Cultural Region/Caribbean
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Haitian Creole Phrasebook: Essential Expressions for Communicating in Haiti
$23.00 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
$12.99 Read moreEn 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
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The Banana Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Interventions of the United States in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
$23.99 Add to cartThe United States Marine Corps once fought for God, country, and bananas.
This book is about the Banana Wars that lasted from the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898 until Franklin Roosevelt’s Good
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168802
- Language: English
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One Impossible Step: Selected Poems
$17.95 Read moreA selection of extraordinarily condensed, emotionally complex, philosophical poems by one of the most unique and highly regarded 20th century Brazilian poets.
In her lifetime, Orides Fontela resisted a
- Author: Fontela, Orides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621556
- Language: English
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Original Flava: Caribbean Recipes from Home
$30.00 Add to cartCraig and Shaun McAnuff are bringing Da’Flava from the Caribbean to your kitchen
We’re Craig and Shaun, two brothers from South London, but with Jamaica in our hearts and souls. Our Mum and Nanny tau- Author: McAnuff, Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1526604868
- Language: English
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What Can I Tell You?
$18.00 Add to cartCharting the personal and the political, the lyrical and the prosaic, with an intense interrogation of anti-Blackness that centers Trans-Atlantic and Latinx Blackness in all its vastness, beauty, and
- Author: Garcia, Roberto Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1953447643
- Language: English
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Extravagaria: A Bilingual Edition
$23.00 Add to cartReflective later poems of the fiery, Nobel-Prize winning Chilean poet, with English translations and the original Spanish side-by-side on facing pages.
While things are settling down,
here I’ve left m- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0374512388
- Language: English
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Unaccompanied
$17.00 Add to cartThis gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-button political issues of immigration and border crossings.
- Author: Zamora, Javier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1556595115
- Language: English
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Historias Y Poemas de Una Lucha de Clases / Stories and Poems of a Class Struggle
$18.95 Add to cart“His prolific artistic production, cut off at the age of forty, remains a monumental artifact . . . illustrating his profound conviction that the poet can and must, in his life as well as in his work,… [more below]
- Author: Dalton, Roque
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1644211769
- Language: English
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The Perseverance
$16.95 Add to cartIn the wake of his father’s death, the speaker in Raymond Antrobus’ The Perseverance travels to Barcelona. In Gaudi’s Cathedral, he meditates on the idea of silence and sound, wondering whether acoust
- Author: Antrobus, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 195114242X
- Language: English
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
$14.99 Add to cartThis globe-spanning history of sugar is “an epic story on a broad canvas that never loses sight of individual moments of human drama; a historical methodology infused with political, intellectual, cul
- Author: Aronson, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0544582470
- Language: English
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The Popol Vuh
$18.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018
A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATIONIn the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: “Earth.” There are no inhabitants, and no sun–
- Series: Seedbank #1
- Author: Bazzett, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1571314687
- Language: English
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The War of Jenkins’ Ear: The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America: 1739-1742
$18.95 Read moreFilled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States–and the entire Western Hemisphere.
In the early 18th cen- Author: Gaudi, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362967
- Language: English
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Guerrilla Warfare
$9.50 Add to cartGuerrilla Warfare is an epoch-making book by Che Guevara aimed to inspire thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries worldwide. Guevara believed that in the world of totalitarian regimes, wh… [more below]
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 03 2022
- ISBN10: 8027343070
- Language: English
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Dream of Xibalba
$18.00 Add to cartDream of Xibalba, Stephanie Adams-Santos’s incantatory long poem, draws the reader into a dreamworld where the barrier between life and death grows porous, populated by ancestors and spirits. The infl
- Author: Adams-Santos, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1949039382
- Language: English
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Goddie
$0.00 Read more“Yes, the morning breeze was a false friend. For one little girl named Goddie, the August breeze of 1945 would never feel the same again.”
In Robert Picart’s debut novel Goddie, we read the story of Go
- Author: Picart, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 1637304315
- Language: English
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Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses
$12.95 Add to cartPoetry. SIMPLE VERSES is the first complete English translation of the classic collection VERSOS SENCILLOS, written by the Cuban poet Jose Marti (1853-1895) in the United States during his years of ex… [more below]
- Series: Pinata Books for Young Adults
- Author: Marti, Jose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 123
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1558852042
- Language: Spanish
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Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan’s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws’ Bloo
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Talty’s vigorous history of seventeenth-century pirates of the Caribbean [is] a pleasure to read from bow to stern.”–Entertainment Weekly
“In Stephan Talty’s hands, the b… [more below]- Author: Talty, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0307236617
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$28.00 Add to cartThe largest collection of poetry ever assembled in English by “the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes” (Mario Vargas Llosa)
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-e… [more below]- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140587217
- Language: English
