


Maryland Humanities is a statewide nonprofit organization that creates and supports educational experiences in the humanities that inspire all Marylanders to embrace lifelong learning, exchange ideas openly and enrich their communities.

As a program of Maryland Humanities, the center highlights the region’s literary heritage and calls attention to the importance of books, reading, literacy and libraries. (Scribner, 400 pp., 18.) This novel set mostly in the 1940s during the Japanese occupation of Korea focuses on the haenyeo, or sea women, of Jeju. GenresHistorical FictionFictionHistoricalAudiobookAsiaBook ClubAdult. The Maryland Center for the Book, an affiliate of the national Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, develops and supports literary programs and outreach activities that engage citizens across Maryland in literature and reading. A classic Lisa See storyone of women’s friendships and the larger forces that shape themThe Island of Sea Womenintroduces readers to the fierce female divers of Jeju Island and the dramatic history that shaped their lives. One Maryland One Book is presented in partnership with Enoch Pratt Free Library and is sponsored by The Institute of Museum and Library Services via the Maryland State Library as well as PNC Foundation and BGE, with additional support from M&T Bank, an anonymous donor, and the Citizens of Baltimore County. Song of the Sea (Irish: Amhrán na Mara) is a 2014 animated fantasy film directed and co-produced by Tomm Moore, co-produced by Ross Murray, Paul Young, Stephen Roelants, Serge and Marc Ume, Isabelle Truc, Clement Calvet, Jeremie Fajner, Frederik Villumsen, and Claus Toksvig Kjaer, and written by Will Collins from Moores story.
