Cirko Teatro presents the local favorite “El show de Enriqueta y Agapito,” a puppet-theatre performance in Spanish that focuses on environmental awareness and kindness towards animals. This participatory experience will engage children to meet a host of four-legged creatures, jugglers, and clowns, and to take part of an adventure that teaches them about compassion, respect, and love for one another. ...

Conecta Miami Arts brings to life beloved children’s fairytales from around the world. These bilingual, immersive street-theatre pieces celebrate friendship, courage, and imagination. They also address the questions every fan of fairytales is dying to know, such as: How did Peter Pan first get to Neverland? Why isn’t the cat part of the Chinese Zodiac?

Join Encantos Media to read and color from their various book collections: Emmy-nominated, award-winning baby brand Canticos makes learning fun with bilingual books, digital apps and sign-alongs. Learn about the many cultural wonders of the world through the Tiny Travelers Book Series and their Day of the Dead-inspired collection Skeletitos. Meet Ricky Chickie the Puppet, enjoy a reading from author ...

The Florida International University College of Arts, Science & Education Mobile STEAM Festival will spark your curiosity in planets Earth’s greatest stories.  Join our Mobile STEAM Festival as we put the spirit of discovery in your hands with activities such as air-propelled rockets, marine-focused VR goggles, human electricity circuits and more!

Manny Hernandez’s CANDIDS Miami is a collection of images from Miami’s 90’s celebrity scene.

Alan Zweibel, Dave Barry and Adam Mansbach are pretty sure that their irreverent A Field Guide to the Jewish People: Who They Are, Where They Come From, What to Feed Them…and Much More. Maybe Too Much More, is the last book on Judaism that you will ever need. Well, we’ll see. Sponsored by             TICKETS AVAILABLE OCTOBER ...

Join the festival-wide search for the world’s most famous missing person. For the chance to win a deluxe Where’s Waldo? prize pack, pick up a Where’s Waldo? postcard at the Children’s Alley info booth.  Use the postcard to record details about where you spot him. Once you’ve located Waldo in all three of his hiding places, write your name, address, and ...

In Where I Come From, Life Lessons from a Latino Chef, Aarón Sánchez, America’s most prominent Latino chef, shares the story behind his food, his family, and his professional journey.

In It Would be Night in Caracas, her first work of fiction, Venezuelan journalist Karina Sainz Borgo chronicles one woman’s struggle to survive these days in Venezuela. Wendy Guerra’s Revolution Sunday is a novel of glamour, surveillance, and corruption in contemporary Cuba. Full of outlandish humor and insights into an often contradictory and kafkaesque regime, Pablo Medina brings 1960s Cuba ...

Joyce Carol Oates, a queenpin of the noir genre, brings her discerning eye to the curation of Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers, an anthology of 15 short stories by contributing writers including Valerie Martin, Edwidge Danticat, and Steph Cha. Sponsored by 

In What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal, America’s longest running advice columnist, E. Jean Carroll goes on the road to speak to women about hideous men and whether we need them. In conversation with Lisa Birnbach, host of the podcast Five Things That Make Life Better with Lisa Birnbach.

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Xuan Juliana Wang’s first collection of short stories Home Remedies introduces us to the new and changing face of Chinese youth, while upending the immigrant narrative. Angie Cruz’s Dominicana is a vital portrait of the immigrant experience and the timeless coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world. Ernesto Quiñonez’s novel, Taína, delivers a subtle yet ...

Emily Bernard’s Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine looks at race in twelve tell-tale, deeply personal essays. Carolyn Forché’s What You Have Heard is True, is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. In her memoir Inheritance: A ...

James Fallows and Deborah Fallows are co-authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America which chronicles five years of travels across America in a single-engine prop airplane.

In Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974, authors Julian E. Zelizer and Kevin M. Kruse chronicle the past four decades of stark political partisanship and social divisions in the United States. Nicholas Lemann’s Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream examines the concentration of wealth and economic inequality in ...

Mike Haridopolos’s and Peter Dunbar’s The Modern Republican Party in Florida chronicles the paths that led to a GOP majority in The Sunshine State.

Making Good Time: True Stories of How We Do, and Don’t, Get Around in South Florida is an anthology of more than thirty Miami transit-related stories, edited by Lynne Barrett. Barrett will be joined by contributors Terence Cantarella, Jennine Capó Crucet, Alex Segura, and Sammy Mack.

Rebel youth get their lives back on track by running away — to New Orleans, to a low-budget slasher film set, to outer space! MK Reed and Greg Means (Penny Nichols), and Hannah Templer (Cosmoknights), talk about driving their young protagonists’ destinies and how comics publishing is redefining books for young people.  In Danielle Page’s graphic novel Mera: Tidebreaker, Mera’s plan to ...

From “Agitate” to “Zygote,” John Freeman’s Dictionary of the Undoing redefines selected words necessary in the current political era. In If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How it Might be Saved, Michael Tomasky combines data with trenchant analysis to explain how the nation broke apart and offer a path to a more hopeful political future.

Northwest corner of N.E. 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue Miami Book Fair explores the relationship between poetry and music with Vincent Rafard, Oscar Fuentes aka the Biscayne Poet, and Julia Bhatt, in a jam session specially commissioned for this year’s Miami Book Fair.

Every year, Best American Comics collects some of the most exciting graphic works of the year, showcasing the work of established and up-and-coming artists found everywhere from the pages of their graphic novels, comic books, periodicals and more! Join Ben Passmore, Angie Wang and Connor Willumsen for a talk highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics form today. Moderated by ...

In From Scratch: 10 Meals, 175 Recipes, and Dozens of Techniques You Will Use Over and Over, James Beard Award-winning food writer Michael Ruhlman looks at 10 favorite meals, and then sets you up to explore in the kitchen. In Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World’s Riskiest Business, Matt Lee and Ted Lee take on the competitive, wild world of ...

In We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast Jonathan Safran Foer explores climate change and our practical, daily response, in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. TICKETS AVAILABLE OCTOBER 21, 2019 at 12 P.M. Click here to purchase tickets! FREE tickets will be required for admission to this presentation. Seating with a ticket is on ...

Martin Garbus’s North of Havana: The Untold Story of Dirty Politics, Secret Diplomacy, and the Trial of the Cuban Five tells the story of a spy ring sent by Cuba in the early 1990s to infiltrate anti-Communist extremists in Miami. Jonathan M. Hansen’s Young Castro: The Making of a Revolutionary challenges readers to discover how Castro became the dictator who ...

Philip Caputo’s Hunter’s Moon: A Novel in Stories offers a mosaic of stories set in a small town where no act is private. Caputo will be in conversation with his son, journalist Marc Caputo. 

The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg, by veteran New York Times reporter Eleanor Randolph, is a revealing portrait of one of the richest and famously private/public figures in the country. Randolph will be in conversation with Kai Bird, Executive Director, The Leon Levy Center for Biography. Sponsored by  

In History of My Breath, Kristin Kovacic attempts to trap the fugitive knowledge of the durable adventures – childhood, marriage, childbirth, parenting. In Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing, Elissa Altman learns to navigate the turbulent waters of the mother-daughter dynamic. Adrienne Brodeur’s memoir, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me, is a daughter’s tale of living ...

Our physical appearance often determines others’ expectations of us, but the truth of humanity is so much greater. Bill Griffith (Nobody’s Fool) and Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick (Hawking) discuss the lives of their subjects: legendary physicist Stephen Hawking, and sideshow performer “Schlitzie the Pinhead,” and how they transcended the limits others put on them. Moderated by Abrams ComicArts Editorial ...

In How to Love a Country, poet Richard Blanco addresses the complexities and contradictions of our nationhood and the unresolved sociopolitical matters that affect us all. Edwidge Danticat’s Everything Inside is a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love. In conversation with Maris Kreizman of The Maris Review, a LitHub Radio podcast. Sponsored by 

Jennifer Cody Epstein’s novel, Wunderland, is an intimate portrait of a friendship severed by history, and a sweeping saga of wartime, motherhood and just how far we might go in order to belong.  In Mamta Chaudhry’s Haunting Paris a bereaved pianist discovers a letter among her late lover’s possessions, launching her into a search for a child who vanished in ...

In Kwame Dawes novel, Bivouac, a man’s grief over the death of his father is exacerbated by the conflict over whether the death was the result of medical negligence or a political assassination. In conversation with Akashic Books publisher Johnny Temple.

Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States  is transgender reporter Samantha Allen’s narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in conservative states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America. Outside In: A Political Memoir is part memoir, and part analysis of the political process, by Libby Davies, the first openly lesbian MP in Canadian ...

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen is a charming account of Mary Norris’s lifelong love affair with words, the Greek language, and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. In conversation with Roxanne Coady, host of Just the Right Book, a LitHub Radio podcast.

Gilbert M. Gaul’s The Geography of Risk: Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America’s Coasts examines how the burden of storm damage has shifted from private investors to public taxpayers. Michael Klare’s All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change is an eye-opening examination of climate change from the perspective of the U.S. military. In The ...

Not from Here, Not from There/No Soy de Aquí ni de Allá: The Autobiography of Nelson Díaz chronicles the rise of Nelson Diaz from New York City tenement housing to an astounding legal career which includes advocacy for human and civil rights.  In conversation with Rosemary Ravinal. 

Northwest corner of N.E. 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue Lemon City Trio blends cinematic guitar textures, hip-hop grooves, and slinky Cajun beats. Sponsored by  

Boris Fishman’s Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (A Memoir with Recipes) explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle. In his funny and irreverent memoir The Book of Eating, restaurant critic Adam Platt recounts a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal. Kwame Onwuachi’s memoir Notes from a Young Black Chef, is a heartfelt story ...

Michael Frank’s What is Missing is a psychological family drama about a father, a son, and the woman they both love. In her novel, On Division, Goldie Goldbloom tells a deeply affecting, morally insightful story, and offers a rare look inside Brooklyn’s Chasidic community. From neuroscientist Lisa Genova, the novel, Every Note Played, is a powerful exploration of regret, forgiveness, ...

Candice Carty-Williams’s Queenie is a disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place. Karen Dukess’s The Last Book Party is a propulsive tale of ambition and romance, set in the publishing world of 1980s New York and the timeless beaches of ...

This Is Not a T-Shirt: A Brand, a Culture, a Community – a Life in Streetwear tells the story of The Hundreds and the precepts that made it an iconic streetwear brand, by Bobby Hundreds himself. In conversation with Asanyah Davidson, chairperson, Miami Fashion Institute at Miami Dade College.

In My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education, a candid collection of essays, first-generation American Jennine Capó Crucet explores the condition of finding herself a stranger in the country where she was born. Abdi Nor Iftin’s memoir, Call Me American, chronicles his immigration the United States from battle-torn Mogadishu, Somalia. In This Land Is Our Land: An ...

Murderous socialites, costumed super-thieves, a super-natural force possessing a new father, and an elite unit of boy scouts! Gabby Dunn (Bury the Lede), Dean Haspiel (The Red Hook, Volume 2), Celine Loup (The Man Who Came Down The Attic Stairs), and Matt Kindt (Black Badge, Volume 2), come together on a rollicking panel that will delve deep into the dark, ...

George Packer´s Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century examines the life and work of one of the most influential American diplomats of the past four decades. In conversation with Kai Bird, executive director, The Leon Levy Center for Biography. Sponsored by  TICKETS AVAILABLE OCTOBER 21, 2019 at 12 P.M. Click here to purchase tickets! FREE tickets will ...

Tough Cases: Judges Tell the Stories of Some of the Hardest Decisions They’ve Ever Made  is a collection of writings by judges about the most difficult case they had to decide – from the family case involving Elian Gonzalez and the life-or-death of Terri Schiavo, to the mental health of a mother who murdered her own children. With contributors: Hon. ...

Northwest corner of N.E. 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue Don’t miss the Miami Book Fair debut of this monthly event during which several folks give fun-yet-informative presentations while the audience drinks along. Think Discovery Channel... with beer!

Alex Kotlowitz’s An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago is a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago’s most turbulent neighborhoods. Investigative reporter Kyle Swenson tells in Good Kids, Bad City the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, ...

In Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century, historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein shares the true story of a frayed and diasporic family preserved in thousands of letters. Sponsored by       

Christina Proenza-Coles’s study, American Founders, reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. Carrie Gibson’s El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America chronicles the dramatic history of Hispanic North America from the early 16th century to the present. In Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin ...

In Daniel Jose Older’s novel, The Book of Lost Saints, a woman who vanished during the Cuban Revolution comes back in spirit to her nephew to ask questions in a family story of revolution, loss, and family bonds.  Oscar Cásares’s Where We Come From is a stunning and timely novel about a Mexican-American family in Brownsville, Texas that reluctantly becomes ...

Take a journey through the nature of time and space with the masterfully illustrated and brilliantly designed Rusty Brown. Chris Ware is back with another expansive and introspective work of graphic fiction sixteen years in the making. Join Chris Ware and Chip Kidd for a conversation that explores the rich depths of these interconnected, decade-spanning narratives that bring warmth to ...

In The Unrhymables, authors Julie Marie Wade and Denise Duhamel explore women’s lives and choices with a feminist perspective in thirteen innovative, thematically linked essays.

Melissa Isaacson’s  State: A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation  is a compelling first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality in the 1970s. In You Throw Like a Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity, former Syracuse University quarterback and NFL veteran Don ...

The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, is an anthology of fantastic tales that offers both careful scholarship and fun. Jeff VanderMeer—whom The New Yorker has anointed "the weird Thoreau”—will also discuss his brand new novel, Dead Astronauts, which makes a mind-bending, form-stretching, and altogether dazzling return to the universe of his previous novel, Borne, to address one of its central mysteries: the three ...

Miami Midnight marks the conclusion of Alex Segura’s private eye Pete Fernandez mystery series – there’s a murder to investigate, of course, and secrets might be revealed.  Miami attorney Jack Swyteck takes on the case of an undocumented immigrant in James Grippando’s legal thriller The Girl in the Glass Box. In No Sunscreen for the Dead (Serge Storms), mystery fans ...

Northwest corner of N.E. 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue Grammy Nominated Xperimento is a bilingual, multicultural, cross-genre, All-Star, All-Live band from Miami, that blends world sounds such as Cumbia, Reggae, Ska, Salsa, Merengue, Dembo, Kuduru and Funk with elements of Rock, R&B, HipHop and Dancehall. In other words TREMENDO PARTY! Sponsored by  

In his study Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America, James Poniewozik shows how American media have shaped American society and politics, and also Trump’s path from tabloid celebrity to president. From ISIS propaganda to the 2016 Russian intervention in American elections, Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can ...

Ryan Leigh Dostie’s Formation: A Woman’s Memoir of Stepping Out of Line is powerful literary memoir of a young Army recruit driven to prove herself in a man’s world. In Three Women, journalist Lisa Taddeo follows three ordinary women from different regions and backgrounds resulting in a groundbreaking portrait of erotic longing in today’s America.

Eric Lichtblau’s Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee’s Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis, is an eye-opening, unforgettable narrative of World War II heroism. Debbie Cenziper’s Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America tells the gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice. Sponsored by          

Möbius Strips and Other Stories collects the best of Tom DeMarchi’s short and flash fiction across two decades. In his collection of short stories, Perp Walk, Jim Daniels maps out the emotional capitals and potholes of coming of age in a blue-collar town in Michigan.

In Mostly Sunny: How I Learned to Keep Smiling Through the Raniest of Days, Fox & Friends meteorologist Janice Dean reveals obstacles she’s faced that could have severely impacted any professional woman’s career, from online trolls to health issues to abusive and sexist bosses.

Creation is a force that can make sense of the parts of our life where we are victimized or erased. Join Diane Noomin (Drawing Power), Kat Verhoeven (Meat and Bone), and Erin Williams (Commute), as they discuss how their newest books tell women’s stories of abuse, self-loathing, and need for connection, and find surprisingly uplifting ways to move forward. Moderated ...

Josh Campbell’s Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump’s War on the FBI takes readers behind the scenes of the earliest days of the investigation into Russian involvement in the presidential election and up to the present. Intelligence analyst Malcolm Nance’s The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It reveals ...

Philippine born author Grace Talusan’s memoir The Body Papers retraces a family history threaded with violence, abuse and cancer, ultimately shining a light of hope into the darkness. Aaron Bobrow-Strain’s The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story reveals the human consequences of militarizing the U.S. border.

Northwest corner of N.E. 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue A Penguin Classics & MBF Collab twist on classic books featuring MBF Authors confessing their literary character crushes, the steamiest scenes from classic books, and what they’ve learned about love, friendship, sex- all the feels - from classic literature. Hosted by Penguin Classics Publisher Elda Rotor featuring Marlon James and Maris Kreizman.

Sharon Salzberg’s Real Love offers a creative toolkit of mindfulness exercises, meditation techniques, and interactive applications that will guide readers to find a truer meaning of love. Salzberg will be in conversation with Scott Rogers, founder of the University of Miami School of Law’s Mindfulness in Law Program. Sponsored by

Northwest corner of N.E. 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue Miami’s avant-dance duo Afrobeta’s unique and diverse sound transcends genre classifications and will keep you moving from start to finish with Cuci’s rapid-fire delivery combined with Smurphio’s funky synths and head-bopping basslines. Afrobeta is Miami. Sponsored by