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Divina Trace

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A groundbreaking novel in Caribbean literature and winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel from the acclaimed Trinidadian writer.A mysterious child, half-human, half-frog, is born on the island of Corpus Christi in the West Indies. Its mother becomes Magdalena Divina, patron saint of the island, worshipped by Hindu and Muslim Caste Indians, Africans, Catholics, and ... Read more

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A groundbreaking novel in Caribbean literature and winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel from the acclaimed Trinidadian writer.A mysterious child, half-human, half-frog, is born on the island of Corpus Christi in the West Indies. Its mother becomes Magdalena Divina, patron saint of the island, worshipped by Hindu and Muslim Caste Indians, Africans, Catholics, and
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As Flies to Whatless Boys

A Novel

by Robert Antoni ...

Spanning from Victorian England to the West Indies, this is a prize-winning novel of adventure, love, comedy, and tragedy.In 1845 London, engineer, philosopher, philanthropist, and bold-faced charlatan John Adolphus Etzler, has invented machines that he thinks will transform the division of labor and free all men. He forms a collective called the Tropical Emigration Society, and recruits a variety ... Read more

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Spanning from Victorian England to the West Indies, this is a prize-winning novel of adventure, love, comedy, and tragedy.In 1845 London, engineer, philosopher, philanthropist, and bold-faced charlatan John Adolphus Etzler, has invented machines that he thinks will transform the division of labor and free all men. He forms a collective called the Tropical Emigration Society, and recruits a variety
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Foreign Body

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Bee, a resilient young woman with an infectious narrative voice, travels from her Caribbean home to Brooklyn, in search of safety, employment, and a truly rewarding partnershipIN FOREIGN BODY, BEE TELLS HER STORY IN THE LILTING VERNACULAR voice of a young Black West Indian woman—wise, humorous, resourceful, and resilient. She is the victim of multiple assaults in her brutally patriarchal village, ... Read more

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Bee, a resilient young woman with an infectious narrative voice, travels from her Caribbean home to Brooklyn, in search of safety, employment, and a truly rewarding partnershipIN FOREIGN BODY, BEE TELLS HER STORY IN THE LILTING VERNACULAR voice of a young Black West Indian woman—wise, humorous, resourceful, and resilient. She is the victim of multiple assaults in her brutally patriarchal village,
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The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810

A Short History with Documents

by Robert J. Antony ...

The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810 exposes readers to the little-known history of Chinese piracy in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries through a short narrative and selection of documentary evidence. In this three-hundred-year period, Chinese piracy was unsurpassed in size and scope anywhere else in the world. The book includes a carefully selected and wide range of Chinese, ... Read more

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The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810 exposes readers to the little-known history of Chinese piracy in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries through a short narrative and selection of documentary evidence. In this three-hundred-year period, Chinese piracy was unsurpassed in size and scope anywhere else in the world. The book includes a carefully selected and wide range of Chinese,
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Trinidad Noir

The Classics

by Earl Lovelace, Robert Antoni ...

Series series Akashic Noir
"To travel through the 19 works of poetry and prose in this remarkable anthology is to experience Trinidad and Tobago through a kaleidoscopic lens." — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewTwo of Trinidad's top writers masterfully curate this literary retrospective of the nation's best writing over the past century from authors who were largely part of the literary wave that swept in with Trinidadian ... Read more

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"To travel through the 19 works of poetry and prose in this remarkable anthology is to experience Trinidad and Tobago through a kaleidoscopic lens." — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewTwo of Trinidad's top writers masterfully curate this literary retrospective of the nation's best writing over the past century from authors who were largely part of the literary wave that swept in with Trinidadian
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Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes

Glimpses of China's Hidden Past

by Robert J. Antony ...

History has many untold stories. In Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes the author provides glimpses into China’s hidden past through the native’s point of view. Rather than simply writing about ordinary people, this book is written from the perspective of ordinary people, how they told their own stories about themselves, their communities, and their pasts. The author examines historical consciousness ... Read more

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History has many untold stories. In Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes the author provides glimpses into China’s hidden past through the native’s point of view. Rather than simply writing about ordinary people, this book is written from the perspective of ordinary people, how they told their own stories about themselves, their communities, and their pasts. The author examines historical consciousness
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Trinidad Noir

by Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Oonya Kempadoo, Ramabai Espinet, Shani Mootoo, Lawrence Scott ...

Series series Akashic Noir
Eighteen authors share dark mysteries set on the sunny Caribbean island in this anthology.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographic area of the book. As reflected herein, the Caribbean provides no shelter ... Read more

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Eighteen authors share dark mysteries set on the sunny Caribbean island in this anthology.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographic area of the book. As reflected herein, the Caribbean provides no shelter
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Carnival

A Novel

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The Commonwealth Prize-winning author of Divina Trace "has boldly recast Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises as a harrowing tale" set in the West Indies ( Booklist, starred review).Robert Antoni has established himself as one of the most innovative voices to emerge from the Caribbean and the Americas. His novel Carnival—"easily his most engrossing, direct work to date"—takes readers on a journey from ... Read more

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The Commonwealth Prize-winning author of Divina Trace "has boldly recast Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises as a harrowing tale" set in the West Indies ( Booklist, starred review).Robert Antoni has established himself as one of the most innovative voices to emerge from the Caribbean and the Americas. His novel Carnival—"easily his most engrossing, direct work to date"—takes readers on a journey from
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Meditate on My Teaching

It Will Be Health to Your Body and Nourishment to Your Bones

by Robert Antony ...

Meditate on My Teaching. It Will Be Health to Your Body and Nourishment to Your BonesBeloved, I’m so glad you’re here. Sickness has come against you—whether it’s been a long battle or a fresh diagnosis. But hear this truth: disease has no rightful claim over your body, your mind, or your life.What this illness is really trying to do is attack your identity. It wants to distract you from who you ... Read more

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Meditate on My Teaching. It Will Be Health to Your Body and Nourishment to Your BonesBeloved, I’m so glad you’re here. Sickness has come against you—whether it’s been a long battle or a fresh diagnosis. But hear this truth: disease has no rightful claim over your body, your mind, or your life.What this illness is really trying to do is attack your identity. It wants to distract you from who you
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The Appleman and The Poet

by Hubert Butler, Robert Tóibín ...

The Appleman and the Poet, the fifth volume of Hubert Butler's essays, completes a thirty-year odyssey embarked upon by The Lilliput Press in 1984. Our flagship author has finally come home, welcomed by Fintan O'Toole in his foreword: 'One of the great joys of these essays is the discovery of sentences as sharp and lithe as a Toledo rapier.' Beginning with 'Russian Dispatches 1932–1946,' Butler ... Read more

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The Appleman and the Poet, the fifth volume of Hubert Butler's essays, completes a thirty-year odyssey embarked upon by The Lilliput Press in 1984. Our flagship author has finally come home, welcomed by Fintan O'Toole in his foreword: 'One of the great joys of these essays is the discovery of sentences as sharp and lithe as a Toledo rapier.' Beginning with 'Russian Dispatches 1932–1946,' Butler
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Drawn up from Deep Places

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Narrated by Emily Lawrence, Antony Ferguson, Robert Fass, Neil Hellegers, Marisa Calin, Tim Campbell, Hannah Curtis, Matthew Davies, Andrew Fallaize, Paul Woodson, Cindy Kay, Krystal Hammond, Robin Miles, various narrators ...

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If you go down deep enough, you find all sorts of things …In her second collection from Trepidatio Publishing, award-winning author Gemma Files takes her listeners on journeys out beyond safe borders—from the trackless depths of the sea, to the empty desert frontiers of the Weird West, even to the edges of cracks between worlds. Here, in these narrow spaces between the known and the unknown, ... Read more

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If you go down deep enough, you find all sorts of things …In her second collection from Trepidatio Publishing, award-winning author Gemma Files takes her listeners on journeys out beyond safe borders—from the trackless depths of the sea, to the empty desert frontiers of the Weird West, even to the edges of cracks between worlds. Here, in these narrow spaces between the known and the unknown,
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The Cambridge World History of Violence: Volume 3, AD 1500–AD 1800

Edited by Robert Antony, Stuart Carroll, Caroline Dodds Pennock ...

Series series The Cambridge World History of Violence
In the period from 1500 to 1800 the problem of violence necessitated asking fundamental questions and formulating answers about the most basic forms of human organisation and interactions. Violence spoke to critical issues such as the problem of civility in society, the nature of political sovereignty and the power of the state, the legitimacy of conquest and subjugation, the possibilities of ... Read more

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In the period from 1500 to 1800 the problem of violence necessitated asking fundamental questions and formulating answers about the most basic forms of human organisation and interactions. Violence spoke to critical issues such as the problem of civility in society, the nature of political sovereignty and the power of the state, the legitimacy of conquest and subjugation, the possibilities of
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