vodou

Follows four generations of the Montrose family, who have been living with a curse that leaves any person they fall in love with dead, stemming back to a Voodoo sorceress in 1950s New Orleans' French Quarter.

Fifteen-year-old Haitian American Cicely is excited to celebrate the West Indian Day Parade with her aunt, and voodoo dabbler, Mimose, but when Mimose's dabbling goes awry and she becomes possessed by a spirit, Cicely, Renee, and Kwame, her crush, must find a way to set things right.

A year after Tiana makes a deal with Dr. Facilier, she has her restaurant, her friends are safe, and her father is still alive, but soon shadows begin to gather and Tiana must work with Naveen and Charlotte to set things right or risk losing her soul.

Examines Haitian zombies through stories and science.

Paul Faustino, known as the best soccer journalist in the business, reluctantly investigates the disappearance of eighteen-year-old Ricardo, a soccer prodigy known as "El Brujito, " while in alternate chapters a slave in old San Juan becomes a powerful voodoo priest.

Eleven-year-old Cleo is having trouble fitting in at her private school in Los Angeles, but when she and her friend Sam try to improve things using the voodoo doll her Uncle Arnie sent, there are unexpected results.

Angry after his teacher gives him a failing grade on his final exam, Tyler uses the voodoo doll given to him by his friend, Adam, and is shocked to discover the doll's power, but does not realize that Adam has another doll made in Tyler's image and things escalate when Tyler's car is stolen--with the doll inside.

Emmy comes into possession of a voodoo doll and uses it to control her former best friend Lizzy.

". . . offers firsthand accounts of Haitian voodoo and witchcraft rituals"--Provided by publisher.