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Caribbean
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James A Michener
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.
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Dead in the Water
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Stuart Woods
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 ...
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Where Is Joe Merchant?
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Jimmy Buffett
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 ...
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The Reef
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Nora Roberts
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.
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Texaco
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Patrick Chamoiseau
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.
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To Have and Have Not
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Ernest Hemingway
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.
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Pirates
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Linda Lael Miller
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 ...
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Don't Stop the Carnival
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Herman Wouk (Introduction by)
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 ...
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The Gun Ketch
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Dewey Lambdin
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 ...
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Cereus Blooms at Night
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Shani Mootoo
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.
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Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean
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Peter Winn
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.
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Deceived
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Bertrice Small
Two stepsisters vie for love and money in this historical romance set during the reign of George III.
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Pirate's Love
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Johanna Lindsey
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 ...
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The buccaneers of America.
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A. O. Exquemelin
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.
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The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism
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Franklin W Knight
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 ...
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Snorkeling Guide to Marine Life: Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas
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Paul Humann, Ned Deloach
This field guide illustrates all the fish, corals, invertebrates and plants you are most likely to encounter in less than 15 feet of water in the Caribbean. Humann's photographs are excellent for identification purposes - and the handy size makes it perfect to take along in the boat or to the beach.
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Where Is Joe Merchant?: A Novel Tale
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Jimmy Buffett
Frank Bama scrapes a living flying an ancient battered seaplane for anyone who will pay for his fuel. He meets up with an old girlfriend, Trevor Kane - an heiress who is ready to blow a fortune to search for her missing rock-star brother. Jimmy Buffet is the author of "Tales from Margaritaville".
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Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic and Regional Survey
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Brian W Blouet, Olwyn M Blouet (Editor)
This well-established text combines a thematic and regional look at Latin America and the Caribbean. The thematic approach surveys the physical environment, historical geography, demography, agriculture, communications, industry, urban and political aspects of Latin America. The regional approach covers chapters on Mexico, Central America, the ...
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Miami Spice: The New Florida Cuisine
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Steven Raichlen, Robin Zingone (Illustrator)
Captures the Latin, Caribbean and Cuban influences on Florida's cooking in a delicious and inventive collection of 200 recipes, with commentary from around the state.
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Bodily Harm
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's deeply unsettling psychological novel portrays the disorientation of Rennie Wilford, a young Canadian journalist who suffers a nervous breakdown and travels to the tiny Caribbean island of St. Antoine to recuperate. There, in a world that is as foreign to her as outer space, she begins to wonder if the cure is not worse than the ...
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At the Bottom of the River
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Jamaica Kincaid
This collection of lyrical short fiction is drawn from Kincaid's Caribbean childhood, and provides a vivid glimpse of a vibrant culture.
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Cocina criolla
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Carmen Aboy Valldejuli
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New Worlds of Literature: Writings from America's Many Cultures
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Jerome Beaty (Editor), J Paul Hunter (Editor)
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Caribbean Style
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Suzanne Slesin, Stafford Cliff, Gilles De Chabaneix (Photographer)
With more than 600 spectacular full-color photos and an illuminating text, "Caribbean Style" brings home the houses, gardens, and buoyant lifestyle of this enchanting region.
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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Herbert S Klein
This is an examination of slavery that covers the Spanish, Portuguese, and French regions of Latin America. Klein brings together the latest findings on the plantation system, demography, the slave trade, the construction of the slave community, and Afro-American culture. He focuses also on the attempts of the African and American-born slaves to ...
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