An Island Like You
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An Island Like You
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Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Release Date : 2015-07-28
An Island Like You written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and has been published by Scholastic Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-28 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Judith Ortiz Cofer's Pura Belpré award-winning collection of short stories about life in the barrio! Rita is exiled to Puerto Rico for a summer with her grandparents after her parents catch her with a boy. Luis sits atop a six-foot mountain of hubcaps in his father's junkyard, working off a sentence for breaking and entering. Sandra tries to reconcile her looks to the conventional Latino notion of beauty. And Arturo, different from his macho classmates, fantasizes about escaping his community. They are the teenagers of the barrio -- and this is their world.
An Island Like You
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Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
language : en
Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
Release Date : 1995
An Island Like You written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and has been published by Orchard Books (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Belpré Medal categories.
Twelve stories about young people caught between their Puerto Rican heritage and their American surroundings.
An Island Like You
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Author : Judith Cofer Ortiz
language : en
Publisher: Everbind
Release Date : 2009-07-01
An Island Like You written by Judith Cofer Ortiz and has been published by Everbind this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with categories.
A popular collection of some of the best short fiction and short stories ever written.
If I Could Fly
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Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Release Date : 2011-05-24
If I Could Fly written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-24 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Fifteen-year-old Doris is used to taking care of herself. Her musician parents have always spent more time singing in nightclubs than watching after her. But when her ailing mother goes home to Puerto Rico to get well and pursue a singing career there, and her father finds a new girlfriend, Doris is more alone than she's ever been. Disconnected from her family and her best friends, who are intertwined in terrifying relationships with a violent classmate, Doris finds refuge in taking care of homing pigeons on her apartment building's roof. As Doris tries to make sense of it all, she learns that, just like the pigeons, she might have to fly far distances before she finds out where she belongs.
Island Like You
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Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Island Like You written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.
My Map Of You
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Author : Isabelle Broom
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-04-21
My Map Of You written by Isabelle Broom and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-21 with Fiction categories.
A holiday on the stunning Greek island of Zakynthos, with its perfect blue skies, white sandy beaches and crystal clear waters, should be a dream come true. But for Holly it feels more like a nightmare. Arriving on the island to clear out a house she's just inherited, Holly has no idea what to expect. And she's certainly not prepared for the family secrets she uncovers inside. With the help of Aidan, her handsome neighbour, Holly sets out to explore the island, hoping to piece together her own lost story. Yet all too soon real life, including the boyfriend she left behind, threatens to catch up with her. Holly thinks she's following the secrets of the past. But might it turn out to be a map to her future? **Contains a sneak peek at Isabelle's new novel, One Thousand Stars and You, out in August** 'A beautiful story of heartbreak and forgiveness' Giovanna Fletcher 'A brilliantly evocative debut' Paige Toon 'A heart-warming, charming tale of love, family and gorgeous Greece. I adored it' Milly Johnson 'Combines a wonderful setting with the poignancy of self-discovery and a touching romance' Katie Fforde
Our Island Story
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Author : H.E. Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2008-12-22
Our Island Story written by H.E. Marshall and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-22 with History categories.
Just over a century ago, Our Island Story entranced a nation's children by telling their history in stories. Short, simply written chapters, packed with living characters and thrilling action - and illustrated with vivid colour pictures - illuminate all the main events from Britain's earliest days to the end of Victoria's reign. And its glorious fusion of myth and legend with sober fact - Canute and King Arthur with Cromwell and the Indian Mutiny - is as seductive now as it ever was. 'I was given H.E. Marshall's Our Island Story at Christmas 1936 and I've still got that copy. It was a direct inspiration for me in my career as a historian' Antonia Fraser 'It is written in a way that really captured my imagination and which nurtured my interest in the history of our great nation' David Cameron 'One of the most influential works of history of the 20th century' Times Educational Supplement
The Latin Deli
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Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2012-03-15
The Latin Deli written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with Fiction categories.
Reviewing her novel, The Line of the Sun, the New York Times Book Review hailed Judith Ortiz Cofer as "a writer of authentic gifts, with a genuine and important story to tell." Those gifts are on abundant display in The Latin Deli, an evocative collection of poetry, personal essays, and short fiction in which the dominant subject—the lives of Puerto Ricans in a New Jersey barrio—is drawn from the author's own childhood. Following the directive of Emily Dickinson to "tell all the Truth but tell it slant," Cofer approaches her material from a variety of angles. An acute yearning for a distant homeland is the poignant theme of the title poem, which opens the collection. Cofer's lines introduce us "to a woman of no-age" presiding over a small store whose wares—Bustelo coffee, jamon y queso, "green plantains hanging in stalks like votive offerings"—must satisfy, however imperfectly, the needs and hungers of those who have left the islands for the urban Northeast. Similarly affecting is the short story "Nada," in which a mother's grief over a son killed in Vietnam gradually consumes her. Refusing the medals and flag proferred by the government ("Tell the Mr. President of the United States what I say: No, gracias."), as well as the consolations of her neighbors in El Building, the woman begins to give away all her possessions The narrator, upon hearing the woman say "nada," reflects, "I tell you, that word is like a drain that sucks everything down." As rooted as they are in a particular immigrant experience, Cofer's writings are also rich in universal themes, especially those involving the pains, confusions, and wonders of growing up. While set in the barrio, the essays "American History," "Not for Sale," and "The Paterson Public Library" deal with concerns that could be those of any sensitive young woman coming of age in America: romantic attachments, relations with parents and peers, the search for knowledge. And in poems such as "The Life of an Echo" and "The Purpose of Nuns," Cofer offers eloquent ruminations on the mystery of desire and the conflict between the flesh and the spirit. Cofer's ambitions as a writer are perhaps stated most explicitly in the essay "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria." Recalling one of her early poems, she notes how its message is still her mission: to transcend the limitations of language, to connect "through the human-to-human channel of art."
Thinking Like An Island
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Author : Jennifer Chirico
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2015-04-30
Thinking Like An Island written by Jennifer Chirico and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with Science categories.
Hawaii is a rare and special place, in which beauty and isolation combine to form a vision of paradise. That isolation, though, comes at a price: resources in modern-day Hawaii are strained and expensive, and current economic models dictate that the Hawaiian Islands are reliant upon imported food, fuels, and other materials. Yet the islands supported a historic Hawaiian population of a million people or more. This was possible because Hawaiians, prior to European contact, had learned the ecological limits of their islands and how to live sustainably within them. Today, Hawaii is experiencing a surge of new strategies that make living in the islands more ecologically, economically, and socially resilient. A vibrant native agriculture movement helps feed Hawaiians with traditional foods, and employs local farmers using traditional methods; efforts at green homebuilding help provide healthy, comfortable housing that exists in better harmony with the environment; efforts to recycle wastewater help reduce stress on fragile freshwater resources; school gardens help feed families and reconnect them with local food and farming. At the same time, many of the people who have developed these strategies find that their processes reflect, and in some cases draw from, the lessons learned by Hawaiians over thousands of years. This collection of case studies is a road map to help other isolated communities, island and mainland, navigate their own paths to sustainability, and establishes Hawaii as a model from which other communities can draw inspiration, practical advice, and hope for the future.
One Big Damn Puzzler
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Author : John Harding
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-09-30
One Big Damn Puzzler written by John Harding and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-30 with Fiction categories.
On a remote South Pacific island paradise, an elderly tribesman is translating Hamlet into local Pidgin English. Much to his annoyance, his struggles with the Bard are interrupted by the arrival of an unexpected visitor. William Hardt is a young American lawyer, he has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and he has come to help. And from that moment on, nothing will ever be the same. For what (and who) he finds there will challenge both his and our values and our ideas about love, life and even death. Bursting with good things, from the islanders themselves - with their curious logic, strange notions about sex and addictive rendering of English - to moments of aching sadness as much as life-affirming farce, this exuberantly original novel confirms John Harding as one of contemporary fiction's most entertaining and observant chroniclers of the human condition.