Past Events
November 2023
POESÍA PARA LOS 40 DE LA FERIA
La Feria reúne a LOURDES VÁZQUEZ, LEGNA RODRÍGUEZ IGLESIAS, ONEYDA GONZÁLEZ, y ROSIE INGUANZO, un grupo de poetas que nos han acompañado a lo largo de los años, tres de ellos galardonados con el Premio Paz, en una lectura de celebración coordinada por CARLOS PINTADO.…
THE STORIES WE TELL: A CONVERSATION WITH ERIN BOW & DONNA BARBA HIGUERA
In ERIN BOW’s Simon Sort of Says, Simon is known online as a famous survivor of gun violence at school. Two years after the infamous event, 12-year-old Simon and his family move to the National Quiet Zone – the only place in America where the internet is banned. Instead of talking about Simon, the astronomers who flock to the area are busy listening for signs of life in space. And when Simon makes a friend who’s determined to give the scientists what they’re looking for,…
CARL HIAASEN WITH CARLOS FRÍAS ON WRECKER
Wrecker is the latest, wildest adventure in CARL HIAASEN’s Florida. Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don’t want Wrecker to call for help – in fact, they’ll pay him to forget he ever saw them. Wrecker would be happy to forget,…
ON CONSPIRACIES, COMICS & SELF-CONFIDENCE: A CONVERSATION WITH URU-CHAN & HUDA FAHMY
From URU-CHAN comes unOrdinary, the popular, action-packed web series about John, an ordinary teen trying to survive high school in a world where superpowers dictate social status, and betrayal and conspiracies make up every turn. Nobody pays much attention to John at a school where the social elite happen to possess unthinkable powers and abilities. He prefers it that way; the more he stays under the radar, and stays close to the Royal’s most powerful Ace, Seraphina, the safer he is in the halls of Wellston High.…
IT AIN’T EASY BEING IN MIDDLE SCHOOL: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL EDITION
Illustrator ROSE BOUSAMRA’s Frizzy is about Marlene, a young Dominican girl who hates being in the salon and doesn’t understand why her curls are not considered pretty by those around her. MAX BRALLIER returns to his bestselling series with The Last Comics on Earth, in which The Last Kids discover they’ve read every last issue of their favorite comic and decide to continue Z-Man’s legacy by writing and illustrating their own comic book. In A First Time for Everything,…
WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? THREE YA AUTHORS ON DANGER, DISAPPEARANCES & DIFFICULT DECISIONS
Three young adult authors bring real main character energy to their thrilling new novels about the complexities of family, friendships, and romance in a desperate search for answers. In ALLY CONDIE’s novel The Only Girl in Town, every single person in July Fielding’s small town has disappeared. No family. No friends. Her only chance at unraveling the mystery of their disappearance is a series of objects, each a reminder of the people she loved most. And a mysterious message: GET TH3M BACK.…
FICTION MADE FROM FACTS: A CONVERSATION WITH SHARON CAMERON & MARUCHI MENDEZ
Two young adult historical novelists join forces for a conversation on finding the fiction in true stories. In Artifice by SHARON CAMERON, as the Nazi occupation sweeps through Europe buying and stealing cultural artifacts, Isa de Smit sells a fake Rembrandt to Hitler himself to secretly help fund a Dutch resistance ring smuggling Jewish babies out of Amsterdam. Based on the true stories of Han Van Meegeren, a master art forger who is credited with saving 600 Jewish children from death in Amsterdam.…
SOLE SURVIVORS & DEADLY SECRETS: JENNIFER DUGAN IN CONVERSATION WITH KIMBERLY WHITE
In JENNIFER DUGAN’s chilling psychological thriller, The Last Girls Standing, Sloan and Cherry bonded over their traumatic experience as the sole survivors in their summer camp massacre. But as new evidence comes to light, Sloan begins to suspect that Cherry may be more than just a survivor – she may actually have been part of it. Moderating is KIMBERLY WHITE, youth services coordinator, Broward County Libraries Division. Buy The Last Girls Standing. – Dugan…
TRIALS, TRAITORS & TEMPTATIONS: YOUNG ADULT FANTASY SUPERSTARS
Join four bestselling young adult fantasy writers on breaking curses, liberating lands, and how to fight the darkness within and without. In ALEX ASTER’s Nightbane, Isla Crown has secured the love of two powerful rulers and broken centuries-long curses, but as certain death races toward Lightlark, she must weigh her responsibility to her people against the whims of the most dangerous traitor of all: her heart. LAUREN ROBERTS’ Powerless follows Paedyn Gray, an Ordinary posing as a Psychic to keep from being banished from the world of Elites who finds herself thrown into the Purging Trials – and if the opponents don’t kill her,…
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: ADVENTURES IN ALTERNATE UNIVERSES
Step into other worlds with each of these chilling, action-packed middle-grade adventures. In The Shape of Time by RYAN CALEJO, Antares has never left South Florida – until strange creatures whisk him away to the mysterious Rymworld, where he must outsmart molemen, mermaids, mystics in search of a mythic compass. The Cursed Moon by ANGELA CERVANTES follows Rafael, who discovers that the chilling ghost story he made up about The Caretaker might actually be real – and only he can stop him.…
SWOONWORTHY SPICE & EVERYTHING NICE: FOUR YOUNG ADULT ROM-COMS
You won’t want to miss this sizzling panel with four young adult romance writers on juggling the entanglements in love and life. In The Secret Summer Promise by KEAH BROWN, Andrea spent last summer recovering from the latest surgery for her cerebral palsy, and is determined to make up for lost time with the Best Summer Ever List – which includes falling out of love with her best friend. In ALI HAZELWOOD’s Check & Mate,…