Hale, Nathan
Summary: Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of the Haitian Revolution and its role in Napoleon's decision to sell Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe the whole Louisiana Territory, when they sought to buy only New Orleans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.94 HALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC HALWatts, Nic
Summary: "When C.L.R. James's play "Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History" opened in London featuring Paul Robeson in 1936, it marked the first time black actors starred on the British stage in a play written by a black playwright. But after this groundbreaking play ended its run, the script was lost for almost seventy years. Then a draft copy was found among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 972.94 WATRiley, Vanessa
Summary: "Queen of diverse historicals Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILCharles, Tami
Summary: "Every year, Haitians all over the world ring in the new year by eating a special soup, a tradition dating back to the Haitian Revolution. This year, Ti Gran is teaching Belle how to make the soup -- Freedom Soup -- just like she was taught when she was a little girl. Together, they dance and clap as they prepare the holiday feast, and Ti Gran tells Belle about the history of the soup, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHALake, Nick.
Summary: In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in 1804.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Pub 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAKShacochis, Bob.
Summary: "When the humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a beautiful, seductive photojournalist, he is confronted with a dangerous landscape of poverty, corruption, and voodoo."--Publisher's website.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAOrtiz, Raquel M.
Summary: Young Sofi enters a New York City community garden and finds a half-painted mural. It's full of big, leafy plants in blue and yellow, and a vibrant emerald green color appears where the two colors meet. As Sofi runs her fingers over the image, she is suddenly transported to a beautiful place with plants just like the ones on the wall! Sofi finds herself in the Dominican Republic, where she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 1804: the hidden history of Haiti is a documentary film about the untold history of the Haitian Revolution. Produced by the creator of the best-selling Hidden Colors film series, 1804 goes in-depth about the four principal players who were instrumental in Haiti's independence: Makandal, Dutty Boukman, Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines. This documentary gives a compelling look into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: King Flex Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EIGSummary: Tells the story of Haitian national hero, journalist, and freedom fighter Jean Dominique, whom Demme first met and filmed in 1986. As owner and operator of his nation's oldest and only free radio station, Dominique was frequently at odds with his country's various repressive governments and spent much of the 80's and early 90's in exile in New York, where Demme continued to interview him over...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment [distributor] 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AGRHazareesingh, Sudhir
Summary: "A biography of the Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE HAZSummary: Interweaves the extraordinary story of Septentrional with that of Haiti: from the brutality of French colonialism and the bloody revolution that brought Haitians their freedom to the crushing foreign debt and the 15-year American occupation that ushered in the brutal dictatorship of Franȯis "Papa Doc" Duvalier. We see the hope that was created by Jean Bertrand Aristide, and the despair that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WHEDiederich, Bernard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.94 DIEShacochis, Bob.
Summary: Bringing an eyewitness account of America's 1994 invasion and occupation of Haiti to life, the author recounts events that happened in the Pentagon war room as well as the stories of soldiers who struggled every day to bring democracy to a ravaged country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.94 SHASivak, Zoe
Summary: "A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who flees to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution. Sylvie de Rosiers, the biracial daughter of a rich planter in 1791 Saint-Domingue, is both a lady born to privilege and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIV SIVUlysse, Katia D
Summary: "No one was prepared for the massive earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, taking over a quarter-million lives, and leaving millions of others homeless. Three thousand miles away, Jacqueline Florestant mourns the presumed death of her parents, while her husband, a former US Marine and combat veteran, cares for their three-year-old daughter as he fights his own battles with acute PTSD. Horrified...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ULYBell, Madison Smartt.
Summary: Presents a biography of Toussaint Louverture that captures the frequently contradictory and complex life of the leader of the late-eighteenth-century Haitian Revolution that became the only successful slave revolt in history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.94 BELSummary: The Haitian Revolution represents the only successful slave revolution in history; it created the world's first Black republic. At the forefront of the rebellion was General Toussaint Louverture, an ex-slave whose genius was admired by allies and enemies alike.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EgaDubois, Laurent
Summary: Even before the 2010 earthquake, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption, and has often been blamed for its own wretchedness. But as historian Laurent Dubois makes clear, its difficulties are rooted in its founding revolution, the only successful slave revolt in the history of the world; the hostility that this rebellion generated among the colonial powers; and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.94 DUBJohnston, Jake
Summary: "Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise and not a single elected leader holds office, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels from the after-effects of disasters, both man-made and natural, that destroyed much of Haiti's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Largey, Michael D.
Summary: From the Publisher: In Haitians in Michigan, Michael Largey chronicles the challenges facing Haitian immigrants and their U.S.-born children as they seek to maintain their cultural identity in the United States. Beginning with a useful outline of Haitian political history, Largey explains how Haiti and the United States have become linked by a shared history of commerce and colonialism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DTPSonneborn, Liz
Summary: The tiny Caribbean nation of Haiti was devastated by a massive earthquake. Since then, it has struggled to make a complete recovery, suffering setbacks such as a 2016 hurricane that left thousands dead. But despite these difficulties, Haiti remains a remarkable nation. Readers will learn all about Haitian history and culture. They will also find out how the country is governed, what drives its...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.94 SONBurg, Ann E.
Summary: In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURYahgulanaas, Michael Nicoll
Summary: "With gorgeous imagery, visual artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas brings to life the tumultuous history of first contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples and the early colonization by the Europeans of the northern West Coast. Yahgulanaas uses a blend of traditional and modern art, eschewing the traditional boxes of comic books for the flowing shapes of North Pacific iconography. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Douglas & McIntyre 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 971.1004 YAHKelley, Margot Anne
Summary: "Ever wonder if there's a better way to live, work, and eat? You're not alone. Here is the story of five back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream agriculture. Then and now, it's the story of people striving to live freely and fight injustice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2022