Deemed by the Daily Mail to be a “showcase 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Grades 9 – 12 Four 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 […]
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Ismery Pavon, program coordinator at Miami Book Fair. In 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 […]
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Oline Cogdill, mystery fiction book reviewer for the Sun Sentinel and Publishers Weekly. Jennifer 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 […]
Grades 3 – 7 Introduced and moderated by Jessica Rebhan, Miami-Dade County Public Schools teacher. In 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, […]
Grades PreK – 3 Introduced by Cierra Bragan, Miami Mom Collective; moderated by Carmen A. Centeno, Miami Dade Public Library System. And 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 […]
The poems in Yusef Komunyakaa’s Night Animals climb so deeply into the being of various beasts, from cricket to leopard to snowy owl, that we read them with an uncanny shiver of recognition. Without ever fully abandoning his human skin, Komunyakaa inhabits both the outer and inner lives of these creatures. The images are a […]
Year of the Dog refers to the year 1970 – the Year of the Metal Dog in the lunar calendar – which was the year of the author’s birth, the year her father prepared to deploy to Vietnam along with many other Mexican-American immigrant soldiers, and a year of tremendous upheaval across the United States. […]
Special introduction by Daniel Halpern, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series. The 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 […]