This novel covers the history of the area from the 1300s to Castro's Cuba, including tribal conflicts on the island of Domenica, the arrival of Columbus, the buccaneers, the rise of sugar plantations, the slave revolts, and the social problems of today.
Stone Barrington is on vacation in Bermuda, far away from his life as a lawyer and investigator in Manhattan. So he thinks. A beautiful socialite is on trial for murder after her husband disappears. Desperate, she asks Stone for help. Who can resist a beautiful woman in need, or a chance to lock horns with Antigua's wily and arbitrary minister of ...
Tully Mars lights out from Wyoming for a warmer climate after he incurs the wrath of his boss, who raises poodles for a living and has hired a squad of goons to track him down. As he heads south, Tully meets the woman of his dreams, leaves her with reluctance, evades the evil posse, and, after a series of adventures, ends up in the Caribbean. ...
Jimmy Buffett presents a novel about the eponymous Joe Merchant--a rock star at the height of his fame--who is missing and presumed dead, except by his sister. Accompanied by her former boyfriend--a seaplane pilot--and a pushy journalist in search of a story, she goes island-hopping in the tropics in search of Joe, encountering not only the ...
When marine archaeologist Tate Beaumont teams up with the arrogant, young Matthew Lassiter to find a long-lost jewel at the bottom of the Caribbean, they encounter more secrets than they had planned. Forced to work closely to find the lost treasure, they soon realize they have more in common than their passionate longing to find the jewel.
The Republic of Pirates features the 18th-century pirates Edward "Blackbeard" Teach and "Black Sam" Bellamy, both of whom rose from England's underclass to become wealthy, notorious, and enormously powerful. Along with their associates in the Bahamas-based "Flying Gang," Teach and Bellamy banded together to form a pirate cooperative, culminating ...
Awash with bloody battles, political intrigue, and an incredible epoch-ending natural disaster, this is the real-life story of Henry Morgan, the legendary pirate of the Caribbean, who in the 17th century challenged the greatest military power on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades and brought it to its knees.
Songwriter/performer Jimmy Buffett and his daughter Savannah Jane collaborate on an engaging story that combines Buffett's vast knowledge of oceanic folklore with his personal experiences sailing across most of the world. Full color.
Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this novel tells the story of 150 years of Caribbean history via the remembrances of Sophie Laborieux, an aging freedom-fighter and the daughter of a slave.
This novel, considered by Hemingway "not so good," takes place during the Depression in Key West, where he had recently settled. The novel's hero, Harry Morgan, is forced by economic desperation into smuggling, bootlegging, and transporting Cuban revolutionaries into the U.S.
BBC meteorologist and Ph.D. physicist Perry Stuart's life is thrown for a loop when he accompanies his thrill-seeking friend Kris Ironside on a dangerous flight through a category-3 hurricane over the Cayman Islands. When the flight maroons on tiny Trox Island, Perry and Kris fervently explore the habitat as payment to Robin Darcy, an American ...
A descendant of a legendary English privateer, Lord Alexander Hawke is one of England's most decorated naval heroes, working on a secret mission for the American government in the Caribbean in this national bestseller now available in a Premium Edition. Reissue.
Phoebe needs to forget about her divorce, but she can't foresee what awaits her on Paradise Island. Duncan Rourke is known to historians as "the pirate patriot". He's been dead for two centuries--until Phoebe steps into a run-down island hotel, and into his world. Neither Phoebe nor her pirate can envision the glorious adventure that is about to ...
It's every parrothead's dream: to leave behind the rat race of the workaday world and start life all over again amidst the cool breezes, sun-drenched colors, and rum-laced drinks of a tropical paradise. It's the story of Norman Paperman, a New York City press agent who, facing the onset of middle age, runs away to a Caribbean island to reinvent ...
In his fifth adventure, intrepid rogue-hero Alan Lewrie sails to the Bahamas to protect British merchants from the costly interference of pirates, and becomes embroiled in a campaign to bring "Calico Jack" Finney--a local hero who has turned crooked--to justice. "Can stand up very well against the stories of the master (C.S. Forrester)".--New York ...
Melis Menid lives an idyllic life on a tropical island, with her two pet dolphins for company. It's idyllic, that is, until an arms dealer becomes determined to ferret out a secret known only to Melis's foster father--a secret that could unleash radical mass destruction. Not only Melis but her beloved dolphins are threatened, until ex-SEAL Jed ...
When Mala, old and notoriously crazy, arrives at the Paradise Alms House, she is placed in the tender care of Tyler, a gay male nurse, and an extraordinary relationship begins to develop.
This is a history of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago, this book analyzes the historical, demographic, political, social, cultural, religious and economic trends in the region.
The household of Valerian and Margaret Street is disrupted when Son Green--the "tar baby" of the title--arrives at Christmas instead of their son Michael. The Streets' black servants, Sydney and Ondine Childs, are also affected by Son's visit: their niece Jadine falls in love with him, and his presence in the house forces Ondine's revelation of a ...
A novel of suspense and romance by the author of "False Pretences". Rafaella Holland's career takes a back seat when her mother is involved in a suspicious accident. Rafaella sets out to find her hitherto unknown father, and the search takes her from Boston to an exclusive Caribbean island.
Sailing westward toward the Caribbean sun, young Bettina Verlaine obediently sets out to fulfill the promise made by her father - but not by her heart - a prearranged marriage destined not to be...once the notorious Captain Tristan's pirate ship appears on the horizon. Abducted by the bold and handsome brigand, the pale-haired beauty surrenders ...
Fascinating chronicle of the bands of plundering sea rovers who roamed the Caribbean and coastlines of Central America in the 17th century. Includes exploits of the infamous Henry Morgan and his burning of Panama City.
The Caribbean is now recognized as an authoritative history of the region. This new edition has been substantially revised in the light of comments by scholars and teachers, and now deals with parts of the region in greater detail. There are individual chapters on Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the English Antilles, Dutch and ...
A classic first novel about growing up in colonial Barbados. In the Castle of my Skin is a brilliant, sensitive record of the evolving consciousness of a poor village boy, at a time of rapid social change.
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