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The Treasure of Maria Mamoun
Winner of the 2017 Arab American Book Award Twelve-year-old Maria lives a lonely, latchkey-kid's life in the Bronx. Her Lebanese mother is working two nursing jobs to keep them afloat, and Maria keeps her worries to herself, not wanting to be a burden. Then something happens one day between home and school that changes everything. Mom whisks them to an altogether different world on Martha's Vineyard, where she's found a job on a seaside estate. While the mysterious bedridden owner—a former film director—keeps her mother busy, Maria has the freedom to explore a place she thought could only exist in the movies. Making friends with a troublesome local character, Maria finds an old sailboat that could make a marvelous clubhouse. She also stumbles upon an old map that she is sure will lead to pirate's plunder—but golden treasure may not be the most valuable thing she discovers for herself this special summer.
Making Seafood Sustainable
In the spring of 2007, National Geographic warned, "The oceans are in deep blue trouble. From the northernmost reaches of the Greenland Sea to the swirl of the Antarctic Circle, we are gutting our seas of fish." There were legitimate grounds for concern. After increasing more than fourfold between 1950 and 1994, the global wild fish catch reached a plateau and stagnated despite exponential growth in the fishing industry. As numerous scientific reports showed, many fish stocks around the world collapsed, creating a genuine global overfishing crisis. Making Seafood Sustainable analyzes the ramifications of overfishing for the United States by investigating how fishers, seafood processors, reta...
A Kiss from Maddalena
One of the few remaining men in the village of Santa Cecilia during the Second World War, Vito Leone falls in love with the daughter of the town's most powerful family despite their disapproval and seeks to prove himself when Germany seizes control.
The Width of the Sea
A gritty story of empty oceans and the men who fish from them, from the author of "Roustabout". When the fishing village that has sustained them all their lives faces closure, two men must work to save their homes, their boats and their families.
Bloomsbury Essential Guide for Reading Groups
"A book club gives the opportunity to meet up with friends and wake the brain up a bit with lively and often quite aggressive discussion" Dawn French How do you keep your reading groups discussions lively and focussed? If you want to gain new insight into literature and share your passion with friends this book offers readers guides for 75 of the very best reads - guaranteed to provoke spirited debate! Each of the readers guides includes a summary of the book, a brief author biography, discussion points to spark debate, and a set of titles for further reading that deal with similar themes. A `background' section provides pointers to more material about the book online and as well as further ...
Ardour
When a lonely olive-grower sows seeds of love in search for romance, he cannot know the chaos he will cause. Instead of the voluptuous woman of his dreams, the mule Gezabel falls head over hooves in love with him and the spell of Ardour is cast across the region.
Middle Eastern American Theatre
Introduction : Polyculturalism, Transnationalism, and Diaspora -- Major Middle Eastern American Companies -- Return to the Homeland Plays -- Persecution Plays -- Diaspora Plays -- Plays Set in the Homeland -- Conflict Plays -- The Current State of Middle Eastern American Theatre -- Critical Perspectives.
The Saint of Lost Things
“A moving evocation of the Italian-American experience, told with grace, compassion, and uncompromising honesty” from the author of A Kiss from Maddalena (Tom Perrotta, New York Times–bestselling author of The Leftovers). It’s 1953 in the tight-knit Italian neighborhood in Wilmington, Delaware. Maddalena Grasso has lost her country, her family, and the man she loved by coming to America; her mercurial husband, Antonio, has lost his opportunity to realize the American Dream; their new friend, Giulio Fabbri, a shy accordion player, has lost his beloved parents. In the shadow of St. Anthony’s Church, named for the patron saint of lost things, the prayers of these troubled but determin...
Where the Wild Books Are
As interest in environmental issues grows, many writers of fiction have embraced themes that explore the connections between humans and the natural world. Ecologically themed fiction ranges from profound philosophical meditations to action-packed entertainments. Where the Wild Books Are offers an overview of nearly 2,000 works of nature-oriented fiction. The author includes a discussion of the precursors and history of the genre, and of its expansion since the 1970s. He also considers its forms and themes, as well as the subgenres into which it has evolved, such as speculative fiction, ecodefense, animal stories, mysteries, ecofeminist novels, cautionary tales, and others. A brief summary an...
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¿Qué aporta a los lectores la crítica literaria en medios masivos de comunicación? La escritora y estudiosa Márgara Averbach nos ofrece una respuesta múltiple a esa pregunta no solo mediante la reflexión sino también con ejemplos: notas críticas, entrevistas y artículos largos. Como toda colección de textos, esta requiere un orden. De ahí es donde surge la segunda pregunta: ¿cómo debe organizarse un amplio índice de lecturas?, cuya única contestación es que resulta imposible crear una clasificación coherente porque la literatura es un lugar complejo, donde se cruzan ideas, sensaciones, propuestas, experiencias. La literatura es, por esencia, inclasificable. La serie de artículos que Averbach presenta celebra esa cualidad y la explica con la clarividencia y sagacidad de la ensayista que también es mujer de letras y creadora de realidades literarias.
