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All Saints' Day Secrets

Book Reviews – All Saints’ Day Secrets

Author: Nicole Loughan Country: Louisiana, USA Genre: Novel 2013 There is a new mystery on the bayou. Lisette, a beautiful Creole teenager, died on the last day of school in a boating accident. When the pol...
Creole World

Book Review – Creole World

Author: Richard Sexton Country: New Orleans Genre: History Shotgun houses...vibrant street scenes...grand villas and mansions...colorful facades... they're all part of a historically rich, intercon...

Pidgins and creoles – Ishtla Singh

Pidgins and creoles have always attracted a great deal of interest - academic and otherwise - but in recent decades they have become increasingly important as a field of linguistic inquiry. This book places pi...

Dictionary of St. Lucian Creole – Jones. E Mondesir

St. Lucian Creole (Kweyol) is a variety of Caribbean French- lexicon Creole spoken by a significant majority of the population of the state of St. Lucia in the Windward group of the Lesser Antilles. A distinct...

Creole Fires – Kat Martin

The Louisiana sun beat mercilessly on Nicole St. Claire just as fate, too, had been merciless. The once wealthy, flirtatious belle stood on the auction block to be sold as a servant. Her sensual figure disguise...
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Creolizing the Metropole – H. Adlai Murdoch

Creolizing the Metropole is a comparative study of postwar West Indian migration to the former colonial capitals of Paris and London. It studies the effects of this population shift on national and cultural ide...

Colonial Natchitoches – H. Sophie Burton

Strategically located at the western edge of the Atlantic World, the French post of Natchitoches thrived during the eighteenth century as a trade hub between the well-supplied settlers and the isolated Spaniard...

The Voodoo Doll Spell book – Denise Alvarado

From the author of Voodoo Dolls in Magick and Ritual, Alvarado’s collection of spells and folklore captures perfectly the drama and mystery of humankind’s relationship with magickal dolls throughout history. Wi...
Le tourisme: L’ouverture pour le peuple de Toussaint?

Le tourisme: L’ouverture pour le peuple de Toussaint?

En Haïti, l’ère du tourisme débute vers les années 1940. Mais celle qu’on surnommait “la perle des Antilles” est devenue une destination relativement méprisée. Combien de temps faudra-t-il pour redonner à ce se...
GLIMPSES OF A GLOBAL LIFE

Glimpses of a Global Life

‘Glimpses of a Global Life,’ is an analysis of the challenges that the Caribbean, the Commonwealth and the rest of the world faced and are still facing. The book is structured as follows: The first part (Part ...
Pioneers of Jazz

Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band

Pioneers of Jazz traces the brief but highly significant career of the Creole Band, famous for having turned down the chance to be the first jazz band to make records. Testimony from such luminaries as Jelly Ro...
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Hold tight, don’t let go

Le livre raconte l’histoire de deux cousines (élevées comme des sœurs) Magdalie et Nadine qui se retrouvent privées de leur mère qui a succombé au tremblement de terre du 12 Janvier 2010. Nadine et Magdalie qui...