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61) Drug of choice
Author
Series
Hard case crime book ; HCC-MC6
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Roger Clark travels to the Caribbean to investigate Eden Island, a resort run by bioengineers, he uncovers frightening secrets about the place and the corporation underwriting it.
62) His by Christmas
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When executive Calhoun Hart has a skydiving accident at the start of his month-long Caribbean vacation, he flies widow Justine Walker in to be his personal assistant, never expecting to discover love in the process." --
63) Anna in-between
Author
Publisher
Akashic
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Anna In-Between is Elizabeth Nunez's finest literary achievement to date. In spare prose, with laser-like attention to every word and the juxtaposition of words to each other, Nunez returns to her themes of emotional alienation, within the context of class and color discrimination, so richly developed in her earlier novels.
Anna, the novel's main character, who has a successful publishing career in the U.S., is the daughter of an upper-class Caribbean...
64) Winter break
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
I knew it wasn't true. It couldn't be...And yet, I couldn't help staring at him, wondering. However fleeting, there was the slightest hint of doubt in my mind.
Didi Randall doesn't think her life can get much worse than public humiliation when her boyfriend is the subject of a vicious rumor on campus. Despite their four-year relationship, the rumor puts a wedge between her and Drake, but Didi is hopeful that they can reconnect on the winter break...
65) Hawke: a novel
Author
Series
Alex Hawke novel ; 1
Language
English
Description
Lord Alexander Hawke is one of England's most decorated naval heroes. Now, in the Caribbean on a secret assignment for the American government, Hawke must disarm a ticking time bomb; a highly experimental stealth submarine carrying forty nuclear warheads just ninety miles from the U.S. mainland. But Hawke's mission is twofold, for he has returned to the waters where modern-day pirates brutally murdered his parents when he was a boy. After a lifetime...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In The Devil's Shadow, Commander Larry Cole is confronted with the most beautiful and cunning criminal he's ever faced. Julianna Saint has a reputation for getting anything she wants. Her occupation, international thief. Her notoriety has spread from the underworld to the Chicago mob boss, Jake Romano, who has heard that no matter how tight the security, no matter what precautions are taken, Julianna can steal it.
Jake wants her to pull off a nearly...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Few people seek out the tiny Caribbean island of Dampier Cay-visitors usually wash up there by accident. But this weekend, three people are flying to the island, not for a tan or fun in the sun, but because they have reason to believe that they might encounter something there that most people take great measures to avoid-a hurricane.
A lottery windfall and a few hours of selfishness have robbed Caldwell of all that was precious to him, while Beverly,...
69) The mimic men
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
Former government minister Ralph Singh is the perpetual outsider: displaced, disillusioned and now living in exile, Ralph reflects on his earlier life and the searing effects of colonialism. Ralph's constant estrangement sees him ever attempting to fit into various communities, only to find home in more transient spaces. Born on the tropical island of Isabella, he is one of West India's many 'Mimic Men'. Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author V.S....
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
A calypso singer named Lord Short Shoe consorts with a vampish black singer to bilk an American out of his pride and his only companion-a monkey. An entire island bureaucracy casually confounds the attempts of Tillman, a hotel owner, in his attempt to get his dead mother out of the freezer and into a real grave; stymied, he resorts to a highly unusual form of burial. Two poor islanders stumble into a high-class dance party one night and find themselves...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Peter Gardner, a white scientist from England, is exiled after performing dangerous experiments on patients. He flees with his beautiful young daughter, Virginia, to the Caribbean, where he raises her in isolation among few people-all natives. One of those natives is Carlos, a young boy of mixed-race. Virginia and Carlos develop a forbidden friendship, which later blooms into a love that binds them above all cultural, racial, and paternal resistance....
74) Sugar money
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1765 on the Caribbean islands of Grenada and Martinique, Sugar Money opens as two enslaved brothers - Emile and Lucien - are sent on an impossible mission forced upon them by their masters, a band of mendicant French monks." --
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