Live Q&A on Tuesday, November 17 at 9 p.m. The Baddest Bitch in the Room is Sophia Chang's memoir of her career in the music business, working with such acts as Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest, but also her candid accounts of marriage, motherhood, aging, marginalization, and martial arts. Fearless and unpredictable, Sophia Chang prevailed in […]
Event starts Tuesday, November 17 @ 8:30 p.m. EST Finalistas de Cuentomanía 2020 Gloria Noriega, Pedro Medina León, José Ignacio Chascas Valenzuela y Gastón Virkel presentan a los finalistas de la edición 2020. Finalistas de Cuentomanía 2020, con Pedro Galván, Javier Lentino, Daniel Reschigna y Diana Rodríguez Gloria Noriega, fundadora/productora ejecutiva, Pedro Medina León, fundador/productor […]
In Farmer, Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History, Dr. Paul Farmer shares his firsthand experience with the worst Ebola outbreak ever experienced, a substantive account of a frightening, fast-moving episode and its implications. He’s speaking with fellow physician-writer Daniela Lamas, author of You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of […]
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Aurora Dominguez, YA book reviewer at Frolic Media. In Cinderella Is Dead, Kalynn Bayron takes us 200 years past the day that Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over, and we learn that there's more to Cinderella's story than we ever knew. Filled with mystery and […]
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Meagan Albright, Nova Southeastern University Library. In Renée Ahdieh’s The Beautiful #2: The Damned, Sébastien Saint Germain is now cursed and forever changed. The treaty between the Fallen and the Brotherhood has been broken, and war between the immortals seems imminent. And just as Bastien and Celine begin to […]
Grades 3 – 7 Moderated by Ellen Book, children’s librarian at Miami-Dade Public Library System. Inspired by real figures in American history, Katherine Factor and Kyandreia Jones present two new books in the interactive Choose Your Own Adventure: Spies gamebook series, putting you in the shoes of Civil War heroine Mary Bowser (Jones), or America’s […]
Grades 3 – 7 Moderated by Jennifer Jhon, editor of South Florida Family Life Magazine. Lev Grossman on The Silver Arrow, Kate and her younger brother Tom lead dull, uninteresting lives. And if their dull, uninteresting parents are anything to go by, they don’t have much to look forward to. Why can’t Kate have thrilling adventures and […]
The Burning Where Breath Used to Be by Jen Karetnick is an all-consuming trek through a distinct sensibility – nothing escapes its notice, and nothing fails to be fuel for her fires. These poems witness, converse, debate, and reckon with the world in daring, inventive, and prescient ways. Sponsored by
Titled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome, the poems in Kazim Ali’s The Voice of Sheila Chandra bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only survival, but of persistence, as this part research-based, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to […]
Homie: Poems is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that […]
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 […]
Billy Collins’ new collection, Whale Day and Other Poems, brings together more than fifty poems and showcases his deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made him one of our country’s most celebrated and widely read poets. Here are poems that leap with whimsy and imagination, yet stay grounded in the familiar, […]