I Will Do Better: A Father’s Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love is CHARLES BOCK’s frank, tender memoir of parenting his young daughter while dealing with immense grief in the wake of his wife’s untimely death. In Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir, PRIYANKA MATTOO chronicles her search for home across 40 years and […]
JOSEPH KANON’s Shanghai: A Novel chronicles one man’s escape to Shanghai during a time when European Jews were desperate to emigrate after the violence of Kristallnacht. Daniel arrives penniless in the tumultuous, nearly lawless city and becomes trapped in Shanghai’s maze of politics and crime, trying to stay one step ahead of murder while outrunning […]
EDDIE GLAUDE JR.’s We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For argues that the hard work of becoming a better person should be a critical feature of Black politics. Through virtuoso interpretations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Ella Baker, Glaude shows how we have the power to be the heroes that […]
BEN MEZRICH's Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History examines the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time and the company that represents our culture’s dearest hope for a shared global conversation. BEN SMITH’s Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar […]
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age is a history of the senior experience in modern America, revealing how security exists only for some. Historian JAMES CHAPPEL shows how old age first emerged as a distinct stage of life and then evolved, urging us to look to the past to better understand old […]
Former U.S. Poet Laureate ROBERT PINSKY reads from his latest book and discusses the role of poetry in the community. In Proverbs of Limbo, he mines and maps limbal regions both demographic and personal – clashing ways of understanding, personal history and world history, health and illness, freedom and compulsion, intimacy and community, personality and […]
Dynamic duo DAVE BARRY and RIDLEY PEARSON reunite to spill the tea on their latest projects – including the theatrical adaptation of their iconic Peter Pan prequel series, Peter and the Starcatchers; Barry’s hilarious caper Swamp Story: A Novel (with more twists and turns through the Everglades than a snake slithering away from a gator); and […]
In The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust, FRANCIS S. COLLINS draws on his work from the Human Genome Project and National Institutes of Health, providing a moral, philosophical, and scientific framework to address the problems of our time – distrust of public health, partisanship, racism, response to climate change, and threats to our democracy. ERIC […]
Join us to celebrate 75 years of the National Book Awards and be a part of Team Book history! For more than a decade, the Miami Book Fair and National Book Foundation have joined together to present the biggest in-person showcase of National Book Award honorees anywhere in the country. 2024 honored authors across all […]
Profiles in Mental Health Courage follows the journeys of a diverse group of Americans who have struggled with mental health. PATRICK J. KENNEDY and STEPHEN FRIED share compelling stories about the resilience of those living with mental illness and addiction – people of all ages, backgrounds, and futures; some recovering, some relapsing, some barely holding […]
In Women, Money, Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality, JOSIE COX tells the compelling story of women’s fight for financial freedom, and the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equal access to money and the power that comes with it. In Remember, You Are a Wiley, MAYA WILEY shares a […]
R.O. KWON’s Exhibit: A Novel is the story of two women – one a brilliant young photographer, one a world-class ballerina mysteriously on hiatus – drawn to each other by their intense artistic drives. After one exposes the lifelong secret of an old family curse, the women become more entangled, and begin to explore hidden […]