Cultural Region/Caribbean
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Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
$16.99 Add to cart“On the subject of writing poetry, Oliver is the most enlightened and enlightening author I have read.” -Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 24 2000
- ISBN10: 0395850878
- Language: English
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Hadriana in All My Dreams
$18.95 Read more“One-of-a-kind . . . [A] ribald, free-wheeling magical-realist novel, first published in 1988 and newly, engagingly translated by Glover . . . An icon of Haitian literature serves up a hotblooded, rib
- Author: Depestre, René
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1617755338
- Language: English
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The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
$24.95 Read moreWinner of the 2019 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era The Common Wind is a gripping and- Author: Scott, Julius S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1788732480
- Language: English
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Tar Baby
$35.00 Add to cartA ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a… [more below]- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 1981
- ISBN10: 0394423291
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: 1957-1987
$29.95 Read moreNobel Laureate Octavio Paz is incontestably Latin America’s foremost living poet. The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz is a landmark bilingual gathering of all the poetry he has published in book form s… [more below]
- Author: Paz, Octavio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: April 17 1991
- ISBN10: 0811211738
- Language: English
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The Buccaneers of America
$14.95 Read moreA cross between genuine privateers, commissioned to defend a country’s colonies and trade, and outright pirates, buccaneers were largely English, French, and Dutch adventurers who plied the waters amo
- Series: Dover Maritime
- Author: Exquemelin, Alexander O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 26 2000
- ISBN10: 048640966X
- Language: English
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North of Havana
$8.99 Read more“We’ll drop anything we’re doing to read a new Randy White novel and be glad we did.” –Denver Post
Randy Wayne White’s Doc Ford novels have been praised as “witty” (San Diego Union-Tribune), “must-re- Series: Doc Ford Novel #5
- Author: White, Randy Wayne
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 1998
- ISBN10: 042516294X
- Language: English
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Yaguareté White: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartIn Diego B?ez’s debut collection, Yaguaret? White, English, Spanish, and Guaran? encounter each other through the elusive yet potent figure of the jaguar.
The son of a Paraguayan father and a mother- Series: Camino del Sol
- Author: B?ez, Diego
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0816552193
- Language: English
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All the Odes: A Bilingual Edition
$38.00 Read moreA career-spanning volume charting the Nobel laureate’s work in the ode form
Pablo Neruda was a master of the ode, which he conceived as an homage to just about everything that surrounded him, from an- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0374534926
- Language: English
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Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
$23.00 Read more“A feverish story of young adulthood, exploring how fandom and obsession shape how we relate to the world . . . Dreaming of You navigates the complexities of Latinx identity, self-loathing, love, and … [more below]
- Author: Lozada-Oliva, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1662600593
- Language: English
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If a Pirate I Must Be: The True Story of Black Bart, King of the Caribbean Pirates
$16.99 Read moreIn a page-turning tale brimming with adventure, author Richard Sanders tells of the remarkable exploits of Bartholomew Roberts (better known as Black Bart), the greatest of the Caribbean pirates. He d… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1510772634
- Language: English
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The Faithful Friend
$8.99 Read moreA friendship is tested by love and magic in this beautiful, Caldecott Honor-winning retelling of a traditional tale from the French West Indies.
Clement and Hippolyte are best friends who live togethe- Author: San Souci, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0689824580
- Language: English
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Rafi and Rosi Pirates!
$11.95 Read moreIn this third chapter book starring Rafi and Rosi, the two tree frog siblings explore their island home of Puerto Rico and learn about its Spanish history, fortresses, and pirates.
In this new book in
- Series: Rafi and Rosi
- Author: Delacre, Lulu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0892393831
- Language: English
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Cuba in Mind: An Anthology
$16.95 Read moreSince Columbus arrived in 1492 and called Cuba “the most beautiful country that human eyes have ever seen,” few places on earth have evoked such passion. The thirty-one writers in Cuba in Mind offer a… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Dominguez, Maria Finn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 1400076137
- Language: English
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Bajo Las Palmas Reales: Una Infancia Cubana
$13.95 Read moreThe author offers young readers an inspiring collection of stories and memoirs drawn from her childhood in Cuba. Heartwarming, poignant, and often humorous, these memories encourage children to discov… [more below]
- Author: Ada, Alma Flor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1631139711
- Language: Spanish
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X/Ex/Exis: Poemas Para La Nación
$18.00 Read moreWritten in the early days of the rise of world-wide fascism and the poet’s gender transition, x/ex/exis: poemas para la naci n/poems for the nation accepts the invitation to push poetic and gender ima… [more below]
- Series: Ambroggio Prize
- Author: Salas Rivera, Raquel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0816544077
- Language: Spanish
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Winter Garden
$17.00 Add to cartFacing death from cancer, Neruda wrote no book more direct and passionate in its language, and this translation–the first time these poems appeared in English–was cited by Bloomsbury Review as a Boo
- Series: Kagean Book
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1556591675
- Language: English
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The Shark Whisperer
$9.95 Read moreAfter his most klutzy move ever, falling into a pool of sharks, things for Tristan Hunt begin to look up. Tristan is invited to an ocean-themed summer camp in the Florida Keys where he discovers that … [more below]
- Series: Tristan Hunt and the Sea Guardians #01
- Author: Prager, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1938063449
- Language: English
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Floaters: Poems
$26.95 Read moreMart? Espada is a poet who “stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness,” says Richard Blanco. Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the
- Author: Espada, Martín
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541037
- Language: English
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Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda
$18.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2023 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bish
- Author: Hingston, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1771964154
- Language: English
