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The jumbies / by Baptiste, Tracey.;
Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Spirits; Magic; Blacks;
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River sing me home / by Shearer, Eleanor,author.;
"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending ... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived. So Rachel runs. Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children-the five who survived birth and were sold. Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know. The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the forest of British Guiana and finally across the sea to Trinidad. She is driven on by the certainty that a mother cannot be truly free without knowing what has become of her children, even if the answer is more than she can bear. These are the stories of Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. But above all this is the story of Rachel and the extraordinary lengths to which a mother will go to find her children ... and her freedom"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Mother and child; Slaves;
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Treasure Island [sound recording] / by Stevenson, Robert Louis,1850-1894.; Buck, David,1936-1989.;
Narrated by David Buck.LSC
Subjects: Sea stories.; Adventure fiction.; Treasure Island (Imaginary place); Maps; Treasure troves; Pirates; Audiobooks.;
© p2010., BBC Audiobooks America,
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Until the sea shall give up her dead / by Russell, Sean.;
"Master and Commander Charles Hayden has received fresh orders that take him and the HMS Themis to the Caribbean, with instructions to meddle with French shipping to the colonies. While en route, they rescue two Spanish castaways who beg for help fleeing from a vengeful family situation-Hayden agrees to do what he can, though it's soon clear his two new guests aren't exactly what they seem. Arriving in the lawless Caribbean seas, Hayden and Themis find themselves torn between the forces of reckless English captains, conflicts between royalist and revolutionary Frenchmen, and Spanish ships that are enemies to both England and France. And when someone very dear to him is kidnapped, Hayden may sacrifice everything in a reckless pursuit to save her"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Adventure stories.; Historical fiction.; Sea stories.; Themis (Ship); British; Kidnapping; Ship captains;
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The Crown's Silence : The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas. by Newman, Brooke N.;
'The Crown's Silence' is the shocking untold story of the British royal familys centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy - from Elizabeth I to the present - and the monarchys culpability in the racial injustice that gave birth to the U.S.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / African American & Black; HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837); HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714); HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901); HISTORY / Historiography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery;
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I used to live here once : the haunted life of Jean Rhys / by Seymour, Miranda,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction--above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea--that has a passionate following today. And yet her own colorful life, including her early years on the Caribbean island of Dominica, remains too little explored, until now. In I Used to Live Here Once, Miranda Seymour sheds new light on the artist whose proud and fiercely solitary life profoundly informed her writing. Rhys experienced tragedy and extreme poverty, alcohol and drug dependency, romantic and sexual turmoil, all of which contributed to the "Rhys woman" of her oeuvre. Today, readers still intuitively relate to her unforgettable characters, vulnerable, watchful, and often alarmingly disaster-prone outsiders; women with a different way of moving through the world. And yet, while her works often contain autobiographical material, Rhys herself was never a victim. The figure who emerges for Seymour is cultured, self-mocking, unpredictable--and shockingly contemporary. Based on new research in the Caribbean, a wealth of never-before-seen papers, journals, letters, and photographs, and interviews with those who knew Rhys, I Used to Live Here Once is a luminous and penetrating portrait of a fascinatingly elusive artist"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Rhys, Jean.; Novelists, English; Women novelists, English; Caribbean literature (English); Dominica literature; English literature;
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3x world champ : the death-defying true story of a kickboxer turned drug smuggler ... turned business icon / by Pryor, Ted,1958-author.;
"Three-Time World Champ tells the electric story of how Ted became the master of the run-and-gun smuggling business around the Caribbean islands, hustling in hundreds of millions of dollars in weed under the noses of cops and coast guard patrols-until a dubious traffic stop began the unraveling of everything"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Pryor, Ted, 1958-; Businesspeople; Drug traffic; Kickboxing; Martial artists; Smugglers;
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The Caribbean / by Graham, Ian,1953-;
Welcome to the Caribbean -- The land -- The people -- Town and country life -- Farming and fishing -- Resources and industry -- Transportation -- Education -- Sports and leisure -- Daily life and religion -- Arts and media -- Government -- Place in the world."Describes the geography, history, industries, education, government, and cultures of the Caribbean Islands, including Jamaica, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados."--Provided by publisher.
© 2009., Sea-to-Sea,
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Yawd : modern Afro-Caribbean recipes / by Forte, Adrian,author.; Molina, John,photographer.;
'Yawd' is a flavour-filled Afro-Caribbean cookbook, packed with more than 100 fresh recipes from Jamaican-Canadian chef star, Adrian Forte. As well as great recipes, Forte explores the key ingredients and history of Afro-Caribbean cuisine, talking about he importance of using ancestral foods in our cooking. Forte is base in Toronto, ON.
Subjects: Cookbooks.; Recipes.; Cooking, Caribbean.; Cooking, Caribbean;
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The ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye : a novel / by Cameron, Briony,author.;
"An epic, dazzling tale based on true events, The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye illuminates a woman of color's rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the course of history"--
Subjects: Queer fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; African American women; Interpersonal relations; Pirates; Women pirates;
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