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Author : Dean Campbell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491707005

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The Inevitability of Dusk Swallowing Twilight by Dean Campbell Pdf

Jamaican-born Cré has been dragged around the world for years by her mother, who wandered in pursuit of love. When they finally return to their island home, Cré hopes to make a life there. She finds friends, develops relationships, and grows close to her home country. But all of that quickly changes one night with the arrival of her stepfather, David. With Cré's mother supposedly away in Canada, David tries to rape her. With no other option, Cré kills her stepfather. It soon comes to light, however, that David was not who he appeared to be; he is actually a ruthless crime boss, and Cré's friend, Stacy, suspects he may have killed Cré's mother. Now, Cré is on the run from David's murderous brother, Tanny. Tanny does all the dirty work and doesn't mind getting his hands bloody, but Cré has no intention of becoming one of his victims. Instead, she trains to kill. She will be ready when Tanny comes for her if she doesn't decide to go after him first. She'll do anything to find out what happened to her mother and get her old life back anything.

Author : Paul Foreman
Publisher : Paul Foreman
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781467978798

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Sometimes There's a Winner by Paul Foreman Pdf

A story of poverty, injustice and revenge in Jamaica, SOMETIMES THERE'S A WINNER tells the story of a poor black gardener, Byron Reid, and his sister Nadia, who work for a wealthy white Lebanese-Jamaican family in Kingston. Byron Reid surpasses his work ambitions and achieves success in a variety of jobs with Abraham Faroud, and is driven to bankruptcy by his employer's son Fabian who exploits his sister's innocence and vulnerability when she worked as a servant in the Faroud home. Byron uses incriminating information about his employer which he has secretly collected as the basis for demands for himself and his sister. SOMETIMES THERE'S A WINNER tells of the plight and frustrations of the poor in class-conscious Jamaica.

Author : Claudette Beckford-Brady
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781468598377

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Sweet Home, Jamaica by Claudette Beckford-Brady Pdf

Michelle Freeman: Strong-willed and opinionated: feisty, determined and independent. Knows what she wants and goes after it. Mavis: Michelles stepmother: lacks formal education but possesses a sharp intelligence and innate common sense. Grandma Miriam: Michelles maternal grandmother and matriarch of the Campbell family. Richard Armstrong: Tall, good-looking; dreadlocked. Entirely too sure of himself in Michelles opinion, but captures her heart anyway. Michelle Freeman, affectionately known as Shell or Shellie, was born in Jamaica but migrated to England with her parents at the age of three. At age thirteen her life is thrown into turmoil when she accidentally discovers that her fathers wife, whom she had always taken for granted as being her mother, is in fact, not. This shocking discovery leads her to begin a search for her biological mother. The search eventually takes her to Jamaica where she finds a large extended maternal family and develops a deep and abiding love for the island of her birth. After leaving school and university in London, where she studied journalism, Shellie decides to leave the UK and practise her profession in Jamaica. However, all is not plain sailing, as she encounters culture shock, prejudice and jealousy and comes to the realisation that her beloved island is not the idyllic paradise she had supposed it to be. Set in South London and on the beautiful island of Jamaica, the story spans seventeen years, following the fiery and feisty young woman through her teenage years, young love and tragedy, and into adulthood and more conflicts and clashes.

Author : Charles Hyatt
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Entertainers
ISBN : 9768017104

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When Me was a Boy by Charles Hyatt Pdf

Author : Shelley Sykes-Coley
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781982200961

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Chat ’Bout! by Shelley Sykes-Coley Pdf

Chat ’Bout!: An Anthology of Jamaican Conversations Jamaicans love to ‘tek bad tings mek laugh’ and Chat ’Bout! lets you get in on the conversation. Written in Patwa or Patois, Chat ’Bout! celebrates all things mundanely Jamaican. Unfiltered, honest and funny, it examines the idiosyncrasies of everyday Jamaican life - the good, the bad, and the ugly. Guided by Jamaican GPS, Chat ’Bout! takes you on a journey through Jamaica, past and present. Get lost while reminiscing down memory lane; stop and eavesdrop on conversations, and vicariously experience a minibus ride. Next thing you know, you are experiencing an unfortunate episode of ‘runnin’ belly’ and having a good belly laugh while you are at it. Be thoroughly entertained by Chat ’Bout! and pick up some Patwa as brawta.

Author : Kamala Kempadoo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442210004

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Sun, Sex, and Gold by Kamala Kempadoo Pdf

With tourism accounting for approximately thirty percent of the Caribbean's GDP and twenty-four percent of employment, a link between the sex trade and the tourism industry has gained recent attention. Shifts in global production, an increase of disposable income for pleasure and recreation, and a desire by North Americans and Europeans for an experience of 'exotic' cultures, are often claimed to be the cause. This volume explores the connections between the global economy and sex work, focusing on the experiences and views of women, men, and children who sell sex. Apart from attention to sex tourism in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, and Jamaica, the book also examines sex work in the gold mining industry in the hinterlands of Suriname and Guyana, and in the entertainment sector in Belize and the Dutch Antilles. It presents new insights into the Caribbean sex trade and provides proposals and strategies for addressing the situation in the twenty-first century.

Author : Verona C.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781450079242

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Raw Emotions by Verona C. Pdf

Raw Emotions, the book, words are expressed in its truest state. It doesnt dilute the realities as they appear. Instead, it opens up to a rhythm, a beat, that though sad some of the experiences might be, emotion expressed without any form of pretense will help to inspire or motivate one to a higher level of thought. The book covers a spiritual realm, societal, and personal. You will laugh, you will cry, yes, you will be saddened at times but at the end of that verse you will simply learn to appreciate the power of words in context. Raw Emotions is as it is; its title portrays nothing that is sugar coated. The author hopes that the content of this book will open up a conversation, be it with a stranger, a friend, or a relative. This book will have readers laughing at, The Internet crying at The Flowers That Didnt Bloom, wanting to become like; His Name was Job, looking at the mentally challenged in a different way as one reads: They Say Im Mad. Having pity on those we call bosses when we read Sour Power and for women to reach out and demand the respect they deserve and to applaud the men who do give this respect after reading The Antique Man and those who have never had a Flat Bridge experience, desiring to do so. For the precious moments spent in childhood innocence with a friend who you chose to Remember in a most special way. The collection of literary pieces the author hopes will be widely appreciated by all. She hopes that her writing will be a voice to the voiceless.

Author : Sharma Taylor
Publisher : Virago
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349017396

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Genuine Human Hair by Sharma Taylor Pdf

**Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize** 'Me name Petal. Mi pretty except fi mi picky-picky hair. Mi nah tell nuh lie. Mi head tough. It bruk comb. Well, is a good thing God invent weave.' Petal is a young woman trying to make a life in the Kingston ghetto. Flower is a girl taken by force to a Uyghur re-education camp. In a short story that spans two worlds, Petal and Flower are connected through the most intimate of ways: their hair. Shocking, beautiful and empowering, Genuine Human Hair reveals the cost of racism in two very different ways, and how two women overcome it. Read Sharma Taylor's exciting first novel What a Mother's Love Don't Teach You now! 'Outstanding' Cherie Jones 'Cacophonic, alive, heart-breaking' Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'Rich and exuberant' Claire Adam

Author : Connie Lawrence
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682354599

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Evil Peeks Through My Tinted Glass Window by Connie Lawrence Pdf

Evil Peeks Through My Tinted Glass Window: A Jamaican Story Bobbie Redstone, an attractive, diminutive, strong-willed, and feisty woman, meets her match when she leaves her high-powered job in Kingston, Jamaica, to start her own business in a small backward seaside town. Not only does she meet her match in the larger-than-life Evil Sorcerer (who is big, bold and loud, yet ugly and attractive in the same sentence), but she gets caught up in a life totally different from anything she ever knew. Bobbie gets ensnared in the lives and bizarre stories of Evil Sorcerer and some prominent townsfolk, including her own father. She is mesmerised by Evil as much as Evil is mesmerised by her. Their worlds collide when she finds Evil peeking through the tinted glass window of her office, and their lives will never be the same, because Evil is intent on terrorising Bobbie, who is bold and unafraid of anyone, and is able to stand up to her and all her wicked wiles.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UCSC:32106008962646

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Spare Rib by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joel Okoth Ouma
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780557368952

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A Schizophrenic View and Other Poems by Joel Okoth Ouma Pdf

A UNIQUE COLLECTION OF CONSCIOUS REGGAE POEMS.

Author : Lorrimer Burford
Publisher : LMH PUBLISHING LIMITED
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789768184849

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A Jamaican Storyteller's Tale by Lorrimer Burford Pdf

Underpinned by common Jamaican themes, A Jamaican Storyteller's Tale is the story of a young man intent on saving an aspect of his heritage that is dying - storytelling. Heavily influenced by his father's skill at relating these stories, he comes face to face with the possibility of losing his heritage when his family migrates. Lorrimer Burford merges traditional Jamaican tales with the story of this young man to create a unique synthesis.

Author : Anne M. Galvin
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826502889

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Sounds of the Citizens by Anne M. Galvin Pdf

Dancehall: it's simultaneously a source of raucous energy in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica; a way of life for a group of professional artists and music professionals; and a force of stability and tension within the community. Electronically influenced, relevant to urban Jamaicans, and highly danceable, dancehall music and culture forms a core of popular entertainment in the nation. As Anne Galvin reveals in Sounds of the Citizens, the rhythms of dancehall music reverberate in complicated ways throughout the lives of countless Jamaicans. Galvin highlights the unique alliance between the dancehall industry and community development efforts. As the central role of the state in supporting communities has diminished, the rise of private efforts such as dancehall becomes all the more crucial. The tension, however, between those involved in the industry and those within the neighborhoods is palpable and often dangerous. Amidst all this, individual Jamaicans interact with the dancehall industry and its culture to find their own paths of employment, social identity, and sexual mores. As Sounds of the Citizens illustrates, the world of entertainment in Jamaica is serious business and uniquely positioned as a powerful force within the community.

Author : 'H' Patten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000546422

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Reading Religion and Spirituality in Jamaican Reggae Dancehall Dance by 'H' Patten Pdf

This book explores the genealogy of Jamaican dancehall while questioning whether dancehall has a spiritual underscoring, foregrounding dance, and cultural expression. This study identifies the performance and performative (behavioural actions) that may be considered as representing spiritual ritual practices within the reggae/dancehall dance phenomenon. It does so by juxtaposing reggae/dancehall against Jamaican African/neo-African spiritual practices such as Jonkonnu masquerade, Revivalism and Kumina, alongside Christianity and post-modern holistic spiritual approaches. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies, popular culture, music, theology, cultural studies, Jamaican/Caribbean culture, and dance specialists.

Author : Maria Hamilton
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781460280904

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Poetic Soul by Maria Hamilton Pdf

Love can be delightful, befuddling, disenchanting, its mists and fog clouding your sight. It can turn you inside out, leave you asking yourself "what if?" Through the lens of love and the joy of creating, Maria Hamilton explores the world around her in a unique anthology merging culture and language with poems in English, French, and Jamaican dialect. In her new book, Poetic Soul: Moving Gracefully to a Fresh Beat she examines the burning desires of the heart, the challenges of life, and the splendour of nature through reflection, poetry, and prayer. Marvel at nature's wrath. Celebrate life's successes. Feel the poignancy of a love poem in a bottle. Join the poet on her voyage through the intellect and imagination. Everything starts in the mind. Everything begins with a thought. Soon the human spirit is awakened, and life becomes inspired.