CARIBBEAN FANTASY


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This is a tale of forbidden love, forbidden because of ethical values and the age difference between the two main characters Captain Robin McDonald and his charter Mrs. Casey Hooper. He’d known her several years ago back in Baltimore. She was a Barmaid at a local watering hole that he visited often and used to tell his tales of sailing the Chesapeake and how fun it was to be free and naked on the water. One day, she decided to go on vacation and because of the exciting stories he used to talk about and how fun it was to sail, she decided to charter a sailboat in the Caribbean. She had no idea that he would be the Captain of the same boat she was chartering. She hadn’t seen him in years. Besides, the Caribbean was huge! The odds were a million to one! Mrs. Casey was only supposed to charter the boat for 3 days, but then decided to extend it a little longer. They sailed around to deserted islands and a multitude other spots only the locals knew about, they accidently stumble upon a Shamanee (a local island witch) that later they found wasn’t an accident at all. She not only knew who they were but she also told them that Mother Earth had placed them on this path together and they would both experience a personal -journey of the heart . Through these trials and tribulations Captain Robin tries to maintain his professionalism as a captain and continues to resist the temptations of this gorgeous woman. Follow Robin and Casey as they journey through the path of the heart and the unbelievable desires and temptation they try to resist!




Politics in Fantasy Media


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Fantasy is often condemned as escapist, unsophisticated and superficial. This collection of new essays puts such easy dismissals to the test by examining the ways in which Fantasy narratives present diverse, politically relevant discourses--gender, race, religion or consumerism--and thereby serve as indicators of their real-world contexts. Through their depiction of other worlds allegedly disconnected from our own, these texts are able to actualize political attitudes. Instead of categorizing Fantasy either as conservative or progressive, the essays suggest that its generic peculiarity allows the emergence of productive forms of oscillation between these extremes. Covered are J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire sequence, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, the vampire TV series True Blood, and the dystopian computer game Fallout 3.




Tales from the Caribbean


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A collection of favourite tales gathered from the many different islands of the Caribbean, one of the world's richest sources of traditional storytelling. From the very first Kingfisher to Anansi the Spider Man, these lively retellings full of humour and pathos, are beautifully retold by Trish Cooke. The book includes endnotes with a glossary, additional information as well as ideas for activities that children can do to explore the stories further.




Fantasy


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Throughout this book you will see and feel the pain that I feel, but you also see the joy, the passion and love I feel. If you look deep enough you will also see the pain that I see in every-day life that most people don't want to see. I was a little boy growing up in North Carolina during the early 70s, a time of changes. One either changed or was left behind. Whites and Blacks were learning to live together, work together. The dream was coming true. Or was it?




Escape


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A nostalgic celebration of the glamour of warm-weather destinations in the Caribbean and Florida, from the great estates of ambitious patrons to the most exclusive resorts of the mid-twentieth century. Through iconic photography capturing the cultural mood at the moment when social codes relaxed from the formality of the Gilded Age to the spontaneity of the jet-set era, Escape: The Heyday of Caribbean Glamour takes the reader inside a world of beach parties and costume balls set in lush tropical landscapes, of rarefied resorts and fairy-tale private estates. Escape presents the visual history of the region’s outstanding getaways, chronicling their transformations from pristine idyllic settings to personalized retreats where responsibilities could be left behind. Joseph Urban, Oliver Messel, Paul Rudolph, and other talented designers made these dreams reality, relying on regional design traditions to express the spirit of places like Antigua, Barbados, Cuba, and Jamaica, and sometimes inventing a new vernacular using fantasy imagery to emphasize the notion of escape from the pressures of urban living. Among these idealized settings blossomed the resort lifestyle of international celebrities, from Marjorie Merriweather Post to Babe Paley, Princess Margaret to David Bowie, whose escapades are spectacularly captured in these pages to make the region’s bygone glamour come alive.




Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema


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Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories of posthumanism and ecocriticism. Together they grapple with how Latin American filmmakers have attempted to "push past the human," and destabilize the myth of anthropocentric exceptionalism that has historically been privileged by cinema and has led to the current climate crisis. While some chapters question the very nature of this enterprise—whether cinema should or even could actualize such a maneuver beyond the human—others signal the ways in which the category of the "human" itself is interrogated by Latin American cinema, revealed to be a fiction that excludes more than it unifies. This volume explores how the moving image reinforces or contests the division between human and nonhuman, and troubles the settler epistemic partition of culture and nature that is at the core of the climate crisis. As the first volume to specifically address how such questions are staged by Latin American cinema, this book brings together analysis of films that respond to environmental degradation, as well as those that articulate a posthumanist ethos that blurs the line between species.




On Stranger Tides


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“Powers writes action and adventure that Indiana Jones could only dream of.” —Washington Post “Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.” —William Gibson The remarkable Tim Powers—who ingeniously married the John Le Carrè spy novel to the otherworldly in his critically acclaimed Declare—brings us pirate adventure with a dazzling difference. On Stranger Tides features Blackbeard, ghosts, voodoo, zombies, the fable Fountain of Youth…and more swashbuckling action than you could shake a cutlass at, as reluctant buccaneer John Shandy braves all manner of peril, natural and supernatural, to rescue his ensorcelled love. Nominated for the Locus and World Fantasy Awards, On Stranger Tides is the book that inspired the motion picture Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides—non-stop, breathtaking fiction from the genius imagination that conceived Last Call, Expiration Date, and Three Days to Never.




Islands Magazine


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Islands Magazine


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Islands Magazine


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