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Books

Book events

By PIPER JONES CASTILLO
Published October 29, 2006


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Appearances

Jeffrey Goldberg (Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide), 7 tonight, Congregation Kol Ami, 3919 Moran Road, Tampa.

Judy Lowe Wells (C. Perry Snell: His Place in St. Petersburg, Florida History), 2 p.m. Thursday, St. Pete Beach Library, 365 73rd Ave., St. Pete Beach.

Tova Mirvis (The Ladies Auxiliary and The Outside World), 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Tampa Jewish Community Center, 13009 Community Center Drive, Tampa. Reservations required: (813) 264-9000.

Claire Matturro (Bone Valley), 7 p.m. Thursday, Inkwood Books, 216 S Armenia Ave., Tampa.

Scott Taylor Hartzell (Remembering St. Petersburg: Sunshine City Stories), 1 p.m. Saturday, Mickler Smith Florida Booktraders, 718 Second St. N, St. Petersburg.

Robert N. Macomber (An Affair of Honor), 3 p.m. Saturday, Haslam's Book Store, 2025 Central Ave., St. Petersburg.

Events

The Sarasota Reading Festival will be from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Five Points Park. Authors include Michael Connelly (Echo Park), Sena Jeter Naslund (Abundance) and Eve Herold (Stem Cell Wars). For information, go oline to www.sarasotareadingfestival.com.

[Last modified October 28, 2006, 12:17:19]


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