Shearer, Eleanor
Summary: "Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEJohansen, Iris.
Summary: Determined to protect herself from the horrors of her childhood, a young woman finds her remote island refuge terrorized by ruthless mercenaries and heads to the open seas in a perilous race against time to find the site of a lost city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHAllende, Isabel.
Summary: "The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLSummary: Recently-arrived DI Jack Mooney leads his experienced team in investigating eight mystifying murders on the isle of Saint Marie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV De 7Atwood, Margaret
Summary: "A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's Bodily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATWAraton, Harvey.
Summary: "In times of change, American novelists return to old themes. In Cold Type--as in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman--a son and his father struggle to hold onto what they think is right. It's mid-1990s; and "cold type" technology, a.k.a. computerized typesetting, wreaks havoc among workers in the newspaper industry. A fabulously wealthy Briton buys the New York City Trib and immediately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Consortium Book Sales & Dist 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARASummary: DI Neville Parker and new recruits Naomi and Darlene continue to investigate cases on and around the Caribbean island of Saint Marie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEACondé, Maryse.
Summary: A tale of revenge set in the Caribbean, in which the hero gets back at a rich man who stole his love by impregnating her after she becomes the man's wife. The result is tragedy, the woman dying in childbirth. By the author of Black Witch of Salem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONGilbert, Sian
Summary: For fans of Lucy Foley and Liane Moriarty, She Started It is a hot, twisty summer debut thriller about a group of young women whose Caribbean bachelorette party takes a sinister turn. Its Lord of the Flies meets And Then There Were None...but with Instagram and too much prosecco. The party of a lifetime is nothing like what they expected... Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe are best friends--or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Diving interns Kaz, Dante, Adriana, and Star take desperate measures to reclaim the sunken treasure that has been stolen away from them by their supervisor Tad Cutter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2003
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KORMacomber, Robert N.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pineapple Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACRoss, Jacob
Summary: After standing witness to a murder on the streets of the Caribbean island of Camaho, young Michael 'Digger' Digson is recruited into a unique plain clothes homicide squad, an eclectic group of semi-official police officers, led by the enigmatic DS Chilman. Digger becomes enmeshed in Chilman's obsession with a cold case, the disappearance of a young man. But Digger has a murder to pursue too:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSSummary: With a new team firmly in place, DI Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall, Love Actually) is finally settled on the beautiful island of Saint Marie. Feeling as though something is still missing from his life, Goodman enlists DS Florence Cassell (Josephine Jobert, Summer Crush) to help him crack the complexities of the dating world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV De 5Dixon, Franklin W.
Summary: "It's finally summer vacation, and the Hardy family is headed on a cruise to the Caribbean. As they board the ship with their parents, Frank and Joe can't believe all the fun that's in store for them. There are three-story slides, playgrounds, ball pits, four pools, and an arcade. There are concerts and magic shows at night, while jugglers and clowns wander the deck during the day. In addition...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DIXMickelbury, Penny
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "In Caribbean folklore, Mama Glo is the mother of rivers and streams. She has a beautiful singing voice, but she doesn't like visitors! Still, brothers Keron and Kendon disobey the rules and search for her in the forest. What will they find?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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Summary: Tate Beaumont, a beautiful student of marine archaeology, finds adventure, danger, and passion when she reluctantly joins forces with diver Matthew Lassiter and his uncle to find a legendary jeweled amulet said to be lost at the bottom of the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBStringfellow, Lisa
Summary: Twelve-year-old Kela is still mourning her mother when she finds a mermaid's comb while she and her friend are looking for sea glass on her Caribbean island; such combs have magic in them, and touching it opens a connection to the mermaid Ophidia who cangrant her wish, to bring her mother back to life--but all wishes have consequences, and magic demands a price which may prove to be more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STRSummary: Detective Inspector Jack Mooney and his team-now including the new arrival DI Neville Parker--continue to fight crime on their Caribbean island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV De 9Cherry, Lynne.
Summary: A seed from a mangrove tree floats on the sea until it comes to rest on the shore of a faraway lagoon where, over time, it becomes a mangrove island that shelters many birds and animals, even during a hurricane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHEBaptiste, Tracey
Summary: Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinee when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BAPBaptiste, Tracey.
Summary: Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAPSabatini, Rafael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002