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  • Ghosts

    by Curdella Forbes ...
    The circumstances of their brother's violent death inflicts such a wound on his family that its four oldest sisters feel compelled to come together to write, tell or imagine what led up to it, to unravel conflicting versions for the benefit of the younger generation of the huge Pointy-Morris clan.From the richly distinctive voices of the writer Micheline (Mitch), who could never tell a straight ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Tall History of Sugar

    A Novel

    by Curdella Forbes ...
    A haunting, epic Caribbean love story, reminiscent of García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera .Winner of the 2020 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction" A Tall History of Sugar is a gift for grown-up fans of fairy tales and those who love fiction that metes out hard and surprising truths. Forbes's writing combines the gale-force imagination of Margaret Atwood with the lyrical pointillism ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Tall History of Sugar

    by Curdella Forbes ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 31 min

    A Tall History of Sugar tells the story of Moshe Fisher, a man who was "born without skin," so that no one is able to tell what race he belongs to; and Arrienne Christie, his quixotic soul mate who makes it her duty in life to protect Moshe from the social and emotional consequences of his strange appearance.The narrative begins with Moshe's birth in the late 1950s, four years before Jamaica's ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Songs of Silence

    by Dr Curdella Forbes ...
    Series series Caribbean Contemporary Classics
    There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society.'Falling in the spaces between knowing and not knowing, between silence and not speaking'Told from the perspective of Marlene, Songs of Silence is ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1920–1970: Volume 2

    Edited by Raphael Dalleo, Curdella Forbes ...
    Series series Caribbean Literature in Transition
    The years between the 1920s and 1970s are key for the development of Caribbean literature, producing the founding canonical literary texts of the Anglophone Caribbean. This volume features essays by major scholars as well as emerging voices revisiting important moments from that era to open up new perspectives. Caribbean contributions to the Harlem Renaissance, to the Windrush generation ... Read more

    $112.39 USD

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    Third Edition

    by Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Mark McWatt ...
    Inspire students to enjoy literature while helping them to prepare effectively for the CSEC® examination; ensure coverage of all prescribed poems for the revised CSEC® English A and English B syllabuses with an anthology that has been compiled with the approval of the Caribbean Examinations Council by Editors who have served as CSEC® English panel members.- Stimulate an interest in and enjoyment ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Queen of Paradise's Garden

    A traditional Newfoundland tale

    by Andy Jones ...
    Illustrated by Darka Erdelji ...
    Series Book 1 - A Jack Tale
    Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, not in your time, indeed not in my time, but in olden times, when quart bottles held half a gallon and houses were papered with pancakes and pigs run about with forks stuck in their backs seeing who wanted a slice o' ham, there were two old people and they never had no children, and they figured they were too old to ever have any.So begins The Queen ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Stolen Souls

    A Penguin Special from Philomel Books

    by Andrea Cremer ...
    Series series Nightshade
    Another stunning prequel set in Andrea Cremer’s internationally bestselling Nightshade universe.Learn how Bosque Mar and his terrible wraiths unleashed dark magic upon the village of Dorusduain . . . bringing terror and destruction that Jean and her younger brother Rabbie must survive.The Nightshade saga continues in Rift.Praise for RIFT“A bit different from Nightshade, this is a book for ... Read more

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  • I Shall Not Be Moved

    Poems

    by Maya Angelou ...
    In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind.This memorable collection of poems exhibits Maya Angelou's unique gift for capturing the triumph and pain of being black and every man and woman's struggle to be free ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • An Evening in Guanima

    A Treasury of Folktales from The Bahamas

    by Patricia Glinton-Meicholas ...
    In folk stories, magic drums, ghosts, obedient and disobedient children, heroes, tricksters and birds that assume human form hold sway in a world where poetic justice always brings about a satisfactory ending. This is the stuff of An Evening in Guanima. A collection of Bahamian folktales that will fascinate children with characters such as Bouki & Rabbi, Jack & B’er Debbil, and other characters, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie

    Poems

    by Maya Angelou ...
    Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Last Warner Woman

    A Novel

    by Kei Miller ...
    The American debut of a Caribbean literary talent often compared to Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy and Alexander McCall Smith.Adamine Bustamante is born in one of Jamaica’s last leper colonies. When Adamine grows up, she discovers she has the gift of “warning”: the power to protect, inspire, and terrify. But when she is sent to live in England, her prophecies of impending disaster are met with a ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus