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Josephine Against the Sea

Josephine Against the Sea
  • Author(s): Shakirah Bourne
  • Location(s): Barbados
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Meet Josephine, the most loveable mischief-maker in Barbados, in a magical, heartfelt adventure inspired by Caribbean mythology. “A heart-wrenching adventure with big laughs and well-earned surprises.” -Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Eleven-year-old Josephine knows that no one is good enough...

Just Fall

Just Fall
  • Author(s): Nina Sadowsky
  • Location(s): St Lucia
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

THEN Ellie Larrabee’s life is perfect. She’s thriving at work, living in a fabulous apartment, and engaged to the man of her dreams. To all appearances, Ellie and Rob Beauman are a golden couple—blessed with good looks, success, and...

Kemosha of the Caribbean

Kemosha of the Caribbean
  • Author(s): Alex Wheatle
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Kemosha and her brother have lived their whole lives in slavery. Sold away to work in lawless Port Royal, Kemosha takes her chance to escape brutal treatment. With fortune on her side, Kemosha befriends Ravenhide, a man with a...

Kidnap in the Caribbean (A Laura Marlin Mystery)

Kidnap in the Caribbean (A Laura Marlin Mystery)
  • Author(s): Lauren St John
  • Location(s): Antigua
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From Cornwall to the Caribbean, 11-year-old ace detective Laura Marlin comes face to face with pirates, sharks, criminal masterminds and an erupting volcano in her second mystery adventure, from award-winning author Lauren St John. Laura cannot contain her excitement...

Lady Be Good

Lady Be Good
  • Author(s): Amber Brock
  • Location(s): Havana, Miami, New York City (NYC)
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set in the 1950s, Lady Be Good marks Amber Brock’s mesmerizing return, sweeping readers into the world of the mischievous, status-obsessed daughter of a hotel magnate and the electric nightlife of three iconic cities: New York, Miami, and Havana....

Lady Pirate of the Caribbean

Lady Pirate of the Caribbean
  • Author(s): Kensuke Ozaki
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Adventure
  • Era(s): 17th century

“Look, Anne! Lately, I saw you going to Charleston disguising yourself as a man. I don’t understand the reason you do it. Why do you dress in male clothing?” Twenty-five-year-old Anne resisted her father, her pastel sylphlike fingers entangled...

Look in the Mirror

Look in the Mirror
  • Author(s): Catherine Steadman
  • Location(s): British Virgin Islands
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Nina, still grieving from the loss of her father, discovers that she has inherited property in the British Virgin Islands—a vacation home she had no idea existed, until now. The house is extraordinary: state-of-the-art, all glass and marble. How...

Love and Ruin

Love and Ruin
  • Author(s): Paula McLain
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), China, Finland, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

In 1937, courageous and independent Martha Gellhorn travels to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, and finds herself drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in devastating conflict. She also finds herself unexpectedly...

Love Forms

Love Forms
  • Author(s): Claire Adam
  • Location(s): England, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 1980s

In the heart-aching new novel from the author of the award-winning Golden Child, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago. Trinidad, 1980: Dawn Bishop, aged 16, leaves her home and journeys across the sea...

Love, Anger, Madness

Love, Anger, Madness
  • Author(s): Marie Vieux-Chauvet
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Available in English for the first time, Marie Vieux-Chauvet s stunning trilogy of novellas is a remarkable literary event. In a brilliant translation by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokur, Love, Anger, Madness is a scathing response to the struggles...

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