Colin Channer

Fire and Sylvia

1 - Waiting in Vain (Jul-1998)
2 - Lover's Rock (Jul-2013)

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  Waiting in Vain
  

  • Jul-1998
  • / General Fiction
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  Fire and Sylvia - 1
  

  Meet Fire--Jamaican-born, charming, poetic, and talented--a man who vows never to play "love-is-blind" games again. Then he meets Sylvia, a beautiful magazine editor who keeps her passions under lock and key. Together they must choose between the lov...

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  Satisfy My Soul
  

  • Jan-2002
  • / General Fiction
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  I have called you here to reveal to you a truth that has been calling to you for many years. . . . Since then your soul has been seeking rest.Playwright Carey McCullough is a close guardian of his privacy, haunted by a recurring dream and a damaged p...

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  Passing Through
  

  • Apr-2004
  • / Suspense
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  Spanning the early 1900s up to modern times, the stories trace the intersecting lives of travelers, expatriates, and local folks in ways that shock, illuminate, and reveal. From the American photographer who finds her world disturbed by new forms of ...

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  I'm Still Waiting
  

  • May-2005
  • / Science Fiction
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  Got to Be Real is a thrilling collection of four original love stories, told by fellas who get pulses racing from Los Angeles to New York, Chicago to Detroit. New York Times bestseller E. Lynn Harris shares a heartwarming Valentine's Day tale in Mon...

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  Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction From Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop
  

  • Jun-2006
  • / General Fiction
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  Jamaica’s literary lion Colin Channer presents new fiction from the freshest young Jamaican authors and the Calabash International Literary Festival’s Extended Family.Reggae’s rebel spirit blazes in this hot selection of short fiction from Jama...

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  The Girl with the Golden Shoes
  

  • May-2007
  • / Literary
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  By the author of Waiting in Vain: “A sparkling gift, the tale of a meager, shoeless, raggedy abandoned Cinderella whose hardships make her all the wiser” (The Washington Post).   Set in 1942 on the imagined island of San Carlos -- a cultural...

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  Lover's Rock
  

  • Jul-2013
  • / General Fiction
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  Fire and Sylvia - 2
  

  Ten years after the end of Waiting in Vain, there is trouble in paradise for Fire and Sylvia. While on an extended visit to London, their historic home in Jamaica is burnt to the ground. Blaming it on Fire -- it was his decision to stay in London -- ...

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