jamaica

In the remote Jamaican village of Gibbeath, a battle is fought between two men of God, a drunken priest named Hector Bligh, and the Apostle York, whose demands for a fire-and-brimstone church set in motion a deadly struggle for the soul of Gibbeath itself.

Young Nick, determined to learn how to fly and unwilling to let the Germans occupy his islands unopposed, takes to the skies in a restored World War I fighter and is soon photographing German patrol boats by day and flying by night.

Lilith was 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. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings and desires and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman in Jamaica, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link.

The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and their influence in Jamaica, The Rastafarians is an important contribution to the sociology of religion and to our knowledge of the variety of religious expressions that have grown up during the West African Diaspora in the Western Hemisphere.

A collection of poems about people and places that were part of the author's childhood in Jamaica.

When Stella Payne a forty-two-year-old African-American divorced mother of one takes a vacation to Jamaica, she has the time of her life and meets the man of her dreams -- one problem, he is half her age.

Illustrations and text written in both English and Mandarin tell the story of Mimi and all the things she sees that remind her of her grandmother's Saturday soup.

Illustrations and text written in both English and Swahili tell the story of Mimi and all the things she sees that remind her of her grandmother's Saturday soup.

A novel that tells the stories of two Jamaican women: Ida, a romantic who dreams of a life beyond her small town, and May, Ida's daughter fathered by actor Errol Flynn.

This book describes the geography, climate, history, cities, agriculture, transportation, business, trade, and wildlife of Jamaica.