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"From the writer of The Book of Night Women comes a novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven gunmen stormed the singer's...
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"In the wake of Marlon James's Man Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Augustown--set in the backlands of Jamaica--is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth. Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear running through...
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Bride series (Catherine Coulter) volume 2
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Second son Ryder Sherbrooke travels to the Caribbean to his family's sugar plantation to investigate trouble with ghosts. [He] has a reputation as one of hell's own sons -- though he's really just a fun-loving rake who thinks he knows all about women. But the tables are turned when he meets beautiful Sophia Stanton-Greville, who's determined to make Ryder one of her many conquests. Sophia has successfully controlled every man in her orbit until she...