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27apr10:00 am6:00 pmIndependent Bookstore Day 2024A Bookstore Party!10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Event Details
Join us Saturday, April 27 for the biggest independent bookstore party of the year! Books & Books – and hundreds of bookstores all over the country – all
Event Details
Join us Saturday, April 27 for the biggest independent bookstore party of the year! Books & Books – and hundreds of bookstores all over the country – all throw parties celebrating the indie bookstore spirit, the books we love, and readers!
We’ll have special products, including this year’s Bookstore Day tote bag, mimosas (while supplies last), giveaways, raffles and more! Plus, join us for Lydia Millet, discussing her new book We Loved It All: A Memory of Life at 6:30PM ET in the PEAR House Courtyard.
If you won’t be in Key West on the 27th, find your local participating store at https://www.indiebound.org/independent-bookstore-day.
27apr6:30 pmLydia MilletWe Loved It All: A Memory of Life6:30 pm
Time
(Saturday) 6:30 pm
Location
PEAR House Courtyard
Event Details
Books & Books presents LYDIA MILLETdiscussing her new bookWE LOVED IT ALL: A MEMORY OF LIFE(W.W. Norton, $27.99)
Event Details
Books & Books presents
LYDIA MILLET
discussing her new book
WE LOVED IT ALL: A MEMORY OF LIFE
(W.W. Norton, $27.99)
Saturday, April 27th, 6:30pm ET
PEAR House Courtyard - 533 Eaton Street
Lydia Millet has written more than a dozen novels and story collections. Her novel A Children's Bible was a New York Times "Best 10 Books of 2020" selection and shortlisted for the National Book Award. In 2019 her story collection Fight No More received an Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010.
She has also worked as an editor and staff writer at the Center for Biological Diversity since 1999. Her new book, We Loved It All: A Memory of Life explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child, and human at a moment when the richness of the planet’s life is deeply threatened.
Emerging from Millet’s quarter century of wildlife and climate advocacy, We Loved it All marries scenes from her life with moments of nearness to “the others”— the animals and plants with whom we share the earth. Accounts of fears and failures, jobs and friendships, childhood and motherhood are interspersed with exquisite accounts of nonhumans and arresting meditations on the power of story to shape the future.
The residents of Key West have always been deeply connected to their island home and its natural environment. With a diverse community of artists, fishermen, and environmentalists, locals know the importance of conservation efforts to preserve the island's fragile ecosystems. Books and Books is thrilled to work with Last Stand, a non-profit organization of volunteer citizens who are committed to preserving the Florida Keys beautiful natural environment, to bring this author and her work to the Florida Keys.
About the book: This lucent anti-memoir from celebrated novelist Lydia Millet explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child, and human at a moment when the richness of the planet’s life is deeply threatened.
Across more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet’s distinctive voice and sly wit. We Loved It All, her first nonfiction book, combines the precision of fact with the power of narrative to evoke our enmeshment with the more-than-human world.
Seeking to understand why we immerse ourselves in the domestic and immediate, turning away from more sweeping views, she examines how grand cultural myths can deny our longing for the company of nature and deprive us of its charisma and inspiration. In a thrilling distillation of experience and emotion, she evinces the familiar sense of feeling both well-meaning and powerless—a creature subject to forces that are baffling in their immensity. The fear and grief of extinction and climate change, Millet suggests, are forms of love that might be turned to resistance.
We Loved It All shimmers with curiosity and laconic humor yet addresses with reverence the most urgent crises of our day. An incantatory, bewitching devotional to the vast and precious bestiary of the earth, it asks that we extend to other living beings the protection they deserve—the simple grace of continued existence.
About the Author: Lydia Millet is the author of A Children’s Bible, shortlisted for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top 10 book of 2020. Her many other works of fiction have won awards from PEN Center USA and the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She holds a master’s degree in environmental economics and works at the Center for Biological Diversity.
This is an in-person event.
Please register ahead of time to guarantee your attendance at this event.
REGISTER HERE
may
17may7:00 pmCraig FosterAMPHIBIOUS SOUL7:00 pm
Time
(Friday) 7:00 pm
Location
Helmerich Auditorium, 2nd floor
533 Eaton Street
Event Details
Books & Books presents naturalist and filmmaker CRAIG FOSTERdiscussing his new book AMPHIBIOUS SOUL (Harper Collins, $29.99 - out 5/14/24) Friday,
Event Details
Books & Books presents naturalist and filmmaker
CRAIG FOSTER
discussing his new book AMPHIBIOUS SOUL
(Harper Collins, $29.99 - out 5/14/24)
Friday, May. 17th, 7:00pm ET
Doors open to Helmerich at 6pm
PURCHASE TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT*
*Tickets are purchased through the Studios of Key West.
If you have trouble purchasing online please call The Studios at 305-296-0458
*Tickets include a copy of the book.
ABOUT THE BOOK: From the creator of the beloved Academy Award winning documentary “My Octopus Teacher” comes Amphibious Soul, Craig Foster's thrilling memoir of a life spent exploring the most incredible places on Earth--from the Great African Seaforest to the crocodile lairs of the Okavango Delta. Foster reveals how we can attend to the earthly beauty around us and deepen our love for all living things, whether we make our homes in the country, the city, or anywhere in between. 
Foster explores his struggles to remain present to life when a disconnection from nature and the demands of his professional life begin to deaden his senses. And his own reliance on nature's rejuvenating spiritual power is put to the test when catastrophe strikes close to home.
“This book isn't about learning how to be wild but rather a guide to recognizing and reconnecting with the wild in and around us. It is a book that will inspire hope.” —Jane Goodall
"This book will guide you to find your own wild heart wherever you might live." — James Cameron
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: CRAIG FOSTER is one of the world’s leading natural history filmmakers and co-founder of the Sea Change Project. He won the Academy Award for Best Documentary for My Octopus Teacher, and has created over 100 films and documentaries in addition to his photography. He lives in South Africa. More at https://seachangeproject.com/about/
ORDER THE BOOK HERE**
**All books included with the ticket will be available for pickup AT the event. If you would like to purchase an additional copy of Amphibious Soul to be picked up before the event you can do so online here or by calling the store at 305-320-0208.
Event tickets are only available for purchase through The Studios of Key West. Purchasing the book via our website or in store will not include access to the event.