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Assassins Fiction Carby family Great Britain Colonies Emigration and immigration History Jamaica History 1962- Fiction Jamaicans Great Britain History 20th century New York (N.Y.) History 20th century Fiction Oral history Fiction Rastafarians Jamaica Fiction Reggae musicians Jamaica Fiction Slavery Jamaica HistoryBromfield, Asha
Summary: It's 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of important elections and the warring political parties have made the divisions between the poor and the wealthy even wider. And Irie and Jilly come from very different backgrounds: Irie is from the heart of Kingston, where fighting in the streets is common. Jilly is from the hills, where mansions nestled within lush gardens remain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROJames, Marlon
Summary: "From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMCezair-Thompson, Margaret.
Summary: A novel of Jamaica narrated by a woman who has had enough of it and is leaving. As she drives to the airport to escape the violence and turmoil, Jean Landing reflects on the island's history and the role her multicultural ancestors played in it. A first novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CEZJames, Marlon
Summary: On December 3, 1976, gunmen stormed Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing, nearly killing all inside. Marley left the country three days later, not to return for two years. Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts, this is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMCarby, Hazel V.
Summary: "A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story 'Where are you from?' Hazel Carby was continually asked as a girl, at a time when being Black and being British was understood to be an impossibility. To answer that question properly, eminent scholar Hazel Carby finds she needs to trace not just the family history of her Jamaican father and her Welsh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019