Download or read book Haitian Princess written by Sandra McDyess and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cool novelty blank lined journal will make the perfect gift for the boy or girl who loves to take notes, jot down their innermost thoughts, or write songs, poems and ideas 120 Pages High Quality Paper 6" x 9" Paperback notebook Soft Matte Cover Great size to carry in your back, for work, school or in meetings Useful as a journal, notebook or composition book Cool birthday, christmas and anniversary gift

Download or read book Port au Prince Haiti Duvaliers Pax Haitiana Dynasty and my Coming of Age in the Time of Compas Direct and Mini Jazz A Memoir written by Lyonel Gerdes and published by Oxford Book Writer. This book was released on with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Port-au-Prince, Haiti..." is a captivating memoir by Lyonel Gerdes, the sequel to his first trilogy book. The author shares his personal journey of growing up in the mid-60s to mid-70s in the beautiful neighborhood of Martissant, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Despite the magnificent views of green hills and the soothing Caribbean Sea, Gerdes faces challenging circumstances, including his family's financial struggle, emotional neglect, and seeking love in the wrong places. Through his inner strength and resilience, Gerdes overcomes these challenges and comes to terms with his dysfunctional family. The book offers readers a unique perspective on life and an inspiring message that one can still turn their earthly journey around despite the inherited condition they were dealt with.

Download or read book Empress written by François and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empress is a native Brooklyn girl that wants the best of everything. She wants love, travel the world, happiness, family, true friendship and a very comfortable life. This was the 80.s and nothing came easy for anyone especially not a teenage girl. Empress family secrets pop up at different times of her life and the more she knows the deeper she goes down the rabbit hole. Will Empress get everything that she wants with her beauty and brains and the help of her best friends. Will she survive the high crime rate of her neighborhood, peer pressure, unforeseen tragedy and life as a teenager/young adult.

Download or read book Haiti written by Philippe Girard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the aftermath of January's horrific earthquake, the world's attention is focused on Haiti. In this full narrative history of the Caribbean nation, historian Philippe Girard offers insight into Haiti's complex and layered past, showing that its current state as the poorest country in the western hemisphere was not inevitable. This highly readable and accessible history takes the reader back two hundred years to a time when Haiti was so prosperous it was known as the Pearl of the Antilles. Haiti was the only country in the Americas to pull off a successful slave revolution, yet today its survival is completely dependent on foreign aid. As all eyes turn to watch what happens to Haiti, author Girard provides the necessary context for envisioning its future--including a detailed account of the quake's consequences, an assessment of the benefit and cost of an American intervention, and commentary on what Haiti must do to rebuild for a brighter future"--

Download or read book Les Cayes Haiti written by Lyonel Gerdes and published by Oxford Book Writer. This book was released on with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this touching memoir of a tumultuous childhood, author Lyonel Gerdes shares his experience of overcoming a rough family life. Lyonel Gerdes was born in Haiti, where he lived with his family in the titular town of Les Cayes. Over the years, the family moved from house to house, leaving Gerdes with a mixed bag of good and bad memories. Growing up in unstable homes, Gerdes soon developed multiple insecurities and feelings of unworthiness. But when the country descended into social, political, and economic chaos under the dictatorship of Duvalier, the family’s internal drama intensified. Les Cayes, Haiti offers an intimate and unflinching look at one survivor’s journey in this true story of overcoming childhood trauma.

Download or read book Finding Columbus s Gold written by Howard Yasgar and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1966, an old friend invites Matt Vercair to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to assist in disassembling and selling a now defunct Haitian railroad, acquired under unusual circumstances. Once in Haiti, Matt is introduced to chief archeologist Dr. Marc Blanchet. Blanchet is an expert on Christopher Columbus and everything he did on the island of Hispaniola. According to Blanchet, the history being taught about Columbus is a fraud. Instead of exploration, Columbus’s true intentions were to amass gold and sell as many slaves as he could to finance his travels. Blanchet knows where a large cache of Columbus’s gold has been hidden in Haiti for five hundred years. With the help of a map, Matt now embarks on an incredible journey to recover the gold, traveling across previously unexplored terrain. The railroad is of little concern as they search for hidden treasure, but it’s possible Matt is about to find a lot more than riches in the beautiful but dangerous wilds of Hispaniola.

Download or read book The Things Between Us written by Lee Montgomery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peopled by eccentrics and sparkling with humor and grace, this memoir by the editor of "Tin House" magazine tracks her fathers illness and death and her fragmented familys reunion.

Download or read book Haiti in the British Imagination written by Jack Daniel Webb and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1804, Haiti declared its independence from France to become the world's first 'black' nation state. Throughout the nineteenth century, Haiti maintained its independence, consolidating and expanding its national and, at times, imperial projects. In doing so, Haiti joined a host of other nation states and empires that were emerging and expanding across the Atlantic World. The largest and, in many ways, most powerful of these empires was that of Britain. Haiti in the British Imagination is the first book to focus on the diplomatic relations and cultural interactions between Haiti and Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. As well as a story of British imperial aggression and Haitian 'resistance', it is also one of a more complicated set of relations: of rivalry, cultural exchange and intellectual dialogue. At particular moments in the Victorian period, ideas about Haiti had wide-reaching relevancies for British anxieties over the quality of British imperial administration, over what should be the relations between 'the British' and people of African descent, and defining the limits of black sovereignty. Haitians were key in formulating, disseminating and correcting ideas about Haiti. Through acts of dialogue, Britons and Haitians impacted on the worldviews of one another, and with that changed the political and cultural landscapes of the Atlantic World.

Download or read book The Forgotten written by Heather Graham and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rumors of zombies in Miami, FBI agent Brett Cody and the Krewe of Hunters, a team of paranormal investigators, are called in to investigate.--Publisher.

Download or read book The Boys of Fairy Town written by Jim Elledge and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of gay Chicago told through the stories of queer men who left a record of their sexual activities in the Second City, this book paints a vivid picture of the neighborhoods where they congregated while revealing their complex lives. Some, such as reporter John Wing, were public figures. Others, like Henry Gerber, who created the first "homophile" organization in the United States, were practically invisible to their contemporaries. But their stories are all riveting. Female impersonators and striptease artists Quincy de Lang and George Quinn were arrested and put on trial at the behest of a leader of Chicago's anti-"indecency" movement. African American ragtime pianist Tony Jackson's most famous song, "Pretty Baby," was written about one of his male lovers. Alfred Kinsey's explorations of the city's netherworld changed the future of American sexuality while confirming his own queer proclivities. What emerges from The Boys of Fairy Town is a complex portrait and a virtually unknown history of one of the most vibrant cities in the United States.

Download or read book An Honorable Man written by Rosemary Rogers and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful, headstrong Cameron Campbell knows her privileged life as a Mississippi senator's daughter is about to be shattered. Her fine Southern family has its share of secrets and scandal, and as her father decides to stand with the Union, long-held family rivalries lead to cold-blooded murder. But amidst the devastation, one honorable man is about to show her the meaning of love.… Six years ago Cameron offered Captain Jackson Logan her heart—and he walked away from her. She vowed then never to let another man hurt her that way. But now, as war assumes its deadly course, Cameron will be forced to find an ally in this man she loves to hate…and hates to love. A man whose strength and courage will mirror her own as she stakes a defiant stand against slavery. A man who will face unimaginable danger by her side and show her the magic of a rapturous love that comes but once in a lifetime.

Download or read book Miami Florida A Sunshine State s Unauthorized and Unredacted Journey A Memoir written by Lyonel Gerdes and published by Oxford Book Writer. This book was released on with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Miami, Florida: A Sunshine State’s Unauthorized and Unredacted Journey…Tome I” is a breathtakingly written memoir with an impressive tale of resiliency, redemption and self-searching identity. Those readers who had been following Gerdes’ trilogy memoir about his life journey going back to Les Cayes and Port-au-Prince, will undoubtedly be served once more by another no less fascinating and unpredictable tale of a journey!

Download or read book Rejected Princesses written by Jason Porath and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending the iconoclastic feminism of The Notorious RBG and the confident irreverence of Go the F**ck to Sleep, a brazen and empowering illustrated collection that celebrates inspirational badass women throughout history, based on the popular Tumblr blog. Well-behaved women seldom make history. Good thing these women are far from well behaved . . . Illustrated in a contemporary animation style, Rejected Princesses turns the ubiquitous "pretty pink princess" stereotype portrayed in movies, and on endless toys, books, and tutus on its head, paying homage instead to an awesome collection of strong, fierce, and yes, sometimes weird, women: warrior queens, soldiers, villains, spies, revolutionaries, and more who refused to behave and meekly accept their place. An entertaining mix of biography, imagery, and humor written in a fresh, young, and riotous voice, this thoroughly researched exploration salutes these awesome women drawn from both historical and fantastical realms, including real life, literature, mythology, and folklore. Each profile features an eye-catching image of both heroic and villainous women in command from across history and around the world, from a princess-cum-pirate in fifth century Denmark, to a rebel preacher in 1630s Boston, to a bloodthirsty Hungarian countess, and a former prostitute who commanded a fleet of more than 70,000 men on China’s seas.

Download or read book Flirting after Midnight written by Jennifer Bernard and published by Jennifer Bernard. This book was released on 2022-07-10 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Jennifer Bernard comes the next three standalone small-town romances in the Lost Harbor, Alaska series! When the sun goes down, flirting gets a little extra wild in this sizzling box set. Take another trip to the far north for three small-town romances filled with laughter, danger, and unforgettable Alaskan adventures. Head over Heels for the Holidays The holiday season is always tough for Police Chief Maya Badger—especially since Lost Harbor pulls out all the stops for the holidays. When her childhood friend Rune Larsen comes to town—all grown up and the stuff of her naughtiest fantasies—she may have a solution to her holiday blues. Fake boyfriend, anyone? If only she and Rune can stay one step ahead of his teenage sister’s stalker. Flirting with Forever Dr. Ian Finnegan knows all about brains; hearts, not so much. When he needs lessons in flirting, could free spirit and “hot mess” Chrissie Yates be the perfect tutor? Chrissie hasn’t been back to Lost Harbor in years—until her eccentric grandfather left her his property. She hopes to get in and out as quickly as she can, but reconnecting with her quirky hometown makes her yearn for something she didn’t know she needed. And then there’s the sexy newcomer... Mischief after Midnight Bartender Toni Del Rey is the quick-witted queen of the Olde Salt Saloon, famous for putting rowdy customers in their place. She’s only ever lost her cool over one man—the childhood crush who got away. These days, she sticks to the F’s: friends, fun, and fu...well, you know. But now Bash Rivers is back, more crush-worthy than ever, and worst of all--he's her brand-new boss. Working side by side, who knows where a little mischief after midnight will lead.

Download or read book Drawn to the Dark written by Chris Kullstroem and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An insightful, personal exploration of humankind’s global fascination with the monstrous.” —Lisa Morton, author of Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween Inspired by a fascination with fear culture, writer Chris Kullstroem left her job and home to experience firsthand some of the world’s most legendary scare shows. Under the guidance of locals, she saw it all: attractions like the Day of the Dead, the haunts of New Zealand, and even the mythical Krampus brought to life in the streets of Austria. Each eerie enactment evokes a sense of wonder, demonstrating powerful emotions that transcend language and culture to reveal a connection we all share. “Visit candlelit cemeteries in Oaxaca, duck the whips of Krampus in Salzburg, hunt zombies in Britain, and dance with witches atop Brocken Mountain on Walpurgis Night . . . A deliciously creepy companion for the free-spirited armchair traveler.” —Lesley Bannatyne, author of Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America’s Fright Night “A fascinating glimpse into the exploration of the darker, more fantastic corners of our imagination from around the world!” —Edward Douglas, founder of and cocomposer for the award-winning recording act Midnight Syndicate “An excitingly macabre tour through a horror lover’s best attractions and events!” —Justin Lewis, Mr. Frights

Download or read book Haiti and the Uses of America written by Chantalle F. Verna and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular notions, Haiti-U.S. relations have not only been about Haitian resistance to U.S. domination. In Haiti and the Uses of America, Chantalle F. Verna makes evident that there have been key moments of cooperation that contributed to nation-building in both countries. In the years following the U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915-1934), Haitian politicians and professionals with a cosmopolitan outlook shaped a new era in Haiti-U.S. diplomacy. Their efforts, Verna shows, helped favorable ideas about the United States, once held by a small segment of Haitian society, circulate more widely. In this way, Haitians contributed to and capitalized upon the spread of internationalism in the Americas and the larger world.

Download or read book Haiti written by Nicolas L. Pauyo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: