Reduce Heat Continue To Boil is flush with details and subplots, including a look into the stripper world, a journey to a music festival, a horrible accident, an encounter with a super-star basketball player, and a lethal hurricane. The characters must overcome more than most Millennials will ever face or they’ll lose their sanity, heart and the city they love to hate, Miami. 
Jimena Quintero is anxious, beautiful and filled with wanderlust. Stuck in a cubicle, trapped in a crumbling marriage, she's haunted by her childhood and family secrets. That is until she meets Alex Lane, a local Wynwood bar owner. 
"Reduce Heat and Continue to Boil is more than a coming-of-age story of an engaging protagonist and the city she lives in. It attempts to re-brand Miami for the 21st century. So hold on for a wild new ride, you're not going to want to get off." Stuart Chase President, History Miami Museum
 "J.J. Colagrande is one of the only writers to reflect the real Miami..." 
The Prism Music Group 
"J.J. Colagrande's third novel is his best yet. It's sexy, fun and a fast-paced look into a side of Miami most will never see or truly understand." 
Robert WilliamFounder, Wynwood Map

Reduce Heat Continue To Boil

Literature & Fiction

Colagrande, J.J.

Genre Fiction

Jitney Books

Populated by Miami's fits and misfits, Just Johnson: The London Delivery traces the exploits of our hero -- Johnson -- a driver and delivery man for Stephen Teitelbaum (aka The Fat Man) the 490 pound criminal mastermind who manages the remains of Meyer Lansky's Miami Beach operation. Johnson's live-in, bi-sexual and hypersexual girlfriend, Alexandra Cohen (aka Al), is a marketing consultant whose employment takes her to London. She asks Johnson to join her. To afford the trip Johnson arranges a delivery for one of The Fat Man's many friends. From London to Miami and back, Just Johnson: The London Delivery is a rumbling, unstoppable freight train of a tale. Although bouncing between the 80s and mid 90s of Miami, this novel confirms that some things will never change in this city. Miami is weird, weird, weird - and that's why we love it so. "Just Johnson: The London Delivery is a funny, fast-paced spy thriller filled with zany over-the-top characters who find themselves entangled in events larger than themselves." Huffington Post

Just Johnson: The London Delivery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Schmand, Timothy

Thrillers & Suspense

Decò begins his journey in South Beach. He's a writer armed with "multiple graduate degrees" living a glorified condo-life off of "$400,000 in student loan debt." Life is great with his "super-hot model girlfriend" until the real estate market crashes and he quickly loses it all. Forced to move to the art haven of Wynwood, Decò seeks the success he has always felt he was owed. 
The over-the-top novel follows the protagonist's misadventures as he stumbles through the Magic City, mixing in with an assortment of bizarre Miamians and movements. 
Decò 2.0 is a contemporary take on Voltaire's classic satire Candide. As in Candide, the plot is fantastical and picaresque, with characters exiting and returning, chapters are short and almost blog-like, and where Voltaire commented on philosophical optimism, Colagrande hilariously but sharply explores the tensions between American exceptionalism and American entitlement. 
"J.J. Colagrande returns to the page with his trademark aplomb and all-seeing journalistic eye. His dialogue is true and his intimate knowledge of Miami reveals a place seldom seen clearly—raw and teeming with underground hustle.” —Emma Trelles, author of award-winning Tropicalia 
"Colagrande takes readers on a ride into the raw and raucous heart of his hero’s Miami, full of outsiders and misfits chasing pleasures and disappointments; a wry, satirical look at modern life in the Magic City told through throbbing prose and a rebel's passion.” —Patricia Engel, author of New York Times notable Vida 
"You might find yourself revealed somewhere in the pages of this satire. And don't be offended if you do. It just means you actually made it in Miami." —Liz Tracy, music editor, New Times Broward Palm Beach

Decò 2.0

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Juego de Chicos

Soto, Facundo R.

The Sunshine Chronicles is an inventive compilation of Facebook posts by local writer and professor, Jan Becker. Shockingly delightful, and unflinching in their candor, the posts reveal an intimate portrait of a quirky writer and her South Florida surroundings. Readers will simultaneously LOL and find themselves deeply moved as Becker navigates domestic life with The Chef and Feline amidst a zany cast of neighbors and characters. From Creepy Maintenance Men with tawdry agendas, and annual invasions from snowbirds like The Winemaker and Grandma, to struggling through the summer with no AC in the car, The Sunshine Chronicles is a unique glimpse of both a small slice of Florida, and one woman's outlook on the world-at-large. You will "like" this book.

The Sunshine Chronicles

Biographies & Memoirs

Becker, Jan

Community & Culture

Where were you in 1999? Matt Traxler was living in Davis, California, out of college and heartbroken. When his occasional pot dealer Jay Rasco suggests moving to Miami, Matt figures he has nothing to lose. After packing up his Peugeot stationwagon they drive cross country and discover Florida is as friendly and familiar as any other alien planet. Through hurricane warnings and paranoia that Y2K might change it all, the duo search for adventure, romance, meaning, and Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth. 1999 was a time when a missed phone call could mean everything. An era when superstores ruled the earth and sometimes it took two whole minutes to log on to the internet. It was a time when everyone thought maybe, just maybe, the world might change forever. It was The End of the Century. "It takes a deft writer to make a young slacker protagonist either interesting or likable and David Rolland succeeds in both. He enhances this with his implementation of an ingenious literary device - the countdown to Y2K panic that marked the end of the last century." Lou Aguilar, author of Jake for Mayor and Paper Tigers. "The End of the Century is a wonderful coming-of-age story capturing a moment in time that seems like a thousand years ago, yet most of us remember like yesterday." J.J. Colagrande, author of Reduce Heat, Continue To Boil

The End of the Century

Rolland, David

Third Trinity

Castellanos, Teo

Dramas & Plays

The plan was simple; drop out of high school and become a rock star. But when his wildly popular band unexpectedly folds, rather than give up, Joey Wrecked becomes even more determined to make it in music. What follows is an outrageous adventure of sliding up, and down, the rock and roll ladder. Along the way there are encounters with The Clash, Steven Tyler, more than a few jealous boyfriends, and much more. His story is one-of-a-kind, funny, and actually... true. BLURBS "Music fans will devour The Drummer of Miami Beach as a Who's Who of modern rock history. But anyone can relate to Joey Maya's memoirs as a universal tale of rise and fall and rebirth. Get into the groove!" Steven Blush, Author/Filmmaker (American Hardcore, Lost Rockers, New York Rock) "A band, and this story, is only as good as the drummer!" -Coz Canler - guitar player - The Romantics, guest guitarist - Hollywood Vampires "Joey was there from the beginning. I just never knew how he got there. Now I know!" Roger Miret - Agnostic Front

The Drummer of Miami Beach: The Story of Joey Wrecked

Arts & Photography

Maya, Joey

Music

Tour offers an overview of the main historical, cultural and popular elements that have shaped the city of Miami. Pedro Medina León shares through essays and brief chronicles, how Henry Flagler opened the doors of Miami to the rest of the country; how the decline of the legendary rock band The Doors started in Coconut Grove; how Opa Locka, a city inspired by The Thousand and One Nights, was conceived as one of the most ambitious urban projects and today is one of the poorest neighborhoods in the United States; how Bob Marley died in a hospital bed in Downtown Miami and how Cassius Clay was crowned the world boxing champion in Miami Beach. And among these fascinating and controversial characters he describes the different faces of a city that started as a small agricultural and fishermen village, transformed itself into the world capital of crime and drug trafficking in the 1980s, and has now become a haven from Latin America.

TOUR: A Journey Through Miami's Culture

History

León, Pedro Medina

Americas

We meet Benny Taggart when his anger erupts as a student in a middle school just outside of Buffalo, New York. His explosive reactions to bullying and brutality propel him through the portal of a failing juvenile 'justice' system. Here Benny perfects his “bad” persona, masking insecurities which are only compounded by a devastating tragedy. Thrust toward adulthood with a few missing pieces, we follow ‘Bad’ Benny on an odyssey to find a father he never met, following clues he may have imagined, all of which point toward Miami. Benny Taggart becomes Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield seen through Alice’s looking glass. This late 20th century American coming-of-age journey is far from a straight path. Faced with larger-than-life danger and confronted by mysterious folk he never could have imagined, Benny wrestles his way toward whatever adulthood may bring. Filled with a cast of unique American characters, The True Tales of Bad Benny Taggart is a fast-paced journey from betrayal through violence and danger…toward an unknown future.

The True Tales of Bad Benny Taggart

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