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	Nativity / Nativité / Natividad Trilingual Edition by Lasana Sekou Paperback, poetry, literature, 224 pp. English • Française • Español ISBN: 978-0-913441-97-8 Nativity cover art: Adán, sculpture/bronze and Eva, sculpture/bronze by Fernando Botero. © Fernando Botero. Courtesy: Museo de Antioquia, Colombia. In nine haunting segments … a bold narrative, … long overdue … centralizes the region’s indigenous, African, Asian connections. A triumph of Caribbean aesthetics. – Dr. Conrad M. James, University of Birmingham, UK An exuberant, epic rush … a lusty, encyclopedic yawp. – Roberta Q. Knowles, The Caribbean Writer $20order book:

From Yvette's kitchen to Your Table
A Treasury of St. Martin's Traditional & Contemporary Cuisine
by Yvette Hyman

ISBN:0-913441-16-3 (hard cover)

Delicious, delectable, and delightful dishes.
- Gloria Ferris-Bell, nutritionist

The recipes of award-winning chef Yvette Hyman, "first lady of St. Martin’s national cuisine" and founder of Yvette’s Restaurant, a gastronomic institution on the Caribbean’s “best dining island” -- hailed in the Newsday, The Boston Sunday Globe, The Washington Post among other media.

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	St. Martin Talk Words, phrases, sayings & general communication terms by Robert Romney ISBN: 978-0-913441-82-4 With information ranging from the witty to the wise, St. Martin Talk is a handbook of words, phrases, sayings and other communication terms — including those from the St. Martin of old that are still much a part of the everyday speech of the island’s people. This quick reference will happily serve as a home, school, office and travel reference and companion. $20order book:

	The Frock & Other Poems by Laurelle "Yaya" Richards ISBN: 978-0-913441-54-1 In The Frock & Other Poems, Laurelle “Yaya” Richards, at times playful, sometimes stern, the poems do not avoid conflicts, but her strong womanist voice transcends these divisions with the gentle wisdom of her verse. – Geoffrey Philp, author, USA $15order book:

Sovereignty of the Imagination - Conversations III

Language and the Politics of Ethnicity
by George Lamming

Paperback, political philosophy, literature, ethnic studies, Caribbean history, 96 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-913441-46-6

Lamming’s preoccupation with freedom is today very apropos because one feature of our contemporary world is the resurgence of a current of thought and action, which heralds the virtues of empire.
– Prof. Anthony Bogues, Political Science, Brown University

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	Guanahani, My Love by Marion Bethel Paperback, poetry, literature, 72 pp. ISBN: 978-0-913441-96-1 Guanahaní, my love is the metaphor for a place of more sea than land, of sugar and salt, “the Caribbean, a home”, … share the profound mystery which blankets them all. – Yolanda Wood, Caribe Casa de las Américas $15order book:

Claude - A Portrait of Power
by Fabian Badejo

Paperback, biographical survey, political studies, 200 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-913441-38-1

“Anybody who can last for thirty-five years in government has my unstinted admiration,” declared former US Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, on the occasion of Dr. Claude Wathey’s 35th anniversary in elected public office in St. Martin. According to Badejo, history will not only weigh what this Caribbean political strongman “has done for the island, … nor how well he was liked or disliked” but “what he may have failed to do, too.”

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I Believe
by Howard A. Fergus

Paperback, poetry, literature, 88 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-913441-95-4

In the clean lyric line, the rhyming line ... an honest, unsentimental perception of humanity. From a freshly-wrought volcanic landscape, Fergus speaks authentically, deeply.
– Marion Bethel, author, The Bahamas

More than an untroubled declaration of faith, I Believe is in fact an option to believe, and so evokes its absent opposite against which it presses given humanity's 'imperfect garden.'
– Dr. Jennifer Rahim, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

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POSTERS		LIMITED EDITION
	1998 St. Martin Historical Anniversaries Posters Limited Edition Museum gift quality, Size: 36" x 24" $100		GEBE Through The Years – Power To Serve Limited edition Hardcover, 9" x 11" public utility history, profiles, interviews, graphs, photos from 1906 to 2006; 248 pp. ISBN: 0-913441-77-0