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1) Black cake
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
2) Impulse
Author
Language
English
Description
Journalist Rafaella Holland discovers from her comatose mother's journals that her "real" father is Dominick Giovanni, a powerful arms dealer who runs his operations from his own private island compound in the Caribbean. Dominick abandoned her mother after Rafaella's birth, a terrible secret that has been hidden from her all these years ... Aching for revenge, Ragaella poses as a biographer and finagles an invitation to Dominick's private island....
3) Hawke
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Alexander Hawke heads for the Caribbean on a secret mission for the U.S. government to locate an experimental stealth submarine which has fallen into the hands of an unstable government planning a preemptive strike against the United States.
Author
Series
Former FBI Agent E.L. Pender volume 3
Language
English
Description
Assisting a friend in the Virgin Islands with a disturbing serial murder case, retired FBI special agent E.L. Pender investigates his suspicions about the killer's connection to the latest victim.
Former FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender may be retired, but he jumps at the chance to help solve a particularly gruesome series of crimes in the U.S. Virgin Islands. This is no ordinary case, seeing as the right hand on each body in the string of murders...
6) Isla
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother take an imaginary journey to the Caribbean island where her mother grew up and where some of her family still lives.
8) Tar baby
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1981
Language
English
Description
"Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After seeing a girl raped and becoming obsessed with her, sixteen-year-old Thulani finds motivation to move beyond his interest in his pigeons and his grief over his mother's death.
10) Gold dust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
In 1975, twelve-year-old Richard befriends Napolean, a Caribbean newcomer to his Catholic school, hoping that Napolean will learn to love baseball and the Red Sox, and will win acceptance in the racially polarized Boston school.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Anjali dreams of hosting a televised cooking show featuring foods based on her Hindu and Trinidadian heritage, but when an opportunity presents itself, she will have to defy her family to go to the audition. Includes recipes.
13) Bay of souls
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Becoming involved with new faculty member Lara, who claims to be possessed, professor Michael Ahern journeys to Lara's native island of St. Trinity, where he is enmeshed in a smuggling scheme.
Author
Publisher
Star Bright Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a hot day on the subway, Oscar spies the "Island Lady, " who proceeds to pull an island breeze, Caribbean foods, and even a steel drum band out of her bag to share with her fellow travelers.
Author
Series
Outlaw Saints novel volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Simultaneous battles rage in the Caribbean and Brooklyn as sixteen-year-olds Mateo and Chela, two gods-turned-teenagers, try to get to the bottom of what is keeping them apart.
Healer. Destroyer. Creator. Mateo Matisse and Chela Hidalgo are not just two teenagers in love--they're powerful gods in human form. Powerful enough to have saved their Brooklyn diaspora community from the wrath of an ancient enemy and to have raised their once-sunken native...
16) La isla
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
A young girl and her grandmother take an imaginary journey to the Caribbean island where her mother grew up and where some of her family still lives.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Yesenia introduces readers to her favorite food--plátanos--which go with everything, especially love, in this ode to the star of Dominican cuisine"--
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