Summary: "Compiled by Hugo Mendez, co-founder of the globe-trotting Sofrito record label, and Emile Omar, DJ at Paris' Radio Nova, Disques Debs collects works from the Guadeloupe label's first decade-plus of existence starting in the late '50s. The styles range from early biguine and bolero to zouk and reggae, and the artists include big band orchestras, local fixtures, touring bands and younger cats...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Strut 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN DISMalam, John
Summary: Describes what it would be like to be a ship captain captured by priates during the 1700s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364.164 MALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MAL (BASKET)Contents: Super Combo: Moin Domi Dérhô(7:25 min) -- Les Vikings (Guadeloupe): Ambiance : Guhe Huiamo(2:24 min) -- Typical Combo: Piensalo Bien(3:39 min) -- Guadafrica Combo: Moin Ce Roi Roi(5:35 min) -- Galaxy (Guadeloupe): Disco Funk(4:55 min) -- Koumbit: Lagé Yo(3:40 min) -- Smoke (Guadeloupe): Lina Femm' Foll(3:45 min) -- Les Rapaces: Music Passe Partout(5:13 min) -- H.W.T. Band: Good Trip(6:04 min)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: K7 Music 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN DISMcAnuff, Craig
Summary: Craig and Shaun McAnuff are two brothers born and bred in Britain, but with Jamaica in their hearts and souls. Follow them on their journey to the birthplace of their grandparents to discover the recipes that inspired generations - but with their own vibrant modern twist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Finn is looking for a lost Spanish galleon in the Caribbean. He believes he has found the galleon and has marked the location with his own sunken boat. He enlists the help of his ex-wife, Tess, who is intrigued until she finds he has no real proof of the Spanish ship's location. Fate has put the two together again, this time onboard the boat of multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycutt and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Fool's 2008Summary: Recently-arrived DI Jack Mooney leads his experienced team in investigating eight mystifying murders on the isle of Saint Marie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV De 7Coffman, Linda
Summary: A guide to planning your Caribbean cruise, featuring must-see attractions, from San Juan to Aruba; activities from hikes to sailing trips; hotels in every port of embarkation; best restaurants to satisfy a range of tastes; valuable tips on things to do and ways to save in port; and, insider perspective from local experts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.2 CARSandler, Martin W
Summary: Describes what happened when a slave ship packed with plunder was captured by pirates in 1717 then sunk by a brutal storm. Tells the story of the 1984 expedition to locate the wreck and what was uncovered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Kretschmer, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: International Marine/McGraw-Hill 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.124 KRERenton, Alex
Summary: When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today. Alex Renton explores what inheritance -...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 RENSummary: A young woman and her boyfriend set out on a luxurious Caribbean cruise, but their trip to paradise turns deadly when a lunatic computer genius takes over the boat and sets it on a course for destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SMorris, Mary
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORAtwood, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATWOrtiz, Paul
Summary: "Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Cruise the islands of the western Caribbean including Aruba, Belize, Cancun, Cozumel, Curacao, Grand Cayman, Grenada, Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, Bonaire, Roatan, Trinidad and Tobago.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Questar 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.2 CRUMorgan, Nina.
Summary: Covers the geography, climate, resources, and history of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico regions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomson Learning 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 917.2 MORSummary: "British cop Richard Poole is a fish out of water when he is sent to the tiny island of Sainte Marie to solve a mysterious murder. Awaiting Richard is a ramshackle station and a very different type of policing"--Cover.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV De 1Summary: Detective Inspector Jack Mooney and his team-now including the new arrival DI Neville Parker--continue to fight crime on their Caribbean island.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2020
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEACopies Available at Kingsley
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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Place a hold to request this item.Rael, Patrick.
Summary: Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a “house divided against itself,” as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick Rael, but no other nation endured anything like the United States. Here the process took from 1777, when Vermont...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 RAETalty, Stephan.
Summary: Chronicles the real-life adventures of Welsh pirate Henry Morgan and his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English, from his attacks on Spanish merchant ships to his final assault on Panama that ended Spanish domination of the New World.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.904 TALSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV De 5Contents: Makoomba (Nuspirit Helsinki) -- Leroy (The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble, Tony Allen V. Tweak) -- Do your best (Femi Kuti) -- Africa (Meitz) -- Berimbau de osahna (Easydelics) -- Felicidade (Suba) -- Going out (Antenna) -- Samba olympo (Butti 49) -- Blue lagoon (Louise Vertigo) -- Un regard, un sourire (Tom Y Joyce).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Guidance Recordings 2002