Book Review - The Baby Who Would Not... This story comes out of the consciousness of a baby called Kaeli. This particular little person makes landfall on a children’s ward at a hospital. Its location in a multi-cultural setting turns out to be an appropriate setting in which her free-thinking spirit can speak for herself and other babies. At first and on her own terms (and not unlike a small tropical storm), she sets some challenges which in all fairness, are manageable to all grownups concerned. To begin with, she rallies her new friends to object, obviously by action rather than words.
Book Review - "Portland: The Other Jamaica" "Portland: The Other Jamaica" is intended to convey the unique qualities of this most beautiful of parishes. Portland has more mountains, rivers, flora and fauna and rain and perhaps has experienced more natural calamities than any other parish. That environment has shaped Portland's history and has also attracted many dreamers and a few schemers, and still does. As Errol Flynn once said: "Portland is more beautiful than any woman". The people and the places of Portland have combined to create a parish like no other.
Book Review: Moon Jamaica VI Edition Moon Handbooks give you the tools to make your own choices, with suggestions on how to plan a trip that’s perfect for you, including: The Best of Jamaica, Local Spas and Hot Springs, Roots and Culture, The Adrenaline Junkie’s Fix, Vital Vittles: Jamaica’s Best Food, Hidden Beaches and Hillside Hikes. Additionally, Moon Jamaica provides 25 detailed and easy-to-use maps, plus the firsthand experience and unique perspective of author Oliver Hill.
Book Review - Seven Letters to Heaven Seven Letters to Heaven tells the personal experience of the author’s relationship with God and her faith, by way of her letters of prayer to Him. In a poignant, simple, and personal way, she shares how her letters were answered, and she encourages others to believe that, through faith, they can expect answers to their prayers.
Book Review: Sprinting into History: Jamaica and the 2008 Olympic Games Jamaica has long been a global power on the track, having achieved far more medals on a per capita basis than any other country in the Olympics. The impact that the country has made on the global athletic landscape belies its population and geographical size.
Book Review--Turn Your Passion Into Profit Business author, Walt F.J. Goodridge, shares his PassionProfit Philosophy and Formula to help a worldwide audience of anyone who yearns to escape the rat race, make money doing what they love, and live true to themselves.
Book Review - Keep On Pushing: Hot Lessons From Cool Runnings Keep On Pushing: Hot Lessons From Cool Runnings is a semi-autobiographical motivational book by original Jamaica bobsled team member Devon Harris. In this book Devon has brought together all that he has learned along the way, from his days as a student in Kingston, to his education at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, his life as a Jamaica Army officer, and of course to his experiences at three Olympics which changed his life forever.
Book Review: Forever Young At 50+ A compilation of 100 stories, featuring individuals over the age of 50 who have made great achievements, overcome tremendous adversity, and through it all, still remain forever young.
Book Review: Michael Manley: The Politics of Equality Michael Manley was a true internationalist who understood the complex interplay among national, regional and global processes. He readily grasped the fact that the historically determined structures underpinning these relationships played an important role in perpetuating the asymmetric power relations between the developed and developing countries and the need therefore for the adoption of a proactive stance in promoting the interests of the latter.
Book Review: Journey of Perseverance from Jamaica to America The objective of this book is to inspire others positively in their daily lives, regardless of their circumstances. There are some fascinating revelations that were challenging, humorous and entertaining, and this makes for interesting reading. The book is about the radical adjustments I had to make to the big city lifestyle from my country living in Jamaica.
Book Review: Jamaican by Birth American by Choice Legally sanctioned racial bias no longer exists in America. Nonetheless, bias remains a deeply divisive and debilitating scourge that ravages social intercourse. The inevitability of increasing diversity presents a severe dilemma that divides America — a country that remains exemplary in so many other respects. Confronting bias is therefore as much a critically significant interpersonal challenge as it is an extremely prickly opportunity. Spectacular, relentless demographic changes along with the paranoia associated with the resulting inescapable browning, or diminution in whiteness, of America, merely complicate this already worrisome dilemma.
Book Review: Bob Marley - The Complete Annotated Bibliography Bob Marley: The Complete Annotated Bibliography is a tremendous resource for all Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, The Wailers and reggae fans. For the first time ever, every single book that has been published on Bob Marley and Peter Tosh from around the world is documented in one bibliography.
MIND SHAPER, a book of poetry, Prayers and Patois, MIND SHAPER, a book of poetry, Prayers and Patois, connects us to one another in this rapidly, global cultural integration. Your experiences will go from simple emoting to showing an eminent capacity to reason. Education, in its broadest sense, is found more on the outside of a classroom than within its four walls
Book Review - Great Spirits: Portraits Of Life-Changing World Music Artists What do such artists as Bob Marley, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nina Simone, and Sun Ra have in common? All created uniquely powerful musical art that had a profound effect on their audiences. Through their music and their lives they became forces for liberation, challenging the established order and inspiring people around the world to look at life in new ways.
Book Review: Dog-Heart Told in two voices, educated Jamaican English and the nation-language of the people, this dramatic novel tells the story of a well-meaning, middle-class woman and a young boy from the ghetto whom she desperately wants to help.
Book Review: What's New Doc? Jamaican, Elaine Myrie-Richards is a retired physician who lives in Winter Springs, Florida. Recalling the many humorous encounters she had experienced while working at the Veterans’ Affairs Out-Patient Clinic in Orlando, Florida. (V.A.O.P.C.) the author decided to collect funny stories from fellow medical professionals.
Book Review: Hot Chocolat Hot Chocolat is the second in Judy Powell’s series of sizzling Jamaican romance novels. It is the sequel to Hot Summer, which came second in the Toronto Romance Writers Competition. Hot Chocolat is “hot and sweet – a delicious combination”.
Book Review: The Village Curtain The Village Curtain is a collection of fictional stories, sketches and imaginary characters woven into a novel and set in the coastal communities of Jamaica . Considerable effort is made to make the physical and technical descriptions of the conditions and methods employed by village fishermen as precise as possible.
Dear Dad...Ky-mani Marley's Autobiography - Book Review Family ties are the ties that bind, but when unraveled, they can be the threads that nearly hang us to death. In fact, sometimes our most vehement enemies emerge from the same sources from which we yearn to receive so much love—our families. Ky-Mani Marley knows this firsthand.
Run to Freedom - Book Review Run to Freedom is an adventure story for junior readers, set on an eighteenth century sugar plantation in Jamaica. The young protagonist is Kofi, son of an enslaved Asante warrior named Kwame. Kofi's father fights vigorously against enslavement, and vows to escape the plantation and find a way to free his wife and children.
Olympic Gardens - Jamaican Book Review Olympic Gardens is a coming-of-age story, a powerful evocation of the life of an unwanted boy that grew up in Kingston, Jamaica. Most countries have their celebrity town like York of the British writers and the Trench Town of Bob Marley. This story is important work that has not been done so far in this genre about the town of Olympic Gardens.
Eroticism, Spirituality, and Resistance in Black Women's Writings - Book Review Western European mythology and history tend to view spirituality and sexuality as opposite extremes. But sex can be more than a function of the body and religion more than a function of the mind, as exemplified in the works and characters of such writers as Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Edwidge Danticat.
Stages of Me - Jamaican Book Review Stages of Me is a 238-page novel that revolves around the disintegration of the intricately interwoven lives of members of three starkly different New Jersey families. The story is at times gritty, in-your-face and unflinching, but at its core is one that is predicated on love as it explores the dizzying peaks and depressing lows of family relationships.
I And I Bob Marley - Book Review Born in the Jamaican countryside in 1945, Bob Marley seemed special from birth. The curious, intuitive boy had an extraordinary gift for absorbing and interpreting the world around him.
Book Review: A Cow Called Boy A touching story of Josh's fight to save his hand-reared bull-calf, Boy, from the butcher's greedy hands. A Cow Called Boy is a humorous and dramatic true-to-life novella or novelette which can be enjoyed as a serialized bed-time story read to pre-literate tots.
Reaper of Souls: A Novel of the 1957 Kendal Crash - Jamaican Book Review The Kendal crash was, at the time, the world’s worst train catastrophe and the worst disaster in Jamaica’s history, taking more than 250 lives, including 14 from East’s family. Using the disaster as a backdrop, as well as eyewitness and survivor accounts, archival photographs, and the Commission of Inquiry Report (1958), East imagines a different outcome of the tragedy for the fictional Scott family.
Reaper of Souls begins on the day of the catastrophe and follows the Scotts as they leave Jamaica as part of the Great West Indian Migration to the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The Dead Yard : Jamaican Book Review Jamaica used to the source of much of Britain’s wealth, an island where slaves grew sugar and the money flowed out in vast quantities. It was a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. Since independence in 1962, it has gradually become associated with a new kind of hell, a society where extreme violence has become ordinary and gangs control the areas where most Jamaicans live.
Book Review: From Saddam Hussein To Barack Hussein: The Story of Change, Legacy, and Ascendancy From Saddam Hussein To Barack Hussein: The Story of Change, Legacy, and Ascendancy, by Jamaican author Donovan A. McFarlane ,communicates the paradoxical nature of change and leadership as processes shaping the very nature of existence, impacting the lives of ordinary and extraordinary individuals alike to forever alter the course of our world. This book chronicles the change process following an approximate decade of leadership, its ineffectiveness and effectiveness, and the breaking and making of strong leaders in national and global political contexts.
I’m Allergic - Jamaican Book Review This book targets children who are ages 3 to 7 years old, and the family members that read with them. The tale introduces the topic of food allergies as told by a young character by the name of Li'l Al Lurgic, who is very sensitive to popular edibles that are common to children's diet. The book aims primarily to be fun, and only secondarily speaks to children who have special needs, or sensitivities of which the adult world is lovingly ignorant. In a subtle way, the author is opening a space for more sensitive handling of the individual perculiarities of all small chiildren.
The Book of Night Women - Jamaican Book Review The Book of Night Women by Marlon James is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they—and she—will come to both revere and fear.
Girlie : Jamaican Book Review Girlie" is a tale of
unconditional love that begins in the mountains of Jamaica and takes the protagonists to
Canada and back during the island's emergence from Colonial rule.
Little Lion Goes for Gold - Jamaican Book Review Little Lion leads the pack! Young Zachariah Zion returns for his third challenge – winning a medal for his school's track team. At first, his little legs fail him, but with hard work and help from his father, he rises to the occasion. The book is written in rhyme and is meant for children age 8 and under.
Oracle of the Sun Gods: Book Review Oracle of the Sun Gods is a story that follows several young African-American college students as they embark on their summer school exchange program to Sudan. They are forced to take a look at life, love, the unquenchable thirst of youthful ambitions, and examine how the most simple and innocuous decisions can change one’s life forever.
Ferdie the fisherman in Negril : Book Review This is the story of two ten-year-old English boys, one of Jamaican parentage, holidaying in Negril, Jamaica, with Ferdie the fisherman. Their time in Negril goes beyond their expectations.
The Other Side of Paradise : Book Review For Karlyna Bancroft, this fiesty, free spirited thirty-one year old Island girl, returning home to assist in her failing family business was definitely not on her agenda. At the indirect request of her ailing father to come home and after several years living in the United States and barely surviving financially, Karlyna Bancroft goes home to Jamaica. Oracle of the Sun Gods is a story that follows several young African-American college students as they embark on their summer school exchange program to Sudan. They are forced to take a look at life, love, the unquenchable thirst of youthful ambitions, and examine how the most simple and innocuous decisions can change one’s life forever.
‘Souldance’ – dancing through real life with power and beauty : Jamaican Book Review Soul Dance captures the voice of every Jamaican, as well as their thoughts and dreams. Taken from writings spanning Jean Lowrie-Chin's 30-year career, the pieces reflect the events that uplift, as well as burden, Jamaican society. Her peotry is both universal and prophetic, from the warnings against the rat race in 'Slow Down Child', to the startling take on the life of Lee Boyd Malvo in 'Your Son Too'; they demonstrate that though so much has changed, alot has also stayed the same.
Stir It Up: Reggae Album Cover Art : Jamaican Book Review Before the advent of music videos and CDs, album covers provided international audiences with a colorful invitation to the exotic, exciting world of Jamaican reggae. Stir It Up surveys this highly popular cover art, featuring rare and classic covers from the early ska era through the dancehall style of the '80s. While the cover art frequently reflects serious political and religious preoccupations, reggae's lighter side comes through in pictorial tributes to American Westerns, steamy dances, and
smoke-wreathed spliffs.
The World’s Finest - Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee: Jamaican Book Review In The World’s Finest, author Norma Benghiat traces the early history of coffee and its journey to the Caribbean. The growing and harvesting techniques are covered, as are the plantation houses unique to the island home of Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee. Filled with specially commissioned lavish images depicting the history of coffee and the coffee making process in Jamaica, and sumptuous photographs of coffee drinks, deserts and even main courses, you will be inspired to seek out this brew to confirm for yourself that it is indeed the world’s finest.
Tracing His Foot Prints to Montego Bay: Jamaican Book Review Each of us has been given a talent and a date with destiny. God has carried
us to a point of reference in our lives, gently placing us down and giving us our space. But now and then His still small voice whispers, “This is the way—walk ye in it.” In Errol Myers’ Tracing His Foot Prints to Montego Bay, four Caribbean natives, two from Jamaica, one from Haiti and Panama, who are also university students—Peter, Magan, Zoya, and Wendy, —are placed on the paradise island of Jamaica.
Sweet Home, Jamaica : Jamaican Book Review Sweet Home, Jamaica has a universal appeal, but will be particularly attractive to Jamaicans who want to reminisce, remember their country traditions, and touch base with home. It is a bold first novel, and a compellingly delicious "must read". The book is also a refreshing addition to contemporary Caribbean Literature.
