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Sonny Jim of Sandy Point Jones-Hendrickson's autobiographical novel on his childhood in Sandy Point, St. Kitts is a FIRST for St. Kitts. The novel's humor, honesty, sensitivity, attention to folklore, language and local color make for fascinating reading,  
Lovely Larissa and Other Stories by A.L. Anduze These stories are about love, pure and open. They are bits and pieces of life, illustrations of how we act and react in various contigent situations, some human, some inhuman and some almost ethereal. 		 
The American Came Patricia Gill Stephen Markham, the younger son of a family of New England traders, returns home to the Danish West Indies after graduating from Harvard Law School in time to witness the transfer of the islands to America. Problens engendered by race and class are transcended by the common need to survive in a rapidly changing world.
  
Under De Taman Tree Richard Schrader, Sr. The Taman Tree has been rooted in Cruzan culture for generations. Once upon a Crucian time there was no better place for story telling than under the Taman Tree. Under this Taman Tree you will read about the experiences of the people of Old St. Croix in their own words.

Sonny Jim of Sandy Point S.B. Jones-Hendrickson

  

Lovely Larisa and Other Stories A.L. Anduze

  

The Americans Came   Patricia Gill

 

  
Under De Taman Tree Richard Schrader, Sr.
The Caribbean Writer The Caribbean Writer is an international literary anthology with a Caribbean focus, published in the summer of each year by the University of the Virgin Islands. Visit www.TheCaribbeanWriter. org and see contributors' biographies, poery, short fiction, essays, translations, interviews and book reviews from past and current editions.
 
Say It In Crucian Robin Sterns a reader-accessible guide to the language of St. Croix that combines a wealth of spicy and vividly up-to-the-minute examples with a level of linguistic and sociolinguistic savvy seldom found in popular introductions. It presents its topic in a way that provides fun for the tourist as well as solid information for the expert. Derek Bickerton, author of Bastard Tongues: A Trail-Blazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Hunanity in the World's Lowliest Languages
  
Other Times, Other Cultures The Writer's Circle of Saint Croix This collection of poetry, essays, short stories, documentaries, and letters is an assortment of creative writings that grabs your thoughts from the first page. You feel the power of creative writing that grabs your thoughts, holds them, and lays them out in order. The central cord of all of these writings is the love for the island of St. Croix, which binds them all together.
 
Hans West's Accounts of St. Croix in the West Indies  Arnold R. Highfield Editor Nina York Translater Hans West (1758-1811) was a Danish teacher and scholar who server as headmaster of the West Indian Institute on St. Croix, in the Danish West Indies (later the U.S. Virgin Islands) from 1789 well into the 1790's. Shortly after his arrival on St. Croix, West penned a long essay, entitle

The Caribbean Writer

 

  

Say It In Crucian

Robin Sterns

 

Other Times, Other Cultures

The Writer's Circle of Saint Croix

 

  

Hans West’s Accounts of St. Croix in the West Indies   

Arnold R. Highfield  Editor   Nina York Translater
Glass Bottom Days by Willie Wilson In Glass Bottom Days, author Willie Wilson revisits scenes from his Virgin Islands childhood in an engaging narrative that is part comong-of-age, part investigation - one where memories are peeled back and old assumptions reconsidered. Along the way, we witness childhood dislocations in a tropical world, one populated by schoolyard bullies, calypso music, sexual awakening, parental infidelity, madness, grave robbers, and young love. One particular childhood memory resonates years later, when eight people are gunned down on a St. Croix golf course. Alexander Hamilton, The Founding Father's Boyhood on the Island of St. Croix Robert Hoffman A refreshing and concise look at the formative years of Alexander Hamilton on St. Croix. -Richard Brookhiser, Senior Editor of National Review and author of Alexander Hamilton
Saint Croix 1770-1776, The First Salute to the Stars and Stripes Robert Amandus Johnson Robert Amandus Johnson chronicled this period of the history of St. Croix from 1770-1776 and the remarkable relationship of the Island to the emerging American Nation. It relates, what is believed to be, the first foreign recognition of the American 'Stars and Stripes'. This occurred in Christiansted, St. Croix, in June 1776, prior to Congressional approval of the Declaration of Independence. This early Stars and Stripes was being flown from the American Brig Nancy.
Up Mountain One Time, by Willie Wilson

Glass Bottom Days

Willie Wilson

 

Alexander Hamilton, The Founding Father’s Boyhood on the Island of St. Croix Robert Hoffman

 

Saint Croix 1770-1776, The First Salute to the Stars and Stripes Robert Amandus Johnson

Up Mountain One Time, Willie Wilson

 
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