This title features dynamic plots and storylines, which encourage readers to pick them up again and again. The engaging themes and attractive cover designs in new paperback style binding are designed to motivate readers. Short, but substantial chapters give a sense of achievement in reading whole texts. A clear text design without illustrations and activities that may distract, encourages focus on reading and enables low achievers to improve at their own pace. Teacher resource material comprises 60 editable worksheets on a CD-ROM.

Eyam Plague Village (New Spirals - Non-fiction)

Education & Teaching

Carew, Jan

Schools & Teaching

Nelson Thornes Ltd

Grenada: The Hour Will Strike Again

History

Americas

The International Organization of Journalists

Peguin Readers 2:Lost Love and Other Stories Book & CD Pack

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Pearson

LEVEL 2: LOST LOVE AND OTHER STORIES BOOK AND MP3 PACK

On the morning of October 12, 1492, a group of Tainos discovered Christopher Columbus and a landing party from his flagship the Santa Maria on a beach of Guanahani. Russell Thornton, author of American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492, calls it quite justifiably, "one of the more important demographic events in the history of the world."

Rape of Paradise

Seaburn

Astonishingly vivid, bawdy, and tempestuous, this novel is a cautionary tale about greed and class conflict in postcolonial Guyana. Comparing ruthless 20th-century prospectors to the long-ago Spanish explorers who raped a continent in their quest for El Dorado, the novel follows the dreams and delusions of Aron Smart, a youth orphaned early in life and brought up on a farm by his grandparents who impressed upon him the value of an education. When Aron’s schooling is cut short after a reversal of fortune, however, he becomes deeply discouraged by his lack of opportunity and decides to follow in his father’s footsteps as a diamond prospector. He quickly becomes very rich—his companions in the mines call him “Shark”—and he is determined to use his new wealth to buy his way into the middle class. But Aron is out of his element in the world of property and prestige, and, cheated of his fortune, he returns to the interior, mining with a reckless madness that leaves him terribly maimed in an accident—and causes him to dream of returning to his grandfather’s life, built on the solid rhythms of farming and caring for the land.

Black Midas (Caribbean Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Peepal Tree Press Ltd.

In this coming-of-age novel, a young boy learns firsthand about the contradictions that bedevil the people of Guyana, including the legacy of slavery, the clash of cultural traditions, and the inhospitable terrain. Hector Bradshaw, a sickly child living in Georgetown, finds his life turned upside down when his family decides he would be better off living in the country and sends him away to the remote village of Tarlogie. Once settled there with his kind but old-fashioned guardian, Sister Smart, Hector struggles to make sense of his new community. As time goes by, he is given a dry colonial education, is puzzled by his guardian’s fondness for moral precepts, and is fascinated by the harsh African vision of the old hunter Doorne. Above all, the boy struggles to feel at home in a world where natureso beautiful and so tremendously dangerousdominates the people’s lives.

The Wild Coast (Caribbean Modern Classics)

Contemporary

Towards the end of a long and astonishingly full life, whose scope and variety most of us can only dream about, Jan Carew began writing his memoirs. A global, multifaceted man, they cover his multiple lives as Guyanese/Caribbean novelist, anti-colonial and anti-imperialist activist, the early shaper of Black Studies in the United States, actor and playwright, painter, agricultural evangelist, advisor to Heads of State in Africa and the Caribbean and theoretician of the Columbian origins of racism in the Americas. Where there are gaps, Joy Gleason Carew goes back to some of the vivid, eyewitness journalism Jan Carew wrote in those heady days of hope and struggle.

Episodes in My Life: The Autobiography of Jan Carew: Compiled, Edited and Expanded by Joy Gleason Carew

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

"This is a stunning collection. Mesmerizing. Carew's foreshadowing is so deft, so subtle, we begin to ache before we should. We swat swamp mosquitoes as we sit around the smoke-fire with granite-faced Doorne and his sons, sensing peril. and we understand seduction before we are drawn into it. Carew's eloquence is irresistible; his ear for retrieving language so precise, so respectful, we nod comfortably at old friends. Nuh? This experience under a full Guyanese moon is exquisite; is memory recovered. As a matter of fact, Carew transcends academics or mere creativity when he does the impossible: returns to the past with us as tagalongs."Mari Evans, author of Continuum and Clarity: (A Poet's Perspective)Jan Carew combines Caribbean folklore, ghost story, adventure tale, and literature of European exile to create a spirited dialect and colloquial voice that startles and delights; he’s comfortable confronting anything, racial prejudice or whimsical fable, the natural world or city slum.

The Guyanese Wanderer: Stories (The Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature)

Sarabande Books

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