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The Island of Forgetting

A Novel

By: Jasmine Sealy

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WINNER of the Amazon First Novel Award Finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Award Finalist for OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Shortlisted for the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Awards How does memory become myth? How do lies become family lore? How do we escape the trauma of the past when the truth has been forgotten? Barbados, 1962. Lost soul Iapetus roams the island, scared and alone, driven mad after witnessing his father’s death at the hands of his mother and his older brother, Cronus. Just before Iapetus is lost forever, he has a son, but the baby is not enough to save him from himself—or his family’s secrets. Seventeen years later, Iapetus’s son, the stoic Atlas, lives in a loveless house, under the care of his uncle, Cronus, and in the shadow of his charismatic cousin Z. Knowing little about the tragic circumstances of his father’s life, Atlas must choose between his desire to flee the island and his loyalty to the uncle who raised him. Time passes. Atlas’s daughter, Calypso, is a beautiful and wilful teenager who is desperate to avoid being trapped in a life of drudgery at her uncle Z’s hotel. When she falls dangerously in love with a visiting real estate developer, she finds herself entangled in her uncle’s shady dealings, a pawn in the games of the powerful men around her. It is now 2019. Calypso’s son, Nautilus, is on a path of self-destruction as he grapples with his fatherless condition, his mixed-race identity and his complicated feelings of attraction towards his best friend, Daniel. Then one night, after making an impulsive decision, Nautilus finds himself exiled to Canada. The Island of Forgetting is an intimate saga spanning four generations of one family who run a beachfront hotel. Loosely inspired by Greek mythology, this is a novel about the echo of deep—and sometimes tragic—love and the ways a family’s past can haunt its future.

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HarperCollins

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1443465208

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9781443465205

New Growth

The Art and Texture of Black Hair

By: Jasmine Nichole Cobb

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New Growth

The Art and Texture of Black Hair

By: Jasmine Nichole Cobb

From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, “natural hair” has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth Jasmine Nichole Cobb traces the history of Afro-textured coiffure, exploring it as a visual material through which to reimagine the sensual experience of Blackness. Through close readings of slave narratives, scrapbooks, travel illustrations, documentary films, and photography as well as collage, craft, and sculpture, from the nineteenth century to the present, Cobb shows how the racial distinctions ascribed to people of African descent become simultaneously visible and tactile. Whether examining Soul Train’s and Ebony’s promotion of the Afro hairstyle alongside styling products or how artists such as Alison Saar and Lorna Simpson underscore the construction of Blackness through the representation of hair, Cobb foregrounds the inseparability of Black hair’s look and feel. Demonstrating that Blackness is palpable through appearance and feeling, Cobb reveals the various ways that people of African descent forge new relationships to the body, public space, and visual culture through the embrace of Black hair.

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177

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Duke University Press

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1478023708

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Oh, brother! (#17).

By: Jasmine Jones

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Oh, brother! (#17).

By: Jasmine Jones

Lizzie McGuire has been accidentally handcuffed to her little brother, just in time for a fund raiser Lizzie plans to attend to be nearer to her crush Ethan Craft. How will Lizzie deal with having her little brother by her side at every move?

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0786847220

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Lizzie #10: Lizzie Loves Ethan: Lizzie McGuire: Lizzie Loves Ethan - Book #10

By: Jasmine Jones

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Lizzie #10: Lizzie Loves Ethan: Lizzie McGuire: Lizzie Loves Ethan - Book #10

By: Jasmine Jones

Lizzie must tutor Ethan when Gordo decides that he can't.

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Disney Press

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0786846445

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9780786846443

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The Island of Forgetting

The Island of Forgetting

New Growth

New Growth

Oh, brother! (#17).

Oh, brother! (#17).

Lizzie #10: Lizzie Loves Ethan: Lizzie McGuire: Lizzie Loves Ethan - Book #10

Lizzie #10: Lizzie Loves Ethan: Lizzie McGuire: Lizzie Loves Ethan - Book #10

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