How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
By: Cherie Jones
3.69
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel in the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, from a brilliant Caribbean writer, …
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1. Beka Lamb
By: Zee Edgell
3.80
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Set in Belize, Beka Lamb is the record of a few months in the life of Beka and her family. The poli… read more
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"When the rains finally came that drought year, Beka's Dad tried to persuade Lilla to concentrate on bougainvillea, crotons, and hibiscus. Plants like these grew easily and luxuriantly in the yard, bu…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We creoles are so different, one from the other, that it's hard for us to mix properly amongst ourselves, let alone among Carib people who have a lot more things in common. Maybe its because Carib pe…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We can't sit down and keep rehashing what people did to us in the past, Ma, or use those injustices as any kind of complete excuse for our present situation. Every people have some kind of grievance.…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"Peace and happiness!' Miss Ivy was laughing an ugly laugh that hurt Beka's ear. She jumped off the platform and went to stand a the kitchen door. There was a hurt look on Lilla's face, and seeing it,…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
2. Tales in Colour and Other Stories
By: Kunzang Choden
3.93
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
What are the new realities that confront Bhutanese women today? What challenges do they face when t… read more
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3. The Star Side of Bird Hill
By: Naomi Jackson
4.00
Format: 412 pages,
After their mother can no longer care for them, young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, are exi… read more
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4. Baho!
By: Roland Rugero
3.46
Format: None pages,
When Nyamugari, an adolescent mute, attempts to ask a young woman in rural Burundi for directions t… read more
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5. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
By: Cherie Jones
3.69
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel in the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, from a brilliant Caribbean writer, … read more
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- mystery
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6. Rootless
By: Krystle Zara Appiah
3.83
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted… read more
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7. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
8. The God of Good Looks
By: Breanne Mc Ivor
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This entertaining, transportive, and luminous debut novel follows a young Trinidadian woman finding… read more
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9. Memphis
By: Tara M. Stringfellow
4.10
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s … read more
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10. The Island of Forgetting
By: Jasmine Sealy
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
How does memory become myth? How do lies become family lore? How do we escape the trauma of the pas… read more
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11. I Remember Abbu
By: Humayun Azad
3.98
Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition
A touching story of war, family, innocence, and memory from one of the top Bengali writers of all t… read more
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12. Pleasantview
By: Celeste Mohammed
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these idyllic images represent the suppos… read more
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13. An evening in Guanima: A treasury of folktales from the Bahamas
By: Patricia Glinton-Meicholas
4.08
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
"In folk stories, magic drums, ghosts, obedient and disobedient children, heros, tricksters and bir… read more
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14. What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You
By: Sharma Taylor
4.16
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she worked for before they l… read more
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15. We Were Girls Once
By: Aiwanose Odafen
3.82
Format: None pages, Audiobook
'We were three: complete, as we were meant to be…’ Ego, Zina and Eriife were always destined to … read more
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16. The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
By: Marcia Douglas
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
“Is me—Bob. Bob Marley.” Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower… read more
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17. These Ghosts Are Family
By: Maisy Card
3.66
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
A transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures ove… read more
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"I had thought the Christmas Rebellion an act of treason; now I saw that for those in bondage, violence was the only choice."-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
"Even though they were just words, they built a world that she couldn’t stop thinking about, that she felt trapped inside every night."-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
18. Village Weavers
By: Myriam J. A. Chancy
3.69
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy comes an extraordinary and enduring story of two fami… read more
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19. Dominoes
By: Phoebe Mcintosh
3.76
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race British woman who makes the shocking discov… read more
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20. For Such a Time as This
By: Shani Akilah
4.12
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
Gabby and Daniel cross paths at the wedding of a mutual friend. They both wonder if this could be t… read more
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21. I am unicorn : how to embrace your inner power
By: Kirsten Riddle
3.11
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Discover the magical world of unicorns!Kirsten Riddle takes you on a spellbinding journey to better… read more
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