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Monday 9 SepteMber 2019

Happy Island miracles in pictures & words

ORANJESTAD - Books, they via Wouters, store manager
can shake your world up- at Bruna Book Store, gladly
side down. A good book is helped us out and informed
changing your mood like us about a small selection
that perfect vacation spot of Happy Island miracles in
that energizes your spirit. pictures and words.
Take these two together
and what you get is a va- Aruba Point to Point by Fed-
cation book, a memory of erico Cabello
that wonderful, heavenly “Beautiful pictures of Aru-
place where you spent ba, this is a perfect cof-
your valuable leisure time. fee table book to dream
Aruba Today dived into a away with”, explains Sylvia.
local book store and won- The book has 192 full color
dered what Aruba books pages and more than 400
blow the visitor’s mind. Syl- photos in a landscape for-
mat of 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inch-
es. In the words of the au-
thor: “Slipping beyond a (common, fairly common,
dynamic tourist industry to uncommon, scarce, and
discover its wild and unde- rare) of the particular bird
veloped beauty. Starting species will be added to
at the extreme north of the the checklist.
island, at California Light-
house, I travel south along Modern Caribbean Flavors
pristine beaches of white by Helmi Smeulders
sand and calm, translu- This is thé book about the
cent seas, passing hotels, contemporary Caribbean
sailboats and shipwrecks as kitchen with healthy reci-
I go. At the southern tip, it pes made with fresh and
is hard not to wish that the local ingredients. With
island would never end. recipes for Tropical Qui-
Then back up the rocky noa Salad with Mango
East coast, where time and & Pomegranate Seeds,
the eternal embrace of Sweet Potato Salad, Goat
the waves have opened Merguez, Watermelon San-
secret bays and stunning gria or Plantain Soup, the
beaches in the shelter of Caribbean vibe enters your
rock walls. From beach kitchen, and you feel for
to beach, point to point, a bit you are back in the
cave to cliff to boat to bird, tropics again….
Aruba truly is... One Happy
Island.” We Are Aruba by Linda
Reijnders
Bird Wildlife of Aruba Hard- Worldly life tales of island-
cover by Greg Peterson ers that come from 76 dif-
Popular book that gives an ferent countries. This is a
overview of Aruba’s birds book that tells the stories
together with descriptions. of immigrants who make
The book contains full page up for the multicultural so-
photographs of over two ciety that Aruba is. A world
hundred species of birds within an island, a cocktail
taken in Aruba's wildlife. A of people. The book is vis-
checklist, for scientific and ibly enriched with a picture
educational purposes, is at of each interviewed im-
the end of the book con- migrant and an image of
taining the names of all bird her/his country as well as a
species that can be found map with the country’s lo-
in Aruba. Where possible, cation. In the back you will
the status (resident, mi- find a list with all nationali-
grant, and vagrant, intro- ties living in the island and
duced) and abundance their numbers.q