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|  | | Girlie: A Love Story
This is a story of changing times and awakening sensitivities. It portrays the power of unconditional love, the anguish of betrayal and the eventual triumph of enlightenment and redemption.
She was so unimportant that her mother didn’t bother to give her a name, and she was called simply Girlie. She was so defiant that she was branded a child of Lucifer. She was berated and rebuked, but she endured her beatings without shedding a tear. Her pride remained undiminished and her spirit unbroken, despite relentless reminders that she was the unwanted bastard child of a black domestic servant. The love of her life was Bernard, her childhood playmate and companion – the pampered son of her mother’s employer. He accepted her love without question, blindly pursuing | |  | | Hill-an'-Gully Rider
“Hill-an’-Gully Rider “ takes a humorous but thought-provoking look at politics, romance and intrigue in an exotic land of palm-fringed beaches, luxury cars and yachts, fetid slums, and reggae singing, weed-smoking Rastafarians.
When Patrick O’Connor passes his A-Level exams with distinctions in English and European History, he faces an uncertain future. The son of a banana plantation overseer, he has no money for college, and he blew his chance of a Rhodes Scholarship by falling asleep during a Latin exam. But Benjamin, the Headman on the banana plantation, comes to his rescue, suggesting he enter politics. Patrick’s boyish charm and gift for cricket ─ and Benjamin’s inventive genius ─ keep them one step ahead of the forces of Evil. Under the watchful eye of Uncle Sam, who is “just a hop, skip and jump” a | | | | Jamaica Remembered
A nostalgic look back at growing up Jamaican and the weird and wonderful people and events along the way.
Jamaican author George Graham takes a nostalgic journey to his native island, and recalls the often eccentric characters who peopled his strange childhood. He visits with the snowball man, rides a runaway horse and a raunchy donkey, and travels the gravel roads in a car named Doobin. He recalls the smell of the docks and the aroma of mango time, the taste of dip-an-fall-back and the fellowship of the rum shop.
In "Jamaica Remembered," you experience the sunset from Lover's Leap and daybreak in the bird bush. You share the joy of carving your first gig and learning to roll a hoop or m | |  | | The Color of Ice: A Canadian Serenade
A Jamaican immigrant must overcome mistrust and self doubt to find love and acceptance in Canada.
After his father’s death, Eric Taylor is left to fend for himself on a small farm in the mountains of Jamaica. He decides to seek his fortune abroad and chooses Toronto as his new home. It is a decision he immediately regrets. Alone and half-frozen, he longs for the sunshine and sensuality of his homeland. br />
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The civil rights movement is at its height and the Vietnam War is raging. Catastrophic events in the United States have a profound effect on his perceptions – and on his life.br />
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Early encounters with bigoted Canadians make him acutely self-consciou |
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The Forever Stone
by Gloria Repp
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 A young widow joins her aunt’s house-restoration project in the wilderness, determined to take a stand for independence, but two men have different plans for her—and so does God. |
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