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Paper TownsPaper Towns

Paper Towns

When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night—dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious… Read More

9 years ago
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ~ Willy Wonka’s famous chocolate factory is opening at last!Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ~ Willy Wonka’s famous chocolate factory is opening at last!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ~ Willy Wonka’s famous chocolate factory is opening at last!

But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose… Read More

9 years ago

Supernatural Hero

Andy is the nerd everyone makes fun of. He's really skinny, wears glasses and talks to himself, but he falls… Read More

9 years ago
Book review • Book review ~ Book Of A Lifetime: A Bend in The River, By V. S. NaipaulBook review • Book review ~ Book Of A Lifetime: A Bend in The River, By V. S. Naipaul

Book review • Book review ~ Book Of A Lifetime: A Bend in The River, By V. S. Naipaul

A Bend in the River’ was published when Naipaul was nearly 50. One of the greatest novels about the process… Read More

9 years ago
’Til the Well Runs Dry’Til the Well Runs Dry

’Til the Well Runs Dry

The New York Times Sunday Book Review Shortlist Black Caucus of the American Library Association 2015 Honor Book in Fiction… Read More

9 years ago
Dog-HeartDog-Heart

Dog-Heart

Told in two voices, educated Jamaican English and the nation-language of the people, this dramatic novel tells the story of… Read More

9 years ago
HuracanHuracan

Huracan

In the wake of her mother's death, Leigh McCaulay returns to Jamaica after fifteen years away in New York to… Read More

9 years ago
Sic Transit WagonSic Transit Wagon

Sic Transit Wagon

The stories in this collection move from the all-seeing naïveté of a child narrator trying to make sense of the… Read More

9 years ago
The Ten Incarnations of Adam AvatarThe Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar

The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar

‘Tell me if I am mad,’ Adam Avatar, asks his new psychiatrist. Adam, now 49, claims to have lived through… Read More

9 years ago
Book Review • Book Review ~ ‘Til the Well Runs Dry – Lauren Francis-SharmaBook Review • Book Review ~ ‘Til the Well Runs Dry – Lauren Francis-Sharma

Book Review • Book Review ~ ‘Til the Well Runs Dry – Lauren Francis-Sharma

‘Til the Well Runs Dry takes us to the 1940s to the 1960s, from Trinidad to America and weaves a… Read More

9 years ago
The Last ShipThe Last Ship

The Last Ship

In a moving novel that charts the fortunes of three generations of a Chinese family in the Caribbean, Jan Shinebourne… Read More

9 years ago
Leaving AtlantisLeaving Atlantis

Leaving Atlantis

Leaving Atlantis is a suite of poems that explores the unstable territory between public and private. They are addressed to… Read More

9 years ago
The Whale HouseThe Whale House

The Whale House

A boy is killed on a government minister’s orders as part of his mission to clean up the country and… Read More

9 years ago
The Strange Years of My LifeThe Strange Years of My Life

The Strange Years of My Life

Despite the book’s title, these poems are rarely autobiographical and have few straightforward stories to tell. They puzzle over accidents,… Read More

9 years ago
The Wishing SpellThe Wishing Spell

The Wishing Spell

The Land of Stories tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book… Read More

9 years ago

The Book Thief

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier… Read More

9 years ago

Book review • Book review • Book review

A torrent of angst is unleashed in Tiphanie Yanique’s edgy masterpiece, Wife. Throughout, her candor is unyielding. She is brutally… Read More

9 years ago

Dancing in the Rain

A breath of Caribbean fresh air, these poems are humorous, beautifully crafted, and perfectly pitched to their audience. These poems… Read More

9 years ago

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw

Let’s face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that to Greg’s father.… Read More

9 years ago

As Flies to Whatless Boys

As Flies to Whatless Boys has been longlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award! Winner of the 2014… Read More

9 years ago