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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...

The Other Side of the Mountain

The Other Side of the Mountain
  • Author(s): Fiona Cane
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2001

It’s 2001, and amidst the political turmoil in Haiti, three disparate lives collide: Yolande, an impoverished farmer desperately looking for the sister her abusive husband has sold into slavery; Maddy, an eager British journalist on her first overseas assignment,...

The Secret Life of Winnie Cox

The Secret Life of Winnie Cox
  • Author(s): Sharon Maas
  • Location(s): Guyana, West Indies
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Winnie Cox lives a privileged life of dances and dresses on her father’s sugar cane plantation. Life is sweet in the kingdom of sugar and Winnie along with her sister Johanna, have neither worries nor responsibilities, they are birds...

The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivanna

The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivanna
  • Author(s): Maryse Condé
  • Location(s): Mali, Guadeloupe
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Born in Guadeloupe, Ivan and Ivana are twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings for one another. When their mother sends them off to live with their father in Mali they begin to grow...

The Sons and Daughters of Toussaint

The Sons and Daughters of Toussaint
  • Author(s): Keith Madsen
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800s, present-day

A narrative that weaves together the history of Haiti with a present day story featuring the descendants of the legendary Haitian freedom fighter Toussaint and their struggle to realize their ancestor’s dream.

After The Storm

After The Storm
  • Author(s): Jane Lythell
  • Location(s): Belize, Caribbean, Honduras, Roatán
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Some secrets destroy you. Rob and Anna have only just met Owen and Kim. Now they’ve boarded their handsome old boat to travel to a far off island in the Caribbean. With only the four of them on board,...

A Brief History of Seven Killings

A Brief History of Seven Killings
  • Author(s): Marlon James
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1975

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015 JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes...

An Untamed State

An Untamed State
  • Author(s): Roxane Gay
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti’s richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day...

If The Dead Rise Not

If The Dead Rise Not
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin, Havana
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s to 1950s

Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some frightening changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations –...

Last Seen in Havana (A Havana Mystery Book 5)

Last Seen in Havana (A Havana Mystery Book 5)
  • Author(s): Teresa Dovalpage
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Current. 1980 and 2020

Newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba in 2019 to care for her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes’s life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes...

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