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E-Book Launch – Amanda Hanna’s The New New York
On Saturday, December 17 at 7 p.m., Bookophilia will host an e-book launch and e-reading party for Amanda Hanna’s book, “The New New York”. Get ready for an evening of entertainment as this e-reading party will take guests through brightly lit Manhattan city-streets and a band of unforgettable protagonists. The plot thickens when an unpopular [...]
Continue reading...Sometimes There’s A Winner – A Story of Poverty, Injustice & Revenge in Jamaica
13. December 2011
Paul Foreman’s “Sometimes There’s A Winner”, is A Story of Poverty, Injustice & Revenge in Jamaica. It tells the story of a poor black gardener, Byron Reid, and his sister Nadia, who work for a wealthy white Lebanese-Jamaican family in Kingston. Byron Reid surpasses his work ambitions and achieves success in a variety of jobs [...]
Continue reading...Cedella Marley Releases One Love Book
10. November 2011
Cedella Marley, daughter (and first child) of reggae legend Bob Marley, has taken one of her father’s most immortal and well-loved songs, “One Love”, and made a kid-friendly book for a new generation. One Love brings the joyful spirit and unforgettable lyrics of his music to life for a new generation. Readers will delight in [...]
Continue reading...Dutty Bookman – Tried & True: Revelations of a Rebellious Youth
11. October 2011
Following university studies in the United States, a young idealist returns home to Jamaica with revolution on his mind. For the next four years, he focuses on his mission which is to mobilize a critical mass of people – the youth in particular – in order to catalyze social progress. As he hosts a nationally [...]
Continue reading...Between Two Grammars: Research & Practice For Language Learning & Teaching In A Creole-speaking Environment
8. October 2011
This book by Beverley Bryan – the head of the Department of Educational Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona – builds on earlier works in the field of language learning and teaching and brings new ideas about language teaching in a Creole-speaking environment. Using Jamaica as the example, the history of education [...]
Continue reading...Nanny’s Asafo Warriors: The Jamaican Maroons’ African Experience
6. October 2011
Authored by Werner Zips (Professor in the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna), Nanny’s Asafo Warriors documents much of what is taken for granted concerning the history of the Maroons in Jamaica. Zips takes Nanny’s key role in the Maroon societies from the seventeenth century to the present as a [...]
Continue reading...Miss Kitty Novel – Good Girl Gone Bad – To Be Released November 2011
5. October 2011
Jamaican media/entertainment personality, Miss Kitty, has penned ‘Good Girl Gone Bad‘, what she has described as a ‘stimulating Jamaican novel’. The book is set to be published next month (November 2011) by Pageturner Publishing House (the same publishers who released Macka Diamond’s Bun Him, the novel). Plans are reportedly in place for an islandwide ‘Good [...]
Continue reading...Bob Marley and the Golden Age of Reggae
2. October 2011
Jeff Walker, Cameron Crowe, Kim Gottlieb-Walker and Roger Steffens have collaborated on Bob Marley and the Golden Age of Reggae, a book that features a fantastic collection of rare Bob Marley photos, taken by Gottlieb-Walker. During 1975 and 1976, renowned underground photo-journalist Kim Gottlieb, and her husband, Island publicity head Jeff Walker, documented what is [...]
Continue reading...Review Of Jennifer Keane Dawes’ Book – Miracles in the Valley: Out of Darkness into Marvelous Light
4. September 2011
Today’s Sunday Gleaner carries a review of Jennifer Keane Dawes’ book, Miracles in the Valley: Out of Darkness into Marvelous Light. In a painfully revealing narrative that could have otherwise been titled ‘The Courage to Succeed’, Dr Jennifer Keane Dawes narrates a sobering autobiographical story of her struggle as a new divorcee with a three-year-old [...]
Continue reading...Secondary Social Studies Workbook Is Locally Produced & A Hit
2. September 2011
Today’s Gleaner newspaper carries an item on a locally produced Secondary Social Studies Workbook that’s making waves: A team of teachers has published a series of social studies workbooks, A Secondary Social Studies Workbook, for students from grade seven to the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) level. The team, Dean Brown-Richmond, Jacqueline Forbes-Mitchell and Sophia [...]
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16. December 2011
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