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Author dave berry, lets begin where you begin in yourst book is to state ever. What is wrong with the state of florida . We do have a reputation for stupid ear to people, and there are many people doing stupid ear things here. But my argument is it is not our fault. The example i gave, and i know i apologize personally but there was a famous example couple ofcp years ago where a woman was driving south on the overseas highway in the key west and according to the Highway Patrol report was in a hurry to get to key west because she wanted to see her boyfriend and shave her bikini region in prepar...

We have wine and beer and music on the weekends. How many book events do you do on a regular basis . On a yearly basis, about 600 a year. Often kid events, adult events, other kinds of things but we are very active. When did you open . About 35 years ago. Why . Well, you know, the story is basically i was an english major in college. I didnt want to give up the dream of being part of the literary culture and one quick way to do that was to get into the book business. I loved bookstores when i was a kid. I saw myself at the bookstore more than the library in college. I went to law school. Why c...

Everybody. Hello, everyone. Im mitchell caplan. Im [inaudible] welcome. [applause] on behalf of all of us with the Miami Book Fair, we want to welcome you to the 29th book fair, believe it or not. [cheers and applause] this is a remarkable undertaking. It takes the work of literally hundreds and hundreds of volunteers. We have a remarkable board of directors who work extremely hard at doing this year round. None of this at all could happen without the good, good support of everyone here at miamidade college, and lets give them a huge round of applause. [applause] and were particularly apprecia...

Pipeline to support all programs serving kids in need, all classrooms serving kids in need. And reading is fundamental is a good example. We have over 1900 reading is fundamental programs supported by first book as well as over 40,000 others. So headstarts, school classrooms, after school programs, mentoring, kids 018 are supported by first book. Host well, Jane Robinson mentioned reading is fundamental, and were joined by carol as coe who is the president and ceo of rif, or reading is fundamental. Give us the background, if you would, ms. Rasco, on reading is fundamental. Guest well, 46 years...

[applause] Doris Kearns Goodwin and scott heard its wonderful to have you here and welcome to miami. This is our premier annual cultural events so its great to have you here. You both have written books about president s who are part of the progressive era. Really, it was really started by eva roosevelt. Of course he was affectionately known as teddy so Doris Kearns Goodwin how did he start the progressive era and what propelled him to act . And what were his successes that are still with us today . I may indeed call him teddy even though he didnt like to be called teddy that but i think he ha...