Robert Landori's Havana Harvest (Emerald Book Co., $15.95) follows the maneuvers of two adversarial intelligence services in their attempts to inflict maximum damage on each other as they move through a maze of high-tension suspense. In Cuba, General Patricio Casas must decide whether to support the revolution he has defended for so many years or do what is good for his people and challenge the selfish authoritarianism of the Castroite regime.
Meanwhile, CIA operative Robert Lonsdale is tasked with determining why a
captain in Fidel s army who recently arrived in Miami with a suitcase
full of money seeks U.S. protection from a Colombian drug cartel and the
Cuban secret police. Lonsdale is quickly drawn into a maelstrom of
intrigue and murder from which there seems to be no escape unless he can
convince General Casas to help. Apparently double-crossed by his
colleagues and a self-serving Agency director, Lonsdale struggles on
alone in an attempt to outfox the shadowy tormentors who intend to
silence him forever.

AUTOGRAPHING ONLY: Multiple grand slam tennis champion and entrepreneur, Venus Williams and 46 of her colleagues, friends, and mentors deliver a volume of invaluable wisdom, motivation, and inspiration. Come to Win (Amistad, $25.99) demonstrates how the principles of competitive athletics translate into business success. With contributions from a wide range of men and women who reached the very top of their games —including former CEO and bestselling author Jack Welch, fashion designer Vera Wang, actor Denzel Washington, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — Venus Williams’ Come to Win is a book every aspiring professional, coach, and sports enthusiast should read.

You must purchase a copy of Come to Win from Books & Books to enter the signing line. Venus will only sign her book COME TO WIN, not memorabilia. There is no limit on the number of books that she will sign. Venus will sign her name but will not have time to personalize. She will not pose for pictures, but pictures can be taken from the line. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Tess Livingston met Ian Ritter at a roadside stop high in the Andes, waiting for a bus to the mysterious town of Esperanza.

Tess is an FBI agent who remembers being on the track of a group of international counterfeiters. But she doesn’t remember booking a trip to Esperanza. Ian is a journalist who was planning to vacation to the Galapagos Islands. He, too, isn’t quite sure why he has a ticket to Esperanza. 

Their meeting will change their lives forever. For they have been brought together because they hold the key in a mystical war between the kind spirits of the dead who guard humanity, and the hungry ghosts who exist only to possess living human bodies, and return however briefly to life.

In the midst of this war, Tess and Ian will find a love that can transcend time, and a cause that not even death will overcome.

TRISH J. MACGREGOR is an astrologer and student of metaphysics. She was raised in Caracas, Venezuela, near the South American setting of Esperanza. She now lives in Florida, where she writes the Sidney Omarr Day-By-Day Astrology Guides. 

Encountering Revolution (John Hopkins University Press, $63.25) looks afresh at the profound impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. The first book on the subject in more than two decades, it redefines our understanding of the relationship between republicanism and slavery at a foundational moment in American history.

For postrevolutionary Americans, the Haitian uprising laid bare the contradiction between democratic principles and the practice of slavery. For thirteen years, between 1791 and 1804, slaves and free people of color in Saint-Domingue battled for equal rights in the manner of the French Revolution. As white and mixed-race refugees escaped to the safety of U.S. cities, Americans were forced to confront the paradox of being a slaveholding republic, recognizing their own possible destiny in the predicament of the Haitian slaveholders.

Historian Ashli White examines the ways Americans -- black and white, northern and southern, Federalist and Democratic Republican, pro- and antislavery -- pondered the implications of the Haitian Revolution.

Encountering Revolution convincingly situates the formation of the United States in a broader Atlantic context. It shows how the very presence of Saint-Dominguan refugees stirred in Americans as many questions about themselves as about the future of slaveholding, stimulating some of the earliest debates about nationalism in the early republic.

In anticipation of Banned Books Week, Miami City of Refuge writer-in-residence, Chenjerai Hove will read entries from his book of poetry, Blind Moon (Michigan State, $22.95) , and speak of his plight as a censored writer in Zimbabwe. Presented in collaboration with Florida Center for the Literary Arts. For more information about Hove visit http://www.flcenterlitarts.com/mcor/index.htm.