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Across Florida Straits

Across Florida Straits
  • Author(s): Marvin Cook
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Florida
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Recent

ACROSS FLORIDA STRAITS follows a bastard son of a young Cuban dancer growing up in an all-inclusive Soviet resort on the south of Cuba. His lothario larceny leads to entanglement with trafficking art antiquities and a desperate need to...

Azúcar

Azúcar
  • Author(s): Nii Ayikwei Parkes
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Azúcar (sugar) is a novel about belonging in a world where all things are on the move: people, ideas, foods and not least music. Oswald Kole Osabutey Jnr, henceforth Yunior, leaves his family in Accra to travel to the...

Golden Child

Golden Child
  • Author(s): Claire Adam
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life. Clyde, the father, works long, exhausting shifts at the petroleum plant in southern Trinidad; Joy, his wife, looks...

Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go: A Novel of Haiti

Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go: A Novel of Haiti
  • Author(s): Laura Rose Wagner
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 2010

Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go is the vivid story of two teenage cousins, raised as sisters, who survive the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, though they lose the woman who raised them, Manman. They must fend for themselves in...

Island on the Edge of the World

Island on the Edge of the World
  • Author(s): Deborah Rodriguez
  • Location(s): Haiti, Port au Prince
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Haiti. A poor country rich in courage, strength and love. As these four women are about to discover. Charlie, the rootless daughter of American missionaries, now working as a hairdresser in Northern California. But the repercussions of a traumatic...

Long Time No See

Long Time No See
  • Author(s): Hannah Lowe
  • Location(s): Essex, Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940s/1980s

Hannah Lowe’s father Chick, a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family; except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary gambler, he would vanish into the shadows of East London to win...

Love After Love

Love After Love
  • Author(s): Ingrid Persaud
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Meet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love. Irrepressible Betty Ramdin, her shy son Solo and their marvellous lodger, Mr Chetan, form an unconventional household, happy in their differences, as they build a home...

Next Year in Havana

Next Year in Havana
  • Author(s): Chanel Cleeton
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958 onwards

Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba’s high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country’s growing political unrest – until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate...

Plunge – One Woman’s Pursuit of a Life Less Ordinary

Plunge – One Woman’s Pursuit of a Life Less Ordinary
  • Author(s): Liesbet Collaert
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Caribbean, The Bahamas, The South Seas
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present

Tropical waters turn tumultuous in this travel memoir as a free-spirited woman jumps headfirst into a sailing adventure with a new man and his two dogs. Join Liesbet as she faces a decision that sends her into a whirlwind...

River Sing Me Home

River Sing Me Home
  • Author(s): Eleanor Shearer
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1830s

We whisper the names of the ones we love like the words of a song. That was the taste of freedom to us, those names on our lips. Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. These are...

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