Make your own way through history! Readers will tackle seventy-one comic-creating challenges, with help from some of their favorite characters from the series! With each challenge, young cartoonists will learn new skills, from sound effects and character creation to building their own ten-page comic. This hardcore comics workbook will get kids writing their own thrilling, […]
In Swagger: Super Bowls, Brass Balls, and Footballs: A Memoir, Hall of Fame coach and TV analyst Jimmy Johnson offers a candid account of his life experiences. More than a highlight reel, Swagger reveals Johnson's lessons learned both as a man and as a coach – from the revelations following his mother's death to coaching […]
El expresidente de Ecuador Jamil Mahuad se presenta en conversación con la periodista argentina Adriana Bianco sobre su libro Así dolarizamos el Ecuador. Memorias de un acierto histórico en América Latina, un recuento histórico y político de los hechos que llevaron a dolarizar la economía ecuatoriana.
Phil Klay’s Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War notes that relatively few Americans have had to do any real grappling with the endless, invisible conflicts of the post-9/11 world; in fact, increasingly few people are even aware they are still going on. But while American military actions abroad may be out […]
Set in Vienna from 1910 to 1946, Beatrice Hitchman’s All Of You Every Single One: A Novel explores – through the lives of its queer characters in one of the greatest cities of the age – what it’s like living through oppression, how personal decisions become political, and how far one will go to protect […]
Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and Coke. To outsiders, these idyllic images represent the so-called easy life in Caribbean nations such as Trinidad and Tobago. For those who live there the reality is very different, and in Pleasantview: A Novel in Stories, Trinidadian lawyer-turned-writer Celeste Mohammed reveals a society where poverty and patriarchy savagely rule – […]
In Disability Pride, Dispatches From a Post-ADA World, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin explores how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Written without anger or pity, it’s a revealing account of an often misunderstood movement and identity, and an inclusive reexamination of society’s treatment of those it deems […]
From zombies to cannibals to death incarnate, this cross-genre anthology offers something for every monster lover. In Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories edited by Yamile Saied Méndez and Amparo Ortiz, bloodthirsty vampires are hunted by a quick-witted slayer; children are stolen from their beds by “el viejo de la bolsa” while […]
From New York Times bestselling author R.L. Stine, the master of horror for young readers, comes 10 new stories that are sure to leave you shivering. A boy who hates bugs starts to see them everywhere. A basketball player’s skin starts to almost drip off his hands – but no one else can see it. […]
Fernando Butazzoni, narrador, ensayista, periodista, guionista cinematográfico y dramaturgo uruguayo, presenta Las cenizas del Cóndor, novela inspirada en acontecimientos reales ocurridos en Uruguay, Chile y Argentina durante las dictaduras militares. Conversa con el autor Julián Ubiría, director editorial de Penguin Random House Uruguay.
The National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In addition, the National Poetry Series has partnered with Miami Book Fair to award the Paz Prize in Poetry, which ensures bilingual publication for a book […]
Dana Levin’s Now Do You Know Where You Are investigates how great change calls the soul out of the old lyric, working in a variety of forms, calling on beloveds and ancestors, great thinkers and religions – convened by her own spun-of-light wisdom and intellectual hospitality. In Midwood: Poems, Jana Prikryl probes the notion of midlife, […]