Non-fiction

• "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonization and tourism.

• "My Favorite Plant" edited by Jamaica Kincaid

Kincaid gathers a sparkling selection of new and beloved poetry and prose about each author’s favorite flora.

Short stories

• "Ladies of the Night" by Althea Prince

With women's loves and lives as their focus, the stories contain dramatic twists and some humorous, others shocking and disturbing, all leaving a haunting melody behind.

Fiction

• "My Stories Have No Endings" by Gayle Gonsalves

Kai is a spiritual child who dips her ears into the wind where she hears the voices that tell stories from the forgotten past. Though she grows up in poverty in the Caribbean, her quick mind wins her a scholarship to the island's most prestigious all-girls' school where she's catapulted into a very different world

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