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Carl Hiaasen – Scat

(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 9) Scat, Carl Hiaasen’s latest novel, takes readers into the Florida Everglades, where crooked developers want to drill for oil in a swamp that’s home to an endangered Florida panther.  In an interview with Children’s...

What They Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Them

(Publisher’s Weekly, Feb. 16, Carlisle Webber) Persuading adults to read YA literature Overheard in a library: “This is a teen novel? I don’t want it then. I just want regular James Patterson.” The patron was holding the copy of Maximum Ride that she had...

Miami Book Fair

The Miami Book Fair International Celebrates 25 Years! November 9-16 Authors are coming from all over the U.S. and around the world for this 25th anniversary Jessica Abel, Fernando Arrabal, Russell Banks, Mario Batali, Ishmael Beah, Anthony Bourdain, Sandra Cisneros,...