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Jacaranda eBook Series

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  • Hadriana in All My Dreams

    by René Depestre ...
    Translated by Kaiama L. Glover ...
    Series series Jacaranda
    Set during Carnival in Haiti 1938, a young and beautiful woman named Hadriana drinks a mysterious potion on her wedding day and collapses at the altar. She is buried and later resurrected by an evil sorcerer and, as a zombie, enters the collective memory of her town of Jacmel. Hadriana's conversion serves as the inciting incident into an exploration of the strange and esoteric on the island, where ... Read more

    RM 21.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Longest Year

    by Daniel Grenier ...
    Translated by Pablo Strauss ...
    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” meets Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in Daniel Grenier’s epic novel, which tells the story of a boy who ages only one out of every four years.There’s something extraordinary about Thomas Langlois.Thomas is a young boy growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a French-Canadian father, Albert, and an American mother, ... Read more

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  • The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction

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    Edited by Naomi Holoch, Joan Nestle ...
    A groundbreaking volume from Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction presents a range of literary voices--from twenty-seven countries spanning six continents--and offers glimpses of lesbian life in unfamilar, often exotic climes.We follow an Irish woman as she travels through time in search of a wronged maiden, and anticipate the ... Read more

    RM 30.99

  • Babayaga

    A Novel of Witches in Paris

    by Toby Barlow ...
    An American ad man in 1950s Paris accidentally wanders into international intrigue and an affair with a dangerous witch in this genre-bending novel—"Tolkien meets Graham Greene meets Anne Rice in this wild, surrealistic caper" ( New York )."Witty and charming and exceedingly light on its feet. Sharp Teeth got some people's attention; with aggressive marketing and word of... ... Read more

    RM 50.59

  • The Enigma of the Return

    by Dany Laferrière ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    "An affecting meditation on loss and exile" ANGEL GURRIA-QUINTANA, Financial TimesWindsor Laferrière left Haiti in fear of his life. He has lived in Montreal for thirty-three years, and when his father dies in New York, himself an exile for half a century, Windsor travels there to attend the funeral, and then back to Haiti to inform his mother of the death.In Haiti, Windsor is faced with the grim ... Read more

    RM 44.69

  • Haiti Noir

    Edited by Edwidge Danticat ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island," from a lineup of authors including two National Book Award finalists ( Kirkus Reviews)."The Haitian-born Danticat has brought her country's literature back into the world of English-speakers. Filled with delights and surprises, Haiti Noir, taken as a whole, provides a profound portrait of the country, from its crises to ... Read more

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  • Love, Anger, Madness

    A Haitian Triptych

    by Marie Vieux-Chauvet ...
    Translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis, Val Vinokur ...
    Series series Modern Library Torchbearers
    The only English translation of “a masterpiece” (The Nation)—a stunning trilogy of novellas about the soul-crushing cost of life under a violent Haitian dictatorship, featuring an introduction by Edwidge DanticatOriginally published in 1968*, Love, Anger, Madness* virtually disappeared from circulation until its republication in France in 2005. Set in the barely fictionalized Haiti of “Papa Doc” ... Read more

    RM 49.59

  • The Demi-Monde: Summer

    Book III of The Demi-Monde

    by Rod Rees ...
    Series Book 3 - The Demi-Monde
    Welcome to the Demi-Monde: a computer-created steampunk horror-pit of a virtual world, ruled by history's choicest psychos!Eight thousand years ago the Deluge destroyed the empire of the Lilithi, setting the race of super-warriors known as the Grigori loose in the outside world. They have lain hidden until now when - thanks to the creation of the dystopian virtual reality that is the Demi-Monde - ... Read more

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  • 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’s 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

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  • The World is Moving Around Me

    A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake

    by Dany Laferrière ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    On January 12, 2010, novelist Dany Laferrière had just ordered dinner at a Port-au-Prince restaurant with a friend when the earthquake struck. He survived; some three hundred thousand others did not. The quake caused widespread destruction and left over one million homeless.This moving and revelatory book is an eyewitness account of the quake and its aftermath. In a series of vignettes, Laferrière ... Read more

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  • A French Novel

    by Frédéric Beigbeder ...
    Arrested for snorting cocaine off a car bonnet, award-winning author and quintessential dilettante Frederic Beigbeder reflects on his troubled childhood, while spending a night in the cells.In his most autobiographical book to date, the author of the award-winning ‘Windows on the World’ recounts his stay in police custody, when in January 2008 he was arrested for snorting cocaine outside a Paris ... Read more

    RM 35.59