UA Press Has Four Finalists in 2010 ONEBOOKAZ Competition
Four of the six finalists in the ONEBOOKAZ book competition are published by the UA Press.
Four of the six finalists in the ONEBOOKAZ book competition are published by the University of Arizona Press.
Established in 2002 and coordinated by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, ONEBOOKAZ is a statewide reading program that brings communities together through reading. Beginning in April every year, this program encourages communities across the state of Arizona to read the same book and participate in discussions, programs and events centered around that book.
Arizonans can vote on www.onebookaz.org until Sept. 30 for the book that will be read in 2010.
The finalists that were published by UA Press are:
The Road to Mount Lemmon: A Father, A Family, and the Making of Summerhaven (Mary Ellen Barnes)
As you wind your way up the Catalina Highway, it doesn't matter whether you're a first time visitor or a native Tucsonan; you know you're on the way to someplace special. In this beguiling memoir of the Catalina Mountains, Mary Ellen Barnes tells how her father Tony resigned from teaching in 1943 to devote his career to developing the mountain oasis of Summerhaven.
The stories within provide an intimate view of a mountain community over the course of nearly 60 years – a view that few people have shared but one that all can appreciate.
Kartchner Caverns: How Two Cavers Discovered and Saved One of the Wonders of the Natural World (Neil Miller)
It was all routine, even if tons of pounds of earth were pressing down on their heads, the ceiling might potentially collapse at any moment and if they were surrounded by a sea of darkness and had no idea what lay in front of them.
Award-winning author Neil Miller soon tells that what lay in front of amateur spelunkers Randy Tufts and Gary Tenen was anything but routine. These young men had crawled into a virgin cave, a landscape untouched and unseen for hundreds of thousands of years.
While duplicating that moment might seem difficult, this fascinating account of the fight to preserve Kartchner Caverns delivers the same sense of awe and urgency. With as much depth and colorful detail as the caverns themselves, this page-turning account will captivate anyone interested in caves and the preservation of natural wonders.
Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts (Gary Paul Nabhan)
The landscapes, cultures and cuisines of deserts in the Middle East and North America have commonalities that have seldom been explored by scientists – and have hardly been celebrated by society at large.
Sonoran Desert ecologist Gary Nabhan grew up around Arab grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins in a family that has been emigrating to the United States and Mexico from Lebanon for more than a century, and he frequently travels to the deserts of the Middle East.
In an era when some Arabs and Americans have markedly distanced themselves from one another, Nabhan has been prompted to explore their common ground historically, ecologically, linguistically and gastronomically.
Arab/American is not merely an exploration of his own multicultural roots but also a revelation of the deep cultural linkages between the inhabitants of two of the world's great desert regions.
Zero at the Bone: Rewriting Life after a Snakebite (Erec Toso)
Late one evening in the summer of 2003, Erec Toso arrived home to his wife and children after an ordinary day at his UA office. In the darkness of his yard, a rattlesnake lay along the path, basking in the post-monsoon coolness.
Toso, lost in thought, never saw the snake, which struck him on the foot and injected a huge dose of venom. Zero at the Bone is a deeply personal narrative about Toso's physical recovery and emotional transformation following this near-death experience.
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