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 from the delicious terror of noir fiction.Features brand...

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 reader travels back in time—to nineteenth-century India, to British Trinidad, where her ancestors ...

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 reader travels back in time—to nineteenth-century India, to British Trinidad, where her ancestors ...

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.

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 uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to dis...

“[A] wild comic rip through eternity and beyond.”—The Detroit NewsA genre-blending romp of a novel that “celebrates the joy of individual expression and self-reliance” (Saturday Review), from the New York Times bestselling author of Still Life with WoodpeckerJitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn’t conclude until nine o’clock tonight (...

7500 years ago, on the cold Labrador coast, Demaswet faced a choice: offer her only son to the Moon God, or watch her people die.

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 Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot...

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...

This ebook bundle present all four of the Ladies Killing Circle's wicked collections of twisted and witty crime fiction.IncludesFit to DieBone DanceWhen Boomers Go BadGoing Out With a Bang

These are two of Andersen’s best loved fairy tales for kids, which are brought up to date and refreshed for a whole new audience. Both of these stories are at once sweet and uplifting. Generations of children and adults alike have been charmed by these classic fairy tales. Each is unique in its own right, and yet they complement each other perfectly.As bedtime short stories, both have undeniable charm and power. While The Princess and the Pea is above all fun and jolly, The Little ...

Beautiful and meticulously wrought, set in both Toronto and the Caribbean, this astonishing novel gives voice to the power of love and belonging in a story of two women, profoundly different, each in her own spiritual exile.