miami (fla.)

When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for her "quinces," the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community enlist the mayor's help to plan a surprise block party.

Carlos Eire describes how he adjusted to life in Miami after moving to the United States with his brother during the Cuban Revolution, discussing his experiences living in a foster home, struggle to learn the English language, cultural assimilation, and other related topics.

Five friends in South Beach, Miami, enjoy their lives in the fast lane, but their partying lifestyle soon catches up to them and puts their lives in danger.

The good times and risky choices of rich Miami Academy for the Performing Arts seniors Vanity, Max, Dante, Christina, and Pippa continue until one of them meets an early death.

Vanity, the gorgeous celebutante; Dante, the hip-hop dreamer; Max, the second-generation Hollywood bad boy; Christina, the anime obsessed Latina; and Pippa, the British hottie. Now, with a sex tape looming overhead and a very adult career happening in secret, you're about to get to know them better than ever. But as out of control parties rage and dangerous connections form, the cool kids who thought they'd be friends forever are about to face the cold hard fact that they won't...because one of them will be dead by graduation day.

Britt Montero is a crime reporter for a major Miami newspaper investigating even the most terrifying homicides.

Describes, against the backdrop of the history of the Nicaraguan people, one family's flight from Managua airport, in December 1979, to a new life in Miami, Florida.

After he moves to Miami, seventeen-year-old David, who is an unusually fast runner, gets invited to join the Hurricanes' track team, but he soon finds himself mixed up in a mystery involving a toy gun, a Cuban American boy, and the gang called the Black Roses.

Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.

Moving with his unbearable sister to Miami, Florida, Jack tries to break some of his bad habits but finds himself irresistibly drawn to things disgusting, gross, and weird.