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ATTITUDE
By David Moores
Fresh, gritty and laced with dry humour, Attitude is a fast-paced story readers of all ages won’t want to put down. Fourteen-year-old Lyle Prince is a cynical near-dropout with a severe case of attitude. It’s dead of winter and an outbreak of weird stuff—random acts of vandalism and livestock going missing—is unsettling the citizens of Southmead. Lyle inevitably gets drawn into them all.
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DOWN INDEPENDENCE BOULEVARD AND OTHER STORIES
by Ken Puddicombe
A taxi driver notices the changes in Independence Boulevard since freedom was gained from Britain. A free-wheeling spirit spends his time gambling and engaging in riots. A man is sentenced to death for the murder of his lover. Two women escape racial conflict and seek a better life at home and abroad. A housewife has faced the last straw with her husband. A mailman is caught in the middle of the World Trade Centre terrorist attack. These are some of the characters encountered in this engaging collection of short stories from the pen of Ken Puddicombe.
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I WENT TO THE END OF THE RAINBOW
By Pramita Chakraborty
A Looking for your little one’s next bedtime story? I Went To The End Of The Rainbow is a beautifully illustrated, captivating tale about a young child who can’t sleep and embarks on an adventure through the colours of the rainbow. Encourages curiosity and exploration. Children will learn words associated with movement, such as stepping, leaping, and dancing. Features whimsical watercolours. Each ray of colour is a new adventure with depictions of faraway lands, nature, animals and space.
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JUNTA
By Ken Puddicombe
Expatriate Marcus Jacobson wants to make a difference on the island of St. Anglia where he is taking up a professorship at the university but there are forces that will test him. The military stages a coup, usurps power and suspends the constitution. Hurricane David is heading for the island. The people Marcus encounters will determine his attitude to the Junta. They include: Melanie, a student who thinks force should be used to restore democracy; Father Bert, a priest who believes in Liberation Theology; Clarence Baptiste, editor of the local newspaper; the Reverend who runs a dirty tricks campaign for the Junta; Kentish, an islander who is a pacifist by nature and believes events should run their course.
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PEOPLE OF GUYANA
By Ian Mc Donald and Peter Jailall
From Berbice to Essequibo and Demerara in-between, these poems traverse the geography of Guyana with startling insights into its people and culture.
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PERFECT EXECUTION
By Michael Joll
A viola player in San Franciso is surprised by a panhandler’s hidden talent. In Barbados a voyeur makes contact with the object of his desire. A woman in Delhi retaliates against her abusive husband. A German army corporal confronts the criminal actions of his superior officer. In British Columbia a woman is terrorized by her ex-convict husband. A veteran Winnipeg detective solves a murder in an unusual way. These are some of the international settings encountered in this appealing first collection of short stories.
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PERSONS OF INTEREST
By Michael Joll
Set in colonial Malaya, these eight cases will tax all his experience and investigative skills as Inspector Masters comes up against antagonists determined to get away with murder most foul.
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POEMS FOR MARY
By Ian Mc Donald
“The garden which my wife has created, it is as much a work of art as a painting by a master spirit or a piece of perfect music by a composer.”
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RACING WITH THE RAIN
By Ken Puddicombe
Can one outrun the rain? Guyanese born Carl Dias receives news that his father Augusto has died in Guyana. Back in then British Guiana, Carl, a member of the left-wing ruling party, clashed with his father, a businessman in the Conservative party. Returning will reignite memories of the collapse of the political and social fabric of the colony, stoked by the Kennedy administration applying pressure through the CIA on the British to engineer the government out of office.
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TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE, A
By Michael Joll
Finely drawn characters. Visually dramatic, tense and emotionally satisfying. This is one of the finest novels of the Great War. In this poignant story, the writing stands in start contrast with the unvarnished description of the brutality of trench warfare.
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UNFATHOMABLE AND OTHER POEMS
By Ken Puddicombe
These poems cover a variety of themes, all connected to a childhood growing up in British Guiana, the rise of nationalism and the pre and post-independence eras. Nostalgia and yearning for a time long gone and never returning, are explored. The rise of nationalism, the period of disturbances in the 60’s and resulting dislocation are reflected in some of these poems.
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WEALTH
THROUGH REAL ESTATE INVESTING
By Jay Brijpaul
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