hit me

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any thing but <span style="font-style: italic">mystery</span> please

nylah anything not set in canada/US, the more exotic the location the better


I just got a library card for the library near me

[Seveen]

Re: THE DUPPY

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Seveen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">try Legitimate Resistance </div></div>

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This novel gives us a rare and exciting glimpse into the organized runnings of the underworld of the Jamaican Diaspora: the drug and gun trades, extortion rackets and their political connections. Susan Adjerlolo, a lovely girl from the country, goes to Kingston city to follow her dreams of becoming a singer. She meets and falls in love with Silver, a gangster turned revolutionary. Love carries Susan through countless dangers and romantic adventures as Jamaica prepares to meet the revolutionary wrath of the oppressed. Legitimate resistance runs wild through the streets and inner cities of Kingston to the fast lanes of New York City and into the suburbs of London. With beautiful Jamaica as the backdrop, and pulsating reggae music as the hearbeat, a generation searches for truth, justice and redemption.

[Seveen]

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Pirate's Daughter (transports you to jamaica)

Cezair-Thompson conjures the tragic glamour of golden age Hollywood against the backdrop of lusty, turbulent Jamaica in her dual generational coming-of-age saga. Ida Joseph is 13 years old when Errol Flynn is nearly shipwrecked off the coast of her hometown of Port Antonio in 1946. Flynn instantly loves Jamaica and, eager to find a refuge from stateside scandal, purchases an island across from the port. Navy Island becomes the setting for his glittering parties, movie projects and affair with Ida in her senior year of high school. Flynn refuses to take responsibility for the resulting child, May, and after trying to make a go of it in Jamaica, Ida leaves May and heads to New York City, where she marries a wealthy baron friend of Flynn's who purchases the island after Flynn dies. May grows to adulthood on Navy Island, develops something more than a crush on a married family friend 40 years her senior and indulges in drugs and free love. Jamaica's tumultuous progression toward self-governance—with the violent chaos it unleashes on Navy Island—reveals certain hidden truths about the baron. For all the high drama, the reader never feels fully privy to Ida or May, but Cezair-Thompson otherwise succeeds magnificently in evoking a world distant in both time and place. (Oct.)

[Seveen]

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Jamaica Girl (for something racy and explores aspects of sex tourism - fiction)

Rosalind Juliet Mitchell could become one of the great heroines of modern fiction. She is a Jamaican Lolita and a Caribbean cross between Huck Finn and Liza Doolittle. Dirt poor, hungry, bright-eyed and determined, she clings to her one distant hope — Glenn Webber, an aging, uncertain American tourist. He is Humbert with a conscience, forced comically to confront one moral dilemma after another in an effort to comprehend a culture very different from his own. In this hilarious, erotic, heart-rending romp, we move from a bloody jungle killing to a Kingston beauty pageant, meeting on the way a supporting cast that includes a voodoo witch, a hip-hop dancer, an ebullient taxi driver, a sly Rasta-man, a ruthless voyeur, a stoned plant lady, a corrupt detective, a quirky pageant coach, some wild Jamaican strippers and an assortment of mountain peasants. Have you been to Jamaica, mon? Climbed the falls? Now immerse yourself in this tropical odyssey of struggle and triumph, and meet one of the most memorable heroines in modern imaginative literature.

[loops]

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The Septembers of Shiraz ~ by Dalia Sofer

<span style="font-style: italic">From Publishers Weekly
Sofer's family escaped from Iran in 1982 when she was 10, an experience that may explain the intense detail of this unnerving debut. On a September day in 1981, gem trader Isaac Amin is accosted by Revolutionary Guards at his Tehran office and imprisoned for no other crime than being Jewish in a country where Muslim fanaticism is growing daily. Being rich and having had slender ties to the Shah's regime magnify his peril. In anguish over what might be happening to his family, Isaac watches the brutal mutilation and executions of prisoners around him. His wife, Farnaz, struggles to keep from slipping into despair, while his young daughter, Shirin, steals files from the home of a playmate whose father is in charge of the prison that holds her father. Far away in Brooklyn, Isaac's nonreligious son, Parviz, struggles without his family's money and falls for the pious daughter of his Hasidic landlord. Nicely layered, the story shimmers with past secrets and hidden motivations. The dialogue, while stiff, allows the various characters to come through. Sofer's dramatization of just-post-revolutionary Iran captures its small tensions and larger brutalities, which play vividly upon a family that cannot, even if it wishes to, conform. </span>

[Seveen]

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Power Game by Perry Henzell (almost as good as Phatty's writing)

Review
&quot;'Powerful reading, chock full of drama, politics, violence and sex with even a salting of mysticism thrown in.' Fred Archer, The Gleaner 'A disturbing work of art... an unexpected and challenging question to the way we feel and think about society... with Perry Henzell we have a new voice of authority... it takes an immediate and honourable place in the ranks of West Indian fiction.' John Hearn, The Sunday Gleaner 'A potential blockbuster.' Glen McFarlane, Sun Rays 'I find it hard to put it down!' Archie Lindo, Star 'Perry Henzell's feature has done more to popularize Reggae music in America than any single performer or song.' L.A. Weekly A novel which is as essential to understanding Jamaican culture as is Henzell's celebrated film &quot;THE HARDER THEY COME&quot;... Grows more addictive with each page. Chris Salewicz, Face Magazine&quot;

Product Description
A Caribbean Island is up for grabs, and there are five who plan to grab it! Mark Berhard controls the army; Winston Bernard controls the banks; Michelle controls the media; Zack controls the streets; and Eddie controls the cash in the ganja trade. Each believes that when the crucial moment comes, what they have will give them complete control.

[Seveen]

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my christmas day reading was Jesus by deepak - fiction - exotic but modern

The narrative focuses on the mysterious span of time in Christ's life between the ages of 12 and 30. Chopra portrays the young adult Jesus as a malleable figure at the center of a host of pivotal political, cultural and religious shifts. The threads of his spiritual leadership become evident during these formative years, but Christ must devote himself to growing in enlightenment about the full nature of his identity and message. Not surprisingly, Chopra casts the sources of this revelation to include both Western and Eastern perspectives. Chopra's narration may not always maintain a natural flow of dialogue among characters, but the ethereal power of his voice and the evocative manner in which he sets the stage remain effective. Perhaps the most compelling elements of the story line involve Judas and Mary Magdalene, two of New Testament history's most complicated and controversial figures.

[Gen]

Re: THE DUPPY

everything sounds good except the

jesus one by deepak chopra, sounds way too religious for me right now.