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  • So Long as It's Wild

    by Barbara Jenkins ...
    From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Walk West comes Barbara Jenkins's long-awaited tale of her walk across America, an adventure that once captured the national media spotlight. From the untold narrative of her impoverished hillbilly upbringing, to the crushing aftermath of her walk toward newfound courage and strength, So Long as It's Wild is her story.As a child growing up in the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Stranger Who Was Myself

    by Barbara Jenkins ...
    Barbara Jenkins writes about the experiences of a personal and family-centred life in Trinidad with great psychological acuteness, expanding on the personal with a deep awareness of the economic, social and cultural contexts of that experience. She writes about a childhood and youth located in the colonial era and an adult life that began at the very point of Trinidad's independent nationhood, a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • De Rightest Place

    by Barbara Jenkins ...
    Indira Gabriel, recently abandoned by her lover, Solomon, embarks on a project to reinvigorate a dilapidated bar into something special. In this funny, sexy, sometimes painful and bittersweet novel, Barbara Jenkins draws together a richly-drawn cast of characters, like a Trinidadian Cheers.Meet Bostic, Solomon's boyhood friend, who is determined to keep the bar as a shrine; I Cynthia, the tale ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    So Long as It's Wild

    Standing Strong After My Famous Walk Across America

    by Barbara Jenkins ...
    Narrated by Barbara Jenkins ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 49 min

    From the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Walk West comes Barbara Jenkins' long-awaited tale, revealing the story of her walk across America, a journey that captured the national media spotlight. From the untold narrative of her impoverished Ozarks hillbilly upbringing, to the crushing aftermath of the walk and her journey toward newfound courage and strength, So Long As It’s Wild is ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sic Transit Wagon & Other Stories

    by Barbara Jenkins ...
    The stories in Sic Transit Wagon bring together a rich, evocative and authentic tapestry of Trinidad life, from the 1940s to the present day. We move from the all-seeing naivety of a child narrator trying to make sense of the adult world, through the consciousness of the child-become-mother, to the mature perceptions of the older woman taking stock on all that has gone before.In the title story – ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sic Transit Wagon and Other Stories

    by Barbara Jenkins ...
    The stories in this collection move from the all-seeing naïveté of a child narrator trying to make sense of the world of adults, through the consciousness of the child-become-mother, to the mature perceptions of the older woman taking stock of her life. Set over a timespan from colonial-era Trinidad to the hazards and alarms of its postcolonial present, these stories have, at their core, the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eros and Economy

    Jung, Deleuze, Sexual Difference

    by Barbara Jenkins ...
    Series series Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies
    Eros and Economy: Jung, Deleuze, Sexual Difference explores the possibility that social relations between things, partially inscribed in their aesthetics, offer important insights into collective political-economic relations of domination and desire. Drawing on the analytical psychology of Carl Jung and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, this book focuses on the idea that desire or libido, overlaid ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Pepperpot

    Best New Stories from the Caribbean

    by Sharon Millar, Dwight Thompson, Kevin Baldeosingh, Ivory Kelly, Barbara Jenkins, Sharon Leach, Joanne C. Hillhouse, Ezekel Alan, Heather Barker, Janice Lynn Mather, Kimmisha Thomas, Kevin Jared Hosein, Garfield Ellis, Olive Senior ...
    "This wonderful anthology of fresh voices . . . includes writers from Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago." — BooklistAkashic Books and Peepal Tree Press, two of the foremost publishers of Caribbean literature, launch a joint Caribbean-focused imprint, Peekash Press, with this anthology. Consisting entirely of brand-new stories by authors living in ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inequalities and the Paradigm of Excellence in Academia

    Edited by Fiona Jenkins, Barbara Hoenig, Susanne Maria Weber, Andrea Wolffram ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Society
    This volume examines the criteria of excellence producing inequalities of gender in the daily working environment and evaluation of academics.Policymakers have increasingly placed emphasis on gender equality as part of a strategy for achieving research excellence, and efforts to reduce gender bias have become mainstream. This book suggests that this goal has remained elusive in practice due to ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Trinidad Noir: The Classics

    by Earl Lovelace, Robert Antoni, C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, Samuel Selvon, Eric Roach, V.S. Naipaul, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Michael Anthony0, Willi Chen1, Elizabeth Nunez2, Ismith Khan3, Lawrence Scott4, Wayne Brown5, Jennifer Rahim6, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw7, Sharon Millar8, Barbara Jenkins9, Shani Mootoo0 ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "To travel through the nineteen works of poetry and prose in this remarkable anthology is to experience Trinidad and Tobago through a kaleidoscopic lens. The writings are grouped into four historically significant periods ('Leaving Colonialism,' 'Facing Independence,' 'Looking In,' and 'Losing Control'). It's an effective construct; the reader experiences island culture and history as a part of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Return to Creemore Creek

    by Derek Jenkins, Barbara E. Worth ...
    Two years ago, while on their summer vacation, the Jones children were a part of an amazing adventure with a colourful group of scholars and mystics―one that culminated in their releasing a group of children who had been cursed to endlessly relive a single day, for over three hundred years, inside a one-room schoolhouse.With those children free and adopted into the families of those who had ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Stopping Domestic Violence

    How a Community Can Prevent Spousal Abuse

    by Pamela J. Jenkins, Barbara Parmer Davidson ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    In the field of domestic violence, community collaboration has been an essential part of both prevention and intervention. However, there have been vast differences in perspective, methodology, understanding, interpretations, and concerns among the various partners. This volume examines models of collaboration between personnel in social service agencies, women's centers, domestic violence ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD