Celebrate Halloween and the Day of the Dead with Cristina and Her Blue Bunny

Celebrate Halloween and the Day of the Dead with Cristina and Her Blue Bunny
Author: F. Isabel Campoy
Publisher: Alfaguara Infantil
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: All Souls' Day
ISBN: 9781598201321

It's Halloween but Cristina is very sad and doesn't feel like putting on a costume and going trick-or-treating because she's lost her toy bunny. During the celebration of the Day of the Dead, her parents teach her about a unique way to deal with the pain for the loss of a loved one. Contains an informative section about Halloween and the Day of the Dead.

The Land of Green Plums

The Land of Green Plums
Author: Herta Müller
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2010-11-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0312429940

The lives of a group of Romanian students under Communism, with its poverty, regimentation and depressing greyness. Life gets no better after graduation, so much so that several commit suicide.

Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism

Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism
Author: Java Singh
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2022-06-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9811914265

Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism explores inter-disciplinary connections across Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Psychology, and feminist literary criticism to develop a theoretical framework for spatial criticism. Using the spatial gynocritics framework developed in the book, it analyzes selected texts from five different genres–short-story, novel, film, cartoons, and OTT series, created by women. The creators discussed in the book constitute a transnational collectivity of women that shares common concerns about gender, environment, technology, and social hierarchies. They comprise a geographically and linguistically diverse group from India, Uruguay, Spain, Argentina, and the USA. The book offers immense potential for a comparative study on numerous aspects, among which the present work concentrates on the treatment of Space, demonstrating that spatial logic and grammar are essential elements of the feminist praxis. The book reveals the unexamined potential in the women creators’ praxis of destabilizing, decentring, and destroying the ascribed centres around which social arrangements are structured. Moreover, the book offers valuable analytic tools that add to scholarship in literary theory, comparative cultural studies, comparative literature, gender studies, feminist criticism, and interdisciplinary humanities. It is an indispensable aid to students and faculty in these areas of study, enabling them to critique texts from a fresh perspective.

Oriana Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci
Author: Cristina De Stefano
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1590517865

A landmark biography of the most famous Italian journalist of the twentieth century, an inspiring and often controversial woman who defied the codes of reportage. Oriana Fallaci is known for her uncompromising vision. To retrace Fallaci’s life is to retrace the course of history from World War II to 9/11. As a child, Fallaci enlisted in the Italian Resistance alongside her father, and her hatred of fascism and authoritarian regimes remained strong throughout her life. Covering the entertainment industry early in her career, she created an original, abrasive interview style, focusing on her subjects’ emotions, contradictions, and facial expressions more than their words. When she grew bored with movie stars and directors, she turned her attention to the international political figures of the time—Khomeini, Gaddafi, Indira Gandhi, Kissinger—always placing herself front and center in the story. Also a war reporter working wherever there was conflict, she would provoke controversies that became news themselves. With unprecedented access to personal records, Cristina De Stefano brings to life this remarkable woman whose groundbreaking work and torrid love affairs are not easily forgotten. Oriana Fallaci allows a new generation to discover her story and witness the passionate, unstinting journalism so urgently needed in these times of upheaval and uncertainty.

Cristina Ferrare's Big Bowl of Love

Cristina Ferrare's Big Bowl of Love
Author: Cristina Ferrare
Publisher: Union Square + ORM
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2011-04-05
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1402788835

The New York Times bestselling author and cooking show host shares 150+ delicious and satisfying recipes for bringing people together. Family, friends, cooking, and food are a passion for Cristina Ferrare. And she brings that irrepressible enthusiasm to A Big Bowl of Love, a homey collection of recipes for everyday meals and celebrations. From appetizers and soups to pastas, risottos, and hearty entrees, each dish has been tested, enjoyed, and cherished around Cristina’s table—as well as by viewers of her popular cooking series, Cooking with Cristina, featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Beyond the recipes themselves, this busy professional, wife, and mother shows readers how to shop, set up a pantry, and use “cook once, eat twice” recipes to make preparing and enjoying meals easy and fun.

The Paper Flight

The Paper Flight
Author: cristina lattaro
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Total Pages: 817
Release: 2018-06-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1547533048

In Belcolle, a village in the north of the Italian region of Lazio, four old musicians guard a special place, Villa Tornaboni, to ensure themselves an unnatural eternity. Duilia Liberati, a realtor, receives the mandate to sell the estate and reaches Belcolle with her young secretary. The peculiar symbiosis between the young man and the estate attracts the ire of the old ladies who see their slice of heaven threatened, leading them to use their peculiar powers to contain the danger. In the background, two organizations that have been fighting each other from time immemorial. In the foreground, the people living in Belcolle, many of whom have fragments of their story linked with Villa Tornaboni and its old owner. A paranormal tale with elements of crime, sprinkled with science fiction, mythology, and esoterism. A layered and complex text, that in its initial part continuously introduces characters and mysteries to later solve them one by one.

Flashpoint

Flashpoint
Author: Jill Shalvis
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2017-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488079064

Turn up the heat with Jill Shalvis’s classic Blaze Zach Thomas risks his life battling flames every day. But since sexy EMT Brooke O'Brian joined the crew, he can't resist playing with fire. Brooke is feisty, a little uptight…and sexy as hell. And as Zach soon discovers, she's definitely hot stuff between the sheets. Still, every firefighter knows that the hotter the blaze, the faster the action's over… After the whirlwind ride Zach's been taking her on, Brooke is ready to do anything for this man—in and out of bed! But she knows footloose and fancy-free Zach doesn't do commitment. So she plans to build up a five-alarm fire between them. The kind he won't ever want to put out… Originally published in 2008

Frida's Bed

Frida's Bed
Author: Slavenka Drakulic
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2008-08-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440631794

A beautifully imagined story of the last days of Frida Kahlo?s life A few days before Frida Kahlo?s death in 1954, she wrote in her diary, ?I hope the exit is joyful?and I hope never to return.? Diagnosed with polio at the age of six and plagued by illness and injury throughout her life, Kahlo?s chronic pain was a recurrent theme in her extraordinary art. In Frida?s Bed, Slavenka Drakulic´ explores the inner life of one of the world?s most influential female artists, skillfully weaving Frida?s memories into descriptions of her paintings, producing a meditation on the nature of chronic pain and creativity. With an intriguing subject whose unusual life continues to fascinate, this poignant imagining of Kahlo?s thoughts during her final hours by another daringly original and uncompromising creative talent will attract readers of literary fiction and art lovers alike.