Cultural Region/Caribbean
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One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964
$31.99 Add to cartNo other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what he knows; and the records of the … [more below]
- Author: Fursenko, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0393317900
- Language: English
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The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems
$17.00 Add to cartCharles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardon… [more below]
- Author: Simic, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 14 2012
- ISBN10: 015603073X
- Language: English
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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
$19.99 Add to cartTerrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation.
What can you do when it all hits the fan?
You can learn to be self-sufficient and surviv
- Author: Strauss, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0060898771
- Language: English
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West Winds: Recipes, History and Tales from Jamaica
$30.00 Read more** WINNER Fortnum and Masons Cookery Book of the year 2023 **
A beautiful cookbook that celebrates the wonderfully divers
** WINNER Jane Grigson Award 2022 **
** Shortlisted IACP Cookbook awards 2023 **- Author: Phillips, Riaz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0744056829
- Language: English
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Stepmotherland
$15.00 Add to cartStepmotherland is a tour-de-force debut collection about coming of age, coming out, and coming to America.
Winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Stepmotherland, Darrel Alejandro Holnes’s first fu
- Series: Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize
- Author: Holnes, Darrel Alejandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0268202168
- Language: English
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Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
$24.00 Add to cartThe intimate and highly revealing life story of the world’s longest-serving, most charismatic, and controversial head of state in modern times.
Fidel Castro was a dictatorial pariah to some and a her- Author: Ramonet, Ignacio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1416562338
- Language: English
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Guerrilla Warfare
$19.95 Add to cartThis indispensable book includes three of Che Guevara’s most influential essays describing his tactical philosophy of fighting a guerrilla war in Latin America. Guerrilla Warfare, written in 1960, out… [more below]
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803270755
- Language: English
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
$19.99 Add to cart“Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban.” In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana–exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by Fidel Castro’s revolution. … [more below]
- Author: Eire, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0743246411
- Language: English
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The Inheritance of Haunting
$15.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2018 Andr駸 Montoya Poetry Prize, The Inheritance of Haunting, by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, is a collection of poems contending with historical memory and its losses and gains carri
- Series: Andr駸 Montoya Poetry Prize
- Author: Restrepo Rhodes, Heidi Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0268105383
- Language: English
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The Conquistadors
$12.99 Add to cartWith startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the wor… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Restall, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0195392299
- Language: English
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Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975
$22.00 Add to cartGathered from Margaret Atwood’s work over the decade of 1965-1975, Selected Poems 1 is a lasting collection from one of our most celebrated contemporary writers.
Margaret Atwood’s early poetry garnered
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0395404223
- Language: English
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Prodigal
$16.00 Add to cartNobel Laureate Derek Walcott’s The Prodigal is a journey through physical and mental landscapes, from Greenwich Village to the Alps, Pescara to Milan, Germany to Cartagena.
But always in “the music of- Author: Walcott, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530165
- Language: English
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Sor Juana’s Love Poems
$12.95 Add to cartThese exquisite love poems, some of them clearly addressed to women, were written by the visionary and passionate genius of Mexican letters, the seventeenth-century nun Sor Juana In駸 de la Cruz. In
- Author: Ines De La Cruz, Sor Juana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0299187047
- Language: English
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Transpoethicalbody: A Book of Black Trans* Erotic Poetry
$14.99 Add to cartA Book of Black Trans* Erotic Poetry, is a sensorial invitation. Through its poetry, we are transported to non-normative erotic dimensions through the dissident perspective of the author. Tiely calls
- Author: Santos, Tiely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: June 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987277607
- Language: English
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Adela Zamudio: Selected Poetry & Prose
$29.95 Add to cart2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, finalist. First book in English showcasing the life and writings of Bolivia’s most celebrated writer and educator, Adela Zamudio (1854-1928). Her birthday is
- Author: Yetter, Lynette M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0984375678
- Language: English
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The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land: Bilingual Edition
$17.95 Add to cartThe first bilingual edition of this radically original work
Aim? C?saire’s masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem wa
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Césaire, Aimé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500666
- Language: English
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Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
$22.00 Add to cartEver since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0802124313
- Language: English
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Haitian Creole Phrasebook: Essential Expressions for Communicating in Haiti
$21.00 Add to cartThe essential terms you need to communicate with the nation’s 8-plus million Haitian Creole speakers
If you are travelling to Haiti to help with the relief effort or to aid in its rebuilding, Haitian
- Author: Laguerre, Jowel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0071749209
- Language: English
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Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
$35.00 Add to cartSince the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voi
- Author: Beckles, Hilary MCD
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 25 2013
- ISBN10: 976640268X
- Language: English
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Aire Encantado (Enchanted Air): DOS Culturas, DOS Alas: Una Memoria
$11.99 Add to cartEn este poético libro de memorias–ganador del premio Pura Belpré de autor, finalista del premio de YALSA de no ficción y premio de honor Walter Dean Myers–la aclamada autora Margarita Engle recre… [more below]
- Author: Engle, Margarita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 1534404279
- Language: Spanish
