My Sugar Island Home


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The narrative is written in first person intertwined with snippets of Jamaican patois and Spanish. It describes an impactful childhood filled with excitement, devotion, and gladness comparable to none. The author expresses her appreciation living a simple life in the country with her impartial grandparents who adored her but never uphold her into wrongdoings. Within a short course of time, she lived and travelled between parishes and highlighted the development and contours of Jamaica’s economy, music industry, and social infrastructure. While recounting her narrative, she underlines the ideals of respect, values, and courtesy that perpetuated the cultural climate of Jamaica’s society in the ’70s, ’80s, and early ’90s. Within the same token, she thanked the Jamaican people for their unselfish and unconditional love that was noted in the maxim: “It takes a village to raise a child.”




Return to Sugar Island


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From the hazy peaks of Jamaica's Blue Mountains and across hectares of sugar cane fields; from the scattered islands of the Caribbean to the bustling ports of the North American Colonies, this story chronicles the lives of the members of the Thornby Family as they pursue their separate ambitions.




Sugar Island Sampler


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Sugar Island


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By the 18th Century, England had a lucrative sugar, rum and cotton trade out of Jamaica and the planters feared that the steady flow of products would be disrupted by the escaped slaves that had banded together to avenge their treatment by the white man. To prevent this, King George sent an army to contain the dissenters, known as Maroons. This is a story about the men and women, black and white, who were embroiled in that conflict. How they lived, loved, survived and died. This is a story about the First Maroon War.







Warrior Girl Unearthed


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An Instant New York Times bestseller! A #1 Indies Bestseller! A Publisher's Lunch Best YA of 2023! An Amazon Best Book of the Year! Winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award! A Horn Book Fanfare Title! A BookPage Best Book of the Year! An Indigo Teen Staff Pick of the Month! An Indie Next Pick! FIVE STARRED REVIEWS FOR WARRIOR GIRL UNEARTHED! #1 New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley takes us back to Sugar Island in this high-stakes thriller about the power of discovering your stolen history. Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever take her far from home, and she wouldn't have it any other way. But as the rising number of missing Indigenous women starts circling closer to home, as her family becomes embroiled in a high-profile murder investigation, and as greedy grave robbers seek to profit off of what belongs to her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry begins to question everything. In order to reclaim this inheritance for her people, Perry has no choice but to take matters into her own hands. She can only count on her friends and allies, including her overachieving twin and a charming new boy in town with unwavering morals. Old rivalries, sister secrets, and botched heists cannot - will not - stop her from uncovering the mystery before the ancestors and missing women are lost forever. Sometimes, the truth shouldn't stay buried. Pick this up if you love: ● high stakes heist ● will-they-won't-they romance ● family secrets spanning decades




Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment


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Plantations, especially sugar plantations, created slave societies and a racism persisting well into post-slavery periods: so runs a familiar argument that has been used to explain the sweep of Caribbean history. Here one of the most eminent scholars of modern social theory applies this assertion to a comparative study of most Caribbean islands from the time of the American Revolution to the Spanish American War. Arthur Stinchcombe uses insights from his own much admired Economic Sociology to show why sugar planters needed the help of repressive governments for recruiting disciplined labor. Demonstrating that island-to-island variations on this theme were a function of geography, local political economy, and relation to outside powers, he scrutinizes Caribbean slavery and Caribbean emancipation movements in a world-historical context. Throughout the book, Stinchcombe aims to develop a sociology of freedom that explains a number of complex phenomena, such as how liberty for some individuals may restrict the liberty of others. Thus, the autonomous governments of colonies often produced more oppressive conditions for slaves than did so-called arbitrary governments, which had the power to restrict the whims of the planters. Even after emancipation, freedom was not a clear-cut matter of achieving the ideals of the Enlightenment. Indeed, it was often a route to a social control more efficient than slavery, providing greater flexibility for the planter class and posing less risk of violent rebellion.







The Hero Next Door the Korean War Preview Edition


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This book profiles some of the veterans who fought in Korea for the frozen rocky ground and mountain slopes as well as the ground along the 38th parallel until a cease fired end the fighting.




Serious Pig


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The Thornes grew up on Yankee cooking, and they were moved to find that culinary tradition alive in saltwater Maine. In "Here", the first section of the book, they renew their acquaintance with familiar dishes - lobster stew, baked beans, blueberry bread-and-butter pudding - in both Down East vernacular eating places and home kitchens. The second part of the book, "There", traces Thorne's love affair with the cooking - New Orleans Creole and bayou Cajun - of southern Louisiana. Although his visits there were all too brief, la cuisine de Louisiane has continued to enchant him, as has the experience of being a stranger in a strange land. Finally, in the third section, "Everywhere", Thorne takes the measure of an American cuisine that, more and more, is learning to survive without any real roots at all. He comes to terms with white bread and American cheese, explicates the erotics of the hamburger and the chocolate chip cookie, follows the evolution of the barbecue out of the decline of the pig, and examines the role of cornbread in the formation of the American character. Cooks will find fresh inspiration in the book's many detailed recipes, from home-fried potatoes, fresh pea pie, and Moosehead gingerbread to an amazing concatenation of rice-and-bean dishes that reach from the American South through the Caribbean and all the way back to Africa.




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