A reader’s guide to the Little Rock Press shelf: what each book actually is, who it is for, where to start — and every way to buy one.
Naomi E. Christie writes from New Amsterdam, Berbice. She is an Attorney-at-Law and legal educator — admitted to the Guyana Bar in October 2013, having read law at the University of Guyana, taken her Legal Education Certificate at the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad (with the Justice Jessel Hannays Memorial Prize for best performance in the Law of Remedies), and completed her LL.M. at New York University School of Law in 2015. She is also the CEO of Little Rock Guyana.
The books come out of both lives. This is a guide to what is on the shelf, so you can pick the right one rather than the first one.
If you want the family story
Creating a Legacy — The Life and Times of Rockcliff Syomen Christie
The biography of her father: the engineer from Vergenoegen who walked to Brazil at twenty, spent ten years in England, came home in 1966 to build roads and bridges for a newly independent Guyana, and then built Berbice’s first television station and first radio station.
It is the fullest account of how Little Rock came to exist, and it doubles as a portrait of twentieth-century Guyana from the inside — apprenticeships, migration, public works, and a business built one building at a time. Start here if you are interested in Berbice, in Guyanese engineering, or in how a family business actually gets made.
There is also A Journey of Constructing Greatness, a shorter summary edition of the same life, for readers who want the story without the full length.
The Magic of Pearl
A daughter’s tribute to her mother, Shabela Pearl Dindial Christie — Matriarch of Little Rock, and the other half of the partnership that built the first hotel. The companion volume to Creating a Legacy, and the warmer of the two.
A Son’s Love, A Mother’s Legacy
Written for Mother’s Day, and the most personal book on the shelf.
If you want the legal memoir
Fiat Justitia Ruat Caelum — My Anchored Purpose
“Let justice be done though the heavens fall.”
The memoir of the legal life: reading law at the University of Guyana, Hugh Wooding, NYU, and practice in Guyana. If you are a student thinking about law in the Caribbean — or a parent of one — this is the book on the shelf with the most practical use in it. It is an account of what the path actually costs and what it actually looks like from inside.
If you want the Little Rock story as a place
Little Rock Paradise
Berbice’s Very Own — now in a second edition. The story of the place rather than the people: 10 Main and Church Streets, the stations, the hotel, the county.
If you want the Teachings of Spicy
Two connected books, both practical rather than abstract.
The Spicy Guide to Balance Living — Unlocking the Universe
Book One of the Teachings of Spicy. The framework behind the Spicy hour that runs on 88.5 Rock FM every weekday morning from ten to eleven — so if you have heard the show and wanted the whole system rather than one day of it, this is it.
The Week Is a Ladder — The Seven-Day Code for Balanced Living
The companion: one chapter for each day of the week, built to be used rather than read straight through.
Where to buy
On Amazon, worldwide — Kindle, paperback and hardcover, depending on the title. Every book has a direct link on the Books page. If you are buying from Guyana, Kindle editions are the practical choice; postage on a physical book is often more than the book.
From Paper Pulse, the bookshop — paperpulsegy.netlify.app, and on neccollection.com. This is where the signed copies and the full shelf live.
In The Little Rock Reader — lrtvs.gy/reader. This is the author’s own reading app, and it works differently from a shop. You order direct and pay by MMG, PayPal or Zelle; the order goes to Naomi, who confirms the payment personally and sends you a personal unlock link by email or WhatsApp. One tap and the book opens in the Reader, licensed to your name, readable online or saved offline on your device. Nothing between the reader and the author, and the whole sale stays in Guyana.
Where to start
- Curious about Berbice or about Guyana? Creating a Legacy.
- Short on time? A Journey of Constructing Greatness.
- Thinking about law? Fiat Justitia Ruat Caelum.
- Here for the family? The Magic of Pearl.
- Heard the Spicy hour on 88.5? The Spicy Guide to Balance Living, then The Week Is a Ladder.
A note on the press
The books are published under Little Rock Press, in New Amsterdam — the same house that produces the weekly newsletter and the digital magazine. It is a small imprint attached to a broadcaster, which is an unusual arrangement, and a deliberate one: the family that has been recording Berbice on television since 1989 is now doing the same thing in print.
The full shelf, with a direct link for every title, is on the Books page.
Sources & further reading
- Little Rock Guyana, Books · Paper Pulse — the shelf, with the direct Amazon link for each title.
- Little Rock Guyana, About Us — the author’s biography and qualifications.
- Paper Pulse and The Little Rock Reader — the bookshop and the digital reading app.
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