Jamaicans, like others around the world, often experience a tugging at the heart that can only be assuaged by pleasant memories. In her collection of old Jamaican proverbs, Edna Bennett shares the powerful messages and folk wisdom of the Jamaican people, conveying not only the mellowness of nostalgia, but also the gentleness of the island culture. Led by a desire to keep her culture alive, Bennett urges others to take five, cock up yu foot, and member what yu old people used to say as she ...

Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish author James Joyce, significant as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. The entire book is written in a largely idiosyncratic language, consisting of a mixture of standard English lexical items and neologistic multilingual puns and portmanteau words, which many critics believe attempts to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams. Owing to the work's expansive linguistic experiments, stream of consciousness writing style, ...

Wanted: A bold adventurer who wants to travel the world from a comfortable and safe spot behind a desk that has seen the likes of kings and queens, paupers and princes. A humble book and rare manuscript shop seeks a keenly intelligent investigator to assist us in our search for things thought lost, and in our quest to return lost items to their rightful owners.Never an adventurer, no one was more surprised than Delaney Nichols when she packed her bags and ...

320 new words and phrases to test your word knowledge and expand your vocabulary. Object of these puzzles is to make as many 4-letter words as you can from a word or a phrase like PER DAY, HER NEW, ON EVE OF, NIBBLE, or OINKED, and compare your solutions with mine.Each puzzle word contains the number of words I found; for example CHEST (4 words). A truly fun way to exercise your brain while discovering new words. A link to onelook online dictionary helps you check your words - and ...

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce* Illustrated* Author Biography* Interactive Table of ContentsFinnegans Wake is a work of comic prose by Irish writer James Joyce, significant for its experimental style and resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's death, Finnega...

After it was known that Jamaican natives failed interviews that were conducted in patois, the writer decided that it was time to awaken Patois. This book was written to inform readers that Patois is a written language which can be learned and spoken like any other language. The words and phrases in this book, originated from English, African, and Creole, and can be heard wherever Jamaican natives reside.

Scouse One-Liners is the latest collection showcasing the Scouse skill for straightforward insults, sly digs and outright threats, culled from pubs and clubs Liverpool-wide by Ian Black, master of the quick sidestep. Uproariously witty and full of unforgettable sidesplitting sayings, this is one book that will have you crying with laughter and reciting lines to everyone you meet - but just be careful who you say them to!

Mr. Emmett did his duty by the visitor from another world--never doubting the right of it.

Gravy Bones Johnson is one of the most important and greatest bluesmen who ever lived. Found on the side of railroad tracks by a blind sharecropper who raised him as his own, Gravy Bones embodies the Mississippi Delta Blues in a way no one ever did before or since.With an astonishing song catalog numbering in the thousands, he is also one of the most prolific songwriters in history.Leadbelly referred to Gravy Bones as "the fertilizer on which the Blues fed".Now, for...

Prose, Poetry, and Photos set in China and Hong Kong.

In folk stories, magic drums, ghosts, obedient and disobedient children, heroes, tricksters and birds that assume human form hold sway in a world where poetic justice always brings about a satisfactory ending. This is the stuff of An Evening in Guanima. A collection of Bahamian folktales that will fascinate children with characters such as Bouki & Rabbi, Jack & B’er Debbil, and other characters, these tales are loaded wry metaphors and hilarious dialogue to keep readers entertained and imm...