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 ...

Appointed by the Library of Congress, Every Child A Reader, and the Children’s Book Council as the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, multi-award-winning Gene Yang’s comic for children, Paths and Portals (Secret Coders), combines logic puzzles, basic programming instruction and a mystery plot: a group of students discover a secret underground classroom once dedicated to unraveling the secrets of ...

Business consultant John P. David's How to Protect (or Destroy) Your Reputation Online is an indispensable guidebook for individuals and businesses trying to protect themselves against digital attacks and misinformation.

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! ...

Sarah Arison presents her grandmother Lin Arinson’s beautifully designed  The Desert and the Cities Sing: Discovering Today's Israel: A Treasure Box, a unique boxed set that includes photographs, films, books and more to help readers explore Israel's fascinating, diverse, and complex culture.

In Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow, a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel in 1920s Moscow. Set in 1944, Affinity Konar's Mischling, is the story of twin sisters in Auschwitz who take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. In ...

A finalist for the National Book Award, Monica Youn’s book of poetry, Blackacre, the author explores questions of racial identity, culpability, bereavement, fertility and barrenness as she attempts to understand her own desire—her own struggle—to conceive a child. In Joy Harjo’s long-awaited collection, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding ...

In Let Me Tell You about Jasper . . .: How My Best Friend Became America's Dog, bestselling author Dana Perino tells stories of friends, family, and how America's love for a dog named Jasper is a place where even political opponents can find common ground. TICKETS AVAILABLE MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 AT 10 A.M. Free tickets will be required for admission ...

In Nicole Dennis-Benn's debut l, Here Comes the Sun, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a maelstrom of change threatens their Jamaican community. Ali Eteraz's debut novel, Native Believer, depicts a second-generation immigrant whose life spins out of control in the pulsating underbelly of Philadelphia. A family hired by a research institute to teach sign language to ...

Nationally known lifestyle maven, celebrity chef, and Alzheimer’s patient, B. Smith and her husband, Dan Gasby, share their story of dealing with day-to-day challenges and family realities and tensions, in Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's.

Anne Korkeakivi's The Shining Sea, is a decades-spanning story about the ripple effects of war, the passing down of memory, the making of myth, and the power of the ideal of heroism to lead us astray but also to keep us afloat.  Sabina Murray’s Valiant Gentlemen: A Novel reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and Irish patriot Roger Casement; ...

Steven Johnson’s Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World is an illustrated history of popular entertainment which contends that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change.

Olivia Benson’s nonfiction book The Answers from Within examines gender, racial, and sexual preference discrimination on the planet; analyzing their historical and religious roots, and presenting alternatives to current biases.

Patrick Phillips’s work of historical nonfiction, Blood at the Root, is a sweeping American tale that spans the Cherokee removals of the 1830s, the Reconstruction, the crushing injustice of Forsyth, Georgia’s racial cleansing, and uncovers a history of racial terrorism that continues to shape America in the 21st century. Grace and Justice on Death Row: A Race Against Time to ...

Guest-edited by Roz Chast, the eleventh annual volume of the New York Times bestselling series showcases a wide range of “varied, provocative feats of cartooning”—The Comics Journal. Series editor, comics critic, educator, and curator Bill Kartalopoulos talks to contributors: renowned comics author Ben Katchor , regular contributor to the New Yorker, Richard McGuire; and Canadian cartoonist and artist Marc Bell.

Blending travel literature and history, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro's Island People: The Caribbean and the World offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Caribbean society, culture, and politics. Thirteen of National Book Award-winner and trailblazing war journalist Bob Shacochis’s travel and adventure essays are collected for the first time, in Kingdoms in the Air: Dispatches from the Far Away. In The Joys of Travel: ...

Blood, Bone, and Marrow, by Ted Geltner, is the first full-length biography of one of the most unlikely figures in twentieth-century American literature, Harry Crews, a writer who emerged from a dirt-poor South Georgia tenant farm and went on to create a singularly unique voice of fiction. Walter Shapiro’s Hustling Hitler: The Jewish Vaudevillian Who Fooled the Fuhrer, tells the ...

In Lawrence H. Levy’s Brooklyn on Fire, Brooklyn’s most witty and daring detective risks everything to solve a dangerous triple-murder case. Lawrence H. Levy’s Second Street Station is a historical mystery featuring the witty and wily Mary Handley, the first woman detective in Brooklyn, as she tries to prove herself in a man’s world while solving a high profile murder.  ...

Poets with roots in Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guyana, all pushing the boundaries of form and subject in contemporary Caribbean poetry. Ancient Greek myth, Hindu scriptures, Shakespeare, sci-fi, and the urgencies of the digital age meet in the work of these writers, crafting a new language for the realities of a perpetually New World. Shivanee Ramlochan is one of the ...

Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood and renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives. In Christodora, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan’s East Village. In Stephanie Danler's Sweetbitter, a young woman lands a job as a ...

In Ordinarily Well: The Case for Anti-Depressants, celebrated psychiatrist and author Dr. Peter D. Kramer examines the growing controversy about the popular medications. Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets is Luke Dittrich's haunting story of the most studied individual in the history of neuroscience, a human guinea pig who would teach us much of what we ...

Get ready for some laughs as the Magic City becomes Broad City! Start your Sunday Funday smiling and laughing along as some of the funniest female writers from Florida read from their work.

In his self-help book, Meet the ERs: The Four People You Meet on the Way to the Top, author and CEO Kevin D. Carr discusses four professional personality types to help readers get started on the path to win in personal and professional pursuits.

Author of four cookbooks, Executive Chef and Owner of Chef Adrianne's Vineyard Restaurant and Wine Bar, Panda Kitchen Ambassador and guest chef on NBC 6 in the Mix, Adrianne Calvo demonstrates her techniques for achieving “Maximum Flavor.”

Like tales from the Old Testament, the illustrated stories in William Dunlap’s Short Mean Fiction are mean, rampant with sex, violence, and death—and unforgettable.

In The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution, photojournalist Bryan Shih and historian Yohuru Williams offer a reappraisal of the Black Panther Party’s history and legacy.

Take a trip through America’s history with My Name is James Madison Hemings, a historical account in picture book form about the child of founding father Thomas Jefferson and the slave Sally Hemings.

Nadja Spiegelman’s I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This tells the stories of mothers and daughters—and mothers as daughters—traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. Sulome Anderson, a journalist and daughter of one of the world’s most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, presents a gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis: The Hostage’s Daughter, an ...

Montague Kobbé's novel, On the Way Back, is a hilarious story centered around a failed business venture on the island of Anguilla. Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan’s Sarong Party Girls: A Novel is about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism. Set in post-Franco Spain, Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes's novel, The ...

Journalist and author Amy Haimerl recounts the restoration of a down-on-its luck house in a down-on-its luck city in her memoir, Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Home. Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, Angela Palm’s Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here is a book of spellbinding linked essays on place, young love, and a life-altering ...

Nick Bertozzi (Becoming Andy Warhol), Sarah Glidden (Rolling Blackouts), and Trina Robbins (The Complete Wimmen’s Comix) discuss reporting and reliving unanswered questions from the Iraq War, from the life of Pop Art’s most radical and famous figure, and from 30 years of women’s lives as told in underground comix. Moderated by editor Joan Hilty.   In Becoming Andy Warhol, New ...

Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt is Sarah Jaffe’s investigation of today’s political radicals—troublemakers of all stripes who challenge the notion that Americans are apathetic. Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning that racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In White Rage, ...

The intricate, interlocking stories of Jensen Beach’s story collection, Swallowed by the Cold, are set in a Swedish village on the Baltic Sea as well as in Stockholm over the course of two eventful years. Jill Bialosky’s The Prize follows the fortunes of a partner in a prestigious New York gallery who struggles with the memory of his brilliant but ...

In Claire Vaye Watkins’s novel, Gold Fame Citrus, a couple squat in a former starlet’s mansion in a near-future dystopian society where unrelenting drought has transfigured Southern California into a surreal, phantasmagoric landscape. In Aaron’s Thier’s Mr. Eternity, two young filmmakers meet an old sailor in Key West, who claims to be 560 years old and calls himself Daniel Defoe. ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning Robert Olen Butler's latest novel is Perfume River, an exquisite exploration of family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North Florida family. Juan Gabriel Vasquez’s Reputations is a novel about a powerful political cartoonist who is paid a visit from a woman who forces him to reevaluate his life and ...

Janna Levin’s Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space is the authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist. Writer, blogger, and critic, Maria Popova is known for her wildly popular blog BrainPickings.org, which features her writing on culture, books, and eclectic subjects off and on the Internet. TICKETS AVAILABLE MONDAY, OCTOBER ...

Set in a former Pennsylvania mining town that gets a second chance, courtesy of natural gas, Jennifer Haigh's novel Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Even on the bucolic Lombard family's sprawling apple orchard, change is inevitable, and threats of urbanization, disinheritance, and women's rites of passage soon shake the orchard down to ...

The Raging Skillet: The True Life Story of Chef Rossi: A Memoir with Recipes is one woman's story of cooking her way through some of the most unlikely kitchens in New York City.

S.L. Price’s Playing Through the Whistle explores the history of Aliquippa, PA, a former industrial steel mill boomtown that has fallen on hard times, but has subsequently produced a remarkable number of NFL stars through its high school sports teams. The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting is ...

Lounge around and bob your head to the beat, or get up and move to the sounds of Magic City Hippies, Miami's indie funk darlings. With their unique blend of Indie Funk and Hip Hop, you won't be able to ignore the call of the dancefloor.

In Harley A. Rotbart’s book of essays, Miracles We Have Seen: America's Leading Physicians Share Stories They Can't Forget, preeminent physicians share their experiences with inexplicable medical events. Robert Norman’s Star of David: The History, Mystery and Symbolism is an examination of the familiar symbol, its history and significance.  Sharad Paul and Robert Norman’s The Last Natural Man: Where Have ...

Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century in any language. Now his work can be enjoyed afresh with two remarkable new translations for the twenty-first century. Poet, translator, and essayist Forrest Gander presents the translated volume, Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems originally composed on napkins, playbills, receipts, and more. Honorary Consul of ...

Renowned Jamaican businessman and philanthropist Douglas Orane’s The Business of Nation Building: Excerpts from the Selected Speeches of Douglas Orane spans 30 years and 17 topics, to collect the most salient excerpts of Orane’s poignant speeches. Orane is joined in conversation by Jamaican-born attorney and community leader, Marlon Hill.

Returning from their startling and hilarious illustrated retelling of the Bible in Apocrypha Now, Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler discuss the art of satire with Benjamin Frisch, whose The Fun Family takes aim at real-world stress on the nuclear family.   Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler take a faithful-yet-irreverent approach to the best parts left out of the canonical Bible, ...

The Homemade Chef: Ordinary Ingredients for Extraordinary Food is the debut cookbook from the star co-host of Telemundo’s Emmy winning morning show, Un Nuevo Dia, celebrity chef James Tahhan.

In Give Us The Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, Ari Berman charts both the transformation of American democracy under the Voting Rights Amendment and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit it. Clara Bingham’s Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul is the electrifying ...

I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world’s leading pediatric cardiologists.

Trabian Shorters is an editor of Reach: 40 Black Men Speaking on Living, Leading and Succeeding, in which black men from all walks of life share their inspiring stories and how each became a source of hope for his community and country. Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison is Shaka Senghor’s memoir of how he ...

Robert Silk’s An Ecotourist's Guide to the Everglades and the Florida Keys is essential reading for a fun-filled trip through the world’s most famous wetland, the Everglades, and the marine environment of the 130-mile island chain formed by the Florida Keys. Cathy Salustri’s travel guide Backroads of Paradise: A Journey to Rediscover Old Florida reveals a patchwork quilt of Florida ...

In Sharon Guskin’s The Forgetting Time: A Novel, the four-year old son of a single mother is plagued by memories of a past life he wishes to return to. A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage, Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to Washington, D.C., a ...

Bring your black book, notebook or sketchbook and hang out at the PORCH! Drop a tag on your friends’ book. Practice your hand styles, sketch and be inspired or inspire others. Artists Luis Berros, aka STYLE of VO5 and FA(Free Agents). This is a meet up for all creatives of any age. A chance to talk story. This session will ...

Poet Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello examines the cultural and filial duties that inform both grief and wanderlust for the immigrant in Hour of the Ox, winner of the Donald Hall Prize. In Rapture: Poems, winner of the Walt Whitman Award for poetry, Sjohnna McCray movingly recounts a life born out of wartime to a Korean mother and an American father serving during ...

(en français, avec interprétation simultanée en anglais) Les auteures de cette table-ronde ont publié des textes qui forcent le lecteur à repenser la femme Caribéenne, tant sur le plan historique que sur le plan spirituel. Elles présentent leurs idées sur comment créer un nouveau guide pour la femme moderne des Caraïbes. Mimerose Beaubrun, Myriam J.A. Chancy, Gessica Généus, Gisèle Pineau. ...

In her retro romp, Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman, journalist Brooke Hauser reveals how a self-proclaimed “mouseburger” from the Ozarks invented the "Cosmo Girl" and became one of the most influential women of her time. In Future Sex, Emily Witt explores internet dating, internet pornography, polyamory, and other avant-garde sexual ...

In his latest nonfiction book, Fair Play: How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports, Cyd Zeigler examines the history how sports have transformed for LGBT athletes. Jessica Luther’s Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape is a meticulously researched and powerful exposé on the epidemic of cover-up that surrounds sexual assault and college football players.

Bite Me: How Lyme Disease Stole My Childhood, Made Me Crazy, and Almost Killed Me is Ally Hilfiger's harrowing story of her struggle to diagnose and overcome the disease that nearly ruined her. Tommy Hilfiger's memoir, American Dreamer: My Life in Fashion & Business, is the story of a true American original, told for the first time in his own ...

In her latest collection of innovative, shape-shifting essays, An Earlier Life, Brenda Miller evolves through childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood to enter the wry maturity of middle age. Julie Marie Wade’s Catechism: A Love Story is a collection of poetic essays on reading, loving, and, most delightfully, reading love between the lines. In his memoir, The Narrow Door, Paul Lisicky ...

Rory Flynn's Dark Horse: An Eddy Harkness Novel moves from dive bars to Harvard dorm rooms to the city’s elite social clubs, as Harkness puts everything at risk — his department, his nascent family, and his life — to try to derail a seemingly unstoppable conspiracy before it’s too late. Stretching from the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia to the ...

The Terranauts is a deep-dive into human behavior in an epic story of science, society, sex, and survival, from one of the greatest American novelists today, T. C. Boyle, the acclaimed, bestselling, author of the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning World’s End and The Harder They Come.

Wisdom doesn’t always come with age; what do adult readers learn from challenged lives lived by the very young?  In her graphic memoir, Long Red Hair, Meags Fitzgerald's childhood full of sleepovers, amateur fortune-telling and watching scary movies can't hide her suspicion that she is unlike her friends. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, Emil Ferris’s ...

In Achieve the College Dream: You Don’t Need to Be Rich to Attend a Top School, Maria Carla Chicuén presents the definitive resource to help high-achieving, low-income students access the best possible college. In her guide for parents, Not Buying It: Stop Overspending and Start Raising Happier, Healthier, More Successful Kids, Brett Graff exposes how overspending can harm children. Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky, ...

Comedian, activist, and hugely popular culture blogger, Luvvie Ajayi, serves up necessary advice for the masses in her hilarious book of essays, I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual.

In the Darkroom is Susan Faludi's extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga, as she learns her estranged father has undergone sex reassignment surgery. With Deirdre Donahue, Contributing Book Editor at AARP. TICKETS AVAILABLE MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 AT 10 A.M. Free tickets will be required for admission to this presentation. ...

In Butter: A Rich History, award-winning food writer and Chef Elaine Khosrova serves up a gripping historical narrative that explores the rich chronicle of innovation, revolution, and controversy of our world's most famous fat. The Essential Oyster, by Rowan Jacobsen, is the definitive book for today’s oyster lover, featuring stunning portraits, irreverent tasting notes, and delightful backstories of all the ...

Come master the art of origami, with a literary twist! Bring any used or stripped books, or just come by and use some of ours, as artist Becky Quiroga Curtis teaches you how to turn those old pages into origami art. Make a bouquet of kusudama flowers, paper roses and more and give those old pages new life.

Jonathan Spikes presents Dear Mama: Thank You for the Lemonade, in which a young urban professional peels back life’s layers as he navigates his career, his personal life and the world. Shawn T. Blanchard’s memoir, How 'Bout that For a Crack Baby: Keys to Mentorship and Success, depicts the journey of a young man born with drugs in his system, ...

A native New Yorker is fed up with life in the dregs of a drug-addled Alphabet City, where his neighbors are shut-ins and his bicycle is always getting stolen, in Dean Haspiel’s graphic novel, Beef with Tomato. The classic graphic novel Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay, by the landmark cartoonist Ben Katchor, is back in print for its ...

In her debut memoir, Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir, Molly Brodak recounts her childhood and attempts to make sense of her complicated relationship with her bank-robbing father. In his memoir, Falling: A Daughter, A Father, and A Journey Back, Elisha Cooper has to face his daughter’s illness and understand his new world—how it changes art and language and laughter—as he holds ...

Jay McInerney’s new novel, Bright Precious Days, follows a well-to-do Manhattan family and their financial and personal struggles through the economic collapse during the early years of the Obama administration.

Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality, by Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell, is the fascinating, moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades — the legalization of same-sex marriage. Moderated by ...

Part prescription and part memoir, Security Mom: An Unclassified Guide to Protecting Our Homeland and Your Home is an exceptional view of America’s security concerns by Juliette Kayyem, a leading government Homeland Security advisor, Pulitzer Prize–finalist columnist, CNN analyst, and mother of three, who delivers a message and a plan: security begins at home. In The New Tzar: The Rise ...

In Real Food/Fake Food, award-winning food journalist and travel writer Larry Olmsted exposes the pervasive and dangerous fraud perpetrated on unsuspecting Americans.

Garfield Ellis's The Angels' Share is the story of a Jamaican father and his adult son who travel across the island together in a touching and humorous novel that explores family reconciliation. Kevin Keating’s The Captive Condition: A Novel is a chilling and deliciously dark tale about an idyllic Midwestern college town that turns out to be a panorama of ...

In Eileen Pollack’s A Perfect Life, a young researcher at MIT searches for the genetic marker for a neurodegenerative disorder she may inherit from her mother, and falls in love with a man who may carry the same fatal gene. In Jonathan Levi’s Septimania, an organ tuner discovers he is the heir to the Kingdom of Septimania, and is crowned ...

Marcia Reisman is one of the founding board members at Casa Valentina, established in 2006 by a group of concerned women who wanted to find a way to address the immense challenges faced by young women who are "at-risk" or "age out" of foster care at 18 years old without being adopted or reunited with their families.

Award-winning and bestselling Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad: A Novel chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom. The most highly anticipated and important literary novel of the year, the story is an odyssey through time as well as space, a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage, and a shattering, powerful meditation ...

Mi Ae Lipe’s Bounty from the Box: The CSA Farm Cookbook is a guide to enjoying over 90 different crops grown by community-supported agriculture (CSA) farms across North America. Myra Kornfeld and Stephen Massimilla’s Cooking with the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare offers 150 nutritious international recipes with a plenitude of imaginative poetry ...

Gary Monroe’s biography, E.G. Barnhill: Florida Photographer, Adventurer, Entrepreneur, showcases a little-known artist whose inventive techniques—particularly his uranium-dye coloring—merit a place in the story of American photography. In George Merrick, Son of the South Wind: Visionary Creator of Coral Gables, Arva Parks presents the remarkable true story of George Merrick and of one of the nation’s most iconic planned cities. ...

In Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me, Ana Castillo looks at what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial profiling, and police brutality. In The Art of Waiting, Belle Boggs deftly distills her time of waiting into an expansive contemplation of fertility, choice, and the many possible roads to making a ...

Come celebrate the official launch of Orange Island Review’s third issue! The review features poetry and art from high school students from around the country and is collaboratively edited by a high school editorial staff from G. Holmes Braddock High School under the direction of the Editor-in-Chief, Caridad Moro Gronlier and published by Beating Windward Press.

In White Sand, Black Beach: Civil Rights, Public Space, and Miami's Virginia Key, historian and longtime Miami activist Gregory Bush recounts this unique story and the current state of public space in South Florida, which are intimately interwoven with the history of segregation. Marvin Dunn’s A History of Florida: Through Black Eyes recounts the history of Florida with a focus ...

A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh revive one of his most popular characters: “Juice” Terry Lawson, a drug-dealing, gonzo pornstar and taxi driver, who encounters a series of charmingly filthy fares, each with unique challenges. In the novel The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon, absurdity quickly becomes life and death.

Philippe Sands’s East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity,”  is a memoir about his family history, the battle between three men at the Nuremberg Trial, and the crimes of Hitler’s Third Reich.

Paper: Paging Through History from Mark Kurlansky, author of Cod and Salt, is a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world.

Jen Karetnick's poetry collection American Sentencing is an examination of the physical body and the various indignities and ailments from which it can suffer; her collection The Treasures That Prevail is about climate change and its effects on Miami. Julie Marie Wade’s Six: Poems plumbs six essential aspects of human experience that have shaped us all: art, language, desire, vocation, ...

Ripped from today’s headlines, Glyph/Harvey/Inkpot Award-winning cartoonist Keith Knight brings his world-renowned slideshow to the Miami Book Fair. With a deft, humorous touch, Keef highlights 20 plus years of police brutality and racial injustice in the United States with works that originated in his various cartoon series, (th)ink, The K Chronicles, as well as his nationally syndicated comic strip, The ...

Its Sunday Funkday on The Porch! Now that you've gotten your fill of a week's worth of books and authors, come close out the fair with gusto and jam out with one of Miami's favorite funky dance bands, Psychic Mirrors! This six-piece band can only be described as an amalgam of boogie funk, yacht rock and wavy synth jazz. Ain't ...

Collected Poems: 1974-2004, by Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States Rita Dove, encompasses thirty years of both personal and political history that moves from the ordinary to the extraordinary. In At the Foundling Hospital, former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky examines personality and culture as improvised from loss in deeply musical poems that reimagine identity ...

The Working Poet Radio Show (WPRS) is a podcast and live interview series dedicated to the working lives of creative people. Inspired by late-night talk shows, Joseph Lapin – journalist, author and host of WPRS – explores the poetry that powers the creative impulse. Join Lapin and his guests: Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus and Si Lewen’s Parade: ...