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					<description><![CDATA[When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night—dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows her. Margo’s always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she’s always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q . . . until [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ~ Willy Wonka&#8217;s famous chocolate factory is opening at last!</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Andy is the nerd everyone makes fun of. He&#8217;s really skinny, wears glasses and talks to himself, but he falls in love with the prettiest girl in the class. One day Grandpa dies and turns into a ghost. Then, Andy discovers a new power, he can see ghosts and talk to the dead. Join Andy&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book review   •  Book review ~ Book Of A Lifetime:  A Bend in The River, By V. S. Naipaul</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2016 05:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Bend in the River’ was published when Naipaul was nearly 50. One of the greatest novels about the process of “becoming” (as opposed to “being”) a nation, especially after the colonising powers have departed, it is tense with a taut hyper-awareness and knowledge of every nuance, subtext, context and history of the various mix [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>’Til the Well Runs Dry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The New York Times Sunday Book Review Shortlist Black Caucus of the American Library Association 2015 Honor Book in Fiction Booklist Starred Review O, The Oprah Magazine &#8220;10 Titles to Pick Up Now&#8221; A glorious and moving multigenerational, multicultural saga that sweeps from the 1940s through the 1960s in Trinidad and the United States. &#8216;Til [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dog-Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Told in two voices, educated Jamaican English and the nation-language of the people, this dramatic novel tells the story of a well-meaning, middle-class woman and a young boy from the ghetto whom she desperately wants to help. Alternating between the perspectives of the woman and the boy, the story engages with issues of race and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the wake of her mother&#8217;s death, Leigh McCaulay returns to Jamaica after fifteen years away in New York to find her estranged father and discover whether she has a place she can call home. Not least she must re-engage with the complexities of being white in a black country, of being called to account [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sic Transit Wagon</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The stories in this collection move from the all-seeing naïveté of a child narrator trying to make sense of the world of adults, through the consciousness of the child-become-mother, to the mature perceptions of the older woman taking stock of her life. Set over a timespan from colonial-era Trinidad to the hazards and alarms of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Ten Incarnations of Adam Avatar</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[‘Tell me if I am mad,’ Adam Avatar, asks his new psychiatrist. Adam, now 49, claims to have lived through five centuries of Caribbean history, reincarnated every 50 years after dying at the hand of the mysterious Shadowman. As Avatar’s narratives of his past selves are revealed to have an authenticity that cannot be explained [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book Review •  Book Review ~ ‘Til the Well Runs Dry – Lauren Francis-Sharma</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2016 05:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[‘Til the Well Runs Dry takes us to the 1940s to the 1960s, from Trinidad to America and weaves a familiar Caribbean story of a young girl who falls in love and is left to raise her four children on her own. It begins in the 1940s in Trinidad, with 16-year-old Marcia Garcia who was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Last Ship</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a moving novel that charts the fortunes of three generations of a Chinese family in the Caribbean, Jan Shinebourne explores the power of family myth, the seductiveness of invented traditions, and the way unconscious motivations seeded in painful childhood experience can resurface in adult life. For Joan Wong, growing up in a Chinese family [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Leaving Atlantis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Leaving Atlantis is a suite of poems that explores the unstable territory between public and private. They are addressed to the great Barbadian novelist and thinker, George Lamming, the silent but speaking partner in a relationship of love that comes between two writers when “your flag is flying at half-mast”. The suite works at multiple [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Whale House</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A boy is killed on a government minister’s orders as part of his mission to clean up the country and others made complicit must explore their consciences; a youth gets ready to play his role in the country’s lucrative kidnap business; a sister tries to make peace with the parents of the white American girl [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Strange Years of My Life</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Despite the book’s title, these poems are rarely autobiographical and have few straightforward stories to tell. They puzzle over accidents, coincidences, and codes, as they describe journeys and wonders, edging towards a sense of the world’s curious strangeness, the complications of what we call history, the contretemps of geography. The poems belong to a hemisphere [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Wishing Spell</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Land of Stories tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, they leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about. But after [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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