Coloring isn't just for kids. It's turning into a global phenomenon with adults. Why? It's a great relaxation technique, and anybody can do it. That's why artist and social entrepreneur Diego Orlandini is leading the charge for this new pastime with The Wynwood Coloring Book. The Wynwood Coloring Book is a stunning compilation of black and white pages inspired by ...

The Porch goes green and gets lush! Enjoy the beautiful living walls from Andromeda District and take some time out to admire the plants and snap a pic in front of the life-sized greenery displays.  Created to celebrate Miami's new generation of green living, Andromeda District promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world through the benefits of nature ...

Have a favorite Miami memory? How about a least favorite? Step inside the story booth and tell it. In partnership with WLRN and HistoryMiami Museum, the Fair offers the mobile story booth, a portable recording studio dedicated to recording MiamiStories. Your story will be archived at HistoryMiami Museum and might be broadcast on WLRN. The Miami Stories project encourages anyone ...

Wind down after work on The Porch every day during Miami Book Fair and play some giant outdoor games for happy hour fun during the week and throughout the street fair weekend! Come make new friends and challenge them to giant Jenga, Connect Four, beanbag toss, Checkers and more! Bring your pals out and challenge them to a game while ...

You’ve heard of silent discos and silent yoga, now tune your ears to the literary stylings of silent poetry disco. Relax in our Silent Poetry lounge with amazing poetry curated by the Academy of American Poets. Grab a set of headphones, take s eat and browse between three channels of simultaneously spinning poetry to find your favorite genre. Blue Channel ...

Large-scale Photographs By Andrew Kaufman aka AK Foto Step into the Porch and get transported to the streets of Wynwood with large-scale images from Andrew Kaufman’s portfolio. Photography is the most permanent and longest lasting proof of street art. There is no way to preserve street art except to photograph it before it fades, is toyed with, buffed or written ...

Join Carol Fitzgerald from ReadingGroupGuides.com as she takes the audience on a tour of great book club reads for fall and winter and interviews author Gayle Forman about her newest novel, Leave Me.

Want to get healthy and stay that way? You've come to the right place! Learn how to get rid of germs, especially on your teeth! You'll want to show those pearly whites after dental hygienists and their puppets teach you the right way to brush. Learn about good nutrition so you can grow healthy and strong!

Bring your imaginary passports as we take a literary journey to Mexico, Trinidad and GHana. Travel with us to Russia, Pakistan, Japan and beyond! Explore foreign cultures through storytime, folk tales, myths, and plays! Put what you’ve learned to work and create Calavera masks, construct dioramas of the Italian city of Calabria, fashion Moroccan lanterns, and more! Featured Books For ...

Sing-a-long, move and groove! Try out instruments from around the world in the musical corner. Learn about different musical instruments and families. Swing and sway to the rhythms of Latin, jazz, and other styles of music. Rock-out and bang your very own percussion instrument. Featured books: Zin Zin Violin!, Pete the Cat, Olivia Forms a Band, One Love and Drum ...

Create a work of art inspired by…books! ALL kinds of books! Enter a magical land where everyone is an author, illustrator, and bookmaker — including you. Follow the dot and create a work of art using dots of all shapes and sizes. Work with yarn to create a sweater for you or your cat and even a pair of socks! ...

In Life in Life: Live Longer, Strengthen Your Relationships, and Create a Healthier Life: A Meditation Journal, Dr. Laurie Ann Levin, renowned holistic psychologist, guides you effortlessly into loving yourself through meditations that spark connection to your highest self.

In Lois Lowry’s memoir, Looking Back: A Book of Memories, the two-time Newbery Medalist recounts the pivotal moments that inspired her writing, describing how they magically turned into fiction along the complicated passageway called life.

Passionate and irreverent, poet Kim Addonizio's collection, Mortal Trash, transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. The poems in Catherine Bowman’s latest poetry collection, Can I Finish, Please?, are shape-shifting acts, lyric interruptions that crave and resist completion, where the mutable self and the world are made and unmade over and over. Denise Duhamel's poetry collection, ...

Pamela Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review, brings her popular “By the Book” feature live and in person to the Fair! For the third year in a row,  bestselling and critically acclaimed authors will join Paul on stage to chat about their reading habits and give recommendations. With Dave Barry, Terry McMillan, Jay McInerney and Maria Semple. TICKETS AVAILABLE ...

This year’s nominees of the prestigious National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards in Poetry present selected readings Rita Dove, Collected Poems 1974 – 2004 (W.W. Norton & Company) Peter Gizzi, Archeophonics (Wesleyan University Press) Solmaz Sharif, Look  (Graywolf Press) Jane Mead, The World of Made and Unmade (Alice James Books) Donika Kelly, Bestiary (Graywolf Press) Monica Youn, Blackacre (Graywolf Press) ...

In Brad Meltzer’s mystery novel, The House of Secrets, a woman who suffers a traumatic brain and diminished memory finds herself embroiled in the FBI investigation of a corpse found with a book that belonged to Benedict Arnold stuffed in its chest.

Veronica Cervera’s La Cocina Cubana De Vero offers 100 recipes that represent the mainstays of Cuban cuisine, not only from family tradition on the island, but also from exile. Yosmar Monique Martinez’s cookbook, Tastes of the Camino: 30 Authentic Recipes Along the French Way, reveals the foods along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, an ancient pilgrimage route between France ...

Freeman's: Family is the second literary anthology in the highly respected series, which this time turns its contributors loose on the topic of family, resulting in never-before-published stories, essay, and poetry. With Edwidge Danticat, Aleksandar Hemon, David Kirby and Claire Vaye Watkins. Moderated by John Freeman.

From beloved New Yorker cartoonist Bob Eckstein, Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores invites you into the heart and soul of every community: the local bookshop, each with its own quirks, charms, and legendary stories. Joining him in this “indie bookstore love fest” are authors  Jennifer Haigh (Heat and Light) and Amy Stewart (Lady Cop Makes Trouble). Moderated by the ...

Artist Michele Oka Doner discovered the wonders of the sea as a child growing up on Miami Beach. In 2006, she discovered Professor Nancy Voss’ collection of sea creatures at the University of Miami’s Marine Invertebrate Museum. The result of their meeting is Into the Mysterium, a photographic journey through a mysterious and breathtakingly beautiful collection of endangered oceanic beings. ...

Jerry Brown's The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity explores the significance of psychoactive mushrooms hiding in plain sight in the artwork and icons of many European and Middle-Eastern churches.

Emotional Rescue: Essays on Love, Loss, and Life -- With a Soundtrack, a collection of short, sharp essays by New York Times bestselling author Ben Greenman is organized around a thematic playlist of songs, and serves as a reminder of the lyrical power of songwriting, and the sonic ability of pop to capture the human experience. Michael Gross’s Focus: The ...

The German Girl (La Niña Alemana) is Armando Lucas Correa’s debut novel, in which a twelve-year-old girl flees Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas asylum they had been promised is an illusion. David Unger’s novel, The Mastermind is a fascinating depiction of modern-day Guatemala and the corrupt, criminal, and threatening reality that ...

Jonathan and Drew Scott’s Dream Home: The Property Brothers' Ultimate Guide to Finding & Fixing Your Perfect House is a comprehensive source, covering the ins and outs of buying, selling, and renovating a house, with hundreds of full-color photos throughout. Moderated by Eliott Rodriguez. TICKETS AVAILABLE MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 AT 10 A.M. Free tickets will be required for admission to this ...

In James Grippando's Gone Again: A Jack Swyteck Novel, Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck takes on his first death-row client since The Pardon, in a case as twisty as it is shocking. In Lucie Whitehouse’s Keep You Close, the suspicious death of a friend leads a woman to discover sinister secrets that threaten her future.

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 to award the Paz Prize in Poetry and bilingual publication for a book of poems written in Spanish. This event ...

In Wild Things, Wild Places, award-winning actor and wildlife conservationist Jane Alexander presents what is being done in conservation and the worlds of science to help the planet’s most endangered species stay alive and thrive. TICKETS AVAILABLE MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 AT 10 A.M. Free tickets will be required for admission to this presentation. Seating with a ticket is on a “first ...

In Terry McMillan’s I Almost Forgot About You: A Novel, the bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale tells the inspiring story of a woman who makes major life-changes to find greater meaning. In conversation with Lisa Lucas, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation.

In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe takes readers under the sea, through streams and estuaries, and to the other side of the aquarium glass to reveal the surprising capabilities of fishes. Priyamvada Natarajan’s Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos provides a tour of the “greatest hits” of cosmological discoveries—the ideas that ...

Get your Saturday going by wishfully repeating to yourself “B15!” Pick your lucky card and play to win some Book Fair swag as Villain Theater hosts Bingo on The Porch.

The rise of smartphones and tablets presents a fascinating, perplexing challenge for reading and for books. All at once, the book moves from the printed page to a screen — placing it next to every, and all, other media. How well will the book get along with its new neighbors? Panelists: Andrew Albanese, senior writer and features editor at Publishers ...

La escritora, periodista y fotógrafa Isabel García Cintas (Argentina-EE.UU.) presenta su colección de cuentos La casa vieja; Carmen Duarte (Cuba-EE.UU.), narradora y dramaturga, comparte las andanzas de una joven inmigrante ilegal en su novela El inevitable rumbo de la brújula; Ernesto G. (Cuba-EE.UU.) es poeta, narrador, videasta, blogger, co-director de la revista Conexos y autor de El transeúnte considerable y ...

Cynthia Graubart’s Chicken: a Savor the South® cookbook (Savor the South Cookbooks) contains all the know-how that cooks need to make irresistible chicken dishes for everyday and special occasions.

Pick your lucky card and get your Saturday going with B-I-N-G-O! Play to win some Book Fair swag.

This year’s nominees of the prestigious National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards in Young People’s Literature present selected readings Caren Stelson, Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story Caren (Carolrhoda Books) Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon was Ours (Thomas Dunne Books) Nate Powell March: Book Three (Top Shelf Productions) Andrew Aydin, March: Book Three (Top Shelf Productions) Nicola Yoon, The Sun is ...

In Tim Dorsey's Coconut Cowboy, Serge Storms, obsessed with the iconic Sixties classic Easy Rider, devises his wildest plan yet: finish the journey begun by his freewheeling heroes, Captain America and Billy. Craig Pittman's Oh, Florida! How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country explores the states many contradictions, and shows how they fit together to make this ...

J. Patrick Redmond’s Some Go Hungry is a fictional account drawn from the author’s own experiences working in his family’s provincial Indiana restaurant—and wrestling with his sexual orientation—in a town that was rocked by the scandalous murder of his gay high school classmate in the 1980s. Barbara Taylor’s All Waiting Is Long,is set in Scranton, Pennsylvania against the backdrop of the ...

Jane Alison’s Nine Island is an intimate autobiographical novel, told by a narrator who, after decades of disasters with men, is trying to decide whether to withdraw forever from romantic love. Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty is Ramona Ausubel's imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and ’70s that suddenly loses its fortune — ...

In Lucas Mann’s Lord Fear: A Memoir, the author tries to reconstruct a portrait of his brother who died from a heroin overdose, and comes to redefine his own place in a family whose narrative is bisected by the tragic loss. In Ed Tarkington’s debut novel, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, an affair between a teenager and the daughter ...

In All about Them: Grow Your Business by Focusing on Others, branding expert Bruce Turkel proves that success comes when companies and individuals focus relentlessly on their customers, not themselves.

Drawing on letters and memoirs and focusing on this remarkable period in the artist's life, Ross King's Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies gives an intimate portrayal of the artist in all his tumultuous complexity, and firmly places his water lily paintings among the greatest achievements in the history of art. Join King in conversation ...

Aleksandra Crapanzano’s The London Cookbook: Recipes from the Restaurants, Cafes, and Hole-in-the-Wall Gems of a Modern City is an intimate portrait of London—with 100 recipes from the city's best dining establishments, all lovingly adapted for the home kitchen. Chef Nancy Silverton’s latest cookbook, Mozza at Home: More than 150 Crowd-Pleasing Recipes for Relaxed, Family-Style Entertaining, provides nineteen menus packed with ...

In Imagine Me Gone, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-finalist Adam Haslett presents a fiercely intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most? In Margot Livesey’s Mercury: A Novel, an optometrist in suburban Boston, is sure that he and his wife, who runs the local stables, are ...

Four singers, 2 horns, rocking guitars, sweet male and female vocals and a Buju-Banton sounding front man—InnaSense takes your favorite songs and adds that reggae flair.

Elisa Albo’s collection of poetry, Passage to America, navigates the shoals of family history, geopolitics and the immigrant experience with an acute attention to detail. Sandra M. Castillo’s collection of poems, Eating Moors and Christians, probes the complicated convergence of memory and truth. In House of Lords and Commons, the revelatory and vital new collection of poems from the winner ...

Senator Bob Graham presents the latest edition of America, the Owner's Manual: You Can Fight City Hall - and Win, a timely, hands-on guide demonstrating how citizens can bring about real change in their communities.

Learn about the road to marriage equality from Kevin Cathcart, former executive director of Lambda Legal, the leading public interest LGBT law firm, and co-editor of Love Unites Us; esteemed historian Lillian Faderman, author most recently of The Gay Revolution, and Miami attorney, Elizabeth Schwartz, author of Before I Do. Moderated by journalist Steve Rothaus, who covers gay and lesbian issues ...

The Wynwood Coloring Book is inspired by street artists from the Wynwood Art District in Miami. Discover your inner artist, color your own pages, and hangout with the artists featured in the book.

Washington Post reporter, Wesley Lowery’s They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of #blacklivesmatter is the first book to go behind the barricades of #blacklivesmatter to tell the story of the young men and women who are calling for a new America. Mychal Denzel Smith,contributing writer at The Nation, a blogger at TheNation.com, and a Knobler Fellow at the Nation ...

In Kim Addonizio's Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life, an utterly original memoir in essays, she opens up to chronicle the joys and indignities in the life of a writer wandering through middle age.  From the best-selling author of The Dead Lands, Benjamin Percy, comes Thrill Me: Essays On Fiction, bold new essays on how to craft a thrilling ...

This year’s nominees of the prestigious National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards in Nonfiction present selected readings. Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Nation Books) Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison ...

In Ridley Pearson’s fourth installment of the Risk Agent series, White Bone (G.P. Putnam's Sons), when Grace Chu vanishes in her attempt to investigate a switched vaccine in Kenya, John Knox encounters savage elephant poachers and their terrorist sponsors in his efforts to follow her trail. Among the Living by Jonathan Rabb is a moving novel about a Holocaust survivor’s ...

In Caroline Leavitt’s Cruel Beautiful World, it’s 1969, and sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania, a rash act that will have vicious repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. In A Place We Knew Well, Susan Carol McCarthy captures the shock and innocence, anxiety, and fear brought on by ...

Jennine Capó Crucet's debut novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, tells the moving story of a young woman torn between generational, cultural, and political forces. Set in the vibrant coastal and Caribbean communities of Miami; the Florida Keys; Havana, Cuba; and Cartagena, Colombia;  Patricia Engel's The Veins of the Ocean delivers a profound and riveting story of fractured lives finding ...

In From the Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places, Elmira Bayrasli brings readers inside the world of high-growth entrepreneurs as they overcome vexing obstacles to build businesses that create jobs and economic growth. In Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ...

Adolescence rules when local writers share angst-ridden letters, pompous poetry, and self-absorbed journal entries.

In Nina Romano’s heartwarming conclusion to her continent-spanning Wayfarer Trilogy, In America, set in late-1920s Brooklyn, Marcella must learn to balance new friendships, promising suitors, and life as a modern working girl with the expectations of her tradition-bound family, all against the backdrop of a looming economic depression and a changing world. In James Rosen’s High Hand, Frank Adams must ...

Time Travel is James Gleick's mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.  TICKETS AVAILABLE MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 AT 10 A.M. Free tickets will be required for admission to this presentation. Seating with a ticket is on a “first come, first served” basis. Seats will only ...

In Gayle Forman's Leave Me, a harried working mother who’s so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she doesn’t even realize she’s had a heart attack, packs a bag and leaves. Sisters suffer a tragedy that splinters their relationship, but when painful secrets from the past begin to surface, they must confront the issues that divide them, and ...

In Sheila G. Mains’s cookbook, Sheila G's Butter & Chocolate: 101 Creative Sweets and Treats Using Brownie Batter, the originator of Brownie Brittle ingeniously uses brownie batter to reinvent well-loved desserts.

Form blends with content in Chinaka Hodge's Dated Emcees, where she examines her love life through the lens of hip-hop's best known orators, characters, archetypes and songs, creating a new and inventive narrative about the music that shaped the craggy heart of a young woman poet, just as it also changed the global landscape of pop. Janine Joseph's poetry collection, ...

Set during the years following the Civil War, Robert Hicks's The Orphan Mother, tells the story of a former slave's quest for justice following her son's murder. Bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie present America's First Daughter, which draws from thousands of letters and original sources to tell the fascinating story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson ...

Former Saturday Night Live writer and New Yorker staffer Patty Marx uses her sharp-edged humor to tackle the most difficult facet of aging: the mind's decline, in her book of essays, Let's Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties.

Life Without a Recipe is Diana Abu-Jaber’s memoir of journeying without a map, of learning to ignore the script and improvise, of escaping family and making family on one’s own terms. In Betsy Lerner’s The Bridge Ladies, readers are taken on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life. From Elissa ...

Hailed as “A romantic ode to the art of graffiti,” This is Modern Art explores the question “Who gets to make art?,” “Who is art for?,” and “Who gets to be an artist?” Join author Kevin Coval in a discussion about the award-winning play, This is Modern Art-  a commentary about young artists finding their voice in a city that ...

Hailed as “A romantic ode to the art of graffiti,” This is Modern Art explores the question “Who gets to make art?,” “Who is art for?,” and “Who gets to be an artist?” Join author Kevin Coval in a discussion about the award-winning play, This is Modern Art -  a commentary about young artists finding their voice in a city ...

Davis Miller's Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts is the single most intimate look at Muhammad Ali’s retirement, told through the story of an unexpected, powerful and life-changing friendship. James Andrew Miller presents Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency, an astonishing history of Hollywood's transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at ...

Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland is a brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times–bestselling author Dave Barry. TICKETS AVAILABLE MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 AT 10 A.M. Free tickets will be required for admission to this presentation. Seating with a ticket is on a “first ...

Eileen Myles’s I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 – 2014 is a collection of thrilling verse, including both new poems and beloved favorites, from the celebrated poet, modern cult icon, and author of Chelsea Girls.

This year’s nominees of the prestigious National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards in Fiction present selected readings. Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Viking Books) Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday) Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (Amistad) Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (W.W. Norton & Co.) Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen (Penguin Press) Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little Brown ...

The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir, by Susan Daitch, is a satiric, post-colonial adventure story about the search for a mythical lost city located somewhere in modern-day Iran. In a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization—the Regional Office—and its coterie of super-powered female assassins protects the globe from annihilation, in Manuel Gonzales's The Regional Office is Under Attack! ...

Open for Business: Building The New Cuban Economy, by Richard E. Feinberg, examines the Cuban economy as it makes its early steps into developing a more dynamic market economy. In Jose Marti and the Global Origins of Cuban Independence. Armando García de la Torre vividly reveals the global origins of Marti's ideas regarding governance, citizenship, independence and spirituality.

In The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs: An Essential Guide to the Flavors of the World, Padma Lakshmi brings together the world’s spices and herbs in a vibrant, comprehensive alphabetical guide, in conversation with Ben Greenman co-author (with Questlove) of Something to Food About:  Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs.

Masters of short-form comics, narrative illustration, and webcomics discuss the world of writing small and thinking big. Leela Corman (We all Wish For Deadly Force), Drew Weing (Creepy Casefiles of Margo Maloo) and Frank Viva (Sea Change) discuss. Moderated by Jessica Abel (Trish Trash, Artbabe).   We all Wish for Deadly Force is a collection of short stories by Leela ...

In Joe Clifford’s second Jay Porter novel, the psychological thriller, December Boys, Porter finds himself thrust back into a past he had hoped to leave behind, putting everything — and everyone he loves — at risk, in pursuit of the truth. A failed rocker in L.A. gets involved in a murder investigation and quickly learns nothing is what it seems, ...

John Dufresne's crime novel, I Don't Like Where This Is Going, continues the misadventures of therapist-on-the-run Wylie “Coyote” Melville, this time in Las Vegas, where he's witnessed a woman falling to her death outside the Luxor Hotel. Ann Hood, the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle, presents an enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of ...

Six words, one story, all yours. WLRN and Miami Book Fair celebrate the winners of this year’s 6 Words Miami competition, with a performance by the improv masters at Villain Theater. Each winner will read their six-word story aloud and Villain’s cast will turn that story into a 6-minute improv sketch. 6 Words Miami meets six minutes of comedy gold- ...

Candice Millard’s biography, Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill, is a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War.

In her poetry collection, Nec(Romantic), Cathleen Chambless uses the rhythms of nursery rhymes as well as traditional forms to tip over the toy box of childhood, storm through addiction, and wrestle the elegaic mode. In Sparrow’s book of poetry, How to Survive the Coming Collapse of Civilization (And Other Helpful Hints), the poet has reinvented the post-apocalyptic survival manual. In ...

Part coming-of-age story, part mind-altering manifesto on gender and sexuality by a transgender woman, Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us breaks all the rules and leaves the reader forever changed. Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout is Laura Jane Grace’s searing account of her search for identity and true self.

Award-winning ABC News correspondent, John Donvan, award-winning television news producer, Caren Zucker, present In a Different Key: The Story of Autism, which tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it.

In his photographic odyssey, The Isthmus: A New Path Between The Seas (AK Foto Inc.), author and photographer Andrew Kaufman documents the massive Panama Canal expansion project and its effect on Panama. As “El Canal” modernized, so did Panama, transforming the small Central American country into the crossroads of the world. Join Kaufman, Ilya Espino De Marotta, Executive Vice President ...

In the dynamic, sensual language of Peter Balakian's Pulitzer Prizewinning collection, Ozone Journal, we are reminded that the history of atrocity, trauma, and forgetting is both global and ancient; but we are reminded, too, of the beauty and richness of culture and the resilience of love. J.D. McClatchy’s Plundered Hearts is the definitive selection of the elegant work by a ...

In Vegan Vegetarian Omnivore Dinner for Everyone at the Table, James Beard award-winning Anna Thomas shows us how to cook for today’s table, with over 150 recipes for all tastes, and menus for every occasion.

Mia Leonin’s collection, Chance Born, wakens in us the miracle and mystery of becoming, being, and belonging — common to our shared humanity across cultures. Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, Safiya Sinclair’s Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. Donna Aza's The Woman Who Knew, examines the dissolution of ...

Coordinated by the Florida State University Libraries, the Florida Book Awards were established in 2006 to celebrate the best Florida literature. Join winners Arva Moore Parks (2015, Silver, Florida Non-Fiction, George Merrick: Son of the South Wind), Patrick Kendrick (2015, Silver, Young Adult, The Savants), Andres Pi Andreu (2015, Gold, Spanish Language, 274) and David Kirby (2013, Silver, Poetry The ...

Close out your Saturday with the energetic sounds of the Bad Apples Brass Band, South Florida’s premier New Orleans style Brass Band! It only takes one song to get hooked, as they bring their New Orleans brass band sound with an infectious street beat jam fused with the funkiest jazz and the heaviest sound.

In Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, Senator Bernie Sanders shares his personal experiences from the campaign trail, recounting the details of his historic primary fight. And for the millions looking to continue the political revolution, he outlines a progressive economic, environmental, racial, and social justice agenda that will create jobs, raise wages, protect the environment, and provide healthcare ...