Dass, Sarah
Summary: "She's destined to be a great Trinidadian Carnival costume designer like her renowned uncle, Russel Messina, and will one day inherit leadership of the family's masquerade band, Grandeur. Her classmate, the popular social media influencer, Brandon Richards, is the bane of her existence. Everything about him irks her, from his annoying nickname for Tess ("Boop") to his association with David,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DASPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "It's Spring Break! During Carnival, Ana & Andrew travel to visit their family on the island of Trinidad. They love watching the parade and dancing to the music. This year, they learn how their ancestors helped create the holiday!"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLAFrancis-Sharma, Lauren.
Summary: "An epic saga about a Trinidadian family spanning WWII to the early Sixties. Told in alternating voices, the author recounts the story of Marcia, our fierce heroine, who leaves her island home in order to protect the man she's loved for years, and finds herself isolated in a strange land but with the determination to survive and rebuild" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAAdam, Claire
Summary: A family tries to survive in rural Trinidad, when one thirteen year old twin boy walks into the bush one evening and does not come home. Clyde, the father, is forced to go looking and when he learnes his son's fate, his world is shattered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SJP for Hogarth 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADAHoward, Amalie
Summary: Sent to her grandmother's estate in Trinidad, Rika meets a group of kids with elemental powers called Minders, who reveal that her long-lost mom is in danger, sending Rika on a magical adventure where she must learn to believe in herself to destroy evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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Summary: Ava is asked to dress up as an inspirational figure for her school assembly, but who should she choose? Granny suggests famous familiar figures such as Winifred Atwell, Mary Seacole, and Rosa Parks, and tells Ava all about their fascinating histories, but Ava's classmates have already claimed them--and she must choose someone else. But who? When Ava finds a mysterious old suitcase and Granny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAWBanwo, Ayanna Lloyd
Summary: In the old house on a hill, where the city meets the rain forest, Yejide's mother is dying. She is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: one St. Bernard woman in every generation must shepherd the city's souls into the afterlife. But after years of suffering her mother's neglect and bitterness, Yejide is looking for a way out. Raised in the countryside by a devout Rastafarian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANPersaud, Ingrid
Summary: "After Betty Ramdin's abusive husband dies, she invites a colleague, Mr. Chetan, to move in with her and her son, Solo, as their lodger. Over time, these three form an unconventional family, loving each other deeply and depending upon one another. Then, one a fateful night, Solo overhears Betty confiding in Mr. Chetan and learns a secret that plunges him into torment. Ultimately sends him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERDass, Sarah
Summary: Presents a romantic, mesmerizing story of first love and second chances, all to the tunes of sweet soca music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DASMc Ivor, Breanne
Summary: "Bianca Bridge has always dreamed of becoming a writer. But Trididadian society can be unforgiving, and having an affair with a married government official is a surefire way to ruin your prospects. So when Obadiah Cortland, a notoriously tyrannical entrepreneur in the island's beauty scene, offers her a job, Bianca accepts, realizing that working on his magazine is the closest to her dreams...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCILawrence, Patrice
Summary: "When Paloma goes to visit her family in Trinidad, she doesn't feel that she fits in. But Tante Janet has a story to tell her: An ancient story of warrior queens and talking drums, of treasures and tales that span thousands of years... Join Tante Janet and her inquisitive niece as they share the story of how her family came to the Caribbean, through the dark days of colonization and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Cat Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAWPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "It's Spring Break! During Carnival, Ana & Andrew travel to visit their family on the island of Trinidad. They love watching the parade and dancing to the music. This year, they learn how their ancestors helped create the holiday!"--Title page verso.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR PURPLE SPANISH PLAAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem
Summary: When his fiancée abruptly departs for Trinidad after hearing disturbing news, Mycroft Holmes and his best friend Cyrus Douglas follow and find themselves drawn in to a treacherous investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Abdul-Jabbar 2015Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)
Summary: Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house is the dream and the reality sustaining Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAIHosein, Kevin Jared
Summary: "Trinidad in the 1940s, nearing the end of American occupation and British colonialism. On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury unrecognizable to those who reside in the farm's shadow. Down below is the barrack, a ramshackle building ... divided into rooms occupied by whole families. Among these families are the Saroops--Hans,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSFrancis-Sharma, Lauren
Summary: "In 1796 Trinidad, young Rosa Rendaon quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she, alone, views as her birthright. But when her homeland changes from Spanish to British rule, it becomes increasingly unclear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRABlackman-Thornhill, Nailah
Summary: "A girl and her grandpa enjoy Carnival together"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024