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SUMMARY:A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship
DESCRIPTION:In Ariel Francisco’s Miami\, invasive lionfish are sympathetic creatures\, the beach succumbs to sea-level rise\, and “305 till I die” is a cry for help. The speakers in these hilarious and melancholy poems depict a rich and varied emotional landscape that mirrors that of the state they long to leave\, dead or alive. They imagine themselves standing on ocean garbage patches\, contemplate the crabgrass on traffic medians\, and envision the new beauty of a submerged Miami Beach: “Famed art deco replaced by fire coral / and colorful parrot fish\, neon lights / restored by pulsating swarms of moon / jellyfish\, lit up like a Saturday night.” In one moment the strange becomes familiar\, only to become strange again in the next stanza. Taking inspiration from Campbell McGrath and Richard Blanco\, among others\, Francisco’s second book of poems\, A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship\, deals with climate change and the absurdities and difficulties of being a millennial Latinx in the Sunshine State. \nModerated by Ryan Rivas\, publisher of Burrow Press; with translator José Nicolás Cabrera-Schneider. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-sinking-ship-is-still-a-ship/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Two Poets on Reaching Across Borders
DESCRIPTION:Guillotine: Poems traverses desert landscapes cut through by migrants\, the grief of loss\, betrayal’s lingering scars\, the border itself – great distances in which violence and yearning find roots. Through the voices of undocumented immigrants\, border patrol agents\, and scorned lovers\, award-winning poet Eduardo C. Corral writes dramatic portraits of contradiction\, survival\, and a deeply human\, relentless interiority. With extraordinary lyric imagination\, these poems wonder about being unwanted or renounced. What do we do with unrequited love? Is it with or without it that we would waste away? \nA name for the people of Honduras\, Catrachos: Poems is a term of solidarity and resilience. In these unflinching\, riveting poems\, Roy G. Guzmán reaches across borders – between life and death and between countries – invoking the voices of the lost. Part immigration narrative\, part elegy\, and part queer coming-of-age story\, Catrachos finds its own religion in fantastic figures such as the X-Men\, pop singers\, and the “Queerodactyl\,” which is imagined in a series of poems as a dinosaur sashaying in the shadow of an oncoming comet\, insistent on surviving extinction. With exceptional energy\, humor\, and inventiveness\, Guzmán’s debut is a devastating display of lyrical and moral complexity – an introduction to an immediately captivating\, urgently needed voice. \nSponsored by: \n \nIn partnership with
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/two-poets-on-reaching-across-borders/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Poetry
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SUMMARY:2019 National Poetry Series Winners
DESCRIPTION:Special introduction by Daniel Halpern\, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series. \nThe 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 of poems written in Spanish. This conversation features Benjamin Garcia on Thrown in the Throat\, in conversation with the judge who selected his manuscript\, Kazim Ali\, The Voice of Sheila Chandra. \nIn a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer life amidst troubled times\, Garcia delves with both English and Spanish into how one survives a country’s long love affair with anti-immigrant cruelty. Rendering a family working to the very end to hold each other\, he writes the kind of family you both survive and survive with. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/2019-national-poetry-series-winners-2/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Riots\, Refugees\, and Cocaine in Miami 1980
DESCRIPTION:Event starts Monday\, November 16 at 6 p.m. \nThe Year of Dangerous Days: Riots\, Refugees\, and Cocaine in Miami 1980 is Nicolas Griffin’s story of the rise and fall of one of America’s most popular destination cities\, that was not so long ago rife with police brutality\, an out-of-control drug epidemic\, and a bulging refugee crisis. He’s speaking with filmmaker and lifelong Miamian Billy Corben\, a Peabody Award-winning documentarian whose films includes Cocaine Cowboys\, about the rise of Miami’s cocaine trade and subsequent drug wars of the 1970s and ’80s\, and Magic City Hustle\, an examination of the forgotten sport of jai alai and its ties to the city. \nSponsored by
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/in-conversation-riots-refugees-and-cocaine-in-miami-1980/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Nonfiction
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: On The Cold Millions
DESCRIPTION:Event starts Monday\, November 16 at 5 p.m. \nBook purchase required for admittance to this program; click here to purchase. \nAs it follows two brothers living by their wits in early 20th-century America\, Jess Walter’s The Cold Millions – named a most anticipated book by the New York Times Book Review\, Esquire\, and the Philadelphia Inquirer – offers a portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor\, between harsh realities and simple dreams. Essayist and critic Maris Kreizman\, host of “The Maris Review\,” a literary podcast from LitHub\, and whose work has appeared in the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and Vanity Fair\, joins him. \nBook purchase required for admittance to this program; click here to purchase.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/in-conversation-on-the-cold-millions/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Fiction
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SUMMARY:Spoken Word Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join Guitars Over Guns mentor James Valsaint as to learn the roots of self-expression through spoken word. James will give you the tools to make art of poetry turn your experiences into powerful performance art. \nJames Valsaint was born in the neighborhood of Little Haiti in Miami. After graduating high school he traveled the world\, first to Barcelona where he managed a company\, and then to Amsterdam where he earned a bachelor’s degree in audio engineering. Upon returning to the States\, he worked with Greenpeace in Los Angeles to fight against deforestation and offshore drilling. Back home in South Florida\, James got involved with both the Occupy Movement and Black Lives Matter\, with a focus on ending the school-to-prison pipeline. James has always been both an artist and an activist who believes in utilizing the power of music and love to overcome social hardships and uplift his community. He now works with Guitars Over Guns as a mentor at North Miami Middle and Senior High schools where he teaches guitar and spoken word. \nguitarsoverguns.org/ \ngivemiamiday.org/gogo
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/spoken-word-writing-workshop/
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CATEGORIES:Children’s Alley Online,The Rhythm Factory
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SUMMARY:40 años del Mariel  |  In Memoriam
DESCRIPTION:Recordando a Reinaldo Arenas\, Carlos Victoria y Roberto Valero. \nAl cumplirse cuatro décadas del éxodo del puerto Mariel (Cuba) hacia Miami\, la Feria del Libro convoca a autores\, periodistas\, ensayistas y personalidades de la cultura cubana del exilio a reflexionar acerca del impacto social y literario que tuvo para la comunidad local aquel histórico movimiento en masa de personas. \nUn homenaje a Reinaldo Arenas\, Carlos Victoria y Roberto Valero\, escritores del Mariel que ya no están con nosotros de manera física\, pero cuyo legado literario y humano persiste en el tiempo. Con Luis de la Paz\, Rolando Morelli\, Jesús Barquet y Andrés Reynaldo.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/40-anos-del-mariel-in-memoriam/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:In Spanish
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SUMMARY:40 años del Mariel  |  Un poco de historia
DESCRIPTION:Alejandro Ríos\, Mirta Ojito\, Rosie Inguanzo\, Alfredo Triff y Lissette Méndez comparten sus experiencias. \nAl cumplirse cuatro décadas del éxodo del puerto Mariel (Cuba) hacia Miami\, la Feria del Libro convoca a autores\, periodistas\, ensayistas y personalidades de la cultura cubana del exilio a reflexionar acerca del impacto social y literario que tuvo para la comunidad local aquel histórico movimiento en masa de personas. \nUna serie de testimonios en los que se hablará de las causas que provocaron el éxodo masivo en 1980 y del impacto que este fuerte movimiento migratorio tuvo en el sur de la Florida y específicamente en Miami. Con la participación del crítico de cine y periodista cultural Alejandro Ríos\, la periodista y escritora Mirta Ojito\, la escritora\, actriz y profesora Rosie Inguanzo\, el ensayista\, crítico y músico Alfredo Triff y Lissette Méndez\, escritora y directora de Programas de la Feria del Libro de Miami.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/40-anos-del-mariel-un-poco-de-historia/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,In Spanish
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SUMMARY:National Book Foundation Presents Teen Press Conference
DESCRIPTION:Event starts Monday\, November 16 at 10:30 a.m. \nFor the first time\, the National Book Awards Teen Press Conference will be a wholly virtual experience! \nCo-presented with Miami Book Fair and in partnership with 92nd Street Y\, this year’s event will continue a decades-long tradition\, bringing the excitement of the most prestigious literary award in the country to middle and high school students in New York City and Miami-Dade County. \nStudents from NYC and Miami are invited to participate in this free\, virtual literary event that’s curated just for them\, with access to exclusive videos\, digital materials\, a live Q&A with authors\, and more. \n  \nSponsored by\n\n \n\n2020 National Book Award Finalists in Young People’s Literature  \nKACEN CALLENDER\nKing and the Dragonflies \nVICTORIA JAMIESON & OMAR MOHAMED\nWhen Stars Are Scattered \nTRACI CHEE\nWe Are Not Free \nCANDICE ILOH\nEvery Body Looking \nGAVRIEL SAVIT\nThe Way Back \nHosted by JASON REYNOLDS \n\nAdditional activities featuring this year’s National Book Award honorees that are free and open to all students include: \nOnline Book Clubs: Miami Book Fair will be hosting a series of online book clubs for young people\, creating an opportunity for dialogue between NYC and Miami students around this year’s National Book Award honorees. Click here for more info. \nStudent Writing Showcase: Miami Book Fair will be sharing student writing (related to this year’s National Book Award honorees) on its official blog. Students from NYC and South Florida are invited to submit their work. Click here for more info.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/national-book-foundation-presents-teen-press-conference/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Young Adult Books
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SUMMARY:40 años del Mariel | Los autores del Mariel
DESCRIPTION:Event starts Monday\, November 16 at 7 p.m. \nLos autores del Mariel \nLuis de la Paz\, Andrés Reynaldo\, Jesús Barquet y Rolando Morelli conversan sobre la Generación del Mariel. \nAl cumplirse cuatro décadas del éxodo del puerto Mariel (Cuba) hacia Miami\, la Feria del Libro convoca a autores\, periodistas\, ensayistas y personalidades de la cultura cubana del exilio  a reflexionar acerca del impacto social y literario que tuvo para la comunidad local aquel histórico movimiento en masa de personas. \nUn panel para conversar\, cuarenta años después\, sobre los acontecimientos del Mariel y también para conocer más sobre los autores que llegaron a Estados Unidos mediante el puente migratorio que aquellos hechos provocaron. Estos escritores\, contra viento y marea\, han creado una obra significativa y han hecho aportes a la literatura que se escribe en español en tierras estadounidenses. Con la participación del narrador\, poeta y periodista Luis de la Paz; el poeta y periodista Andrés Reynaldo; el poeta\, ensayista y profesor universitario Jesús Barquet\, y el narrador\, poeta\, ensayista\, dramaturgo y editor Rolando Morelli\, quien coordina el panel.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/on-demand-with-livestream-qa-40-anos-del-mariel/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:In Spanish,Live Streams
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SUMMARY:Wolfpack: Story of a Soccer Superstar
DESCRIPTION:Live Q&A: Monday\, November 16 @ 11 a.m. EST \nGrades 5 – 9 \nModerated by Michelle Kaufman\, Miami Herald sportswriter. \nFrom rising young star to co-captain of the 2015 Women’s World Cup Champion team\, Abby Wambach’s impressive career has shown her what it truly means to be a champion. Whether you’re leading from the bench or demanding the ball on the field\, real success comes when you harness your inner strength\, forge your own path\, and band together with your team. Updated with stories that trace her journey from youth soccer to the hall of fame\, this young readers’ adaptation of Wambach’s instant bestseller\, Wolfpack (Young Readers Edition)\, is for the next generation of wolves ready to change the game. \nSponsored by
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/wolfpack-story-of-a-soccer-superstar/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Children's + Teens,Children’s Alley Online,Here In Florida,Middle Grade Books
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SUMMARY:Shoebox Guitar: Instrument Workshop with Justin Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Let’s make a shoebox guitar using things you might already have at home! \nAll you need is:\nAn empty shoebox\nScissors\nRubber bands\nPencil\nSomething wooden like a ruler or anything else stable to make the neck of the guitar \nJustin Roberts knows that inside every one of us there is a mini rocker waiting to come out. You don’t have to have fancy instruments or a pitch-perfect voice to make it happen – just a shoebox\, some rubber bands\, a little elbow grease\, and you’re on your way! Three-time Grammy-nominated children’s musician Justin Roberts has been creating the soundtrack to families’ lives for 20 years\, and now he’s helping kids get started on their own rock journey by making simple homemade instruments out of everyday objects that really work!
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/stuck-home-with-justin-roberts/
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CATEGORIES:Children’s Alley Online,The Rhythm Factory
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: On The Orchard
DESCRIPTION:In David Hopen’s The Orchard\, Orthodox Jewish high school student Aryeh moves with his family from Brooklyn’s Borough Park to the Miami suburbs and is plunged into a secularized world where everything he believes he knows of himself is threatened. Irresistibly drawn to his new friends\, the lives they lead\, and the way they think\, Aryeh finds himself becoming increasingly untethered – and giving in to increasingly reckless behavior. He’s speaking with writer Molly Tolsky\, founding editor of Alma.com\, which focuses on Jewish identity and culture. \nSponsored by
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/in-conversation-on-the-orchard/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Fiction,Here In Florida
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SUMMARY:Art@Home: Activity based on Extra Yarn with artist Sonia Báez Hernández
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Project ART \nAnything can be made exciting if you add just a bit of color- and a lot of yarn! Join ProjectART artist Sonia Báez Hernández for a very fun and very colorful and fuzzy art activity. \nAbout Sonia Báez Hernández:\nSonia Báez Hernández Is a contemporary Afro-Caribbean artist\, curator\, and educator. She employs an interdisciplinary multidisciplinary methodology in her artistic practices. Her artwork promotes a dialogue about police brutality\, immigration\, violence against women\, climate justice\, breast cancer\, health disparity\, biomedicine\, and human rights. She values the role of the arts in healing and as agent of change. Báez-Hernández’ body of work includes abstract painting\, drawing\, fiber\, printmaking\, installation\, performance\, documentary\, and poetry. She has exhibited and performed at the national and international levels. She holds an M.F.A. in painting and drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, an M.A. in sociology from the University of California\, Los Angeles\, and a B.A. in political science from the University of Puerto Rico. Báez-Hernández has worked in community-based projects in Chicago\, Santo Domingo\, Dominican Republic; Lexington\, Kentucky; and Miami and Homestead\, Florida.  She has facilitated art projects and performance in order for the students to experiment with different artistic expressions. As an educator\, I envision that the students understand their life\, society and the world using critical thinking and art research in their art projects. \nhttps://shop.booksandbooks.com/book/9780061953385 \nhttps://www.projectart.org/miami \n \n 
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/arthome-activity-based-on-extra-yarn-with-artist-sonia-baez-hernandez/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Children’s Alley Online,The Paintbox
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: The Miami Times: Black Justice & Equality
DESCRIPTION:Yanela McLeod‘s The Miami Times and the Fight for Equality: Race\, Sport\, and the Black Press\, 1948-1958 highlights the 1949 lawsuit challenging segregation on the city’s public golf course brought by The Miami Times\, the number one Black-owned newspaper in the country. It is but one example of the paper’s commitment to desegregation\, and part of the historical narrative of the civil rights movement in Florida. She’s joined by longtime Miami-Dade journalist Nadege Green\, now director of community research and storytelling at the Community Justice Project. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/in-conversation-the-miami-times-black-justice-equality/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Nonfiction
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: On Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author Robert Kolker’s Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family\, follows the true story of the Galvins\, a large family upended by acute schizophrenia in the 1960s and ’70s. At the time\, the family hid its anguish and trauma behind a shiny veneer of all-American normalcy\, but beyond the curtain was a history of psychological breakdowns\, sudden violence\, and abuse centered around the six of Don and Mimi Galvins’ 12 children who were ultimately diagnosed with schizophrenia. Joining him is Carol Fitzgerald\, president and founder of The Book Report Network and host of the “Bookreporter Talks To” video/podcast series. \nThis program is presented in partnership with The Book Report Network.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/in-conversation-on-hidden-valley-road-inside-the-mind-of-an-american-family/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Nonfiction
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Another Country\, Not Their Own
DESCRIPTION:E. J. Koh was 15 when her mother returned to South Korea and left her behind in California. In her memoir The Magical Language of Others\, she grapples with forgiveness\, reconciliation\, and legacy as she reads her mother’s letters seeking absolution and love. Prize-winning poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s Children of the Land relays his experiences growing up undocumented in the United States\, and his attempt as a young man to build a future in a nation that denied his existence. They’re joined by Rebecca Friedman\, director of the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab at FIU and author of Modernity\, Domesticity and Temporality in Modern Russia: Time at Home.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/in-conversation-another-country-not-their-own/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Nonfiction
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SUMMARY:A Reading: World of Wonders: In Praise of Nature
DESCRIPTION:The collection of personal essays in award-winning poet Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies\, Whale Sharks\, and Other Astonishments – lushly illustrated by Fumi Nakamura – together form an enchanting and introspective narrative of a life’s journey buoyed by connection to animals and earth. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-reading-world-of-wonders-in-praise-nature/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Nonfiction,Poetry
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UID:10001-1605484800-1605571199@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:In Conversation: Poetry & Memoir: Walt Whitman in My Life & Rocket Fantastic
DESCRIPTION:Fellow poet-memoirists sit down to talk about their latest work. \nIn What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life\, Mark Doty effortlessly blends biography\, criticism\, and memoir in what the New York Times described as “an incisive\, personal meditation” on the Leaves of Grass author. In her collection Rocket Fantastic\, Gabrielle Calvocoressi – senior poetry editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books – blurs the real and the imaginary as she reinvents the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems. \n  \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/in-conversation-poetry-memoir-walt-whitman-in-my-life-rocket-fantastic/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Nonfiction,Poetry
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UID:9996-1605484800-1605571199@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:In Conversation: On The Lost Shtetl
DESCRIPTION:In Max Gross‘ The Lost Shtetl\, a town that history missed – spared by the Holocaust and the Cold War\, untouched by electricity\, the internet\, and indoor plumbing – is abruptly pulled into the 21st century\, with seriocomic results. Gross talks about his novel with Moriel Rothman-Zecher\, author of the heartbreaking coming-of-age tale\, Sadness Is a White Bird\, about a young man who prepares to serve in the Israeli army as he desperately tries to reconcile his love for two Palestinian siblings with his loyalties to family and country.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/in-conversation-on-the-lost-shtetl/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Fiction
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UID:9991-1605484800-1605571199@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:In Conversation: On Addis Ababa Noir & Out of Mesopotamia
DESCRIPTION:Novelist Maaza Mengiste’s anthology Addis Ababa Noir offers 14 dark stories of complicated characters and bad behavior by some of Ethiopia’s most talented writers\, both living in the country and abroad. Salar Abdoh‘s Out of Mesopotamia is an unprecedented glimpse into “endless war” from a Middle Eastern perspective\, a meditation that is moving\, humane\, darkly funny\, and resonantly true. Moderator Emily Raboteau is the author of The Professor’s Daughter and Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/in-conversation-on-addis-ababa-noir-out-of-mesopotamia/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Fiction
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UID:9977-1605484800-1605571199@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:In Conversation: On Prayer for the Living
DESCRIPTION:Deemed by the Daily Mail to be a “showcase [for] his lucid prose and freewheeling imagination\,” Prayer for the Living is a collection of 23 stories by Booker Prize-winning Nigerian writer Ben Okri that take us from London to Byzantium to a printer’s shop in Spain\, deftly blurring the lines between parallel realities while rendering darkness and magic nearly indistinguishable. The author ponders illusion versus reality with journalist and book critic Anderson Tepper\, co-chair of the international committee of the Brooklyn Book Festival.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/in-conversation-on-prayer-for-the-living/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Fiction
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UID:9972-1605484800-1605571199@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:In Conversation: The Soul of the Highwaymen
DESCRIPTION:Gary Monroe’s Alfred Hair: Heart of the Highwaymen is a long-awaited testament to the life and work of the man and artist who was the driving force of the Florida Highwaymen\, a group of young Black artists who painted their way out of the despair awaiting them in the citrus groves and packing houses of 1950s Florida. He and Joanna Robotham\, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Tampa Museum of Art\, share their thoughts on the Highwaymen canon. \nSponsored by\n \n 
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/in-conversation-the-soul-of-the-highwaymen/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Nonfiction
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UID:9967-1605484800-1605571199@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:In Conversation: Hot Springs Before Hot Pants
DESCRIPTION:In Florida’s Healing Waters: Gilded Age Mineral Springs\, Seaside Resorts\, and Health Spas\, Rick Kilby explores the Victorian belief that water promoted healing and rehabilitation\, and a little-known time in Florida history – well before South Beach became an international getaway for cocktails and clubbing – when tourists poured into the state in search of good health\, rather than a good time. Speaking with him is Joy Wallace Dickinson\, who has written hundreds of “Florida Flashback” features in the Orlando Sentinel chronicling Central Florida’s past\, and is the author of several books\, including Remembering Orlando: Tales from Elvis to Disney. \nSponsored by
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/in-conversation-hot-springs-before-hot-pants/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Nonfiction
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UID:5675-1605466800-1605553199@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:Jubi Arriola-Headley: A Reading From original kink
DESCRIPTION:In original kink\, Jubi Arriola-Headley explores kink as mythscape of promised pleasure\, lush and lustral\, kink as Godzilla’s desire for softness and the boy gone “starburst\,” kink as “the sun-soaked / surface of impossible kick\,” as “something loose enough / to dance in.” At once soliloquy\, praise song\, and injunction\, original kink divines the brutal offices and beauteous comforts of syntax\, street corners\, and superheroes as sites for Black and queer (un)becomings. Accompanied by Eve\, Isaac Newton\, and a dizzying cast of daddies\, Arriola-Headley writes into pleasure’s beyond\, crafting poems that “glutton at spring’s source\, / ever lovedrunk on / the insistent gush” of the world and create a dazzling\, multiple “we.” \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/jubi-arriola-headley-a-reading-from-original-kink/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Poetry
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UID:7035-1605466800-1605553199@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:Panel: Tor Teen Presents Own Your Magic
DESCRIPTION:Grades 9 – 12 \nFour Tor Teen authors – TJ Klune (The Extraordinaries and House of the Cerulean Sea)\, Bethany C. Morrow (A Song Below Water)\, Mark Oshiro (Each of Us a Desert)\, and Lauren Shippen (A Neon Darkness) – come together to tackle contemporary issues with fantasy elements\, writing characters who must reconcile with difficult truths in order to discover themselves. \nModerated by Ismery Pavon\, program coordinator at Miami Book Fair.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/panel-tor-teen-presents-own-your-magic/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Young Adult Books
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SUMMARY:Panel: Perilous Schemes\, Dangerous Skies
DESCRIPTION:Grades 9 – 12 \nModerated by Ismery Pavon\, program coordinator at Miami Book Fair. \nIn Jeff VanderMeer’s A Peculiar Peril\, Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion – a veritable cabinet of curiosities – once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora\, where the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage across a surreal\, through-the-looking-glass version of Europe replete with talking animals (and vegetables). \nIn Gold Wings Rising\, the final installment of Alex London‘s Skybound Saga\, Kylee and Brysen must fight for their lives and their humanity. The war on the ground has ended\, but the war with the sky has just begun. While the humans fly familiar circles around each other\, the ghost eagles create schemes far greater and more terrible than either Kylee or Brysen could have imagined. Now\, the tug-of-war between love and power begins to fray\, threatening bonds of siblinghood and humanity alike.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/panel-perilous-schemes-dangerous-skies/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Young Adult Books
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UID:6828-1605466800-1605553199@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:Panel: Whodunit: Murder\, Mystery\, and Mayhem
DESCRIPTION:Grades 9 – 12 \nModerated by Oline Cogdill\, mystery fiction book reviewer for the Sun Sentinel and Publishers Weekly. \nJennifer Lynn Barnes’ new mystery novel follows Avery\, whose fortunes change when a billionaire dies and leaves her his entire fortune. To receive her inheritance Avery must survive and solve The Inheritance Games. In the Study with the Wrench is Diana Peterfreund’s thrilling sequel in the Clue Mystery series\, in which identities come under question\, motives come to light\, and nobody gets off the hook.
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/panel-whodunit-murder-mystery-and-mayhem/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Young Adult Books
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SUMMARY:Set a Spy to Save the World
DESCRIPTION:Grades 3 – 7 \nIntroduced and moderated by Jessica Rebhan\, Miami-Dade County Public Schools teacher. \nIn James Ponti‘s City Spies\, a group of five kids from various parts of the world join a secret British MI6 agency. When they’re not attending the local boarding school\, they’re honing their unique skills\, such as sleight of hand\, breaking and entering\, observation\, and explosives. No one said saving the world was easy … \nFor centuries\, the magnificent Throne of Felipe has stood with two empty spaces where the silver castle and lion should have been. And now\, with the recent discovery of the silver castle within a secret vault in Seville\, Spain\, the hunt is on for the third silver icon. It’s up to Carmen and crew to find the silver lion before VILE does\, and to protect the throne from winding up in the wrong hands in Emma Otheguy’s Carmen Sandiego: Secrets of the Silver Lion. \nFREE bonus download: City Spies Reading Group Guide
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/set-a-spy-to-save-the-world/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Children's + Teens,Children’s Alley Online,Here In Florida,Middle Grade Books
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SUMMARY:Storytime with the Poet Laureate of the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Grades PreK – 3 \nIntroduced by Cierra Bragan\, Miami Mom Collective; moderated by Carmen A. Centeno\, Miami Dade Public Library System. \nAnd the People Stayed Home\, Kitty O’Meara’s thoughtful poem about the pandemic\, quarantine\, and the future suggests there is meaning to be found in our shared experience of the coronavirus and conveys an optimistic message about the possibility of profound healing for people and the planet. Her words encourage us to look within\, listen deeply\, and connect with ourselves and the earth in order to heal. \n  \nSponsored by:\n \nThe Children’s Trust Family Resource Guide | Romero Britto Coloring Book \nBook Club Flyer – English | Book Club Flyer – Spanish | Book Club Flyer – Creole
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/storytime-with-the-poet-laureate-of-the-pandemic/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Children's + Teens,Children’s Alley Online,Picture Books,Wembly Wordsmith’s Storytorium
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