Last of a colonial family, Lavren tells of conquest, genocide, enslavement, indentureship and the end of the plantocracy on the Caribbean island of Kairi. Nurtured into this story-telling by his mother, Marie Elena, and by his nurse, Josephine, he unfolds the tales by divine inspiration.

Witchbroom

Literature & Fiction

Lawrence Scott

Contemporary

Allison Busby

Trinidad, 1865. Michel Jean Cazabon returns home to be at his beloved mother's deathbed. Life on the island seems very different after the freedoms of post-Revolutionary Paris, where his paintings have hung in the Louvre. Despite the Emancipation Act, his childhood home is in the grip of colonial power, its people riven by the legacy of slavery. Michel Jean finds himself caught between the powerful and the dispossessed. As an artist, he enjoys the governor's patronage, painting for him the island's vistas and its women; as a Trinidadian he shares easy wisdom and nips of rum with the local boat-builders. But domestic tensions and haunting reminders of the past threaten his equanimity. His fiery half-sister, Josie - the daughter of a slave - still provokes in him a youthful passion; his flirtatious muse, Augusta, tempts him as he paints her 'for posterity'. Meanwhile, letters from his white, French wife and children remind him of their imminent arrival on the island. Caught in the sweep of history and his own intimate dramas, Michel Jean paints the figures in the landscape, the dappled light as it falls through the bamboo grove.

Light Falling on Bamboo

Tindal Street Press

<p>Business leaders always surprise us. We think we know someone based off the teams they lead, the company they run, the sales they make. But the best stories come from the years it took to build those teams and that company. That’s where the wisdom sings. Scott Lawrence is the CEO of Lawrence &amp; Schiller, a progressive advertising agency in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, but he’s a bass player, the leader of the band, and a former band director, too—Mr. L, as the kids referred to him—and he learned a lot about leadership in those years. He runs a successful business today, but this book shares with fellow ad agencies the great insight that came from the many band competitions, the marches along Main Street, the band room, and the kids. As it turns out, you can learn a lot about leadership when you simply listen to the music, and Mr. L plays us a good song.</p>

The Leader of the Band: Leadership Lessons From the Kids Who Made Me a Better CEO

Business & Money

Industries

Throne Publishing Group

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