La gran escritora brasileña Marina Colasanti en conversación con Antonio Orlando Rodríguez. 8vo. Seminario de Literatura infantil y Lectura: Palabras y trazos: la urdimbre de los libros para niños y jóvenes.
Un panel bilingüe con Valerie Miles, cofundadora de Granta en español y editora del nuevo número de la revista, y con los autores recomendados Dainerys Machado (Cuba), Aniela Rodríguez (México) y Carlos Manuel Álvarez (Cuba).
Gossip Girl meets Get Out in Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, where two students struggle against an anonymous bully whose sick prank quickly turns into a dangerous game. In Holly Jackson’s As Good As Dead: The Finale to A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, the conclusion of the series, Pip wonders whether her anonymous […]
In Sarah Dass’ Where the Rhythm Takes You, Reyna’s childhood best friend and first love comes roaring back into her life as a VIP guest at her family’s seaside resort in Tobago. A Brazilian teen pop star’s public image takes a dive after a messy public breakup – until she’s set up with a swoon-worthy […]
In Gilded, New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer returns to the fairy-tale world with this haunting retelling of Rumpelstiltskin. Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller’s daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories that are fantastical and spellbinding and entirely untrue. Or so everyone believes. When one of Serilda’s […]
In Ruth Behar’s Letters from Cuba, a Jewish girl escapes Poland to make a new life in Cuba, where she works to rescue the rest of her family. Twenty years after the 9/11 terrorist attack, Yusuf Azeem is Not a Hero but he still has to navigate grief, identity, and stand up for what’s right […]
You think you know these stories, don’t you? You are wrong. You don’t know them at all. Twelve tales, 12 dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists like a spindle to reveal truths full of warning and triumph, truths that free hearts long kept tame, truths that explore life … and death. […]
In Andrea Beaty’s Aaron Slater, Illustrator, the title character loves listening to stories and dreams of one day writing them himself. But when it comes to reading, the letters just look like squiggles to him, and it soon becomes clear he struggles more than his peers. When his teacher asks each child in the class […]
Dr. Michelle L. Witherspoon presents her recently published communications textbook, Memoirs of a Speech Communication Class: Art, Theory, Science, & Technology, written for college students and professionals. The book is currently on MDC’s Wolfson Campus bookstore shelves.
In Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Divided City, Samira Shackle provides an insider view of Pakistan’s largest city, a sprawling metropolis of 2 million people twice the size of New York City. Writing with intimate local knowledge and a global perspective, she paints a vivid portrait of one of the most complex and […]
La periodista Eileen Cardet lleva veinte años conduciendo el noticiero de Univision Miami y, además, presenta Edición Digital Miami. Ha ganado dos Emmy, entre otros reconocimientos. La Feria la recibe para la presentación de su novela Urano, que tiene por protagonistas a tres amigas dispuestas a romper las ideas que han limitado sus vidas para […]
El poeta, investigador literario, editor, traductor, ensayista cubano Emilio de Armas presenta Asido a la mano que me guía, donde explora los motivos del impulso poético.Yosie Crespo, poeta y narradora cubana llega con Queríamos saber qué era una rosa /What Is a Rose? We Wondered, una colección bilingüe de versos con diferentes registros líricos, en […]