Set in Amsterdam in 1705, Jessie Burton’s The House Fortune: A Novel follows Thea Brandt, a young Dutch African woman coming of age as she’s trying to grapple with her family’s secrets and her own identity. This is a novel about love and obsession, family and loyalty, and the fantastic power of secrets. Joining to […]
Spanning from the civil rights movement through the election and inauguration of America's first Black president, Charlayne Hunter-Gault's My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives is a collection of her groundbreaking reportage vividly chronicling Black life's experience in America. Moderating is attorney Toni Gilliam-Harrison, president of the Dade County Alumnae Chapter of Delta […]
Esta presentación en persona también será transmitida en MiamiBookFair.com. En una charla profunda y amena la reconocida la escritora y guionista cubana Wendy Guerra conversa con el periodista José Manuel Rodríguez acerca de cómo un diario íntimo puede convertirse en novela, y de qué forma esas novelas narran y asientan el tiempo de la autora […]
Alan Moore is widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. Illuminations: Stories is his first short story collection and spans 40 years of his work. In "A Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even Legend," a […]
In Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise, poet and scholar Jack Parlett tells the story of this iconic destination – its history, meaning, and cultural significance – through the lens of the artists and creators who sought refuge there. Figures as divergent as Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Patricia […]
In Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch: A Novel, Rivka Galchen tells the story of Katharina Kepler, an illiterate widow living in a small town in the German duchy of Württemberg in 1618 who is accused of being a witch. And as the tale of a community becoming implicated in collective aggression and hysterical […]
In A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease, writer and gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella investigates hidden inflammation’s emerging role as a common root of modern disease – and how we can prevent, treat, or even reverse it. Using fascinating case studies, Ravella reveals how we can reform our relationships with food and our […]
Robert Harris’ Act of Oblivion: A Novel, his first historical novel set predominantly in America, follows General Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, part of the group who murdered King Charles I. Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee, is charged with bringing these traitors to justice – and he’ll stop at nothing […]
In Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White, 16-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him – the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the […]
In Eric Gansworth’s newest novel, My Good Man, Brian, a 20-something reporter on the Niagara Cascade’s City Desk, is navigating life as the only Indigenous writer in the newsroom, and being lumped into reporting on stereotypical stories that homogenize his community, the nearby Tuscarora reservation. But when a mysterious roadside assault lands Tim, the brother […]
Before Mr. Lemoncello became everyone’s favorite game maker, he was a kid who liked to roll the dice … Luigi has a knack for games and puzzles. But sometimes it feels like the cards are stacked against him. UNTIL a carnival arrives in town and Luigi gets the CHANCE OF A LIFETIME – the opportunity […]
Part I: In The Vanquishers by Kalynn Bayron, Malika “Boog” Wilson is determined to save her missing friend, which might mean admitting vampires weren’t wiped out after all, but if their town needs protection from the undead, Boog knows who to call. in Zoraida Córdova’s new book, nothing about Valentina Salazar has ever been “normal” […]