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1	Breath, Eyes, Memory more books like this by Edwidge Danticat add to wishlist This is the story of Sophie Caco, the daughter of a Haitian exile, conceived in an act of violence. When Sophie is 12, her mother--who had abandoned her--asks the girl to join her in New York. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.82! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Farming of Bones more books like this by Edwidge Danticat add to wishlist Danticat's historical novel is about a bloody episode in the history of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from £1.71! new only from £8.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Oxford Picture Dictionary more books like this by Jayme Adelson-Goldstein, Norma Shapiro add to wishlist A comprehensive, flexible, and up-to-date vocabulary reference and teaching tool for English language learning. The Oxford Picture Dictionary and its components create a highly teachable programme that can be used as a complete, four-skills beginning course, or as a language development supplement and practical reference. NEW Grammar Activity Book see all copies from £10.12! new only from £13.09! \| first editions
4	Dew Breaker more books like this by E Danticat add to wishlist From the universally acclaimed author of "Breath, Eyes, Memory" comes a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"--a torturer--a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality. see all copies from £4.05! new only from £9.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Krik? Krak! more books like this by Edwidge Danticat add to wishlist Short stories that illuminate the realities of Haitian life. see all copies from £5.44! new only from £7.16! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution more books like this by Cyril Lionel Robert James add to wishlist In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt. Despite invasion by a series of British, Spanish and Napoleonic armies, their twelve-year struggle led to the creation of Haiti, the first independent black republic outside Africa. Only three years later, the British and Americans ended the ... see all copies from £6.58! new only from £8.42!
7	All Souls' Rising more books like this by Madison Smartt Bell add to wishlist A retelling of an episode of history--the rebellion of Haitian slaves against French plantation owners. Madison Smartt Bell employs a cast of carefully drawn characters, including the legendary Toussaint, a self-educated, second-generation African slave, who is determined to see an end to French rule but equally determined to resist the influences ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.06! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Lydia Bailey more books like this by Kenneth Roberts add to wishlist It is 1800, and Albion Hamlin's client has run afoul of the notorious Alien and Sedition Acts. Before he knows what has happened, Albion has lost his case and fallen in love -- with his client's niece, Lydia Bailey. Roberts skillfully blends history, romance, and adventure once again in this novel. see all copies from £1.87! new only from £29.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica more books like this by Zora Neale Hurston add to wishlist Published in 1938, Hurston's second book about black folklore chronicles her own experiences with voodoo in Haiti and Jamaica. She also writes about the politics of the islands. see all copies from £4.80! new only from £4.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Kingdom of This World more books like this by Alejo Carpentier add to wishlist A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.37! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame more books like this by Paul Farmer add to wishlist Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the USA rather than from hard evidence? Anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers in the affirmative with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. Farmer was present when the first ... see all copies from £7.18! new only from £11.08! \| first editions
12 view cover	Comedians more books like this by Greene add to wishlist This novel of politics and espionage, set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier., describes the course of events that brings together three men who came to the island for very different reasons: Smith, an American idealist and crank who plans to establish a vegetarian commune for the Haitian poor; Brown, an Englishman who runs a cheap hotel and is ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.56! \| first editions
13 view cover	Anacaona, Golden Flower more books like this by Edwidge Danticat add to wishlist Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold. see all copies from £3.27! new only from £3.27!
14 view cover	Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American more books like this by Jean-Robert Cadet add to wishlist African slaves in Haiti emancipated themselves from French rule in 1804 and created the independent black republic in the Western Hemisphere. But they reinstituted slavery for the most vulnerable members of Haitian society -- the children of the poor -- by using them as unpaid servants to the wealthy. These children were -- and still are -- ... see all copies from £8.42! new only from £8.42! \| signed copies
15 view cover	Deadeye Dick more books like this by Kurt Vonnegut add to wishlist Rudolph Waltz, native of Midland City, Ohio, has earned himself the notorious nickname of "Deadeye Dick". Until, that is, the "accident" with the neutron bomb. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Midnight Moon more books like this by Lori Handeland add to wishlist Under the midnight moon, dark secrets are revealed - Cassandra thought she had the perfect life until she suffered a devastating tragedy. Now she has a new identity as Priestess Cassandra, owner of a New Orleans voodoo shop, and a new purpose. A research trip for a paranormal secret society leads Cassandra to Haiti, where rumours fly of a sinister ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.53! \| first editions
17 view cover	The serpent and the rainbow more books like this by Wade Davis add to wishlist This classic work of anthropological narrative nonfiction, written in 1985, follows Harvard ethnobotanist Wade Davis to Haiti on a mission to discover the drug compounds at the root of zombie-making voodoo practices. Davis learns how such magical potions are made by bribing and befriending a local houngan (priest of voodoo, or "Voudon" as it's ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Basic Oxford Picture Dictionary more books like this by M Gramer add to wishlist The pictorial reference features topics which reflect the immediate language needs of beginning-level adult and secondary students of American English: contextualized vocabulary for essential survival skills; large, easy-to-read type and clearly organized pages; an index showing the pronunciation of each item; plus a large number of verbs, ... see all copies from £6.22! new only from £9.19! \| first editions
19 view cover	Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization more books like this by Jean-Bertrand Aristide add to wishlist In this startling and passionate book, Aristide demonstrates why those on the bottom will never lie down. A graphic revelation of what happens when "free" trade overruns local markets, eradicates local economies, and creates dependence on foreign charity. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £10.26! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Magic Island more books like this by William Seabrook add to wishlist Adventures and emotional experiences of an American author in Haiti. see all copies from £6.85! new only from £38.63! \| first editions
21 view cover	Sea of Grey more books like this by Dewey Lambdin add to wishlist The 10th installment in the author's series about the British navy, set during the Napoleonic Wars. In this episode, his hero Alan Lewrie is reunited with his rotter of a father, who shipped Alan off to sea at age 15 in order to enjoy the fruits of the ill-gotten estate that rightly was his son's. After this interlude, Alan is off to sea again--to ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Secrets of Voodoo more books like this by Milo Rigaud add to wishlist "Secrets of Voodoo" traces the development of this complex religion (in Haiti and the Americas) from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of ancient Africa. This book presents a straightforward account of the gods or loas and their function, the symbols and signs, rituals, the ceremonial calendar of Voodoo, and the procedures for performing ... see all copies from £8.72! new only from £9.96! \| first editions
23 view cover	An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President more books like this by Randall Robinson add to wishlist Bestselling author and bold social commentator Randall Robinson explores the singularly curious and ultimately tragic history of Haiti.On February 29, 2004, the democratically elected president of Haiti was forced to leave the country as marauding bands of rebels - resplendent in their American military issue and brandishing new M16 and CAR-15 ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
24 view cover	Voodoo in Haiti more books like this by Alfred Metraux add to wishlist A master work of observation and description about the lives and rituals of the Haitian mambos and adepts, and of the history and origins of their religion. see all copies from £8.40! new only from £8.40! \| first editions
25 view cover	Toussaint Louverture: A Biography more books like this by Madison Smartt Bell add to wishlist In this fascinating biography, the first about Toussaint Louverture to appear in English in more than 50 years, Bell combines a novelist's passion for his subject with a deep knowledge of the historical milieu that produced the man known either as a martyr of the Haitian revolution or as the instigator of one of history's most savagely violent ... see all copies from £4.09! new only from £6.57! \| signed copies \| first editions

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