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Fettered Love is an anthology about life, love, and the ability of the human spirit to make courageous choices.
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Set in England in the 1980s, Going Back Home is a powerful story of sibling love and rivalry, religious fundamentalism and alienation
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Joy and Esmine were born in the UK to Jamaican immigrant parents.
Joy grew up to accept and be impassioned by her father's view that England could never be home for them. Both long to return to Jamaica.
Esmine, on the other hand, shares her mother's views that they have earned their position in England, and that England will always be their home.
Can the family survive the pressures of divided loyalties, distortion and displacement?
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Returnee is a fascinating, if not uncomfortable, insight into life in Jamaica as experienced by those who have chosen to return.
Returnee is the name given to Jamaicans who have lived abroad, and have chosen to return to live in Jamaica.br />
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Most return having held uncompromisingly to the view that Jamaica is home, and quite akin to paradise. They believe that on their return, they will ease effortlessly into a culture that they have yearned for during their years of foreign sojourn.br />
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But do they find paradise? Or, do they find cultural practices and attitudes that are now as foreign to them as the ones they found when they migrated? Are they welcomed, or accepted under sufferance?
p st | |  | | Unlike Normal Women
Set in rural Jamaica, Unlike Normal Women is a powerful exploration of women's capacity to affect lasting change.
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span style="font-family: Verdana;">span style="font-size: medium;">Aunt Vie, dignified and the villiage matriarch. Azora, the community's wise woman and healer. And Miss Dee. A young dressmaker and business woman. Three unlikely allies, until they are confronted by an injustice each refuses to overlook/span>/span>
span style="font-family: Verdana;">span style="font-size: medium;">In newly independent Jamaica, Jacob Clearly is used to getting what he wants. But when he tries to coerce Miss Dee into a relationship, he underestimates the determination and the spirit |
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Soldier's Gap
by David Schwinghammer
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 Soldier's Gap is a non-traditional mystery with literary elements. The high school principal is brutally murdered, but Deputy Sheriff Dave Jenkins's search for meaning and love is a much more significant theme.
"Murder isn't usually this fun |
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