New Books

Key to location symbols used for
parish or branch libraries.

A - Kingston & St. Andrew

G - Clarendon

H - Hanover

J - Manchester

K - Portland

L - St. Ann

M - St. Catherine

Mz/5 - Greater Portmore

N - St. Elizabeth

O - St. James

P - St. Mary

R - Trelawny

S - Westmoreland

T - St. Thomas

     

 

Key to Call # symbols

AF African  (Books about Africa and Africans)
F Fiction
L Works published in & about the Caribbean or written by & about Caribbean nationals
L/F Local fiction
L/J Local Junior
R Reference (not for loan)
R/J Reference Junior
R/L Reference local

 

Adult Non-fiction Lending

Title

Author

Call #

Location

101Things Parents Should Know Before Volunteering to Coach Their Kids Sports Team

Gary S. Goodman

  796.077

O

1440 Reasons to Quit Smoking (One For Every Minute of the Day)

Bill Dodds

613.85

R

The Blue Cross Story

Ian Boyne, ed.

L/368.3800657292

S

Born Fi Dead: a Journey Through the Jamaican Posse Underworld

Laurie Gunst

L/364.106

All parish libraries

The Colonial Caribbean In Transition: Essays on Post-Emancipation Social and Cultural History

Bridget Brereton, ed.

RL/972.9

A

The Coyaba Chronicles: Reflections on the Black Experience in the 20th Century

Peter Abrahams

 L/928

All parish libraries

Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation and Revolution, 1868-1898

Ada Ferrer

L/972.91

A

Liberating the Corporate Soul: Building a Visionary Organisation

Richard Barrett

658.408

K

Life on the Line: One Woman’s Tale of Work, Sweat, and Survival

Solange De Santis

331.48292092

T

Managing Your First Computer

Carol Dolman

004

All parish libraries

The Peoples of Africa

John Turnbull

572.92

L

Persistent poverty: Underdevelopment in Plantation Economies of the Third World - 2nd ed.

George L. Beckford

 L/330.91724

L, Mz/5

Pig Tails ‘n Breadfruit: Rituals of Slave Food: a Barbadian Memoir

Austin Clarke

L/641.5972981

     All parish libraries

Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty

Dennis McDougal

070.572279494

R

The Rise of the Phoenix: The Barbados Mutual Life Assurance Society in Caribbean Economy and Society, 1840-1990

Cecilia Karch

L/368.0065729

A

Rural Gumption

Herbert J. Thompson

L/370.92

All parish libraries

Soul Searching: Why Psychotherapy Must Promote Moral Responsibility

William J. Doherty

174.2

All parish libraries

Stroke Free For Life: The Complete Guide to Stroke Prevention and Treatment

David Wiebers

616.81

K

Sunset Over the Island: The Caribbean in an Age of Global and Regional Changes

Andres Serbin

L/327.729

H

Teenagers: The Agony, the Ecstasy, the Answers

Aidan McFarlane

306.874

Mz/5

Teens Can Make it Happen: Nine Steps to Success

Stedman Graham

158.10835

O

West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan

Rodereick A. McDonald, ed.

  L/972.9

 A

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Adult Reference

Title

Author

Call #

Location

Albert Huie: Father of Jamaican  Painting

Edward Lucie-Smith

RL/759.97292

A, J, L, M, O

Black Cargoes

Daniel Mannix

R/326.1

L

Caribbean Portraits: Essays of Gender Ideology and Identities

Christine Barrow, ed.

RL/305.3729

P

Cases on Issues and Problems in Educational Management

Sonia O. Jones

RL/371.2

K

Community Formation: A Study of the 'Village' in Post-Emancipation Jamaica

Audley G. Reid

 RL/307.72

K, Mz/5

Computers

Larry Long

R/004

O

Construction and the Natural Environment

R. M. Lowton

R/690

All parish libraries

The Debt Dilemma – IMF Negotiation in Jamaica, Grenada and Guyana

Horace A Bartilow

RL/332.152

Mz/5

Education in the West Indies: Developments and Perspectives, 1948-1988

Craig, Dennis, ed.

RL/370.9729

A, J, L, Mz/5,

S

Empire Enslavement and Freedom in the Caribbean

Michael Craton

RL/972.903

J, M, Mz/5

Five Centuries in St. Ann’s Bay

Rudolph Peart

RL/972.92

K

French Revolutions, 1815-1914

Sharif Gemie

R/944.04

Mz/5

General History of the Caribbean vol. III: The Slave Societies of the Caribbean

Franklin W. Knight

R/972.9

T

Guyana: Democracy Betrayed:  a Political History, 1943-1993

Jai Narine Singh

RL/988.1

All parish libraries

Inside Slavery: Process and Legacy in the Caribbean Experience

Hilary Beckles, ed.

RL/972.9

Mz/5, A

Israel

Robert Ullian

R/915.694

R

Jamaican Folk Tales and Oral History

Laura Tanna

RL/398.097292

All parish libraries

The Jamaican People, 1880-1902: Race Class and Social Control

Patrick Bryan

RL/972.92

A, Mz/5

Living Under Apartheid

David Smith

R/AF/305.80968

L

Maroon Heritage: Archaeological Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives

E. Kofi Agorsah, ed.

RL/972.92

A, J, L, M, O

 

Milady’s Standard Textbook of Cosmetology

 

R/646.72

Mz/5

Modern Jamaican Art

David Boxer

RL/709.047292

A

Ocho Rios, St. Ann: Portrait of the Garden Parish

Anthony Johnson

RL/917.292

A, J, K,  L, M, O, R, S, T

Our Cause For His Glory: Christianisation and Emancipation in Jamaica

  Shirley Gordon

RL/291.7

All parish libraries

Oxford Dictionary of Sociology

Gordon Marshall

R/301.03

Mz/5

The Pan-Africanists

Dudley Thompson

RL/320.549096

All parish libraries

Rastafari: The New Creation

Barbara Blake-Hannah

RL/299.676

All parish libraries

Rastafari and Other African Caribbean World Views

Barry Chevannes, ed.

RL/299.676

Mz/5

Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834

B. W. Higman

L/306.362

A, J, L, O

Slavery: A World History

Milton Meltzer

R/306.362

L

Slaves and Missionaries: The Disintegration of Jamaican Slave society, 1787-1834. - 2nd ed.

Mary Turner

RL/305.567

A, J, K, L, O

Solid Waste Management: Critical Issues For Developing Countries

Elizabeth Thomas-Hope,       ed.

RL/363.728

L

The Story of the Jamaican People

Philip Sherlock

RL/972.92

All parish libraries

A Student’s Guide to the Internet: Exploring the World Wide Web

Elizabeth L. Marshall

R/004.678

All parish libraries

Success in Law- 5th ed.

Bruce Richard

R/340

Mz/5

Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775. - 2nd ed.

Richard B. Sheridan

RL/330.9729

Mz/5, P

Sugar and slaves: the Rise of the Planter Class

Richard S. Dunn

RL/972.9

A - T

West Africa

R. J. Church

R/AF/916.6

L

The White Minority in the Caribbean

Howard Johnson, ed.

RL/972.9004034

H

www.Type: Effective Typographic Design for the World Wide Web

Roger Pring

R/004.65

A, J, L, MZ/5, O

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Adult Fiction

Title

Author

Call #

Location

A Singing Grave

Tim Wilson

F

K

Banana Shout: a Novel of Negril Jamaica W.I.

Mark Conklin

L/F

All parish libraries

The Banesetter’s Daughter

Amy Tan

F

All parish libraries

Bettany’s Book

Thomas Keneally

F

G

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