Miami Book Fair/ WMR Specials

Live Coverage of the Miami International Book Fair, which showcases products like including theater, arts and crafts, Comics and graphic, more than 250 publishers and booksellers exhibit and sell books, with special features like the antiquarians etc. in the Book industry.

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The Light of Days: The untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler’s ghettos (Miami Book Fair)

Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage, guile, and nerves of steel, these “ghetto girls” paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, and helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with German soldiers, bribed them with...

Oct 18, 2021•22 min

What I Learned About Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy After I Transitioned (Miami Book Fair)

As a father of three, married to a wonderful woman and holding several prominent jobs within the Christian community, Dr. Paula Stone Williams made the life-changing decision to physically transition from male to female at the age of sixty. Almost instantly, her power and influence in the evangelical world disappeared and her family had to grapple with intense feelings of loss and confusion. Feeling utterly alone after being expelled from the evangelical churches she had once spearheaded, Paula ...

Oct 18, 2021•26 min

Words Whispered in Water

Sandy Rosenthal is an American civic activist and founder of Levees.Org, an organization created in October 2005 to educate the American public about the cause of the levee failures and catastrophic flooding in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. In the aftermath of one of the worst disasters in U.S. history, Words Whispered in Water tells the story of one woman’s fight―against all odds―to expose a mammoth federal agency―and win. It’s a horror story, a mystery, and David and Goliath story all ...

Nov 03, 2020•9 min

Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing

A gender-inclusive anthology of poetry and prose that addresses the physical and psychological act of being “grabbed,” or in any way assaulted. The #MeToo movement, the infamous Access Hollywood tape, and the depraved and hypocritical actions of celebrities, politicians, CEOs, and other powerful people have caused people all over the nation to speak out in outrage, to express allegiance for the victims of these assaults, and to raise their voices against a culture that has allowed this behavior ...

Nov 03, 2020•10 min

Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy

An intriguing and accessible nonfiction graphic novel about the role that wealth and influence play in American democracy. Despite our immense political divisions, Americans are nearly united in our belief that something is wrong with our government: It works for the wealthy and powerful, but not for anyone else. Unrig exposes the twisted roots of our broken democracy and highlights the heroic efforts of those "Unrigging" the system to return power to We the People. This stirring nonfiction grap...

Nov 03, 2020•12 min

Grace Elizabeth Hale - Miami Book Fair

Grace Elizabeth Hale is a Professor for History and American Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940, and A Nation of Outsiders. She has also contributed articles and essays to publications, including Southern Exposure, Southern Cultures, Labor History, Georgia Historical Quarterly, and Atlanta History. The conquest of the New York underground by the B-52’s in the summer of 1978 and the band’s later success in t...

Oct 22, 2020•38 min

Philip Mudd on Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World

Philip Mudd, the author of Takedown, a detailed account of intelligence gathering in the hunt for al-Qa’ida, is the ex–deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center and the FBI’s National Security Branch. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and the Washington Post. Mudd’s Black Site (Liveright) is an account of one of the most controversial initiatives in American history. After September 11, 2001, almost overnight, the CIA evolved ...

Oct 30, 2019•10 min

Where the Lost Dogs Go, Susannah Charleson

Susannah Charleson is the New York Times bestselling author of Scent of the Missing and The Possibility Dogs. She trains search and detection K9s, service dogs for the disabled, and comfort dogs that serve the community. She shares her home with a fur and feather menagerie, including a paralyzed pup on wheels named Ruff Draft. She is the author of Where the Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). In Where the Lost Dogs Go, Susannah Charleson, ...

Oct 30, 2019•10 min

Funny Man, Patrick McGilligan

A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater, from Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed author of Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane and Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. Patrick McGilligan is the author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light; Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast; and George Cukor: A Double Life; and books on t...

Oct 30, 2019•10 min

Make Your Home Among Strangers, Jennine Capo Crucet

Jennine Capo Crucet, author of several books, including My Time Among the Whites, which is featured at the Miami Book Fair coming up November 17-24. Jennine is a contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Her novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, was an NYT Editors Choice book, the winner of the 2015 International Latino Book Award and was cited as the best book of the year by numerous media outlets. It’s also been adopted as an all-campus read at over 25 American universities. Jennine is th...

Oct 30, 2019•11 min

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