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1) Barbados & St. Lucia

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Fodor's in focus

2) How the one-armed sister sweeps her house: a novel

Author

Jones, Cherie

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Lala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados.

3) Washington Black: a novel

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Edugyan, Esi

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Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where...

4) Josephine against the sea

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Bourne, Shakirah

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Josephine Against the Sea

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When she discovers her father's new girlfriend, Mariss, is actually a sea creature eager to take her place as his first love, Josephine must convince her friends to help her and use her cricket skills to save her dad from Mariss' clutches.

5) Sugar in the blood: a family's story of slavery and empire

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Stuart, Andrea

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The author of "The Rose of Martinique" presents a history of the interdependence of sugar, slavery and colonial settlement in the New World through the story of the author's ancestors, exploring the myriad connections between sugar cultivation and her family's identity, genealogy and financial stability.

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Retiring in Barbados, widower Peter Ducksworth concludes he must divide his land between his three daughters. Feeling snubbed by his youngest daughter, he declares that she receive hers only after his death and so sets in motion a discord in the family

7) A Caribbean dream

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Set in the stunning tropical paradise of Barbados, this modern day re-imagining of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is filled with laughter and romance.

8) The star side of Bird Hill

Author

Jackson, Naomi A

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Thorndike Press large print African-American

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Suddenly sent from their home in Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados after their mother can no longer care for them, sisters Phaedra and Dionne spend the summer of 1989 living with their grandmother Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah.

9) Rihanna: rebel flower

Author

Govan, Chloe

10) Once we were slaves: the extraordinary journey of a multiracial Jewish family

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Leibman, Laura Arnold

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"An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that...

11) Pig tails 'n breadfruit: a culinary memoir

Author

Clarke, Austin

12) The art of travel

Author

De Botton, Alain

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A wise and utterly original book of travel essays from an international bestselling author that will “give one an expansive sense of wonder” (The Baltimore Sun).

Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation;...

13) Rihanna

Author

Bodden, Valerie

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Big time)

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"An elementary introduction to the life, work, and popularity of Rihanna, a Barbados-born pop and hip-hop singer known for her colorful stage performances and such hit songs as "Umbrella"--Provided by publisher.

14) Redemption in indigo: a novel

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Lord, Karen

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In this funny, fresh fable, a villager leaves her husband and finds she can manipulate chaos.

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16) Triangular road: a memoir

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Marshall, Paule

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In Triangular Road, famed novelist Paule Marshall tells the story of her years as a fledgling young writer in the 1960s. A memoir of self-discovery, it also offers an affectionate tribute to the inimitable Langston Hughes, who entered Marshall’s life during a crucial phase and introduced her to the world of European letters during a whirlwind tour of the continent funded by the State Department. In the course of her journeys to Europe, Barbados,

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17) Little ship of fools: 16 rowers, 1 improbable boat, 7 tumultuous weeks on the Atlantic

Author

Wilkins, Charles

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The dramatic and hilarious story of sores and survival on a human-powered journey across the ocean. It was to be an expedition like no other-a run across the Atlantic from Morocco to Barbados aboard an experimental rowboat. There would be no support vessel, no stored water, no sails, no motor. The boat's crew of sixteen included several veterans of U.S. college rowing, a number of triathletes, a woman who had rowed both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans,...

18) African Caribbeans: a reference guide

19) Caribe! Caribe!

20) Calypso Favourites

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Caribbean Allstars