Cultural Region/Caribbean
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Sweet Undoings
$16.95 Add to cartYanick Lahens leads us into a breathless intrigue with her newest portrait of Haiti, Sweet Undoings.
In Port-au-Prince, violence never consumes. It finds its counterpart in a “high-pitched sweetness”,
- Author: Lahens, Yanick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052153
- Language: English
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The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana
$16.99 Read moreBy the winner of the 2018 Alternative Nobel prize in literature Born in Guadeloupe, Ivan and Ivana are twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings for one another. When their moth… [more below]
- Author: Condé, Maryse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1642860697
- Language: English
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Gone Bamboo
$18.99 Read moreA hilarious crime thriller by Anthony Bourdain, the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential and host of Parts Unknown on CNN.
CIA-trained assassin Henry Denard is looking for the go- Author: Bourdain, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 18 2000
- ISBN10: 1582341036
- Language: English
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Island Man
$19.95 Read moreA grieving Hector Peterson and his estranged father Winston Telemacque arrive on the lush island of Dominica in 2017 to spread his mother’s ashes when Hurricane Maria strikes. Amid the devastation, th
- Author: Skerrett, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1636281303
- Language: English
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A High Wind in Jamaica
$17.95 Read moreRichard Hughes’s celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteent… [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0940322153
- Language: English
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At the Full and Change of the Moon
$17.00 Add to cartWritten with lyrical fire in a chorus of vividly rendered voices, Dionne Brand’s second novel is an epic of the African diaspora across the globe. It begins in 1824 on Trinidad, where Marie-Ursule, qu… [more below]
- Author: Brand, Dionne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0802137237
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of This World
$17.00 Add to cartA masterful new translation of a haunting novel of nineteenth-century Haiti
A few years after its liberation from harsh French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under th- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Carpentier, Alejo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537380
- Language: English
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Sirena Selena
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Urban Oracles comes Mayra Santos-Febres’s Sirena Selena: somewhere between “The Blue Angel” and “Kiss of the Spider Woman” rises the legend of Sirena Selena, the diva-siren of the C
- Author: Santos-Febres, Mayra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0312263929
- Language: English
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back
$24.00 Add to cartHow Stella Got Her Groove Back is full of Terry McMillan’s signature humor, heart, and insight. More than a love story, it is ultimately a novel about how a woman saves her own life–and what she must… [more below]
- Author: McMillan, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0451209141
- Language: English
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Mermaids in Paradise
$15.95 Add to cartIn this “comic masterpiece” (Salon), honeymooners Deb and Chip–our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband–befriend a marine biologist who discovers mermaids in a coral reef. A
- Author: Millet, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351726
- Language: English
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Told Ya! Stories
$20.00 Add to cartTold Ya! Stories – This fascinating collection of stories are about the interactions of immigrants from the Caribbean with life in Canada.They are about things that surprise or confuse the author Peta
- Author: Nash, Peta-Gaye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: January 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1989242154
- Language: English
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Elektrik: Caribbean Writing
$16.95 Read moreIn Elektrik, eight women writers from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe come together to explore, in poetry and prose, the complex nature of Caribbean existence. A single mother has an intimate encoun… [more below]
- Series: Calico #8
- Author: Coolidge, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1949641503
- Language: English
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When Trees Fall
$17.99 Add to cartA sweeping family saga exploring the secrets we keep and the lines we’ll cross for love.
Cailin is a na?e, adventure-seeking girl living in a Jamaican Great House. Archie is a teenage boy with a chip o
- Series: The Wood and Water Saga #1
- Author: Mahfood, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1735908347
- Language: English
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At the Bottom of the River
$13.00 Add to cartJamaica Kincaid’s At the Bottom of the River … inspired, lyrical short stories
Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabi- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0374527342
- Language: English
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Conquistadora (Spanish Edition)
$18.95 Read moreUna novela épica de amor, descubrimiento y aventuras escrita por la autora de Cuando era puertorriqueña
“La narración de Santiago es emocionante…. Un triunfo.” –The Washington Post Desde que e- Author: Santiago, Esmeralda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1644739526
- Language: Spanish
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In the Palm of Darkness
$16.99 Add to cartThe quest for an elusive amphibian in the mountains of violence-torn Haiti brings together an unlikely pair of hunters–American herpetologist Victor Grigg and his Haitian guide, Thierry Adrien–whose… [more below]
- Author: Montero, Mayra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929065
- Language: English
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Piedra
$18.00 Add to cartPIEDRA, a new collection of poems by Luis Alberto Urrea
That which cannot be destroyed – so it is, this is Urrea’s Piedra Tao, Urrea’s third eye swiveling across the cosmos & canyons, timeless
- Author: Urrea, Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1953447198
- Language: English
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La Isla de la Fantasia: El Colonialismo, La Explotacion Y La Traicion a Puerto Rico
$21.99 Add to cartUn recuento crucial y preciso de los 122 anos de Puerto Rico como colonia de los EE. UU.
A dos a?os del hurac?n Mar?a, Puerto Rico a?n sigue recuper?ndose de la destrucci?n f?sica de la tormenta y el- Author: Morales, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1541762991
- Language: Spanish
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Pirate Latitudes
$19.99 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestselling novel, master of suspense Michael Crichton delivers an irresistible tale of swashbuckling pirates in the New World–a classic story of treasure and betrayal.
The Cari
- Author: Crichton, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 006242887X
- Language: English
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Beyond a Boundary
$27.95 Add to cartThis new edition of C. L. R. James’s classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written.
Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books o
- Series: C. L. R. James Archives
- Author: James, C. L. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0822355639
- Language: English
