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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Haiti After the Earthquake by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Within three days, Dr. Paul Farmer arrived in the Haitian capital, along with a team of volunteers, to lend his services to the injured.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Voodoo in Haiti by Alfred Metraux Publisher Comments 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.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rainy Season: Haiti-Then and Now by Amy Wilentz Publisher Comments The earthquake has unleashed a desperation I recognize from my long education in Haiti as the desperation of extreme poverty. A few blocks away, I heard an elderly Haitian arguing with an officer of the 82nd over a piece of rope or bungee cord the man... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Night of Fire: The Black Napoleon & the Battle for Haiti by Martin Ros Publisher Comments Napoleon was forced to divert badly needed troops to deal with a slave army in Haiti led by Jean Jacques Dessalines.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution by Matthew J Clavin Publisher Comments At the end of the eighteenth century, a massive slave revolt rocked French Saint Domingue, the most profitable European colony in the Americas. Under the leadership of the charismatic former slave Francois Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a disciplined... (read more) Your price: $22.50 New - Trade Paper
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Haiti: A Shattered Nation by Elizabeth Abbott Publisher Comments Haiti is the definitive inside account of the Duvaliers--father and son--and their legacy. In 1803, the enslaved people of Haiti vanquished their French masters after a bloody war that left tens of thousands dead. In 1986, Haitians celebrated victory, as... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti by Michael Deibert Publisher Comments Notes from the Last Testament, by veteran reporter Michael Deibert, is a riveting narrative account of the events leading up to and including the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A fearless correspondent and a meticulous researcher,... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $20.37 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Immaculate Invasion Haiti by Bob Shacochis Synopsis "Every war brings forth one perfect book. . . . Now we have "The Immaculate Invasion, " the masterpiece of the 1994 U.S. assault and occupation of Haiti."--James Zug, "Chicago Tribune."... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rubble: The Search for a Haitian Boy by Sandra Marquez Stathis Publisher Comments A remarkable story of friendship and lifelong bonds, set in the turmoil of Haiti Writing as a mother, journalist, and former human rights observer, Sandra Marquez Stathis takes readers on a powerful journey to Haiti, where she lived and worked... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Toussaint Louverture: A Biography by Madison Smartt Bell Publisher Comments In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Immaculate Invasion by Bob Shacochis Publisher Comments For eighteen months, Bob Shacochis covered Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti, where he bunked with a team of Special Forces Commandos -- the most highly trained and sophisticated warriors in history. There, he observed both the heroic exploits and the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President by Randall Robinson Publisher Comments On February 29, 2004, the first democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forced to leave his country. The president was kidnapped, along with his Haitian-American wife, by American soldiers and flown to the isolated Central... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Promise in Haiti: A Reporter's Notes on Families and Daily Lives by Mark Curnutte Publisher Comments Understanding Haiti, up close and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.75 New - Hardcover
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Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti by Michael Deibert Publisher Comments Notes from the Last Testament, by veteran reporter Michael Deibert, is a riveting narrative account of the events leading up to and including the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A fearless correspondent and a meticulous... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C L R James Publisher Comments A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Land of Mountains by Elizabeth Maul Schwartz Publisher Comments When a ten-year-old Texan moves to Haiti in the 1950's, she is instantly plunged into a world of voodoo, zombies and political unrest. To her, it is a paradise.Living in Camp Péligre, a construction camp miles from civilization, Lizbuthann, her parrot... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President by Randall Robinson Publisher Comments On February 29th, 2004 the democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forced to leave his country. The twice elected President was kidnapped, along with his Haitian-American wife, American soldiers and flown, against his will,... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Haitian Revolution (Revolutions Series) by Jean Bertrand Aristide Publisher Comments Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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