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Claire of the Sea Light

Claire of the Sea Light
  • Author(s): Edwidge Danticat
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Claire goes missing the night her father agrees to give her up for adoption. Her mother died when she was born. In the tiny fishing town of Ville Rose, Haiti, she and her father are not the only ones...

Clap When You Land

Clap When You Land
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Acevedo
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Dominican Republic
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): N/A

The stunning New York Times bestselling novel from the 2019 Carnegie Medal winning, Waterstones Book Prize shortlisted author of THE POET X. 2020 Goodreads Choice Award Winner of CLAP WHEN YOU LAND. Camino Rios lives for the summers when...

Coming to England: An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush Generation

Coming to England: An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush Generation
  • Author(s): Floella Benjamin, Diane Ewen (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Caribbean, London, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A story about the triumph of hope, love, and determination, Coming to England is the inspiring true story of Baroness Floella Benjamin: from Trinidad, to London as part of the Windrush generation, to the House of Lords. Follow ten-year-old...

Confetti & Confusion

Confetti & Confusion
  • Author(s): Daisy James
  • Location(s): St Lucia
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Millie Harper has agreed to step in for a celebrity chef and run the first-ever Paradise Cookery School course. She is determined to give bride-to-be Imogen and friends an unforgettable Caribbean culinary experience. Meanwhile, Millie is struggling to concentrate...

Counting St. Lucian Style

Counting St. Lucian Style
  • Author(s): Anthea Bousquet
  • Location(s): St Lucia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

A counting book with a Caribbean twist! Colorful illustrations of scenery, animals and objects from the island of St. Lucia will captivate children. Provides for two levels of learning. Younger children will learn number recognition and counting. Older readers...

Crick Crack, Monkey

Crick Crack, Monkey
  • Author(s): Merle Hodge
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Tee is being made socially acceptable by her Aunt Beatrice, so that she can cope with the caste system of Trinidad.

Crucian Fusion

Crucian Fusion
  • Author(s): Apple Gidley
  • Location(s): US Virgin Islands
  • Genre(s): Essays, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Crucian Fusion is a collection of fact and fiction that speaks to the rich history as well as present day St Croix, the largest of the US Virgin Islands. It is a book to be dipped into – over...

Cuba Libre

Cuba Libre
  • Author(s): Elmore Leonard
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

War in Cuba isn’t Ben Tyler’s concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898 – right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine – may not be the smartest thing the recently prison-sprung horse...

Cuba: A New History

Cuba: A New History
  • Author(s): Richard Gott
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
  • Era(s): N/A

Events in Fidel Castro’s island nation often command international attention and just as often inspire controversy. Impassioned debate over situations as diverse as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Elián Gonzáles affair is characteristic not only of modern times...

Dangerous Waters

Dangerous Waters
  • Author(s): Jane Jackson
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

With her guardian planning to remarry, 20-year-old Phoebe Dymond finds she is no longer welcome in his Falmouth home and is soon hustled aboard the packet ship Providence bound for Jamaica and an arranged marriage. A skilled herbalist and...

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