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Author
Series
Malaika stories volume 1
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Participating in a first Carnival since her mother left to find a better job, Malaika fears she will not be able to dance in the parade without a costume and comes up with an idea to use scrap fabric to create a patchwork rainbow peacock outfit.
Author
Series
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinee when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa Maria's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to fantasies projected from without by the West, and viewed as a place to be consumed. It stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than 300 years. Its societies were shaped by mass migrations and forced labor from the 16th century onwards, imposed by European or latterly-American imperial...
Author
Series
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 3
Language
English
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After two out-of-season hurricanes nearly destroy her island home, Corinne discovers that the god Huracan is angry and she, aided by friends and enemies alike, races to calm him.
7) Sugar money
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1765 on the Caribbean islands of Grenada and Martinique, Sugar Money opens as two enslaved brothers - Emile and Lucien - are sent on an impossible mission forced upon them by their masters, a band of mendicant French monks.
Author
Language
English
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Description
David Winkler dreams things before they happen--a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; he will fall in love with a woman in the supermarket. Both do come true--the latter happens when the two of them are on a flight to Cleveland. Winkler then dreams their daughter Grace will drown while he's trying to save her from a flood.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Deb and Chip, a couple honeymooning at a Caribbean resort, meet a marine biologist who claims to have sighted mermaids at a nearby coral reef, and join with other adventurers to protect the mermaids when the resort reveals plans to build a theme park on the reef.
12) Caribbean
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1989
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of the history of the Caribbean area includes the racial, political, and economic struggles from the arrival of Columbus and Spanish control to present day problems.
13) Seven at sea: why a New York City family cast off convention for a life-changing year on a sailboat
Author
Language
English
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Temping the night shift in a high-rise cubicle, Erik Orton knew something had to change. He felt the responsibility of providing for his wife and their five children-the youngest with Down syndrome-but craved a life that offered more than just surviving. Watching the sailboats on the Hudson River during his sunset dinner breaks, Erik dared to dream. What would it be like to leave the hustle of the city and instead spend a year on a sailboat, somewhere...
Author
Series
Paradise (Elin Hilderbrand) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Irene Steele is still recovering from the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a helicopter crash. But that wasn't Irene's only shattering news: he'd also been leading a double life on the island of St. John, where another woman loved him, too. Now Irene and her sons are on St. John, determined to learn the truth about the mysterious death and life of a man they thought they knew....
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
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Description
An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years, the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of super-advanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders and a peace which cannot last. A year after the death of a young boy at...
18) Havana storm
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous--a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is, that...
Author
Publisher
Scribner Classics
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
To Have and Have Not is one of Hemingway's most entertaining novels. This realistic adventure tale and subtle portrait of an unlikely love affair demonstrates "Hemingway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions as the tough allow themselves"--Jkt.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Language
English
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Description
Libby Miller has always been an unwavering optimist -but when her husband drops a bomb on their marriage the same day a doctor delivers devastating news, she realizes her rose-colored glasses have actually been blinding her. With nothing left to lose, she abandons her life in Chicago for the clear waters and bright beaches of the Caribbean for what might be her last hurrah. Despite her new sunny locale, her plans go awry when she finds that she can't...
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