Miramar Branch Library presents the 2019 Broward Local Authors Forum.

This is your opportunity to meet authors right in your backyard. From noon to 2 p.m. on January 19, 2019, head out to discover your new favorite authors at the Miramar Branch Library, located at: 2050 Civic Center Place, Miramar.

Come chat us up, let's talk books, and have a great time!

The event is free to attend. Authors will have copies of their books on hand for sale and discussion.

Feast your eyes on this! Here's the cover reveal for Ramiro Perez's latest book, I Was A Teenage Cuban Arsonist.

Likening it less to a memoir and more to a "highlight reel" of his life, the book examines his first four decades of life. You can expect a fair amount of action, adventure, and tongue-in-cheek humor.

His story begins in 1941 with an account of his early family life, growing up with his two older brothers in Havana, Cuba. Young Ramiro gets into trouble with nuns, discovers girls, gets taken for a vicious joyride by his two older cousins, and inadvertently sets fire to his family's farm.

Things only start to heat up after his arrival in Miami. His parents having decided that he should lay low in Miami while Castro's uprising blows over, he leaves Cuba for the United States.