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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

8 years ago

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

8 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

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

’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

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

Huracan

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

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

Leaving Atlantis

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

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 years ago

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