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The year is 1954. A white woman’s body, stuffed in a coconut bag, has washed ashore in Otatiti, Trinidad, and the British colony is rife with rumors. In two homes, one in a distant shantytown, the other on the outskirts of a former sugar cane estate, two women hear the news and their blood runs cold... More

"[A] haunting story ... Bears witness to the struggles of an African Caribbean woman as she seeks to find her place in America without selling her soul." -BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL, Author of Your Blues Ain't Like Mine. When Sara Edgehill is given a scholarship to leave Trinidad and attend a college in Wi... More

"Nunez ponders the cultural, racial, familial, social, and personal experiences that led to what she ultimately understands was a deeply loving union between her parents. A beautifully written exploration of the complexities of marriage and family life."--Booklist (starred review)"Through her though... More

From American Book Awardp-winner Elizabeth Nunez comes this searing reissue of a man's compulsions for power and deceit when gripped by desire. Her unforgettable narrator Oufoula conjures Faust as he navigates an intricate lover's triangle within which a choice between a stable marriage and a passio... More

Prospero's Daughter is a brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest set in a remote corner of the author's native Trinidad during the height of tensions between Trinidadians and British Colonial rule. Above all, it is the story of a boy and a girl who form an unlikely and forbidden... More

"Boundaries is told in spare and transcendent prose. [...] As always, Nunez delivers a unique and riveting perspective on Caribbean life as well as immigrant life in general."--The New York Amsterdam News"Many moments of elegant, overarching insight bind the personal to the collective past."--New Yo... More

"An epic tale of family betrayal and manipulation couched in superbly engaging prose and peopled with deftly drawn characters. In a story structure as rhythmic as the ebb and flow of the water surrounding Trinidad and Barbados, this revisiting of the classic story of King Lear becomes a subtle, org... More

From American Book Award and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award winner Elizabeth Nunez comes this intimate exploration into trust, family, redemption, and love. Originally published in 2003, Akashic Books reunites Nunez's most achingly poignant love story with her ever-expanding band of readers.... More

<P>ANNA IN-BETWEEN is Elizabeth Nunez's finest literary achievement to date. In spare prose, with laserlike attention to every word and the juxtaposition of words to each other, Nunez returns to her themes of emotional alienation, within the context of class and color discrimination, so richly devel... More

From American Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Nunez, a powerful novel that explores an intricate lovers’ triangle, the human thirst for passion, and the myriad ways desire can betray those who have fallen under its spell. Descended from warriors and raised by missionaries, Oufoula is a diploma... More

STORIES FROM BLUE LATITUDES gathers the work of twenty-six major and emerging women fiction writers from the Caribbean. The stories are at once poignant and shocking, and shed light on a part of the world that is too often misrepresented. They deal with the sad legacy of colonialism and the ways in... More

This book offers a theory for the analysis of how children learn and are taught about whole numbers. Two meanings of numbers are distinguished - the analytical meaning, defined by the number system, and the representational meaning, identified by the use of numbers as conventional signs that stand ... More

In a time of pressures, challenges, and threats to public education, teacher preparation, and funding for educational research, the fifth volume of the Handbook of Reading Research takes a hard look at why we undertake reading research, how school structures, contexts and policies shape students’ le... More

2020 Top Ten Gay Romance brings together the best-selling short stories published by JMS Books that year.From first love to true love, from submission to sensual, from heat to sweet and everything in between, the couples in these stories are sure to keep you turning the pages as you fall in love wit... More

In an immensely varied and thoughtful collection of true life reflections on love, marriage and the single life, 26 authors with autism share their experiences and knowledge about successful (and unsuccessful) relationships. Digging deep into the many and varying ways in which autism affects feeling... More