In Jennifer Tseng’s novel, Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness, a disenchanted wife and librarian issues a library card to a shy seventeen-year-old boy and swiftly succumbs to a sexual obsession that subverts the way she views her life. In Thrity Umrigar’s latest novel, The Story Hour, an experienced psychologist carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients, but when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. The characters in Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez‘s story collection,…

In his moving and strikingly honest memoir, Lord Fear, Lucas Mann interrogates the loss of an older brother to a heroin overdose, and grapples with the frustrating fragility of memory in attempting to understand a man he deeply adored, but hardly got the chance to know.  I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son, blistering and deeply personal, records Kent Russell’s quest to understand, through his journalistic subjects, his own appetites and urges,…

In collaboration with Tablet Magazine Contrary to some people’s conception, Jews aren’t ONLY people of the book. From the immigrants who birthed the contemporary fashion industry to the modernists who fled Hitler to create the modern American home, Jews have been at the center of nearly every industry devoted to the “stuff” of the American dream. But why? And more importantly, what does their involvement mean—for Jews, and for America? Find out from moderator More:  Alana Newhouse,…

In Scott Wilbanks’s debut novel, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster, a woman in present-time San Francisco connects with a truculent schoolmarm from 19th Century Kansas, and together they must figure out how they are able to communicate before one of them is convicted of a murder. Michael Golding’s novel, A Poet of the Invisible World, is an enchanted journey, a fable, and a spiritual work of imagination. The Wonder of All Things, the latest novel by Jason Mott,…

Dr. Maria Elena Martin, a practicing architect and Senior Professor at the Havana School of Architecture in the Higher Institute for Polytechnic Studies presents Havana Art Deco: An Architectural Guide, a definitive overview of Havana’s Art Deco Architecture. Enrique Fernandez’s Cortadito: My Wanderings Through Cuba’s Mutilated Yet Resilient Cuisine is a dissertation on Cuban cuisine seen through the author’s memories of growing up in Pre-revolutionary Cuba and learning the meaning and importance of the food and cooking from one’s traditions.…

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.…

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. With moderator Victoria Rogers, Vice President Arts, The John S. and James L.…

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 reshaped our universe over the past century.…

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 Institute, presents Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, in which Smith recounts his efforts to come into his own in a world that denied his humanity.…

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 Altman, the Washington Post columnist and James Beard Award-winning author, comes Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw,…

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 of Engineering & Program Management at Panama Canal Authority, and Eldredge Bermingham, former Director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.…

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 intimate look at the effect of the Lebanese Hostage Crisis on Anderson’s family, the United States,…

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 subcultures as sites of possibility.…

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 on to the protective love he feels for his child. In Danielle Flood‘s memoir, The Unquiet Daughter,…

Professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar‘s Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge is the powerful and surprising narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave who risked it all to escape the nation’s capital and reach freedom. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation by Daina Ramey Berry, is a groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life in early America.…

In Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, Yale law professor James Forman, Jr. explains why the war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers, and how that support would have devastating consequences for residents of poor black neighborhoods. Lauren-Brooke Eisen‘s Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration details the complicated and perverse incentives rooted in the industry,…

University of Miami law professor Donald Jones’ Dangerous Spaces: Beyond the Racial Profile (Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture) is an eye-opening, unapologetic explanation of what racial profiling is in modern-day America: the systematic targeting of communities and placing of suspicion on specific populations.…

Rachel Pearson’s No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine, is a brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk. Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman, presents some of the literary world’s most exciting writers, who look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation.…

Ali Noorani’s There Goes the Neighborhood explores the changing story of America through interviews with civic leaders about the immigration crisis. Helen Thorpe’s The Newcomers follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers throughout the course of the 2015-2016 school year as they adapt to American culture and the English language.…

How to Be a Muslim: An American Story is a memoir about Haroon Moghul’s struggle to forge an American Muslim identity in the aftermath of 9/11. In his book of essays, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world, so that we might better understand ourselves.…

Immigration attorney Naresh M. Gehi guides readers through the seemingly daunting process of obtainining a visa to the U.S., in Immigration For Everyone!…

Larry Smith‘s Six Words Fresh Off the Boat: Stories of Immigration, Identity, and Coming to America, marries the phenomenon of Larry Smith’s successful Six-Word Memoirs with ABC and 20th Century Fox Television’s hit comedy Fresh Off the Boat. The 52 micro-memoirs in Beth Ann Fennelly‘s genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book.…

Gin Phillips’s Fierce Kingdom is an electrifying book about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths she’ll go to protect him. Hannah Tinti’s The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is a coming-of-age literary thrill ride about the price we pay to protect the people we love most.…

In Pen Center USA-award winner Victor Lodato‘s novel, Edgar and Lucy, a boy with his mysterious, tragic past begins a journey into a secret wilderness where nothing is clear, not even the line between the living and the dead. Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart: Stories is a sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese-American girls growing up in New York City. Kayla Rae Whitaker‘s novel, The Animators is a funny,…

Laddee Hubbard‘s The Talented Ribkins, in which Johnny Ribkins must draw on his family’s unusual collection of superpowers to save himself from the mobster whose money he’s stolen. Simeon Marsallis‘s As Lie Is to Grin is a trippy and transgressive tale that bends the recognizable world in startling ways to broaden our understanding of what it means to be young, gifted, and black in America today. Steeped in nostalgic wonder, Sophie Chen Keller‘s The Luster of Lost Things explores the depths of our capacity for kindness and our ability to heal.…

Set in Harlem and Brooklyn, social justice advocate Khary Lazarre-White‘s first novel, Passages, tells the story of Warrior, a young black man living in a world where nothing is safe, not even his mind, which is haunted by the spirits of ancestors and of the demons of the system of oppression.…

Launched in 2016, Jitney Books is a new Miami micro-press with a bold vision of combining the talent of local artists and writers, and producing quality literature. Today, with revolutions in technology and online ordering, this might seem like an easy task. But the story behind the founding of Jitney Books—and that of the writers themselves—is one of struggle, complicated by the culture of the literary industry: an overworked professor in his first year at a more-than-full time position; a man with a novel that becomes suddenly and surprisingly relevant;…

Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays explores the author’s education as a man, writer, and activist — and how we form our identities in life and in art.  In conversation with essayist and journalist Garnette Cadogan.…

Debra Dean’s Hidden Tapestry: Jan Yoors, His Two Wives, and the War That Made Them One, tells the remarkable true story of Belgian-American artist Jan Yoors— childhood vagabond, wartime resistance fighter, New York bohemian— and the two women who agreed to share his life. The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005 (Vol. 2) by Zachary Leader examines the second half of acclaimed writer Saul Bellow’s life. David N. Schwartz’s The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi,…

Mark Eisner’s Neruda: The Poet’s Calling is the most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American history. In conversation with Thad Ziolkowski, Associate Director of The Leon Levy Center for Biography.…

The task of the biographer is to resurrect the dead–or so we think–to bring back to life a figure who has receded from our consciousness. This has been the life’s work of two of our most distinguished biographers. Stacy Schiff has reached back (with the exception of her book on Vera Nabokov) to the remote reaches of time, from Cleopatra to the Salem Witches and Ben Franklin. Kai Bird has chosen figures closer to our own time–Robert Oppenheimer, the Mcbundy brothers,…

Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World, by Andrea Barnet. Moderated by Miriam Pawel.…

Glynnis MacNicol embarks on a revealing journey of self-discovery that continually contradicts everything she’d been led to expect about her fortieth year in the memoir No One Tells You This: A Memoir. Tessa Fontaine‘s astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother. When We Were Ghouls follows Amy Wallen’s recollections of her family who,…

In A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia Sandy Allen translates the autobiography of their schizophrenic uncle, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story that illuminates the experience of living with schizophrenia like never before. Jean Guerrero’s Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir explores a daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory.…

Sandra Gail Lambert’s A Certain Loneliness is a meditative and engaging memoir-in-essays that explores the intersection of disability, queerness, and female desire with frankness and humor. Through the eyes of an alcoholic rocket engineer’s daughter, Linda Buckmaster’s Space Heart paints a picture of an era of endless optimism and television cowboys amid the looming Soviet threat.…

A warped and exhilarating tale of love and lust, Matthew Klam’s Who Is Rich?  is a novel of family, monogamy, the intoxicating beauty of children, and the challenging interdependence of two soulful, sensitive creatures in a confusing domestic alliance. Told with zinging wit and zero propriety, Lacks Self-Control is a testament to Roy Sekoff’s unwavering commitment to overshare. Congratulations, Who Are You Again? is Harrison Scott Key’s instructive tale of pursuing his destiny with relentless and often misguided devotion,…

That Woman from Mississippi opens with author Norma Watkins’ flight from her husband and children in segregated Mississippi and explores the consequences of exile. Reclaimed is Antonia Williams-Gary’s memoir about her struggle in silence through decades of emotional abuse, while maintaining a high profile, public marriage.…

In William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life, author Steve Almond writes about the 1965 John Williams novel Stoner and why it continues to speak to the impoverishment of inner life in America.…

The National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards recognizes some of the most outstanding works of translated literature published in the U.S. each year. In conversation with translator and professor Becka McKay. Diane Grosklaus Whitty, The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil’s Everyday Insurrections Sponsored by  …

Author and former Granta editor, John Freeman, presents an anthology of California stories that captures the state in all its glorious complexity. Freeman will be joined by contributors Xuan Juliana Wang’s (Home Remedies), and Shobha Rao (Girls Burn Brighter). …

In his In Defense of Elitism: Why I’m Better Than You and You’re Better Than Someone Who Didn’t Buy This Book, Joel Stein bravely faces the anti-elitists with humor and big words. In conversation with Roxanne Coady, host of Just the Right Book, a LitHub Radio podcast.…

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 to life in his novel The Cuban Comedy.…

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 acted as a thorn in the side of US presidents for nearly half a century.…

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.…

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 Immigrant’s Manifesto, Suketu Mehta makes a timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants.…

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 American Story, Marie Arana tells the stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation,…

In The Power of Mind: A Tibetan Monk’s Guide to Finding Freedom in Every Challenge, Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche, abbot of a Tibetan monastery, guides the reader through transformative practices of mind training for changing our experience from the inside out, from recognizing the value of our human life to overcoming the sources of suffering. This wisdom is accessible to everyone, whether Buddhist or not. Moderating is Suzanne Jewell, chief experience officer for Patch of Heaven Sanctuary.…

In Kimberly Garza‘s The Last Karankawas, Carly Castillo has only ever known Fish Village, the neighborhood that’s home to the people who, for generations, have powered Galveston, Texas. But she begins to imagine a life lived elsewhere, and as a storm gathers strength offshore it’s time to decide whether to hunker down or leave for good. And in Xochitl Gonzalez‘s Olga Dies Dreaming: A Novel, political corruption, familial strife, and the American dream converge. Set in New York City in the months around the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico’s history,…

Set in Cuba in 1998, Ernesto Mestre-Reed‘s Sacrificio: A Novel is a triumphant work of violence, loss, and identity, following a group of young HIV-positive counterrevolutionaries who seek to overthrow the Castro government. Captured on its pages are the fury, passion, fatalism, and grim humor of young lives lived at the margins of a society they desperately wish to change. In Andrea Yaryura Clark‘s On a Night of a Thousand Stars: A Novel, the daughter of a wealthy Argentine diplomat living large in New York gets curious about her father’s life in the years leading up to the military dictatorship and Argentina’s “Dirty War” of the late 1970s.…

In Homesickness, Colin Barrett brings together eight character-driven stories, following the lives of outcasts, misfits, and malcontents from County Mayo, Ireland, to Canada. There are ghosts who won’t lay in wake, a policewoman confronting the banality of her existence, and an aspiring writer grappling with his father’s cancer diagnosis. Each tale in this collection is a showcase for his observant eye and darkly humorous style. The stories in Bojan Louis‘ gritty debut Sinking Bell: Stories, depict violent collisions of love,…

In Sascha Rothchild‘s Blood Sugar: A Novel, Ruby may be a murderer – a three-time murderer, to be exact – but she isn’t a sociopath. When her beloved husband, Jason, is murdered, the homicide detectives at Miami Beach P.D. have questions. Ironically, this is one murder that Ruby didn’t not commit, and she needs to clear her name. It’s a mystery that’s an addicting mixture of sour and sweet. In Deb Rogers‘ Florida Woman: A Novel,…

Like the other women in her Brooklyn Hasidic community, Raizl expects to find a husband through an arranged marriage. But unlike other women, Raizl has a secret: She’s addicted to porn. Felicia Berliner‘s debut Shmutz: A Novel explores how Raizl, caught between traditional and modern worlds, tries to balance her growing understanding of her sexuality with the more conventional expectations of the family she loves. In Susan Coll‘s Bookish People, indie bookstore owner Sophie Bernstein is burned out on books.…

In LaToya Watkins‘ Perish: A Novel, a Black Texan family explores the effects of inherited trauma and intergenerational violence as it comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed. Perish follows four members of the Turner family as their reunion brings out long-kept secrets and forces each member to ask questions about who is deserving of forgiveness – and blame. Kai Harris‘ What the Fireflies Knew: A Novel is a coming-of-age novel told by almost-11-year-old Kenyatta “KB” Bernice.…

In Book of Extraordinary Tragedies: A Novel, Aleksandar and Isobel – siblings and former classical music prodigies once destined for greatness – have been doomed by fate and a family history of failure. They’ve all but given up. But when illness forces Isobel and her young daughter to move back into the family home and she begins playing cello again, Aleks sees a world of possibility and wonder. In stories told in alternating voices, Jean Chen Ho‘s debut collection Fiona and Jane traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship,…

In Zain Khalid‘s Brother Alive: A Novel, three boys intertwined by circumstance – Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef – are adopted as infants and share a bedroom atop a mosque in Staten Island, New York. Their adoptive father, Imam Salim, carries secrets, and when as adults they follow him on his return to Saudi Arabia, they must decide if they should change who they are to survive or defend their deeply held beliefs. In Nightcrawling: A Novel, Leila Mottley welcomes readers into Kiara Johnson’s world in Oakland,…

In Zain Khalid’s Brother Alive: A Novel, three boys intertwined by circumstance – Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef – are adopted as infants and share a bedroom atop a mosque in Staten Island, New York. Their adoptive father, Imam Salim, carries secrets, and when as adults they follow him on his return to Saudi Arabia, they must decide if they should change who they are to survive or defend their deeply held beliefs. And in Elizabeth Nunez’s Now Lila Knows,…

A linked short story collection that moves between Nigeria and America, Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi‘s Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories offers a window into the world of four accomplished Nigerian women. As it explores loss, belonging, family, friendship, alienation, and silence, the book draws a portrait of women dealing with the notion that moving forward in time isn’t necessarily progress. Jenny Tinghui Zhang‘s debut Four Treasures of the Sky: A Novel tells the story of Daiyu.…

In A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds, co-authors ANDERS AND BEVERLY GYLLENHAAL chronicle the costly experiments, contentious politics, and new technologies centered around pulling our birds back from the brink of extinction. Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe is ecologist CARL SAFINA’s tale of nursing a near-death baby owl back to health – and the remarkable impact it has on his family’s life. Buy A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds.…

In Wild Florida: An Animal Odyssey, KIRSTEN HINES provides a captivating visual and narrative journey into the ecology of the state’s animals. JACKI LEVINE’s Once Upon a Time in Florida: Stories of Life in the Land of Promises is an anthology of 50 intriguing stories of life in the Sunshine State by some of the nation’s most acclaimed writers and scholars. Buy Wild Florida: An Animal Odyssey. – Hines Buy Once Upon a Time in Florida: Stories of Life in the Land of Promises.…

For The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean, SUSAN CASEY traversed the globe, joining scientists and explorers on dives to learn how vital the deep is to the planet’s future. In Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas, KAREN PINCHIN shares a tale of human obsession, the limits of ocean science, and the truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin has become a global dilemma. Buy The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean.…

In Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades, REBECCA RENNER tells the true story of the larger-than-life characters behind the underground operation of alligator poaching, a tale of the fight against poverty and the risks people will take to survive. In Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forcade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s, SEAN HOWE explores the life and times of the founder of High Times, an underground newspaper editor and marijuana kingpin who battled both the United States government and fellow radicals.…

James Beard Award-winner MARK KURLANSKY’s The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food – Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes details the science behind the onion, its 20 varieties, and the cultures built around them. Raw, roasted, creamed, marinated, or pickled, here this humble vegetable is celebrated in all its iterations. Moderating is food journalist and cookbook author LINDA GASSENHEIMER, producer and host of the Food News and Views podcast. Buy The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food – Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes.…

To succeed in a fast-changing world, individuals and companies must create a culture of growth in which experimentation and feedback are encouraged, and where learning is integrated into the everyday. In The Performance Paradox: Turning the Power of Mindset Into Action, EDUARDO BRICEÑO writes that mastering personal, organizational, and financial growth hinges on navigating the crucial balance between learning and performing. Moderating is PATRICK NELLIS, district director, MDC Center for Institutional and Organizational Learning. Buy The Performance Paradox: Turning the Power of Mindset Into Action.…

RETIRED JUDGE PHILLIP A. HUBBART’s From Death Row to Freedom: The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case is an insider’s account of the case of Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men wrongfully charged, convicted, and sentenced to death for the murder of two white gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963. Their story chronicles the deep prejudice in the courts and police brutality during the civil rights era. Buy From Death Row to Freedom: The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case.…

In A Watchman in the Night: What I’ve Seen Over 50 Years Reporting on America, CAL THOMAS takes readers through more than five decades of journalism and American history – from the Reagan era to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a living history of our times: who we were, who we are now, and who we might become in the future. Buy A Watchman in the Night: What I’ve Seen Over 50 Years Reporting on America. – Thomas…

In Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey, EDEL RODRIGUEZ tells the story of a Cold War childhood, an exiled family’s displacement, and a tenacious longing for those left behind. In Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair, ROSA LOWINGER chronicles her Cuban Jewish family’s intergenerational trauma in a story about repair and healing that will change how you see the places we cherish. Moderated by DR. MICHAEL J. BUSTAMANTE, director of the Cuban studies program at the University of Miami’s College of Arts &…

In Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, MERYL FRANK explores the life and tragic end of her cousin Franya Winter, the leading light of Vilna’s Yiddish theater. In KERRI MAHER’s All You Have to Do Is Call: A Novel, the true story of the underground women’s health organization Jane Collective and its brave volunteers unfold. And in A Right Worthy Woman: A Novel, RUTH P.…

Somber, funny but above all provocative, Rewriting Illness: A View of My Own is ELIZABETH BENEDICT’s unconventional memoir about her cancer journey. In JOHN HENDRICKSON’s Life on Delay: Making Peace With a Stutter, he writes candidly about the bullying, isolation, substance abuse, and depression that stutterers like him face. SANDEEP JAUHAR’s My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s, shares his father’s descent into Alzheimer’s alongside his own journey toward understanding the disease.…