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  • Trinidad Noir

    by Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Oonya Kempadoo, Ramabai Espinet, Shani Mootoo, Lawrence Scott ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    Eighteen authors share dark mysteries set on the sunny Caribbean island in this anthology.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographic area of the book. As reflected herein, the Caribbean provides no shelter ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Swinging Bridge

    A Novel

    by Ramabai Espinet ...
    Mona, a film researcher rooted in Montreal, vividly remembers that night in Trinidad when her father, Da-Da, in a drunken rage, threatened to kill her nine-year-old brother, Kello. Years later, a terminally ill Kello asks Mona to revisit their native island and reclaim the property that their family had left behind. As Mona returns to the Caribbean to confront her family's turbulent past, the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Trinidad Noir: The Classics

    by Earl Lovelace, Robert Antoni, C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, Samuel Selvon, Eric Roach, V.S. Naipaul, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Michael Anthony0, Willi Chen1, Elizabeth Nunez2, Ismith Khan3, Lawrence Scott4, Wayne Brown5, Jennifer Rahim6, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw7, Sharon Millar8, Barbara Jenkins9, Shani Mootoo0 ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "To travel through the nineteen works of poetry and prose in this remarkable anthology is to experience Trinidad and Tobago through a kaleidoscopic lens. The writings are grouped into four historically significant periods ('Leaving Colonialism,' 'Facing Independence,' 'Looking In,' and 'Losing Control'). It's an effective construct; the reader experiences island culture and history as a part of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Argentina

    a sailors tales of bars and bargirls, #2

    by Jake Coolman ...
    Series Book 2 - a sailors tales of bars and bargirls
    Buenos Aires was the main port we visited. This was a major port for us, and we could stay there a fairly long time - several days if not weeks. It was a beautiful city even though we mostly visited the red light district there. This was a stretch on "25 de Mayo". It was full of bars, and these were equally full of bar girls. No wonder we sailors were attracted to it. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tentacle

    by Rita Indiana ...
    Translated by Achy Obejas ...
    Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a Santería prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean – and humanity – from disaster. But first she must become the man she always was – with the help of a sacred anemone. Tentacle is an electric novel with a big appetite and a brave vision, plunging ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Temple of My Familiar

    by Alice Walker ...
    Series Book 2 - The Color Purple Collection
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author weaves a "glorious and iridescent" tapestry of interrelated lives in this New York Times bestseller ( Library Journal ).Includes a new letter written by the authorIn The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some way w... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best Short Stories 2021

    The O. Henry Prize Winners

    by Jenny Minton Quigley ...
    Series series The O. Henry Prize Collection
    **Twenty prizewinning stories selected from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year—continuing the O. Henry Prize's century-long tradition of literary excellence."Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction." —The Atlantic Monthly.**Now entering its second century, the prestigious annual story anthology has a new title, a new look, and a new guest ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011

    True Stories from Around the World

    by Lavinia Spalding ...
    Series series Best Women's Travel Writing
    Since publishing A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing of the year. This title is the seventh in an annual series-The Best Women’s Travel Writing-that presents inspiring and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crime Hits Home

    A Collection of Stories from Crime Fiction's Top Authors

    by S.J. Rozan ...
    Series Book 3 - Mystery Writers of America Series
    ***An Anthony Award 2023 Finalist*The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more.**Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their home and are content where they are. Others feel trapped and yearn to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mexico City Blues

    242 Choruses

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    One of the renowned Beat writer’s most formally inventive books, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac’s essential work of lyric verse, now reissued following his centenary celebrationWritten between 1954 and 1957, and published originally by Grove Press in 1959, Mexico City Blues is Kerouac’s most important verse work. It incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition and his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

    50 North American Stories Since 1970

    by Michael Martone ...
    Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Haunted Tropics

    Caribbean Ghost Stories

    Edited by Martin Munro ...
    The book is a collection of new and unpublished ghost stories written by some of the most celebrated contemporary writers of the Caribbean. It is the first collection of its kind, and drawing on the anglophone, francophone and hispanophone islands, the volume will be a landmark publication in Caribbean writing. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD