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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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CARIBBEAN

Haiti

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The Serpent and the Rainbow

by Wade Davis

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

Davis, an ethnobotanist, chronicles his search for a "zombie drug" in this tale (made into a film) of cultural discovery and Haitian voodism. (CRB240, $15.00)

Krik? Krak?

by Edwidge Danticat

  • LITERATURE
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

These stories are all set in Danticat's native Haiti. (CRB152, $14.00)

Lonely Planet Dominican Republic & Haiti

Lonely Planet Dominican Republic & Haiti

by Leah Gordon | Scott Doggett

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 400 PAGES

A practical guide to Dominican Republic and Haiti. (CRB89, $21.99)

Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola

Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola

by Michele Wucker

  • HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

The story of the historic tensions between two countries which share a single island but are divided by history, language, race and class. (CRB46, $16.00)

A Continent of Islands, Searching for the Caribbean Destiny

A Continent of Islands, Searching for the Caribbean Destiny

by Mark Kurlansky

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1992
  • PAPER
  • 324 PAGES

A wonderfully observed social history of the Caribbean by a far-ranging journalist and favorite author. Kurlansky has a knack for honing in on the small details that make the Caribbean culturally unique, offering frank insight on music, religion, healthcare and the influence of the United States. (CRB12, $17.95)

The Traveller's Tree

The Traveller's Tree

by Patrick Leigh Fermor

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 400 PAGES

Regarded as a travel classic, the book recounts the au-thor's island-hopping journey in the late forties in the company of Greek artist Costa and his future wife, Joan, where they listen to steel-drum bands, and come across the then little-known Rastafarianism. (CRB04, $19.95)

 
A Brief History of the Caribbean, From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present

A Brief History of the Caribbean, From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present


by Jan Rogozinski

  • HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 324 PAGES

Written for a scholarly audience, this concise history presents the full sweep of Caribbean geography, culture and commerce from aboriginal inhabitants through European colonization and modern developments. (CRB38, $18.00)

The Sugar Barons

The Sugar Barons


by Matthew Parker

  • HISTORY
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 384 PAGES

Parker interweaves the histories of the Caribbean, the Industrial Revolution and the British Empire with the human stories of visitors and slaves, overseers and soldiers and families whose fortunes rose and fell on the sugar of the West Indies. (CRB277, $30.00)

African Vodun: Art, Psychology and Power

African Vodun: Art, Psychology and Power


by Susanne Preston Blier

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 476 PAGES

A detailed study of West African vodun traditions, particularly in Togo and Benin. Blier compares the psychological and visual elements of Vodun with related voodoo traditions of Haiti and New Orleans. (WAF74, $52.50)

Brother, I'm Dying

Brother, I'm Dying


by Edwidge Danticat

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

The captivating, extraordinary memoir of the Haitian-born New Yorker and the two men, her uncle in Haiti and father in the United States, who raised her. (CRB214, $15.00)

Mountains Beyond Mountains


by Tracy Kidder

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 332 PAGES

An inspiring biography of anthropologist, physician and Harvard professor Paul Farmer, a founding director of Zanmi Lasante ("Partners in Health"), an organization providing thousands of people in Haiti and around the world with health care. Kidder travels with Farmer from Boston and Haiti to Peru, Cuba, Mexico, Canada and Russia, illuminating Farmer's novel approach to public health and human rights. (GEN963, $18.00)

All Souls' Rising

All Souls' Rising


by Madison Smartt Bell

  • LITERATURE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 530 PAGES

This historical novel follows the slave rebellion in Haiti that led to a revolution that swept across the western world in the late 1700s. (CRB280, $15.95)

Island Beneath the Sea

Island Beneath the Sea


by Isabel Allende

  • LITERATURE
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 457 PAGES

Isabel Allende turns to Haiti (then called Saint-Domonigue) in the tumultuous years surrounding the 1791 slave revolt, and New Orleans at the time of the Louisiana Purchase, in this richly atmospheric novel. She places a strong-willed woman, the slave and concubine Zarite, at the center of her multi-generational saga, which among its many pleasures, includes marvelous descriptions of Creole life in New Orleans. (USS464, $26.99)

Master of the Crossroads

Master of the Crossroads


by Madison Smartt Bell

  • LITERATURE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 732 PAGES

In his follow-up to All Soul's Rising, Bell provides a detailed fictional portrait of Toussaint Louverture, a Haitian slave who became a revolutionary and military leader. (CRB279, $16.95)

Stone That the Builder Refused

Stone That the Builder Refused


by Madison Smartt Bell

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 747 PAGES

In the final volume in Bell's trilogy about the Haitian revolution, Louverture leads Haiti to independence and endeavors to build a new nation. (CRB278, $16.95)

The Kingdom of This World


by Alejo Carpentier

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 180 PAGES

Carpentier turns the history of the revolt against despotic King Henri-Christopher into a powerful novel. Inspired by a trip to Haiti in the 1940s. (CRB264, $15.00)

Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti

Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti


by Steven Latta

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 360 PAGES

A compact, up-to-date field guide, covering 306 species of birds (including 31 endemics). (CRB194, $35.00)

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