Adequate Yearly Progress, author and veteran educator Roxanna Elden’s first novel, draws us into life at Brae Hill Valley, a struggling high school in one the biggest cities in Texas. Hailed by the Washington Post as “a funny but insightful look at teachers in the workplace,” Adequate Yearly Progress is an exuberantly comic takedown of […]
When Özlem Cekic became the first Muslim MP in the Danish Parliament, her email inbox was hit with a deluge of hate mail and threats, and her gut reaction was to delete every abusive message. But eventually, she decided to take a risk. She started replying and inviting the senders to meet and engage in […]
Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life – and Saved an American Farm is a delightful and inspiring memoir that charts her path from scrappy rural childhood to creating one of America’s largest fresh produce growers and shippers, and serving as its CEO. Frey is an American farmer and entrepreneur. She […]
From Sharon Salzberg, one of most prominent figures in the field of meditation, comes Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World, a guidebook for how to use mindfulness to build inner strength, find balance, and help create a better world. Consulting with veteran activists and social-change agents in a variety of fields, Salzberg […]
As a girl, Melissa McGhie Proctor dreamed of becoming the first female coach in the NBA. From Ball Girl to CMO takes you on her journey through the trials and triumphs of being named the first ball girl for the Miami Heat to her present-day role as the VP and chief marketing officer of the […]
Lee Child's The Nicotine Chronicles features 16 short stories in which cigarettes and smoking play roles both starring and supporting act, by contributors including Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Ames, Ariel Gore, Eric Bogosian, and Achy Obejas. He’s joined by actor Michael Imperioli, another contributor to Child’s collection and the author of the novel The Perfume […]
In Genevieve Hudson's Boys of Alabama, a sensitive teen, newly arrived in the state, learns about football, falls in love, questions his faith, and navigates a strange power that could be seen as God-given, or the work of the devil. Hudson is speaking about her satisfying twist on Southern gothic with Kristen Arnett, whose Mostly […]
Presented in partnership with CasaCuba at Florida International University. Award-winning journalist, editor, and author Armando Lucas Correa's The Daughter’s Tale chronicles one of the most harrowing atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis during the war, and a family's saga of love, survival, and redemption. He discusses the novel, based on true events, with author and journalist […]
In James McBride's Deacon King Kong, an old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the crowded courtyard of a Brooklyn project and shoots the local drug dealer, a violent act that causes the lives of those impacted to overlap in unexpected ways. McBride is speaking with Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. author of […]
In Marisel Vera's The Taste of Sugar, a young Puerto Rican couple, their farm struggling in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War and the San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899, is lured to the sugar plantations of Hawaii, only to discover the hollowness of America's promises. Praised by Kirkus as “a sprawling family epic that stretches […]
Walter Mosley is the recipient of the 2020 National Book Awards Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL). Walter Mosley’s The Awkward Black Man is a collection of 17 short stories in which the heroes are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved, and, on the whole, odd. They include a man who keeps a pet fly, […]
In international bestselling author Dean Koontz' Elsewhere, a father and his young daughter lead a quiet life in a small town, until they’re entrusted with a mysterious object that happens to have extraordinary power, a power that figures lurking in the shadows are desperate to possess. The result is a mixture of wonder, mystery, and […]