BOB MORRIS presents Baja Florida

Thursday, March 11th at 7 p.m.

Zack Chasteen's old friend Mickey Ryser pays a surprise visit to deliver some bad news: doctors tell him he has only a few weeks to live and he plans to spend it on his private-island hideaway in the Bahamas. But Ryser has a favor to ask. He needs Zack to find his estranged daughter, Jen, whom Ryser hasn't seen in more than twenty years. He wants to make amends and spend what little time he has left with her.

JENNIFER PLAYFORD, founder of Furochic, presents an interactive workshop featuring Wrapagami ~ The Art of Fabric Gift Wrap Workshop

(Reservations are requested; please contact us for more details)

Friday, March 12th at 2 p.m.

Discover how to use a simple square of fabric to beautifully wrap gifts of any shape or size, with Wrapagami. In this gorgeously photographed book, award-winning designer Jennifer Playford, inspired by the traditional Japanese fabric wraps known as furoshiki, shows exactly how to use fabric to create modern, eco-friendly (they're reusable) gift wraps.

MIKE LUPICA presents The Batboy in the Children's Store

Saturday, March 13th at 2 p.m.

It is every baseball kid's dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, in the end he couldn't leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father.

RANDY WAYNE WHITE presents Deep Shadow

Sunday, March 14th at 4 p.m.

Many dangers lurk in the deep-the worst of them are human.

Thirty minutes into what should have been an easy, beginner-level dive in a remote Florida lake, the rim of a cave collapses, trapping two of Doc Ford's friends. Ford himself manages to escape and quickly surfaces to find help, but that's when his troubles begin.

DAVID HOSP presents Among Thieves

Tuesday, March 16th at 4 p.m.

In 1990, $300 million worth of paintings were stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in what remains one of the greatest unsolved art thefts of the twentieth century. Now, nearly twenty years later, the case threatens to break wide open.

STEPHEN CANNELL presents The Pallbearers

Friday, March 19th at 7 p.m.

Abandoned by his parents as an infant, Scully was reared in an orphanage, Huntington House. The only positive thing in his young life was the attention of the Home's director, Walter "Pop" Dix. Pop, an avid surfer, would take a small group of kids for early morning surfing. He was the father none of them ever had.

FAY VINCENT presents It's What's Inside the Lines That Counts ~ Baseball Stars of the 1970's and 1980's Talk About the Game They Loved

Saturday, March 20th at 1 p.m.

The 3rd volume in Fay Vincent's baseball oral history series features Hall of Fame ballplayers telling great baseball stories from the 1970s and '80s.

RICHARD HAIGHT presents Grand Floridians

Tuesday, March 23rd at 7 p.m.

Grand Floridians is a story with a collection of quirky characters whose seemingly unrelated lives become entangled in the seamy underbelly of murder, lust, and greed in Florida's tropical retirement paradise.

Overweight and sheltered, Verbena and her fortune-seeking husband, Eldridge, are poised to forfeit their beach bungalow after Verbena's father loses the family fortune. While Verbena refuses to face her financial predicament, her neighbor Tom, the struggling gay novelist, is the only one sympathetic to her plight.

TOM LOWE presents The 24th Letter

Thursday, March 25th at 7 p.m.

When Father John Callahan hears the confession of a frightened prison inmate, he learns that a man facing lethal injection is innocent. The lead investigator on the case, his friend Sean O'Brien, is still haunted by the case. The 24th letter in the Greek alphabet, Omega, may provide the key to uncovering the killer's identity.

JULIE COMPTON presents Rescuing Olivia

"Meet & Greet" reception with the author

Friday, March 26th at 5 p.m.

Anders Erickson has fallen for Olivia, who likes to live in the moment and doesn't want to talk about her past. That's fine with Anders, who has his own memories he'd like to forget, until a car runs their motorcycle off the road and causes an accident that puts Olivia in a coma.

Spring Time Open House with PETER RABBIT in the Children's Store

Saturday, March 27th at 11 a.m.

Stories, Refreshments, Bring Your Camera!

HARLAN COBEN presents Caught

Sunday, March 28th at 2 p.m.

**Autograph line tickets will be issued with books purchased from the Vero Beach Book Center**

Wendy is a reporter on a mission: She's chasing down the lowest of the low, sexual predators, and exposing them on national television. Her big break comes when she nails a child advocate who works with abused and underserved children. She's there, cameras rolling, when the cops cuff him and the guy realizes his life is well and truly over.

TODD JOHNSON presents The Sweet By and By

Wednesday, March 31st at 4 p.m.

Among the longleaf pines and family farms of eastern North Carolina, days seem to pass without incident for Margaret Clayton and Bernice Stokes until they discover each other in a friendship that will take them on the most important journey of their lives.

PAJAMA STORY HOUR with Miss Julie in the Children's Store

Friday, April 2nd at 7 p.m.

Bring your pillow, wear your jammies!

KIM LEVIN presents Dog Play

Saturday, April 3rd between 11a.m. and 1 p.m.

RICHARD HETZLER and JON HETZLER present The Wisdom of Wizards

Wednesday, April 7th at 4 p.m.

KRISTY KIERNAN presents Between Friends

Sunday, April 11th at 3 p.m.

A provocative new novel about birth, death, and the stuff in between, from the award-winning author of Catching Genius.

Thanks to modern reproductive technology-and the gift of her friend Cora's eggs-Ali Gutierrez is the mother of a fourteen-year-old daughter.

Vero Beach Bookies Book Group discuss Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips

Monday, April 12th at 10:30 am

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