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Welcome to the 11th episode of Rare Book Cafe 2.0. Our guest is Lee Irby, author of the new thriller, Unreliable, two Roaring Twenties-era Florida adventures, and a book about a VW bus.  He also is an avid fan of Edgar Allan Poe, and a visiting professor of history at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg

This week's show also features a special segment on the creator of the Tom Swift adventure series and more.

Miami Beach bookseller Steven Eisenstein, host of Rare Book Cafe is away, as is his wife Edie, host of the miniature book segment of our show. Thorne Donnelley, owner of Liberty Books in West Palm Beach, serves as host this week, along with regular co-host Lindsay Thompson, owner of Henry Bemis Books in Charlotte, North Carolina.

T. Allan Smith is creator and executive producer.

Rare Book Cafe is sponsored by the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair, celebrating its 36th year on April 21-23, 2016 at The Coliseum in downtown St. Petersburg. Florida Antiquarian Book Fair features more than 100 booksellers offering rare, used, and collectible book, vintage prints, antique maps, vintage photographs, autographs, and collectible printed matter of all kinds.

Rare Book Cafe originated on Blab.im in 2015 but the platform shut down in August 2016. The rebooted program now on YouTube (broadcasting live on Google Hangouts on the Air) every Saturday at 2:30 p.m. ET. Please join us.

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