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"A coming of age and tumultuous love story of Tarzan Brixton that spans from the projects of Brooklyn to the shores of Jamaica. After being released from a 5 year prison sentence for an armed robbery gone sideways, Tarzan makes a vow to his dying mother to change his ways. With his mother's medical bills piling up, the temptation of the criminal life becomes too real once again. His solution is to escape the rough streets of New York for the equally...
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As a young woman in rural Jamaica, Dupree struggles to maintain a home for herself and the ailing aunt who is raising her after she was abandoned by her teenage mother. Relying on the power of God, she battles the effects of poverty. After a brutal attack, Dupree reaches for her inner strength again. Her journey leads her to Kingston, "Jamaica's Sodom and Gomorrah", and a possible Prince Charming. Caught up in a web of lies and betrayal, Dupree fights...
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"Gaza was born and raised in McGregor Gully, one of Jamaicas grittiest housing projects in the slums of East Kingston. Growing up in poverty, he was exposed to robbery and murder at a tender age. In order to stay alive, he quickly adapted to a life of crime. Now he is one of the coldest killers and richest kingpins to ever walk the streets of Kingston. Whoever comes into contact with him and his crew either loves them, fears them, or wants to see...
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"Is me--Bob. Bob Marley." Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching in Half Way Tree, Kingston. The ghosts of Marcus Garvey and King Edward VII are there too, drinking whiskey and playing solitaire. No one sees that Fall-down is Bob Marley, no one but his long-ago love, the deaf woman, Leenah, and, in the way of this otherworldly book, when Bob steps into the street each day, five years...
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Raymond Brown, popularly known as Smooth Suave, is one of Jamaica's biggest drug lords. With eight children by six baby mommas and counting, he's a player for life. A true baller, he luxuriates in his wealth. He's a shot caller with soldiers wheeling and dealing all over Jamaica. It's Suave's world, and everyone else just lives in it ... or so he thinks. His nemesis, King Kong, sees it differently. They've been rivals since childhood, and King Kong...
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Pumkin Patterson is a thirteen-year-old girl living in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother (who wants to improve the family's social standing), her Aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and Pumkin), and her mother Paulette (who's rarely home).When Sophie is offered the chance to move to France for work, she seizes the opportunity, and promises to send for her niece in one year's time. All Pumkin has to...
9) Dissolution
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"Sherryn Allbright is the envy of her peers. She is a wife, mother, and successful business woman. Her life turns topsy-turvy when a woman leaves a child on her doorstep, claiming her husband is the father. Denial is useless, for the boy resembles Reece too closely not to be his offspring. Sherryn, who holds strong views on fidelity, believes her marriage is over. She blames Reece's predicament on his old neighborhood - a Kingston ghetto. If he'd...
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