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| Author | : Marianne Wiggins |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1999-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0671039555 |
An earthquake and tidal wave sweep John Dollar, Charlotte, and her pupils into the violent sea. They come to consciousness on the beach huddled around a paralyzed John Dollar.
| Author | : Richard Arthur Warren Hughes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1974 |
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| Author | : Peter Polack |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2017-06-23 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1443873756 |
If Jamaica were an actor she would have appeared in more than one hundred and forty-one films. The list of movies where the name Jamaica plays a prominent part is probably closer to two hundred. This book chronicles over one hundred years of international film making in Jamaica from 1910, and provides many previously unpublished details of locations, actors and directors. As such, Jamaica, the Land of Film provides a comprehensive history which will be of great interest to all cinema aficionados and fans of Caribbean history.
| Author | : Laurel Davis Huber |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 427 |
| Release | : 2017-07-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1631521934 |
The Velveteen Daughter reveals for the first time the true story of two remarkable women: Margery Williams Bianco, the author of one of the most beloved children's books of all time,The Velveteen Rabbit,and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned child prodigy artist whose fame at one time greatly eclipses her mother's. But celebrity at such an early age exacts a great toll. Pamela's dreams elude her as she struggles with severe depressions, an overbearing father, an obsessive love affair, and a spectacularly misguided marriage. Throughout, her life raft is her mother. The glamorous art world of Europe and New York in the early 20th century and a supporting cast of luminaries—Eugene O'Neill and his wife Agnes (Margery's niece), Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica—provide a vivid backdrop to the Biancos' story. From the opening pages, the novel will captivate readers with its multifaceted and illuminating observations on art, family, and the consequences of genius touched by madness.
| Author | : Mal Peet |
| Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2017-04-11 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0763687170 |
From Carnegie Medal–winning author Mal Peet comes a sweeping coming-of-age adventure, both harrowing and life-affirming. Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the Catholic Brothers in Canada. At age fifteen he is sent to work on a farm, from which he eventually escapes. Finally in charge of his own destiny, Beck starts westward, crossing the border into America and back, all while the Great Depression rages on. What will it take for Beck to understand the agonies of his childhood and realize that love is possible?
| Author | : Hernan Diaz |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2024-03-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0593850564 |
The first novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Trust, an exquisite and blisteringly intelligent story of a young Swedish boy, separated from his brother, who becomes a legend and an outlaw A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels east in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing west. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre, offering a probing look at the stereotypes that populate our past and a portrait of radical foreignness.
| Author | : Richard Hughes |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2010-06-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1590173716 |
Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a crew of down-at-the-heel pirates. A tale of seduction and betrayal, of accommodation and manipulation, of weird humor and unforeseen violence, this classic of twentieth-century literature is above all an extraordinary reckoning with the secret reasons and otherworldly realities of childhood.
| Author | : Linda Castillo |
| Publisher | : Minotaur Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022-04-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250845432 |
When a young woman is found murdered in a Painters Mill motel, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is shocked to discover she once knew the victim. Rachael Schwartz was a charming but troubled Amish girl who left the fold years ago and fled Painters Mill. Why was she back in town? Kate remembers Rachael as the only girl who was as bad at being Amish as Kate was-and those parallels dog her. But the deeper Kate digs into Rachael Schwartz's life, the more she's convinced that Rachael's dubious reputation was deserved. As a child, Rachael was a rowdy rulebreaker whose decision to leave devastated her parents and best friend. As an adult, she was charismatic and beautiful, a rabble-rouser with a keen eye for opportunity no matter who got in her way. Her no-holds-barred lifestyle earned her a lot of love and enemies aplenty-both English and Amish. As the case heats to a fever pitch and long-buried secrets resurface, a killer haunts Painters Mill. Someone doesn't want Rachael's past-or the mysteries she took with her to the grave-coming to light.
| Author | : James Vance Marshall |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0140312927 |
The widely acclaimed illustration of a contrast of cultures in which young European air crash survivors inadvertently 'murder' their Aboriginal saviour.
| Author | : Richard Hughes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 1968 |
| Genre | : Hurricanes |
| ISBN | : 9780701107741 |
Set on board the British ship Archimedes, which is bound for the Far East from Norfolk, Virginia, via the Panama Canal. When the crew suddenly find themselves in the middle of a violent hurricane the book looks at how the different characters respond.
