Cultural Region/Caribbean
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back
$24.00 Add to cartHow Stella Got Her Groove Back is full of Terry McMillan’s signature humor, heart, and insight. More than a love story, it is ultimately a novel about how a woman saves her own life–and what she must… [more below]
- Author: McMillan, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0451209141
- Language: English
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Mermaids in Paradise
$15.95 Add to cartIn this “comic masterpiece” (Salon), honeymooners Deb and Chip–our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband–befriend a marine biologist who discovers mermaids in a coral reef. A
- Author: Millet, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351726
- Language: English
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Told Ya! Stories
$20.00 Add to cartTold Ya! Stories – This fascinating collection of stories are about the interactions of immigrants from the Caribbean with life in Canada.They are about things that surprise or confuse the author Peta
- Author: Nash, Peta-Gaye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: January 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1989242154
- Language: English
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Elektrik: Caribbean Writing
$16.95 Read moreIn Elektrik, eight women writers from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe come together to explore, in poetry and prose, the complex nature of Caribbean existence. A single mother has an intimate encoun… [more below]
- Series: Calico #8
- Author: Coolidge, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1949641503
- Language: English
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When Trees Fall
$17.99 Add to cartA sweeping family saga exploring the secrets we keep and the lines we’ll cross for love.
Cailin is a na?e, adventure-seeking girl living in a Jamaican Great House. Archie is a teenage boy with a chip o
- Series: The Wood and Water Saga #1
- Author: Mahfood, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1735908347
- Language: English
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At the Bottom of the River
$13.00 Add to cartJamaica Kincaid’s At the Bottom of the River … inspired, lyrical short stories
Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabi- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0374527342
- Language: English
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Conquistadora (Spanish Edition)
$18.95 Read moreUna novela épica de amor, descubrimiento y aventuras escrita por la autora de Cuando era puertorriqueña
“La narración de Santiago es emocionante…. Un triunfo.” –The Washington Post Desde que e- Author: Santiago, Esmeralda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1644739526
- Language: Spanish
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In the Palm of Darkness
$16.99 Add to cartThe quest for an elusive amphibian in the mountains of violence-torn Haiti brings together an unlikely pair of hunters–American herpetologist Victor Grigg and his Haitian guide, Thierry Adrien–whose… [more below]
- Author: Montero, Mayra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929065
- Language: English
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Piedra
$18.00 Add to cartPIEDRA, a new collection of poems by Luis Alberto Urrea
That which cannot be destroyed – so it is, this is Urrea’s Piedra Tao, Urrea’s third eye swiveling across the cosmos & canyons, timeless
- Author: Urrea, Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1953447198
- Language: English
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La Isla de la Fantasia: El Colonialismo, La Explotacion Y La Traicion a Puerto Rico
$21.99 Add to cartUn recuento crucial y preciso de los 122 anos de Puerto Rico como colonia de los EE. UU.
A dos a?os del hurac?n Mar?a, Puerto Rico a?n sigue recuper?ndose de la destrucci?n f?sica de la tormenta y el- Author: Morales, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1541762991
- Language: Spanish
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Pirate Latitudes
$19.99 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestselling novel, master of suspense Michael Crichton delivers an irresistible tale of swashbuckling pirates in the New World–a classic story of treasure and betrayal.
The Cari
- Author: Crichton, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 006242887X
- Language: English
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Beyond a Boundary
$27.95 Add to cartThis new edition of C. L. R. James’s classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written.
Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books o
- Series: C. L. R. James Archives
- Author: James, C. L. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0822355639
- Language: English
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Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
$8.99 Add to cartThe beautiful Martina Josefina Catalina Cucaracha doesn’t know coffee beans about love and marriage, so when suitors come calling, what is she to do?
Luckily, she has her Cuban family to help! While s- Author: Deedy, Carmen Agra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1561457876
- Language: English
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Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
$17.99 Add to cart“The Nobel laureate’s work is refreshingly accessible and unpretentious. He celebrates the joy and wonder of the ordinary and conveys it with confident, playful language. . . . [Mitchell’s] love for t
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 30 2009
- ISBN10: 0061733571
- Language: English
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The Secret of the Plátano
$18.99 Read moreUnder the full moon, Abuela leads an enchanted dance, bows to the sky and the night winds, and helps her curious grandson discover the rhythm of his heartbeat while listening to the great secret of t
- Author: Mack, Luz Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1953859232
- Language: English
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White Egrets: Poems
$15.00 Add to cartA DAZZLING NEW COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career–the Caribbean’s complex colonia- Author: Walcott, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0374532702
- Language: English
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Calling the Water Drum
$10.95 Add to cartA moving story about a family’s attempt to flee Haiti in a boat, and a young boy who bravely learns to navigate a new world through playing his drum.
Henri and his parents leave their homeland, Haiti,
- Author: Redding, Latisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1643795996
- Language: English
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PoesÃa Completa / Complete Poetry Borges
$22.00 Add to cartLa obra poética completa del maestro argentino en un solo volumen
Además de extraordinario narrador y ensayista, Jorge Luis Borges fue un excelente poeta. De hecho, puede decirse que la poesÃa es- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0307743500
- Language: Spanish
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The Infamous Rosalie
$19.95 Add to cartLisette, a Saint-Domingue-born Creole slave and daughter of an African-born bossale, has inherited not only the condition of slavery but the traumatic memory of the Middle Passage as well. The stories
- Author: Trouillot, Évelyne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803240260
- Language: English
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The Haitian Revolution
$24.95 Add to cartToussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collecti… [more below]
- Author: L’Ouverture, Toussaint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1788736575
- Language: English
