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The Pirate's Bastard    by Laura Wharton
Price: $6.99 USD. 55880 words. Published by Second Wind Publishing, LLC on December 9, 2010. .

Working to distance his secret heritage and his present success as a shipbuilder in coastal North Carolina, Edward's future is promising until his past finds him. Ignatius Pell, boatswain to Edward's errant pirate father, has a plan, involving Edward's ship, a voyage to Barbados and a treasure once belonging to notorious pirate Stede Bonnet. Betrayal, blackmail and danger await Edward.
The Adventures of Farley    by GK Adams
Price: $1.99 USD. 6440 words. Published on May 1, 2011. .

Farley, a mongoose, is taken from his homeland and sent to a far off place. Join him in his adventures as he tries to find his way back home.
My Father's America - Volume Two - The Colonies    by Walter Lorenz
Price: $4.99 USD. 175370 words. Published on November 7, 2011. .

England was ready. Of all the nations in Europe, 17th-century England was most peculiarly suited to succeed in peopling the North American continent. This was a strange turn of events. England had been the very last of the Western powers to show any kind of interest in the world beyond Europe. Yet once they got started, the English were destined to succeed in the most spectacular way.
Ginger Lily    by Margaret Knight
Price: $2.99 USD. 63210 words. Published by Sheraton Media Partnership  on February 2, 2012. .

‘Ginger Lily’ charts the joys, trials and tribulations of family and social life in Barbados in the latter half of the 20th Century. With wonderfully drawn characters, author Margaret Knight integrates humour and wit with the serious issues of racial and class prejudice which pervaded Barbadian society at the time, and interracial relationships which were very much frowned upon.
Sun of the Son    by Vernon Jackman
Price: $2.99 USD. 6850 words. Published on February 22, 2012. .

Set in Barbados, the poems in Sun of the Son were awarded the Corson Bishop Poetry Prize, the Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Prize and the American Academy of Poets Prize at Cornell University. The voices in this collection incorporate the cultures and creoles of the islands, the remembrance and continuity of Africa, the influence of European and American writers, and mythologies from Old and New Worlds.
Easter Lili    by Margaret Knight
Price: $2.99 USD. 81000 words. Published by Sheraton Media Partnership  on March 19, 2012. .

A sequel to ‘Ginger Lily’, ‘Easter Lili’ charts the joys, trials and tribulations of family and social life in Barbados in the latter half of the 20th Century. With wonderfully drawn characters, author Margaret Knight integrates humour and wit with the serious issues of racial and class prejudice which pervaded Barbadian society at the time.
Walking Through The Pain    by Dean Alleyne
Price: $9.99 USD. 43460 words. Published on April 12, 2012. .

Walking Through The Pain is based on a true story of a baby given up for adoption in Barbados by parents who think it has a better chance of surviving in a middle class family. His adopted father whom he grows to love very much dies when he is eight. After ten months, adverse circumstances force his adopted mother to sell up and downgrade to a much smaller shop far away from his friends.
Tropical Heat Wave    by Dean Alleyne
Price: $9.99 USD. 70730 words. Published on April 12, 2012. .

Dennis, a young aspiring academic, becomes infatuated with a girl he meets while jogging on a beach in Barbados. An unplanned pregnancy ensues and Dennis finds himself straightjacketed and dispatched into a marriage for which he is not ready. Now caught in a marriage of almost total incompatibility and one in which he saw a weak future, he tries to free himself.
Barrett's Bar Stories    by Anthony Gillis
Price: $0.99 USD. 7530 words. Published on May 1, 2012. .

Most interesting man in the world, eh? That guy's got NOTHIN' on Pappy Barrett! Especially when measured by blood alcohol content.