Books& Books Proudly Presents.........
An Evening at Saks Fifth Avenue in Bal Harbour Shops in honor of Candance Bushnell

                                                       For her newest novel,
                                                       One Fifth Avenue
                                                       Friday, October 3, 7:30 pm
                                                       Cocktail reception begins at 6:30
                                                       Saks Fifth Avenue in the Bal Harbour Shops
                                                       Level 3
                                                       9700 Collins Ave. Bal Harbour
Bonus: While supplies last complimentary tickets available at Books&Books in the mall
 The New York Times raves that, "Bushnell is........the philosopher queen of the social scene."
I liked how that rhymed.  It seems Like One Fifth Avenue is the building that I would love to live in along with my interesting neighbors like: an aging gossip columnist, a hedge fund king's wife, a free spirited actress, and many more. It sounds like this building is not easy to get into.  Like Daddy just can't lay out the tax return and you are solidified an apartment. I feel like it would be cool to hang out with Candace and the aging gossip columnist and dance the night away at Bungalow Eight or slam back some cosmopolitans  at The Beartrice Inn. Some Fun Facts about Candace include :

-She was a regular at Studio 54
-Her Sex and the City column was written for The New York Observer
-She is the recipient of the 2006 Matrix Award for Books and the Spirit of Achievement Award from the Albert Einstein School of Medicine
-Is the author of One Fifth Avenue, Lipstick Jungle, Trading Up, 4 Blonds, and Sex and the City
-She currently resides in Manhattan with her husband, NYC Ballet's principal dancer, Charles Askegard.

So all you singil gals can ask all your questions, buy and get your books signed and possibly  meet to single queens to party away with in the Miami Social Scene.
Or Try to take Candace to THE DUCE, 14th and Washington! One Classy and Cool Bar, especially to meet men!

Upcoming events at Books&Books on 10-23-08 Micael Largo will speak about Genius and Heroin
and on 10-29-08 Debbie Reed Fischer reads from Swimming with Sharks.                                                                                                                                                   

SARAH PALIN

If age 72, if elected John McCain will be the oldest president ever inaugurated. Yet the person he has chosen to be one heartbeat away from the presidency is ultra-conservative, has no foreign policy experience and has been a Governor of the least populated state in the nation for less than two years. Here is some background on Sarah Palin:

She was elected Alaska 's governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town of less than 9,000 people outside Anchorage. She has no foreign policy experience.1
Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.2
She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. 3
Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.4
She's doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change.5
She's solidly in line with John McCain's "Big Oil first" energy policy. She's pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won't be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered species--she was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.6
How closely did John McCain vet this choice? He met Sarah Palin once at a meeting. They spoke a second time, last Sunday, when he called her about being vice-president. Then he offered her the position.7www.womenforbarackobama.com









Will  anyone ever throw Sarah Palin a rose on stage? Do you think she got them after her beauty pageant contests? Did she bring guns to her pageants, in case she did not win she could shoot the judges? Did she dry the roses out and decorate her home with  them like the little Martha Stewart she is? I was in Denver photographing the DNC, and staying with friends when the news broke.  My gal pal Emi's husband ran in and said, "John McCain picked a woman VP!!!!!!." We thought to ourselves smooth move counselor! And on the bottom of the screen flashed Hillary Clinton's thoughts about how great it is to select a woman for VP and how exhilarating it is to  "break the glass ceiling."
So we watched, we never heard of this governor from Alaska before. And the first images they show us is her firing an, I believe M-16, machine gun. Then hunting images of her lying on a dead bloody Moose and at last her stance on abortion. Emi and I look at each other, we were dazed and confused. Emi said, "I should call jack down here, her three year old son, to show him how cool it it to use guns!"
I said to her," Take a plane a come on down to Miami, in the movie theaters we have these amazing video games  and you can shoot people of all races!" Emi responded, "Well, at least they are politically correct video games!"

The first image I thought of after I saw her shooting away was Columbine, and how easy it is for anybody to get a gun in this country.  In the 1970's in NYC, people used to open their coats and say , "Wanna buy a watch?" Down here it's like let's pull up to the local gas and sip and a man pops out of a van and says, "Wanna buy a gun?"  The more I hear about this woman, the more Botox I think I need to hide my angry lines. I just hope the hard core religious fanatics stay home and think of more books to ban. Here are some favorite's of Sarah's!!!!
Sarah Palin's Book Club

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'¢Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John
Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Hallowee n ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K.
Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K.
Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and
Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
M y Friend Flicka by Mary O'¢Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health
Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolti ng Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by
Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles
Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the
Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of
the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth