Author: Ruth Behar

Author: Ruth Behar ***** Book Talk: Everything I Kept : Todo Lo Que Guarde ***** Snip: Moving between the speech and silence of a woman struggling to speak freely, Ruth Behar embarks on a poetic voyage into her own vulnerability and the sacrifices of her exiled ancestors as she tries to understand love, loss, regret,…

MBF Featured Author: Alissa Quart

Author: Alissa Quart ***** Book Talk: Squeezed: Why Out Families Can’t Afford America ***** Snip: Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we…

Author: Heidi Sopinka

Author : Heidi Sopinka ***** Book Talk: The Dictionary of Animal Languages ***** Snip: Born into a wealthy family in northern England and sent to boarding school to be educated by nuns, Ivory Frame rebels. She escapes to interwar Paris, where she finds herself through art, and falls in with the most radical bohemians: the…

First Look Celebration: A Duke Changes Everything by Christy Carlyle

Perfect for fans of Lorraine Heath and Tessa Dare. The first book in the new Victorian romance series The Duke’s Den, A DUKE CHANGES EVERYTHING, by Christy Carlyle has the romance and brooding hero that readers will fall in love with. Out November 27th – A Duke Changes Everything by Christy Carlyle Follow the First…

Author: Jenny Torres Sanchez

Author: Jenny Torres Sanchez ***** Book Talk: The Fall of Innocence ***** Snip: For the past eight years, sixteen-year-old Emilia DeJesus has done her best to move on from the traumatic attack she suffered in the woods behind her elementary school. She's forced down the memories--the feeling of the twigs cracking beneath her, choking on…

Author: Nadine Gonzalez

Living in Miami, we know that there are a few things in life that brings people together: Books and Pastelitos (No... Not the people behind this blog). As the 35th Annual Miami Book Fair draws closer, we get more and more excited. In that excitement, we sat and shared some pastelitos with author Nadine Gonzalez.…

Author: Maggie Thrash

Author: Maggie Thrash ***** Book Talk: Lost Soul, Be at Peace ***** Snip: A year and a half after the summer that changed her life, Maggie Thrash wishes she could change it all back. She's trapped in a dark depression and flunking the 11th grade, befuddling her patrician mother while going unnoticed by her father,…

#TBT: Miami Book Fair 2017

As the 35th Miami Book Fair approaches, here's a quick throwback to some interviews and photos we took at the Miami Book Fair 2017. Stay tuned to our blog and social media accounts to catch up on the interviews and photos from this year's book fair. ***** Click here to view the full schedule of…

Author: Robert Olen Butler

Author: Robert Olen Butler ***** Book Talk: Paris in the Dark ***** Snip: Autumn 1915. The First World War is raging across Europe. Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches, although that hasn't stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher Marlowe 'Kit' Cobb, a Chicago…

The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle

Book Synopsis “We’ve been waiting for an hour.” That’s what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That’s the thing I think first. Not: Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed.” At one point or another, we’ve all been…