Author: Regina Hanson
Publisher: Clarion Books
Keywords: mangoes, season
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2005-04-18
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 061815972X
ISBN-13: 9780618159727

Sareen is attending her first sit-up, a Jamaican tradition that celebrates the life of a loved one who has died. The whole village has come to share memories of Sareen’s Nana. Sareen wants to tell her stories of Nana’s last mango season and their search for the perfect mango, but she’s afraid the words won’t come or that she’ll begin to cry. It’s only when Sareen faces her fear that she realizes it’s not the sadness of Nana’s death that she’ll remember best but the joy of Nana’s life.Set amid the rich culture and lush scenery of Jamaica, this moving book offers the hope of

Author: Ann Vanderhoof
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: interlude, caribbean, mangoes, embarrassment
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-02-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0767914279
ISBN-13: 9780767914277

Under the Tuscan Sun meets the wide-open sea . . . An Embarrassment of Mangoes is a delicious chronicle of leaving the type-A lifestyle behind -- and discovering the seductive secrets of life in the Caribbean.Who hasn’t fantasized about chucking the job, saying goodbye to the rat race, and escaping to some exotic destination in search of sun, sand, and a different way of life? Canadians Ann Vanderhoof and her husband, Steve did just that.In the mid 1990s, they were driven, forty-something professionals who were desperate for a break from their deadline-dominated, career-defined lives. So the

Author: Nathan Kumar Scott
Publisher: Tara Books
Keywords: bananas, mangoes
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 8186211063
ISBN-13: 9788186211069

Mangoes and Bananas tells the tale of Kanchil the mouse deer and Monyet the monkey—two friends who plant a garden together. But when the trees bear fruit, Monyet begins to eat everything himself. Kanchil has to act fast if he is to get anything at all. Combining folk art with folk tale, this book reflects the warmth and richness of both traditions. The earth-toned illustrations—at once sophisticated and playful—are the result of a time-honored, all-natural process. This book will entertain anyone who seeks a quintessential folk story. Born and raised in India, Nathan Kumar Scott is a Sea

Author: Mohammed Hanif
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: vintage, mangoes, exploding, case
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-05-05
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0307388182
ISBN-13: 9780307388186

A Washington Post, Rocky Mountain News, Boston Globe Best Book of the YearIntrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny, family, and a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen.Ali Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of the Fury Squadron, is on a mission to avenge his father’s suspicious death, which the government calls a suicide.Ali’s target is none other than General Zia ul-Haq, dictator of Pakistani. Enlisting a rag-tag group of conspirators, including his cologne-bathed roommate, a hash-s

Author: Hwa Yung
Publisher: Regnum International
Keywords: mission, studies, regnum, bananas, mangoes
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1997
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 1870345258
ISBN-13: 9781870345255