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Series
Language
English
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Doctor Isla Cooper is cursed. Literally. Each night, at the stroke of midnight she falls into a death-like sleep from which she cannot be awakened for six hours. To make it worse, the curse has an expiration date -- after a year, it becomes permanent. And the year is almost up. In a desperate attempt to find Malette -- the witch who cursed her -- Isla blackmails her way onto Daniel Pickett's private airship bound for the Caribbean, only to discover...
2) Countryman
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fisherman Countryman's solitary existence is shattered when a plane crashes into a nearby swamp. By rescuing two young Americans from the wreckage, Countryman becomes an unwitting player in a political plot devised by the power-hungry Colonel Sinclair. Features music by Bob Marley and The Wailers, Toots and The Maytals and Steel Pulse.
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this Jamaican melodrama, single mother Marcia works as a street vendor to support her two daughters. However, she also needs the financial assistance of "Uncle" Larry, who demands repayments in the form of sex with Marcia's teen daughter Tanya. After Marcia's vending stall is threatened by brutal thug Priest, she devises a retaliatory plan. The dressmaker Mrs. Gordon sews a sexy costume so Marcia can compete for the cash prize in the Dancehall...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven gunmen stormed the singer’s house, machine guns blazing. The attack wounded Marley, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Little was officially released about the gunmen, but much has been whispered, gossiped and sung about in the streets of West Kingston....
Publisher
Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A country boy who travels to Kingston to make it big as a reggae singer is ruthlessly exploited, first by his employer, then by the producer of his hit record. At last he becomes a pot-pushing desperado in an effort to live up to the code of his favorite movie heroes.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 311, 16 p. : ill., music ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of voodoo, Tell My Horse is an invaluable resource and fascinating guide. Based on Zora Neale Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of ceremonies and customs and superstitions of great cultural...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Frankie Green yearns to leave Jamaica and study in the United States, but when his father is shot he is forced to give up his scholarship and join his uncle Joe's gang.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman's highest virtue was her obedience. In an...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kidnapped at six and sent to work at the Exotic Lands Touring Company as a Wildblood tour guide, eighteen-year-old Victoria takes on a dangerous expedition through the monster-filled Jamaican jungle to secure a better future and find where she truly belongs."--Publisher description.
12) I am Bolt
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary on the fastest man alive, Usain Bolt. With archive footage of his youth in Jamaica. Will reveal the man and define the legacy of this incredible athlete.
13) Wild Justice
Author
Series
Physical Desc
25 pages
Language
English
Description
The thrilling first short story in the WILD Mystery Series, WILD JUSTICE was originally published in Ellery Queen Magazine and this long short story was brought back in its own printing due to public demand. In WILD JUSTICE, Resource Protection Agent Jamaica Wild takes on a wolf-killer in remote back-country in spite of the dark and deadly cold of winter's night. Racing against time to find a litter of newborn wolf pups after their mother is murdered,...
14) Cool runnings
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The comedy hit inspired by the true story of Jamaica's first Olympic bobsled team.
15) Songs of freedom
Author
Publisher
Manufactured by Island Def Jam Music
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. +
Language
English
17) Jahmekya
Author
Publisher
Virgin Records
Pub. Date
p1991
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
271 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Abel and Vera Paisley are a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's 'death' and takes out her grief on her children, Irene and Vincent. The effects of Abel's decision reverberate...
19) Dr. No
Publisher
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
007 James Bond's mission takes him to the steamy island of Jamaica, where mysterious energy waves are interfering with U.S. missile launches. As James unravels the astonishing truth, he must fight deadly assassins, sexy femme fatales and even a poisonous tarantula. With the help of CIA agent, Felix Leiter, and the beautiful Honey Ryder, he searches for the headquarters of Dr. No. The doctor is a fanatical scientist who is implementing an evil plan...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tacky's revolt, in modern-day Jamaica, was the largest slave uprising in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. A strikingly modern guerilla conflict, the revolt inspired both fear of and sympathy toward black lives. Vincent Brown offers a gripping account of the fighting and its reverberations across an interconnected world"--
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