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  • Taximan : stories and anecdotes from the back seat
    Author:
    Péan, Stanley, Homel, David
    Summary:

    In the taxi rides you're about to take, you'll be in the company of some classic drivers and of a perspicacious and sharp-eyed passenger, the writer and broadcaster Stanley Péan. Veteran translator David Homel, who introduced...
  • Krik? Krak
    Author:
    Danticat, Edwidge
    Summary:

    In a land where vicious dictators crush dreams and lives on a whim, Haitian people have only faith and hope to sustain them. Perhaps it is the faith that a tiny, leaky boat packed with refugees will successfulyly navigate the ocean and...
  • Je suis fou de Vava
    Author:
    Laferrière, Dany
    Summary:

    Vieux Os aime jouer avec les fourmis. Passer l'après-midi sur le balcon avec sa grand-mère, Da. Regarder vivre les habitants de Petit-Goâve. Mais ce qu'il aime le plus, c'est Vava dans sa robe jaune. Cela lui donne la fièvre, encore...
  • En attendant la montée des eaux : roman
    Author:
    Condé, Maryse
    Summary:

    Babakar est medecin. Il vit seul avec ses souvenirs d'une enfance africaine, d'une mere aux yeux bleus qui vient le visiter en songe, d'un ancien amour, Azelia, disparue elle aussi, et autres reves de jeunesse d'avant son exil en...
  • Claire of the sea light
    Author:
    Danticat, Edwidge
    Summary:

    In a seaside town in Haiti, widower Nozias finally makes the gut-wrenching decision to give up his daughter Claire so she can have a better life. But when the girl goes missing, the resulting search unearths long-hidden secrets that...
  • Brother, I'm dying
    Author:
    Danticat, Edwidge
    Summary:

    When the author was only four years old, her parents emigrated from Haiti to New York in search of a better life, leaving their daughter in the care of her uncle Joseph. A peaceful pastor in Port-au-Prince, Joseph raised Edwidge with...
  • Blanc Bonsoir
    Author:
    Beausoleil, Jean-Marc
    Summary:

    Fuyant ses ennuis financiers et ses mauvaises habitudes de drogues, Frédéric Latouche quitte Montréal pour Port-au-Prince. Il décroche alors un emploi de professeur au Collège international français, se lie d’amitié avec Frantz, le don...
  • An untamed state
    Author:
    Gay, Roxane
    Summary:

    The story of Mireille Duval Jameson, a rich and self-assured Haitian woman kidnapped by a gang of heavily armed men who intend to hold her until her unwilling father pays up.
  • A heart without borders
    Author:
    Grey, Andrew
    Summary:

    When vampire Clancy Marrowbone returns to Purin province after nearly two years, he intends only to visit with his dear friend, Fanule Perfidor, and find out how his former lover, the mortal Simon Bentcross, is faring. But two...
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