Martínez, Rueben
Summary: A collection of seven traditional tales from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain retold in English and Spanish. Includes notes about each story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MARPlatt, 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?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLAMcAnuff, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59729 MCASummary: "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 DISJohansen, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHMalam, John
Summary: Describes what it would be like to be a ship captain captured by priates during the 1700s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364.164 MALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Set You 364.16 MalamCopies 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 DISSummary: 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 Movie Fool's 2008Storace, Patricia.
Summary: A version of the folktale Rapunzel, set in the Caribbean.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 STOSan Souci, Robert D.
Summary: When the Bird of Darkness takes Princess Marie, twin brothers Soliday, who is brave and kind, and Salacota, who is cowardly, set off to fight the beast and rescue the princess.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 SANRenton, 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 RENKretschmer, John.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: International Marine/McGraw-Hill 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.124 KRESummary: 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 7Sandler, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 910 SANSummary: 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 CRUShearer, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ShearerAtwood, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 ORTMorgan, 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: 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