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The author returns to her native land to describe Jacmel, Haiti, in the week leading up to Carnival, in a series of essays that capture the cultural magic, music, and madness of Carnival.

Hardcover:

9780609609088 | 1 edition (Crown Pub, August 1, 2002), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author returns to her native land to describe Jacmel, Haiti, in the week leading up to Carnival, in a series of essays that capture the cultural magic, music, and madness of Carnival.
9780070454910, titled "McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 1990" | McGraw-Hill, cover price $80.00 | also contains McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 1990 | About this edition: On t.

Paperback:

9781101872918 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 28, 2015), cover price $14.95

Miscellaneous:

9780307419736 | Crown Pub, December 18, 2007, cover price $16.95

Library:

9780375902239, titled "Media & Communications" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1999, cover price $20.99 | also contains Media & Communications | About this edition: Text and illustrations introduce the many kinds of communications and media, and how they have developed, from drums and smoke signals through the invention of printing, to the Internet and virtual reality, and discusses such areas as advertising and propaganda

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Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.

Hardcover:

9780439499064 | Scholastic, April 1, 2005, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.

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A second annual collection of multicultural short stories, essays, and poetry features the work of such writers as Julia Alvarez, Isabel Allende, Sherman Alexie, Walter Mosley, Lois Ann Yamanaka, Ai, and other notables. (view table of contents)
By Edwidge Danticat (editor)

Hardcover:

9780807062449 | Beacon Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $28.50 | About this edition: A collection of multicultural short stories, essays, and poetry features the work of such writers as Julia Alvarez, Isabel Allende, Sherman Alexie, Walter Mosley, Lois Ann Yamanaka, and Ai.

Paperback:

9780807062456, titled "The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures" | Beacon Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A second annual collection of multicultural short stories, essays, and poetry features the work of such writers as Julia Alvarez, Isabel Allende, Sherman Alexie, Walter Mosley, Lois Ann Yamanaka, Ai, and other notables.

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Having left war-torn Haiti for a new life with her father in New York, Celiane finds her new environment shocking as she witnesses her parents struggle to make money, faces acts of violence at school, and learns to cope with the major adjustments of living in a place so different from her native home. Original.

Paperback:

9780439373005 | Reprint edition (Scholastic, February 1, 2004), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Writing in the notebook which her teacher gave her, thirteen-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti and her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there to be reunited with her father.

Writing in the notebook which her teacher gave her, thirteen-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti and her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there to be reunited with her father.

Hardcover:

9780439372992 | Orchard Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Writing in the notebook which her teacher gave her, thirteen-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti and her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there to be reunited with her father.
9789990061666 | Scholastic, October 1, 2002, cover price $0.02

Prebinding:

9780613604031 | Turtleback Books, June 1, 2004, cover price $15.70 | About this edition: Writing in the notebook which her teacher gave her, thirteen-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti and her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there to be reunited with her father.

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By Edwidge Danticat (editor)

Paperback:

9780547479774 | 1 edition (Mariner Books, October 4, 2011), cover price $14.95

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At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her

Hardcover:

9780786216543 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 1998), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her
9781569471425 | Reprint edition (Soho Pr Inc, May 1, 1998), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A young Haitian girl comes of age torn between two cultures--the Haiti of her Tante Atie and Grandmother Ife, and the New York of her mother Martine
9781569470053 | Soho Pr Inc, April 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A young Haitian girl comes of age torn between two cultures--the Haiti of her Tante Atie and Grandmother Ife, and the New York of her mother Martine

Paperback:

9781616955021 | 20 anv edition (Soho Pr Inc, February 24, 2015), cover price $16.00
9780786216550 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 1999), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her
9780375705045 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 1998), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her
9789990072594 | Random House Inc, May 1, 1998, cover price $0.02
9780679756613 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1995), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Follows a young Haitian woman's conception by violence, abandoment as a young child, summons to America at the age of twelve, and difficult transition into New York's community of Haitian exiles.

Reinforced:

9780606252713 | Demco Media, December 1, 1998, cover price $21.23 | About this edition: At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her

Prebinding:

9780613113564 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $25.75 | About this edition: At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her

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In a personal memoir, the author describes her relationships with the two men closest to her--her father and his brother, Joseph, a charismatic pastor with whom she lived after her parents emigrated from Haiti to the United States.

Hardcover:

9781400041152 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 4, 2007, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In a personal memoir, the author describes her relationships with the two men closest to her--her father and his brother, Joseph, a charismatic pastor with whom she lived after her parents emigrated from Haiti to the United States.

Paperback:

9781400034307 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 9, 2008), cover price $15.00

Library:

9781602851337 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, February 1, 2008), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her “second father,” when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America.

An anthology of thirty-three essays and poems that explore the Haitian migration experience focuses on four separate themes--childhood, migration, first generation, and return.
By Edwidge Danticat (editor)

Paperback:

9781569472187 | Soho Pr Inc, February 1, 2001, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: An anthology of thirty-three essays and poems that explore the Haitian migration experience focuses on four separate themes--childhood, migration, first generation, and return.

Prebinding:

9781435295278 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $25.50

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Claire Limy Lanm -- Claire of the Sea Light -- is an enchanting child born into love and tragedy in Ville Rose, Haiti. Claire's mother died in childbirth, and on each of her birthdays Claire is taken by her father, Nozias, to visit her mother's grave. Nozias wonders if he should give away his young daughter to a local shopkeeper, who lost a child of her own, so that Claire can have a better life.

Hardcover:

9780307271792 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 27, 2013, cover price $25.95

Paperback:

9780307472274 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 2014), cover price $15.00
9781782068495 | Gardners Books, November 7, 2013, cover price $21.50 | About this edition: Claire Limy Lanm -- Claire of the Sea Light -- is an enchanting child born into love and tragedy in Ville Rose, Haiti.
9780312270513, titled "Let''s Go 2002 Paris: City Guide" | Revised edition (Let''s Go Travel Guides, November 1, 2001), cover price $16.99 | also contains Let''s Go 2002 Paris: City Guide | About this edition: Features over 2,500 travel bargains on accommodations, restaurants, shopping, and attractions in the city

Library:

9781611739299 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, October 1, 2013), cover price $35.95

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A scarred Brooklyn resident remembers his past life as a Haitian torturer in the 1960s, a period during which he waged personal and political battles before moving to New York, where his past continued to haunt him throughout his marriage and parenthood. By the award-winning author of The Farming of Bones. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9781400041145 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 2004), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A scarred Brooklyn resident remembers his past life as a Haitian torturer in the 1960s, a period during which he waged personal and political battles before moving to New York, where his past continued to haunt him.

Paperback:

9781400034291 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 8, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A scarred Brooklyn resident remembers his past life as a Haitian torturer in the 1960s, a period during which he waged personal and political battles before moving to New York, where his past continues to haunt him.
9780349117898 | Gardners Books, May 6, 2004, cover price $14.40 | About this edition: A collection of stories set in Haiti, this anthology is structured so that characters who narrate one story may emerge later, seen from an entirely different perspective, in another.

Reinforced:

9780606335454, titled "Dew Breaker" | Demco Media, March 8, 2005, cover price $22.30 | About this edition: A scarred Brooklyn resident remembers his past life as a Haitian torturer in the 1960s, a period during which he waged personal and political battles before moving to New York, where his past continues to haunt him.

Prebinding:

9781417743049, titled "Dew Breaker" | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2005, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: A scarred Brooklyn resident remembers his past life as a Haitian torturer in the 1960s, a period during which he waged personal and political battles before moving to New York, where his past continues to haunt him.

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By Edwidge Danticat and Alix Delinois (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780545278492 | Orchard Books, September 1, 2010, cover price $17.99

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In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haitian border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel's wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians

Hardcover:

9780786217328, titled "The Farming of Bones" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 1999), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haitian border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel's wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians
9781569471265, titled "The Farming of Bones" | Soho Pr Inc, September 1, 1998, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haitian border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel's wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians

Paperback:

9781616953492, titled "The Farming of Bones" | Reprint edition (Soho Pr Inc, May 7, 2013), cover price $16.00

Reinforced:

9780606252720 | Demco Media, December 1, 1999, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haitian border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel's wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians

Prebinding:

9780613215220 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haitian border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel's wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians

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In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haitian border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel's wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians

Paperback:

9780140280494 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1999), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haitian border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel's wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians

Prebinding:

9781439558430 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 4, 2008), cover price $24.00

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By Edwidge Danticat (foreword by)

Paperback:

9780801477690 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 4, 2013, cover price $18.95

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By Edwidge Danticat (introduced by)

Hardcover:

9781101907610 | Everymans Library, March 1, 2016, cover price $24.00

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By Edwidge Danticat (editor)

Hardcover:

9781617750137 | Akashic Books, December 7, 2010, cover price $24.95

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By Edwidge Danticat (editor)

Hardcover:

9781617751929 | Akashic Books, January 7, 2014, cover price $24.95

Paperback:

9781617751936 | Akashic Books, January 7, 2014, cover price $15.95

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This beautifully complex collection of essays weaves together many different perspectives of 'homeland,' including belonging, longing, and exile, and features contributions from Etel Adnan, who chose to leave Beirut during wartime, and Agate Nesaule, who left Latvia under Nazi and Soviet threats. Original.
By Edwidge Danticat (foreword by), Jenesha De Rivera (editor) and Patricia Justine Tumang (editor)

Paperback:

9781580051880 | Seal Pr, November 30, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This beautifully complex collection of essays weaves together many different perspectives of 'homeland,' including belonging, longing, and exile, and features contributions from Etel Adnan, who chose to leave Beirut during wartime, and Agate Nesaule, who left Latvia under Nazi and Soviet threats.

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By Edwidge Danticat (foreword by)

Paperback:

9780803240261 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, October 1, 2013, cover price $19.95

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Nine stories describe life under dictatorship in Haiti and the experiences of families who fled to the United States to start new lives

Hardcover:

9781569470251 | Soho Pr Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Nine stories describe life under dictatorship in Haiti and the experiences of families who fled to the United States to start new lives

Paperback:

9781616957001 | 20 anv edition (Soho Pr Inc, December 15, 2015), cover price $14.95
9780679766575 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Nine stories describe life under dictatorship in Haiti and the experiences of families who fled to the United States to start new lives

Reinforced:

9780606252737, titled "Krik? Krak" | Demco Media, December 1, 1996, cover price $22.30 | About this edition: Nine stories describe life under dictatorship in Haiti and the experiences of families who fled to the United States to start new lives

Prebinding:

9781439571248 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 5, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Edwidge Danticat's only short story collection.
9781417619313 | Turtleback Books, April 2, 1996, cover price $26.90 | About this edition: Nine stories describe life under dictatorship in Haiti and the experiences of families who fled to the United States to start new lives

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By Edwidge Danticat (introduced by)

Hardcover:

9780679643517 | Modern Library, August 4, 2009, cover price $27.00

Paperback:

9780812976922, titled "Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych" | Modern Library, March 30, 2010, cover price $17.00

Born and raised in Jamaica, Patricia Powell emigrated to the USA and in 1991 became Assistant Professor Creative of Writing at the University of Massachusetts. Written when she was 19, this novel spans two decades and interweaves the voices and perspectives of three generations of Jamaican women.
By Edwidge Danticat (introduced by) and Patricia Powell

Paperback:

9780807083659 | Beacon Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $18.00
9780435989354 | Heinemann, November 1, 1993, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Born and raised in Jamaica, Patricia Powell emigrated to the USA and in 1991 became Assistant Professor Creative of Writing at the University of Massachusetts.

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