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SUMMARY:MEAN STREETS: THREE LEGENDS IN CRIME FICTION
DESCRIPTION:Tracing 50-plus years in one New York neighborhood\, JONATHAN LETHEM’s Brooklyn Crime Novel begins on the streets of 1970s New York\, where the promise of violence is everywhere. GEORGE PELECANOS’ Buster: A Dog is one resilient canine’s story\, as told by the dog himself. Along the way\, as he befriends other dogs and witnesses the best and worst of humanity\, he begins to appreciate the gift of life. In SCOTT TUROW’s Suspect\, police chief Lucia Gomez is accused by three male police officers of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions\, shocking allegations for a woman that has always maintained a spotless reputation. And as what’s become a national scandal begins to unfold\, it’s clear there are even more dark secrets to unravel. Moderated by author JAMES GRIPPANDO. \n  \nBuy Brooklyn Crime Novel – Lethem \nBuy Buster: A Dog – Pelecanos \nBuy Suspect – Turow
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SUMMARY:STACEY ABRAMS ON STACEY SPEAKS UP – PICTURE BOOK
DESCRIPTION:GRADES PREK-2 \nJoin STACEY ABRAMS for a special conversation on Stacey Speaks Up\, the third book in the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and NAACP Image Award-winning picture book series. Stacey and her friends can’t wait for lunchtime on Friday\, also known as TacoPizza FryDay! But when Stacey discovers that some of her classmates can’t afford to eat lunch\, she loses her appetite. She knows she has to do something\, but what can a kid do? Plenty\, as it turns out! With the help of their community\, Stacey and her friends devise a plan to make their voices heard. Inspired by Abrams’ legacy of grassroots activism and advocacy\, this is a story about how everyone has the power to make a difference. Moderated by author MEG MEDINA\, Library of Congress national ambassador for young people’s literature. \nBuy Stacey Speaks Up – Abrams \nBuy No More Señora Mimí – Medina \nSponsored by
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SUMMARY:RECKONINGS & RECKLESSNESS – FICTION
DESCRIPTION:In ANN HOOD’s The Stolen Child: A Novel\, a former WWI soldier enlists a college dropout to help him solve a decades-old mystery\, leading both to reckon with regret\, betrayal\, and the lives they left behind. In ROXANA ROBINSON’s Leaving: A Novel\, college lovers Sarah and Warren reconnect after a chance meeting and embark on an intense affair. With their actions threatening the foundations of their lives\, they must confront the moral responsibilities of their love – for their families and for each other. \n  \nSPONSORED BY  \nBuy The Stolen Child: A Novel – Hood \nBuy Leaving: A Novel – Robinson
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-mothers-legacy-a-reckoning-the-city-of-lights-fiction/
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SUMMARY:SUSAN SEIDELMAN ON DESPERATELY SEEKING SOMETHING – MEMOIR
DESCRIPTION:Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies\, Mothers\, and Material Girls is SUSAN SEIDELMAN’s first-person story of her trailblazing four-decade career in film\, which began when few women were directing movies. From her Twiggy-obsessed girlhood through the women’s liberation movement of the early 1970s\, the Madonna-mania of the ’80s\, and beyond\, Seidelman offers a keen perspective on the times she has lived through. Moderated by writer\, director\, producer\, and cinematographer BILL TECK. \nBuy Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies\, Mothers\, and Material Girls – Seidelman
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SUMMARY:KARA SWISHER ON BURN BOOK: A TECH LOVE STORY – MEMOIR
DESCRIPTION:KARA SWISHER’s Burn Book: A Tech Love Story – part memoir\, part history – tells the inside story of Silicon Valley and tech’s most powerful players\, including Steve Jobs\, Jeff Bezos\, Elon Musk\, Bill Gates\, Sheryl Sandberg\, Bob Iger\, and Mark Zuckerberg. Together and at odds\, they ruled over an explosion of world-changing innovation that has both helped and hurt our world. Joining her in conversation is author BEN MEZRICH. \nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MDC TECH\, SCHOOL OF GLOBAL BUSINESS & THE IDEA CENTER. \nBuy Burn Book: A Tech Love Story – Swisher \nBuy Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History – Mezrich \nBuy The Mistress and the Key – Mezrich \n 
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/kara-swisher-on-burn-book-a-tech-love-story-memoir/
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SUMMARY:JIM O’HEIR: BEHIND THE SCENES AT PARKS AND RECREATION – MEMOIR
DESCRIPTION:In Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship\, Waffles\, and Parks and Recreation\, Emmy Award-winning actor JIM O’HEIR offers a heartfelt behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most beloved sitcoms – including never-before-told stories and dozens of unseen photos. Joining him in conversation is comedy writer ALAN ZWEIBEL\, author of Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier. \n  \nSPONSORED BY \n \n  \nBuy Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship\, Waffles\, and Parks and Recreation – O’Heir \nBuy Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier – Zweibel
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/jim-oheir-behind-the-scenes-at-parks-and-recreation-memoir/
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SUMMARY:A U.S. POET LAUREATE IN CONVERSATION: BILLY COLLINS
DESCRIPTION:Former U.S. Poet Laureate BILLY COLLINS reads from his latest book and discusses the role of poetry in the community. In Water\, Water\, he combines his vigilant attention and respect for the peripheral to create moments of delight and capture the beauties and ironies of everyday experience in 60 new poems. Moderated by ROBERT CASPER\, head of poetry and literature at the Library of Congress. \nBuy Water\, Water: Poems – Collins
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SUMMARY:AN AMERICAN HERO & THE MARCH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS – NONFICTION
DESCRIPTION:DAVID GREENBERG’s John Lewis: A Life captures the legacy of the civil rights icon through long-lost footage\, never-before-used FBI documents\, and interviews with hundreds of people who knew him\, including Lewis himself. In LEONARD PITTS JR.’s 54 Miles: A Novel\, a family confronts painful memories\, past trauma\, and racial injustice during a few pivotal weeks in American history in March 1965 – from the infamous Bloody Sunday march in Selma\, Alabama\, to the triumphant entry into the Alabama State Capitol. \nBuy John Lewis: A Life – Greenberg \nBuy 54 Miles: A Novel – Pitts
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SUMMARY:GREGORY MAGUIRE ON ELPHIE: A WICKED CHILDHOOD – FICTION
DESCRIPTION:What happened to young Elphaba\, once a relatable young girl\, before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel – setting the stage for the international phenomenon Wicked: The Musical – GREGORY MAGUIRE reveals the story of the prickly young Wicked Witch of the West-to-be in Elphie: A Wicked Childhood. \nSPONSORED BY \nBuy Elphie: A Wicked Childhood – Maguire
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SUMMARY:“ROCKIN’ IN THE BOOK WORLD – 32 YEARS OF THE ROCK BOTTOM REMAINDERS” – PANEL
DESCRIPTION:The ROCK BOTTOM REMAINDERS\, an endearingly ragtag cover band established in 1992 and mostly made up of high-profile published authors\, performed at Miami Book Fair more than a dozen times over the years. And they’re reuniting right here this year\, bringing together a lineup not seen together on stage for more than a decade! Meet the latest iteration of the group – which includes MITCH ALBOM\, DAVE BARRY\, SAM BARRY\, ROY BLOUNT JR.\, GREG ILES\, MARY KARR\, STEPHEN KING\, RIDLEY PEARSON\, AMY TAN\, SCOTT TUROW\, and ALAN ZWEIBEL – as its members look back at “life on the road\,” past performances\, and oh\, yeah – their books. Moderated by author and journalist LISA NAPOLI. \nBuy The Little Liar: A Novel – Albom \nBuy Swamp Story: A Novel – Dave Barry \nBuy Always a Song: Singers\, Songwriters\, Sinners\, and Saints – My Story of the Folk Music Revival – Sam Barry \nBuy Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations – Blount \nBuy Southern Man: A Novel – Iles \nBuy Tropic of Squalor: Poems – Karr \nBuy You Like It Darker: Stories – King \nBuy Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance: Villains’ Realm: Kingdom Keepers Inheritance Book 2 – Pearson \nBuy The Backyard Bird Chronicles – Tan \nBuy Suspect – Turow \nBuy Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier – Zweibel
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/rockin-in-the-book-world-32-years-of-the-rock-bottom-remainders-panel/
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SUMMARY:ON BEING JEWISH NOW – PANEL
DESCRIPTION:On October 7\, 2023\, Jews in Israel were attacked in the largest pogrom since the Holocaust. On Being Jewish Now: Reflections from Authors and Advocates – an intimate collection of smart\, meaningful\, funny\, emotional\, and inspiring essays\, edited by ZIBBY OWENS – gives voice to 75 contributors who shared their thoughts on what it means to be Jewish today in the wake of that violence. Speaking are contributors KEREN BLANKFELD\, DARA LEVAN\, and ROCHELLE B. WEINSTEIN. \nSponsored by \n \nBuy Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story – Blankfeld \nBuy It Could Be Worse – Levan \nBuy What You Do to Me – Weinstein
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SUMMARY:SHARING OUR STORIES & OURSELVES – MEMOIR
DESCRIPTION:With Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara\, My Father\, and Me\, ADA CALHOUN sets out to complete an unfinished biography started 40 years earlier by her father\, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl. Grief Is for People is SLOANE CROSLEY’s moving memoir and a portrait of friendship that explores multiple kinds of loss after the death of her closest friend\, Russell\, to suicide. We’re Alone: Essays includes EDWIDGE DANTICAT’s personal narrative\, reportage\, and tributes to mentors such as Toni Morrison\, Paule Marshall\, Gabriel García Márquez\, and James Baldwin. \nBuy Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara\, My Father\, and Me – Calhoun \nBuy Grief Is for People – Crosley \nBuy We’re Alone: Essays – Danticat
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SUMMARY:FRANK BRUNI ON THE AGE OF GRIEVANCE – NONFICTION
DESCRIPTION:Author and award-winning journalist FRANK BRUNI’s The Age of Grievance examines how resentments over injustice – perceived or real – has come to define today’s culture and politics. At a time when more and more Americans are convinced they’re losing because someone else is winning\, and people are taking their grievances to new extremes\, Bruni explores how we got here\, what it says about us\, and the path forward. Moderated by the Miami Herald’s AMY DRISCOLL. \nBuy The Age of Grievance – Bruni \n 
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SUMMARY:POTENTIAL & LIMITS OF AI – NONFICTION
DESCRIPTION:DANIELA RUS’ The Mind’s Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI\, co-written with Gregory Mone\, is an introduction to the true potential of AI and a lively exploration of the underlying technology and its limitations and possibilities. In Mindless: The Human Condition in the Machine Age\, ROBERT SKIDELSKY explores our relationship with machines\, from humanity’s first tools to the present and into the future. It raises the crucial question of why some parts of the world developed a “machine civilization\,” and others didn’t\, and traces the interactions between capitalism and technology\, and science and religion. \nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MDC TECH\, SCHOOL OF GLOBAL BUSINESS & THE IDEA CENTER. \nBuy The Mind’s Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI – Rus \nBuy Mindless: The Human Condition in the Machine Age – Skidelsky
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SUMMARY:UNBRIDLED DESIRES – FICTION
DESCRIPTION: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 desires. In SUSAN MINOT’s Don’t Be A Stranger: A Novel\, Ivy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming\, 20 years her junior\, walks into her life. There’s a vast gulf between their ages and experience\, but their physical chemistry is overpowering. And the responsible mother with an ex-husband discovers she is also a woman that can be consumed by desire. \nBuy Exhibit: A Novel – Kwon \nBuy Don’t Be A Stranger: A Novel – Minot
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SUMMARY:EMPOWERING WOMEN – NONFICTION
DESCRIPTION: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 story of growing up in a household that prioritized activism\, hope\, and resilience above all else\, and speaks of surviving trauma\, the power of activism\, and remaining optimistic in the face of adversity. Moderated by CESI DE QUESADA COVEY\, Miami-Dade County chief innovation and economic development officer. \nBuy Women\, Money\, Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality – Cox  \nBuy Remember\, You Are a Wiley – Wiley
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SUMMARY:PATRICK J. KENNEDY & STEPHEN FRIED ON MENTAL HEALTH COURAGE – NONFICTION
DESCRIPTION: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 on – all sharing critical experiences and insights. Joining them are contributors GABRIELLE ANWAR\, actress\, activist\, and writer\, and SHAREEF MALNIK\, co-founder/CEO of Sonrisa Rum and chair emeritus of Make-A-Wish South Florida. Moderated by SUSAN O’MAHONEY\, CEO of NAMI Miami. \nBuy Profiles in Mental Health Courage – Kennedy \nBuy Profiles in Mental Health Courage – Fried \nBuy Profiles in Mental Health Courage – Anwar \nBuy Profiles in Mental Health Courage – Malnik
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SUMMARY:THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
DESCRIPTION: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 five National Book Award categories (Fiction\, Nonfiction\, Poetry\, Translated Literature\, and Young People’s Literature) will share rapid-fire readings from their recognized works and be interviewed by the National Book Foundation’s executive director\, RUTH DICKEY. \n \nBuy Ghostroots: Stories – Aguda \nBuy Martyr!: A Novel – Akbar \nBuy The Most – Anthony \nBuy Aednan: An Epic – Axelsson \nBuy Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet\, Guided Evolution\, and Made Us Who We Are – Boyle \nBuy Ariel Crashes a Train – Cole \nBuy Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling – De Léon \nBuy Buffalo Dreamer – Duncan \nBuy Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love\, Power\, and Justice in an American Church – Griswold \nBuy The First State of Being – Kelly \nBuy Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel – King \nBuy Creation Lake: A Novel – Kushner \nBuy The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on the Meaning of Hope and Freedom – Leafgren \nBuy Silver: Poems – Phillips \nBuy The Book of Wounded Sparrows: Poems – Quintanilla \nBuy mother – RedCherries \nBuy Yr Dead – Sax \nBuy The War Below: Lithium\, Copper\, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives – Scheyder \nBuy The Unboxing of a Black Girl – Shanté \nBuy Whiskey Tender: A Memoir – Taffa \nBuy Free Period – Terese \nBuy Rejection: Fiction – Tulathimutte \nBuy Magical/Realism: Essays on Music\, Memory\, Fantasy\, and Borders – Villareal \nBuy Liontaming in America – Willis
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/the-national-book-foundation-presents-an-evening-with-the-national-book-awards-2/
LOCATION:Livestream + In Person
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SUMMARY:SCIENCE\, FAITH\, TRUST & OUR POST-PANDEMIC WORLD – NONFICTION
DESCRIPTION: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 KLINENBERG’s 2020: One City\, Seven People\, and the Year Everything Changed is the first book to capture the full human experience during one of the most consequential years in history. He highlights the stories of seven ordinary New Yorkers\, from an elementary school principal to a subway custodian\, casting them against the backdrop of a high-stakes presidential election\, raging protests\, and a surge of misinformation. \n  \nBuy The Road to Wisdom: On Truth\, Science\, Faith\, and Trust – Collins \nBuy 2020: One City\, Seven People\, and the Year Everything Changed – Klinenberg
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/science-faith-trust-our-post-pandemic-world-nonfiction/
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SUMMARY:DAVE BARRY & RIDLEY PEARSON: A CONVERSATION – FICTION
DESCRIPTION: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 Pearson’s latest Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance sequel\, Villains’ Realm\, in which Cinderella’s own Fairy Godmother – the notorious FGM – must help our young heroes stop Ursula from taking over for good. \nBuy Swamp Story: A Novel – Barry \nBuy Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance sequel\, Villains’ Realm  – Pearson
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/dave-barry-ridley-pearson-a-conversation-fiction/
LOCATION:Livestream + In Person
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SUMMARY:A U.S. POET LAUREATE IN CONVERSATION: ROBERT PINSKY
DESCRIPTION: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 culture – and all the countless variations of in-between. Moderated by poet CAMPBELL MCGRATH. \nBuy Fever of Unknown Origin: Poems – McGrath \nBuy Proverbs of Limbo  – Pinsky
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-u-s-poet-laureate-in-conversation-robert-pinsky/
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SUMMARY:AGE IS JUST A NUMBER – NONFICTION
DESCRIPTION: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 age today – and how it could be better tomorrow. In The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond\, DEBRA WHITMAN\, PH.D.\, shares how Americans are now living decades longer than previous generations. These added years offer exciting possibilities but also raise crucial questions. Whitman draws on personal stories\, interviews with experts\, and the often surprising findings of cutting-edge research to provide a roadmap for navigating the second half of life. \nBuy Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age – Chappel \nBuy The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond – Whitman
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/age-is-just-a-number-nonfiction/
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SUMMARY:BEHIND THE DIGITAL HEADLINES – NONFICTION
DESCRIPTION: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 Race to Go Viral is the origin story of the post-truth age. This is the tale of rivals Nick Denton at Gawker and Jonah Peretti at HuffPost and BuzzFeed – where Smith was editor-in-chief – whose pursuit of attention helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American society. \nPRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MDC TECH\, SCHOOL OF GLOBAL BUSINESS & THE IDEA CENTER. \nBuy Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History – Mezrich \nBuy Traffic: Genius\, Rivalry\, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral – Smith \n 
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/behind-the-digital-headlines-nonfiction/
LOCATION:Livestream + In Person
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SUMMARY:EDDIE GLAUDE JR. & MAYA WILEY ON AMERICAN LEADERS – NONFICTION
DESCRIPTION: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 our democracy needs. In MAYA WILEY’s Remember\, You Are a Wiley\, she recounts growing up in a household that prioritized activism\, hope\, and resilience above all else\, and speaks about surviving trauma\, the power of activism\, and remaining optimistic in the face of adversity. Time after time she has confronted death\, injustice\, and indifference\, just as her civil rights activist parents did before her. \nBuy We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking – Glaude \nBuy Remember\, You Are a Wiley – Wiley
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/eddie-glaude-jr-maya-wiley-on-american-leaders-nonfiction/
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SUMMARY:HOT & COLD WAR HISTORICAL THRILLERS – FICTION
DESCRIPTION: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 his own past. JEFF SHAARA’s The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis brings to life the war that almost happened between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1962. Extensively researched and vividly imagined\, we hear many perspectives and voices\, from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and the Kennedy brothers to the U.S. Navy commanders whose ships are sent to “quarantine” Cuba. \nSPONSORED BY \nBuy Shanghai: A Novel – Kanon \nBuy The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis – Shaara
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/hot-cold-war-historical-thrillers-fiction/
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SUMMARY:LIVES MARKED BY PROFOUND UNCERTAINTY – MEMOIR
DESCRIPTION: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 32 addresses. From leaving her beloved Kashmir as a child amid mounting violence and finding – and losing – friendships in a Saudi Arabian compound to finally settling in Los Angeles\, she shares her nomadic existence with wit and wisdom. And in CARVELL WALLACE’s Another Word for Love: A Memoir\, he excavates layers of his history growing up Black and queer in America\, reimagines the conventions of love\, and posits a radical vision for healing. Moderated by writer YVONNE CONZA. \nBuy I Will Do Better: A Father’s Memoir of Heartbreak\, Parenting\, and Love – Bock \nBuy Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir – Mattoo \nBuy Another Word for Love: A Memoir – Wallace
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/lives-marked-by-profound-uncertainty-memoir/
LOCATION:Livestream + In Person
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SUMMARY:ON PRESIDENTS & POLITICIANS – NONFICTION
DESCRIPTION:MAX BOOT brings America’s 40th president to three-dimensional life in Reagan: His Life and Legend. Drawing on more than 100 new interviews and thousands of newly available documents – and acknowledging Ronald Reagan’s inscrutability and profound contradictions – this is an epic story of the Depression-era poor boy\, former movie star\, and mesmerizing politician who transfixed and transformed the nation. In his essay collection The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians\, New York Times columnist CARLOS LOZADA dissects all kinds of texts\, including tell-all accounts by administration insiders\, campaign biographies\, and revisionist memoirs. No matter how they try to present themselves in the best\, safest\, and most electable light\, the truth almost always slips through. \nSPONSORED BY \n \nBuy Reagan: His Life and Legend – Boot \nBuy The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians – Lozada
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/on-presidents-politicians-nonfiction/
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SUMMARY:OH! FLORIDA: NEW NOVELS BY NATIVES – FICTION
DESCRIPTION:In LAURA VAN DEN BERG’s State of Paradise: A Novel\, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author is living in her mother’s small-town Florida home\, tracking ominous and eerie changes. Contending with family secrets\, spotty memories of her troubled youth\, a burgeoning cult in the living room\, and her suddenly missing sister\, she begins to investigate the emerging connections between a shadowy corporation\, her boss\, and reality itself. In KENT WASCOM’s The Great State of West Florida\, it’s 2026 and 13-year-old Rally often wonders about his dead father’s people\, the Woolsacks of West Florida\, who once led a failed rebellion to carve a new state. This is a neon-pink Western of family\, violence\, and first love in a world of megachurch magnates\, suburban guerillas\, and robotic warriors. Moderated by GIO GUTIERREZ\, curator of The Booze & Books Club. \nBuy State of Paradise: A Novel – Van den Berg \nBuy The Great State of West Florida – Wascom
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/oh-florida-new-novels-by-natives-fiction/
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SUMMARY:GOOD HUMOR: THREE LIVES – NONFICTION
DESCRIPTION:SHALOM AUSLANDER was raised in a dysfunctional family in the Orthodox Jewish community of Monsey\, New York: the son of an alcoholic father\, guilt-wielding mother\, and a violent\, overbearing God. But he began to suspect that what plagued him was something worse: a story called “Feh.” Feh: A Memoir is his midlife journey to rewrite that tale. In And Then? And Then? What Else?\, DANIEL HANDLER recounts his journey to becoming one of the most successful writers of the 21st century. Handler reflects on the life experiences and cultural influences that shaped his writing\, both under his own name and his pen name\, Lemony Snicket\, the cynical\, romantic narrator of one of the bestselling children’s series of all time. In Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder’s Formula for a Long and Useful Life\, ERIC WEINER embarks on a quest to live the way Benjamin Franklin lived\, mining practical lessons from the founder\, statesperson\, scientist\, inventor\, diplomat\, publisher\, humorist\, and philosopher. After all\, Franklin believed in the American experiment – but his greatest experiment was himself. \nSponsored by \n \nBuy  Feh: A Memoir – Auslander \nBuy And Then? And Then? What Else? – Handler \nBuy Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder’s Formula for a Long and Useful Life – Weiner
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/good-humor-three-lives-nonfiction/
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SUMMARY:MUSIC AS MEDICINE – NONFICTION
DESCRIPTION:In I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine\, neuroscientist and composer DANIEL J. LEVITIN explores the deep connections between music and healing. He presents numerous studies on music and the brain\, demonstrating how the former can contribute to the treatment of a host of ailments\, from neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s to cognitive injury\, depression\, and pain. Levitin will be joined on stage for a musical performance by celebrated pianist and producer SHELLY BERG\, dean of the Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. \nBuy I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine – Levitin
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