Download or read book Night Calypso written by Lawrence Scott and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1938 is a tumultuous year in the small Trinidadian island of El Caracol. In the sultry heat of the summer a young orphan, Theo, is sent to live with the island's doctor, Vincent Metivier. The doctor knows little of Theo's past only that it has been troubled and the he now needs love and attention. Yet Theo is not the only one who needs Vincent's attention. The island is rife with leprosy. Together with Sister Weil, Vincent tries to educate the population about this most taboo of diseases. With war in Europe looming and a feeling of civil unrest building in Trinidad, the staggering beauty of the island is overshadowed by human discord.
Download or read book The Night Watch written by Benjamin Scarlato and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-05-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most rebellious book of the 21 Century. Turning a cold shoulder towards comtemporary mainstream arthur's this fox fire of art sings to a harmony that will forever be remembered. The Night Watch is about ancient astronauts tangling the world bringing fury into this planet. The plot takes place after the world began opening into Atlantis during its down fall this just being the start of the trek to understand humanity and to cease the complex wars of one's haunted imagination one's haunted destiny into another. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is to be the setting for this complicated epic adventure. This leads to an unmentioned man named Leonardo.
Download or read book Calypso C written by David Sedaris and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself. With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no mistake: these stories are very, very funny - it's a book that can make you laugh 'til you snort, the way only family can. Sedaris's writing has never been sharper, and his ability to shock readers into laughter unparalleled. But much of the comedy here is born out of that vertiginous moment when your own body betrays you and you realize that the story of your life is made up of more past than future. This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk and love a good tumour joke. Calypso is simultaneously Sedaris's darkest and warmest book yet - and it just might be his very best.
Download or read book Creepy Crawly Calypso written by Tony Langham and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comes the spider, banging steel drums.
Download or read book Calypso s Secret written by Isabelle Kane and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skylar Connelly wants to know what happened to her sister, Maia, who vanished without a trace in the Florida Keys. Unwilling to accept the authorities' dismissal of the case, she conceals her relationship to the missing girl and takes a position at Casa del Mar, a magnificent, seaside estate owned by Martin Escalle, a slick entrepreneur whose business interests, she suspects, include illegal activities. Luke White, the captain of the yacht named Calypso and Escalle's right hand man, challenges and fascinates her with his combination of surfer good looks, bad boy charm, and stiletto sharp mind, but is he also a killer? Dare she trust him? Her heart and soul will accept no less.
Download or read book Calypso Magnolia written by John Wharton Lowe and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by national and regional boundaries has led critics to ignore deep ties across highly permeable borders. Focusing on writers and literatures from the Deep South and Gulf states in relation to places including Mexico, Haiti, and Cuba, Lowe reconfigures the geography of southern literature as encompassing the "circumCaribbean," a dynamic framework within which to reconsider literary history, genre, and aesthetics. Considering thematic concerns such as race, migration, forced exile, and colonial and postcolonial identity, Lowe contends that southern literature and culture have always transcended the physical and political boundaries of the American South. Lowe uses cross-cultural readings of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, including William Faulkner, Martin Delany, Zora Neale Hurston, George Lamming, Cristina Garcia, Edouard Glissant, and Madison Smartt Bell, among many others, to make his argument. These literary figures, Lowe argues, help us uncover new ways of thinking about the shared culture of the South and Caribbean while demonstrating that southern literature has roots even farther south than we realize.
Download or read book Reordering of Culture written by Alvina Ruprecht and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-11-15 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political, economic and social barriers among Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada are giving way to global forces and the "global dreams" they inspire. This collection of original articles and essays examines popular culture, literature, theatre, belief systems, indigenous practices and questions of identity, exile and alienation. The interconnectedness and distinction of cultural production throughout the Americas, "transplanted" interests, the mediation of African and European influences, and the expression of shifting identities, all reflect the development of a new American neighbourhood.
Download or read book Wild Things written by Jo Carnegie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much loved author, Jo Carnegie, brings us another riveting and raunchy read - a really steamy, romantic and hilarious indulgence that fans of Jilly Cooper will adore... 'Fabulous... Sexy and scandalous... If the countryside was always this exciting, we'd swap our stilettos for shooting sticks in a flash' -- Heat 'Sex, gossip and laughs aplenty' -- Image 'Sexy shenanigans and hilarious goings on '' -- Saturday Magazine 'Easy holiday read or curling up on the sofa with a cuppa on a rainy Saturday!' -- ***** Reader review 'A cracking pace and the characters are fantastic' -- ***** Reader review 'I had many a late night reading those extra few pages!' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************ THE SCENE IS SET FOR A PERFECTLY SCANDALOUS YEAR... When an A-list film set descends on the quiet village of Churchminster, so begins a very interesting time for the village... Meet the glamorous cast of Wild Things! Sophia - the leading lady who gets what she wants. And she wants... Jed - the village's gorgeous gardener, living with devoted girlfriend... Camilla - sweet-natured and desperate for a baby, unlike her sister... Calypso - fiercely ambitious, and unimpressed by the penetrating gaze of... Rafe - dashing leading man, who quickly wins over Calypso's grandmother... Clementine - whose only desire is for Churchminster to win 'Britain's Best Village'! Wild Things is a racy, pacy and sexy romp - guaranteed to have you laughing out loud and crying for more! The Churchminster adventures continue in Dirty Tricks. Have you read Country Pursuits and Naked Truths, the first two books in the series?
Download or read book Gods and Mortals written by Sarah Iles Johnston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths “This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths.”—Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series “Move over, Edith Hamilton! Sarah Iles Johnston has hit the magical refresh button on Greek myths.”—Maria Tatar, author of The Heroine with 1001 Faces Gripping tales that abound with fantastic characters and astonishing twists and turns, Greek myths confront what it means to be mortal in a world of powerful forces beyond human control. Little wonder that they continue to fascinate readers thousands of years after they were first told. Gods and Mortals is a major new telling of ancient Greek myths by one of the world’s preeminent experts. In a fresh, vibrant, and compelling style that draws readers into the lives of the characters, Sarah Iles Johnston offers new narrations of all the best-known tales as well as others that are seldom told, taking readers on an enthralling journey from the origin of the cosmos to the aftermath of the Trojan War. Some of the mortals in these stories are cursed by the gods, while luckier ones are blessed with resourcefulness and resilience. Gods transform themselves into animals, humans, and shimmering gold to visit the earth in disguise—where they sometimes transform offending mortals into new forms, too: a wolf, a spider, a craggy rock. Other mortals—both women and men—use their wits and strength to conquer the monsters created by the gods—gorgons, dragons, harpies, fire-breathing bulls. Featuring captivating original illustrations by Tristan Johnston, Gods and Mortals highlights the rich connections between the different characters and stories, draws attention to the often-overlooked perspectives of female characters, and stays true both to the tales and to the world in which ancient people lived. The result is an engaging and entertaining new take on the Greek myths.
Download or read book American Silhouettes written by Christian Beres Calmejane and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume II of two volumes. American Silhouettes is primarily a study in human character in its dealing with the adversity of life. The setting is America during the last quarter of the twentieth century. More specifically it focuses on the struggle of two generations of a small African American family whose destiny encounters more than its share of horrific tribulations. It is a window on life, love, happiness, suffering, and death of the members of this small vulnerable resilient family from the South, that moves to Washington, D.C. for a better life, only to find a very short interlude of happiness, followed by a deep plunge into another cycle of trauma and despair; not death though, that would be too easy; and when death finally does come, it is a liberation of the body and soul. The saga continues with the cycle of misfortune repeating itself in a new age, a new generation with the same finality as if their destiny had been wickedly predefined. From Bridgeville SC to Washington DC, and from Rome to Dakar, their saga brings to light the evil and virtuousness of man in its most natural occurrence, as a part of daily life. The story brings together various individuals of different and sometimes opposite background and describes either the passions of their encounters or the clashes resulting from their conflicts. It analyses the most wonderful passions of love, beauty and happiness, and juxtaposes the horrible ugliness of hate and abuse. It incorporates the duty and responsibility of man within the context of our society and dwells into the aberrations of its marginal sector. It is an interweaved matrix of emotional extremes. It demonstrates that evil has no color, no race, no religion, and that it transcends the social fabric of our society.
Download or read book Phonographic Memories written by Njelle W. Hamilton and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonographic Memories is the first book-length analysis of Caribbean popular music in the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide poetics that attends to the centrality of Caribbean music in retrieving and replaying personal and cultural memories, Hamilton offers a fresh perspective on musical nationalism and nostalgic memory in the era of globalization.
Download or read book Between the Bocas written by Jak Peake and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River, western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepôt to mainland South America. Trinidad’s geographic position—seen as strategic by various imperial governments—led to many heterogeneous peoples from across the region and globe settling or being relocated there. The calm waters around the Gulf of Paria on the western fringes of Trinidad induced settlers to construct a harbour, Port of Spain, around which the modern capital has been formed. From its colonial roots into the postcolonial era, western Trinidad therefore has played an especial part in the shaping of the island’s literature. Viewed from one perspective, western Trinidad might be deemed as narrating the heart of the modern state’s national literature. Alternatively, the political threats posed around San Fernando in Trinidad’s southwest in the 1930s and from within the capital in the 1970s present a different picture of western Trinidad—one in which the fractures of Trinidad and Tobago’s projected nationalism are prevalent. While sugar remains a dominant narrative in Caribbean literary studies, this book offers a unique literary perspective on matters too often perceived as the sole preserve of sociological, anthropological or geographical studies. The legacy of the oil industry and the development of the suburban commuter belt of East-West Corridor, therefore, form considerable discursive nodes, alongside other key Trinidadian sites, such as Woodford Square, colonial houses and the urban yards of Port of Spain. This study places works by well-known authors such as V. S. Naipaul and Samuel Selvon, alongside writing by Michel Maxwell Philip, Marcella Fanny Wilkins, E. L. Joseph, Earl Lovelace, Ismith Khan, Monique Roffey, Arthur Calder-Marshall and the largely neglected novelist, Yseult Bridges, who is almost entirely forgotten today. Using fiction, calypso, history, memoir, legal accounts, poetry, essays and journalism, this study opens with an analysis of Trinidad’s nineteenth century literature and offers twentieth century and more contemporary readings of the island in successive chapters. Chapters are roughly arranged in chronological order around particular sites and topoi, while literature from a variety of authors of British, Caribbean, Irish and Jewish descent is represented.
Download or read book Aelred s Sin written by Lawrence Scott and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert de la Borde comes to England in the 1980's from the Caribbean after hearing that his brother, Jean Marc, has died. In Bristol, his brother's journals prompt Robert to visit Ashton Park Monastery, which Jean Marc entered in the 1960's as Brother Aelred.There, with the help of his brother's monastic friend Benedict, Robert pieces together Jean Marc's life; his exuberance, his mental suffering, and his struggle to balance his sexual impulses with his love of God, as set out in the work of Aelred of Rievaulx, Spiritual Friendship, against the austerity of Catholic sexual morality. In his understanding, Robert also learns what connects Jean Marc to Jordan, the African slave-boy captive at Ashton Park during the eighteenth century.As Robert is forced to question his inherited prejudices and to confront another ghost of Jean Marc's childhood - the events concerning Ted Salter - what unfolds is a story about the triumph of compassion over brutality. Moving from present to past, from cruelty to sympathy, Aelred's Sin is a powerful novel of erotic love, spiritual awakening and above all, reconciliation.
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Trinidad and Tobago written by Dominique De-Light and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2001 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook to the diverse Caribbean nation that comprises the small is land of Tobago and its more rural and much larger neighbour, Trinidad. Features include: critical listings of the best places to stay and eat; practical tips on how to explore; and coverage of the islands' cultural life, including Trinidad's world-famous carnival, traditional Indian festivals, indigenous music and local folklore. The guide also provides tips on birdwatching and exploring forested peaks and mangrove flats, as well as diving and snorkelling.
Download or read book The Sea Takes No Prisoners written by Peter Clutterbuck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a classic real-life story of derring do on the high seas, complete with extreme risk, last-minute ingenuity and many near-misses. Beginning in the 1960s, this book tells of the real life adventures of the author as a boy – a time of boarding schools, long holidays and an unbelievable (to today's parents) amount of freedom and danger. Encouraged by his parents (who lived abroad) to become more independent and self-sufficient, Peter decided to see how far he could get in his family's small open dinghy Calypso. Aged 16, he spent a winter restoring her, before pootling straight out into a force 7 gale and very nearly capsizing, after which he headed back to land to plan even more extreme adventures. Calypso was a Wayfarer, a small (16ft) and very popular class of open dinghy; a boat designed for pottering around coastlines and estuaries during the day. But along with the occasional brave crewmate, Peter managed to sail her across the Channel, through the Bay of Biscay, down the French canals and into the Mediterranean, then up into the North Sea and the Baltic to Oslo, living aboard for three months at a time. These were some of the longest voyages that anyone had ever achieved in an open boat, where (as Peter says) you 'have to be like a tightrope walker, concentrating on balance day and night, fully aware of the consequence of relaxing your vigilance'. He survived huge waves, nine rudder breakages in heavy seas, dismasting, capsizes, and hallucinations caused by sleep deprivation. He also managed it on a tiny budget, working as a farm labourer, hitchhiking everywhere, and at times living on one meal of cereal a day, to save the maximum amount for his boat. Charming, quite British in style, beautifully written and a lovely insight into a seemingly golden time, this is primarily a great read, but will be of huge practical use to anyone wanting to go that bit further in their dinghy. It also includes a lovely Foreword by world-famous yachtsman Brian Thompson.
Download or read book Deceitful written by Nicholas Ralph Morgan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his fascination with snow and his ownership of a Norwegian ski resort, Gavin Harrison could not wait to emigrate from England with his brother Greg to Martinique to enjoy a luxurious lifestyle in paradise. On the outside, it appears he has an enviable life as an entrepreneur and co-owner of the familys sugarcane plantation business. But all is not as it seems. Privilege comes with a price. Still grieving for the loss of his beloved Susannah, who tragically died in a fire on his yacht nearly a year ago, Gavin isnt ready to engage with another woman carrying a torch for him. As he attempts to resume a normal life once again, Gavin begins to believe that someone is trying to kill him. Despite a plane crash, a kidnapping in the Norwegian mountains, and a murder, the people closest to Gavin still doubt his sanity. In this thriller packed with unexpected twists and turns, hidden forces of revenge orchestrate events against a wealthy man, leaving him to wonder if he is dealing with just an unexplained bout of paranoia or an uncertain but very real demise.
Download or read book The Overseer s Favorite written by Camilla Draymarch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of The Overseer's Favorite Trilogy. The Overseer lives alone at the apex of Atlantis's dome. Through cameras and microphones, he monitors every aspect of Atlantean life, and he's grown bored with it. The only people he lets in are his Favorites - a string of prostitutes and Mistresses who break up the monotony of his life, but never for very long. Enter Marten. A man too clever to be a prostitute and too strange for words. He is unlike every other Favorite The Overseer has ever had. Will Marten bring out the last bit of humanity in The Overseer or will they both fall into the abyss...
