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- Location(s): US Virgin Islands
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Caroline Murphy is a Hurricane Child. Being born during a hurricane is unlucky, and 12-year-old Caroline has had her share of bad luck lately. She’s hated and bullied by everyone in her small school on St. Thomas of the...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this sweeping debut, Asha Bromfield takes readers to the heart of Jamaica, and into the soul of a girl coming to terms with her family, and herself, set against the backdrop of a hurricane. Tilla has spent her...
- Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1970's
This stunning debut collection of stories draws heavily on the author’s memories of growing up in Trinidad and explores themes of child abuse,family, faith, race,sexuality and otherness. In one story, a young boy experiences his first sign of love...
In the Time of the Butterflies
- Location(s): Dominican Republic
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s-1960s
It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe, the official...
- Location(s): Dominica
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dominica. A beautiful remote island where the sun shines and the living is easy. And where Cass goes to photograph a rare stone carving as a favour to her father. With her is Ranulph, a deeply attractive, much-travelled journalist,...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Havana
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1957
1957: Iris Bailey is bored to death of working in the typing pool and living with her parents in Hemel Hempstead. A gifted portraitist with a talent for sketching party guests, she dreams of becoming an artist. So she...
- Location(s): Martinique
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Victorian Era
In the lush, tropical world of Martinique where slavery is a distant memory and voodoo holds sway, Emilie Dujon is caught between an unfaithful fiance and a life of spinsterhood. When the volcano known as Mount Pelée begins to...
- Location(s): Dominican Republic
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
A powerful tale about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination Every kid in Lola’s school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. When Lola’s teacher asks the students to draw...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
In this memoir of adolescence in Kingston, Jamaica, the daughter of a sprawling family of civil servants explores the secret sense of exile that fuels her dreams of a new life in foreign place. Along the way she befriends...
- Location(s): Jamaica
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): 1957
In the village of Gibbeah where certain women fly and certain men protect secrets with their lives magic coexists with religion, and good and evil are never as they seem. In this town, a battle is fought between two...
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