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1) Caribbean
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The Caribbean, a name to conjure with, retains an allure that is half hype and half history. Michener's magnificent novel captures the area's magnetic attraction.He begins his story long before Columbus. From earliest times, the Caribbean has been a crossroads of culture - from the conquest of peaceful Arawaks by their more powerful neighbors, from Columbus's arrival to the bloody revolt on Haiti, from slave trade and sugar plantations to the rise...
3) Transfer Day
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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During the Great War in 1916, Abigail Maduro is devastated when her parents are killed in a train accident along the Panama Canal. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to St. Thomas, an island in the Danish West Indies, to live with a bad-tempered aunt and her household of eccentric servants. To escape her aunt's overbearing protectiveness, Abby explores the lively town of Charlotte Amalie where she meets some of her more colorful characters like Judge...
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