haiti

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Taste of salt

a story of modern Haiti
1994
In the hospital after being beaten by Macoutes, 17-year-old Djo tells the story of his impoverished life to a young woman who, like him, has been working with the social reformer Father Aristide to fight the repression in Haiti.

Breath, eyes, memory

1995
Sophie Caco, a child who was born of rape, leaves Haiti at the age of twelve to join her mother in New York City, where they both battle with the results of sexual abuse.

Getting Haiti right this time

the U.S. and the coup
2004
Chronicles the events surrounding the coup in Haiti, focusing on the United States government's involvement in the coup and discussing how it has impacted the country of Haiti and the American government.

Tell my horse

voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica
2009
The author provides an account of her experiences as an initiate of voodoo in Haiti and Jamaica during the 1930s.

Fran?ois & Jean-Claude Duvalier

1989
Traces the lives of the man who served as president of Haiti from 1957 to 1971 and his son who succeeded him as president until his overthrow in 1986.

Running the road to ABC

2000
Long before the sun even thinks of rising the Haitian children run to school where they learn the letters, sounds, and words of their beautiful books.

Josias, hold the book

2006
Each day Chrislove asks his friend Josias when he will "hold the book, " or join them at school, but Josias can only think of tending the bean garden so that his family will have enough food.

Walking on fire

Haitian women's stories of survival and resistance
2001
Thirty-eight Haitian women discuss the social conditions for women in Haiti.

Toussaint L'Ouverture

1990
A biography of the eighteenth-century slave who led his people in the struggle for an independent Haiti and became its ruler in 1799.

Bouki cuts wood

a Haitian folktale
2012
A silly man named Bouki, believing that the old man who passed by is a true fortune teller, asks when he will die, then behaves as if the prediction has come true. Includes notes about Bouki tales and Haiti.

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