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  Papillon

  by Henri Charriere

  Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape . After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's... (more)
• Reader's Digest Natural Wonders Of The WorldReader's Digest Association

  

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  Reader's Digest Natural Wonders Of The World

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  A Journey of Promise: May you be inspired
  And find light at the end of the tunnel.

  by Holly Nurse

  A Journey of Promise is a fictitious story about a young woman called Gillian Honey. Having outgrown her rural life experiences in Promise, she seeks development elsewhere. Her journey, focused around a nursing career, takes her from the rural suburbs of Guyana to urban city life in Georgetown, and thereon to London. The story shows the rich and diverse community of Promise and a young woman up against... (more)
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  The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha

  by Andrea Gunraj

  Andrea Gunraj makes an extremely confident and accomplished debut with her sweeping novel of love, rivalry, family, corruption, magic and friendship. This is the start of a dazzling career. This incredible story begins in the first minutes following a mother’s discovery that her three-year-old daughter has been abducted. These early pages launch us into the mother’s story. Headstrong, defiant, and troubled, Neela... (more)
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  Gender Ethnicity and Place: Women and Identity in Guyana

  by Linda Peake

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  Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple

  by Deborah Layton

  Told by a former high-level member of the Peoples Temple and Jonestown survivor, Seductive Poison is the "truly unforgettable" ( Kirkus Review ) story of how one woman was seduced by one of the most notorious cults in recent memory and how she found her way back to sanity. From Waco to Heaven's Gate, the past decade has seen its share of cult tragedies. But none has been quite so dramatic or compelling as the... (more)
• My Bones and My Flute (Longman Caribbean Writers)Edgar Mittelholzer

  

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  My Bones and My Flute (Longman Caribbean Writers)

  by Edgar Mittelholzer

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  Turner: New and Selected Poems

  by David Dabydeen

  David Dabydeen's Turner is a long narrative poem written in response to J. M. W. Turner's celebrated poem "Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying." Dabydeen's poem focuses on what is hidden in Turner's painting, the submerged head of the drowning African. In inventing a biography and the drowned man's unspoken desires, the poem brings into confrontation the wish for renewal and the inescapable stains of... (more)
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  Slave Song

  by David Dabydeen

  Songs of frustration and defiance from African slaves and displaced Indian laborers are expressed in a harsh and lyrical Guyanese Creole far removed from contemporary English in these provocative Caribbean poems. An insightful critical apparatus of English translations surrounds these lyrics, shedding light on their meaning, while at the same time cleverly commenting on the impossibility of translating Creole and... (more)
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  Disappearance

  by David Dabydeen

  This novel that echoes the styles of Joseph Conrad and V. S. Naipaul follows a young Guyanese engineer appointed to help save and shore up a Kent coastal village's sea defenses, and his relationship with the old woman with whom he lodges. Learning more about the village's history through his relationship with Mrs. Rutherford, the narrator discovers that underlying the village's Englishness is a latent violence... (more)