Young, Kerry
Summary: As a boy, Pao came to Jamaica with his mother and brother in the wake of the Chinese Civil War. Pao becomes a powerful man, but he's not a typical crime boss. He is sensitive at heart and guided by the principles 0f Sun Tzu's Art of War, even though , as he discovers, the wisdom of the ancient Chinese sage can be tough to interpret when applied to the criminal annd predicament he faces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011
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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: 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 JAMJames, 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 JAMRobinson, Ishi
Summary: Pumkin Patterson is a thirteen-year-old girl living in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother (who wants to improve the family's social standing), her Aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and Pumkin), and her mother Paulette (who's rarely home).When Sophie is offered the chance to move to France for work, she seizes the opportunity, and promises to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCard, Maisy
Summary: "Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Card 2020Card, Maisy
Summary: Abel and Vera Paisley are a working-class Jamaican couple, striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CARJames, Marlon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMRees, Celia.
Summary: In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books 2003
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Summary: "In this radiant, highly anticipated debut, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a maelstrom of change threatens their Jamaican village. Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLEBruns, Don.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUCezair-Thompson, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unbridled Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CEZDixon, Franklin W.
Summary: On a winter vacation in Jamaica the Hardy boys begin a dangerous adventure when an ancient bronze death mask is discovered near their beach house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1975
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIXBlackwood, Lauren
Summary: Kidnapped at six and sent to work at the Exotic Lands Touring Company as a Wildblood tour guide, eighteen-year-old Victoria takes on a dangerous expedition through the monster-filled Jamaican jungle to secure a better future and find where she truly belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLABromfield, Asha
Summary: While visiting her father who lives in Jamaica, eighteen-year-old Tilla faces a storm of dark secrets that threaten to unravel her own life, while an actual storm, Hurricane Gustav, threatens the lives of those she loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROCrichton, Michael
Summary: The Caribbean, 1665. Pirate captain Charles Hunter, with backing from a powerful ally, assembles a crew of ruffians to take the Spanish galleon, "El Trinidad," guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CRIDennis-Benn, Nicole
Summary: Receiving her long-coveted visa to America, Patsy leaves behind her family in Jamaica, only to discover that life as an undocumented immigrant is not what her best friend had described.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DENLudlum, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 1997
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LUDLUMiller, Kei
Summary: "In the wake of Marlon James's Man Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Augustown--set in the backlands of Jamaica--is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth. Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILWeber, Carl
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M WEBBryon, Nathan
Summary: While visiting her grandparents, who run whale-watching tours in Jamaica, Rocket sees first-hand how plastic is harming ocean creatures, and organizes a crew to clean up the local beach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRYCezair-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 CEZCrichton, Michael
Summary: The Caribbean, 1665. Pirate captain Charles Hunter, with backing from a powerful ally, assembles a crew of ruffians to take the Spanish galleon, "El Trinidad," guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009