the study.

This pattern held when the researchers broke out the data by specific causes of death, including heart disease, lung disease, pneumonia,stroke, diabetes, infections, and even injuries and accidents. Cancer was the only major cause of death not associated with coffee consumption.

"There has been some concern that coffee might increase the risk of death, and this provides some reassurance against that worry," says Neal D. Freedman, Ph.D., the lead author of the study and an investigator with the division of cancer epidemiology and genetics at the National Cancer Institute, in Rockville, Maryland.

Health.com: Trying to cut back on coffee? Here's how

Even moderate coffee consumption was linked to better survival odds. Drinking a single cup per day -- which was much more common than a six-cup-a-day habit -- was associated with a 6% lower risk of dying among men and a 5% lower risk among women.

Although these reductions in risk might seem modest, they could have potentially dramatic implications for public health if spread out over the tens of millions of coffee drinkers in the United States, says Susan Fisher, Ph.D., chair of community and preventive medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in Rochester, New York.

"Even a small decrease, when you're talking about a [behavior] that is so ubiquitous across the human population, could mean many, many lives saved," Fisher says.

Health.com: Is coffee healthier than you think?

The findings, however, stop short of saying that coffee drinking directly lowers the risk of chronic disease. Like much of the previous research on coffee, the study was based on survey data -- in this case, a single questionnaire distributed in the mid-1990s -- that may provide an incomplete picture of the participants' overall health and lifestyle.

Although the researchers took into account a wide range of extenuating factors, including diet and exercise regimens, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index, and marital status, it's possible that people who drink coffee differ from the rest of the population in as-yet unidentified ways that make them less vulnerable to disease and early death.

The explanation for the study findings "might not specifically be the coffee," Fisher says. "It might be some characteristic of the coffee drinker."

Health.com: Surprising sources of caffeine

Still, it's plausible that coffee drinking actually improves health. Coffee contains some 1,000 compounds, many of which are health-promoting antioxidants, Freedman says.

"There's some data showing that some of these components may prevent insulin resistance and have a role in diabetes," he says.

In the study, both regular and decaf were associated with a lower risk of dying, which suggests that these and other substances in coffee might be more important than caffeine. But even decaf contains trace amounts of caffeine, so the authors can't entirely rule out the possibility that caffeine has an effect on health, Freedman says.

Copyright Health Magazine 2011 

Have Breakfast Your Way!

So, how do you like your eggs?

• Sunny Side Up
• Over Easy
• Scrambled
• Poached
• Omelet
• Egg Whites Only
• Over Medium
• Over Hard
• Hard Boiled

Did you know our cafe will make you a fresh plate of eggs your way? Just ask one of our Baristas.


Start your day off right with eggs and a side of fruit, whole wheat toast, bagel or croissant and fresh squeezed OJ. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.


Just another one of the many ways, we strive for healthy, happy, loyal customers.

Happy Mother's Day!

A funny little anecdote that all Mom's can relate too. We love you Mom. Bring your Mom to The Bookstore in The Grove this Sunday morning for waffles!

Hometown Girl Makes it BIG!

THE PERFECT FAMILY, produced by our very own Jen Dubin (Felice's daughter) will be available at  AMC Sunset Place 24 and AMC Aventura this weekend, May 12th & 13th, 2012! The film stars Kathleen Turner, Emily Deschanel (Bones) and Jason Ritter (The Event) in a comedy about family. 


We are very proud of Jen and hope that we can send her as much support as we send all our local friends and family. 


Take your Mother for Mother's Day! Also available On Demand.

Our First Local Author Night? Success!

You remember us blogging about our very first Local Author Night right? Of course you do. How could you not have. We couldn't stop talking about it on our Facebook page. Or our Twitter Page for that matter.

But if you happen to slip through the cracks, we will let you in on the deal.

Five Authors
Five Books
One Incredible Night

Did you miss the first event? That's OK, we are having another one on July 19th at 7pm. All five authors are lined up and ready to go now we just need to let you know who they are. So stay tuned for an update with a review of the book; coming soon!

MCA & The Bookstore Present La Plume