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“beverly bell”

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  • Fault Lines

    Views across Haiti's Divide

    by Beverly Bell ...
    Beverly Bell, an activist and award-winning writer, has dedicated her life to working for democracy, women's rights, and economic justice in Haiti and elsewhere. Since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake of January 12, 2010, that struck the island nation, killing more than a quarter-million people and leaving another two million Haitians homeless, Bell has spent much of her time in Haiti. Her new book, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Walking on Fire

    Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance

    by Beverly Bell ...
    Haiti, long noted for poverty and repression, has a powerful and too-often-overlooked history of resistance. Women in Haiti have played a large role in changing the balance of political and social power, even as they have endured rampant and devastating state-sponsored violence, including torture, rape, abuse, illegal arrest, disappearance, and assassination.Beverly Bell, an activist and an expert ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Murder of Marion Miley

    A Novel

    by Beverly Bell ...
    Narrated by John Davidson, Colleen Delany, Peter Holdway, James Konicek, Kelsey D. Phelps ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 8 min

    THE MURDER OF MARION MILEY is the novelization of the 1941 murder of a nationally beloved ladies golf star. This novel has been described as Sea Biscuit meets In Cold Blood and The Lovely Bones.In the early morning of September 28, six shots ring out on the otherwise quiet grounds of the Lexington Country Club. As dawn breaks, news spreads that golf champion Marion Miley – winner of every US women ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Deadly River

    Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti

    by Ralph R. Frerichs ...
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    In October 2010, nine months after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, a second disaster began to unfold—soon to become the world's largest cholera epidemic in modern times. In a country that had never before reported cholera, the epidemic mysteriously and simultaneously appeared in river communities of central Haiti, eventually triggering nearly 800,000 cases and 9,000 deaths. What had ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Lunatic

    by Anthony C. Winkler ...
    This novel reveals that lunacy is by no means restricted to the village madman. . . . "By far the funniest book I've read in a decade" ( The Washington Post Book World).In Jamaica, Aloysius is tolerated by his neighbors, but forced to eke out a living by doing odd jobs and use the hospitable woodlands for shelter. Starved of human companionship, he has running conversations with trees and plants ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Big Truck That Went By

    How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster

    by Jonathan M. Katz ...
    On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle it. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral, authoritative first-hand account, Katz chronicles the terror of that day, the devastation ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The History of Mary Prince

    A West Indian Slave

    by Mary Prince ...
    The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings as a slave in Bermuda, Turks Island and Antigua, and her eventual arrival in London with her brutal owner Mr Wood in 1828. Prince escaped from him and sought assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society, where she dictated her remarkable story to Susanna Strickland ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Atrocities of the Pirates

    A Faithful Narrative of the Unparalleled Suffering of the Author During His Captivity Among the Pirates

    by Aaron Smith ...
    Originally published in 1824, this firsthand account describes how, in June 1822, young English seaman Aaron Smith was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England. A skilled navigator, fluent in Spanish, and regarded as what was then acceptable as a ship’s surgeon, he was an attractive candidate for conscription.Forced to work as a navigator and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Flight 232

    A Story of Disaster and Survival

    by Laurence Gonzales ...
    "A richly detailed story that is equal parts heartbreaking, inspiring…and full of fascinating science…masterful." —San Francisco ChronicleAs hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. The plane slammed onto the runway and burst into a vast fireball. The rescuers didn't move at first: nobody could possibly ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Farewell, Fred Voodoo

    A Letter from Haiti

    by Amy Wilentz ...
    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, this is a brilliant writer’s account of a long, painful, ecstatic—and unreciprocated—affair with a country that has long fascinated the world.A foreign correspondent on a simple story becomes, over time and in the pages of this book, a lover of Haiti, pursuing the heart of this beautiful and confounding land into its darkest ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Haiti After the Earthquake

    by Paul Farmer ...
    "Paul Farmer, doctor and aid worker, offers an inspiring insider's view of the relief effort." -- Financial Times"The book's greatest strength lies in its depiction of the post-quake chaos In the book's more analytical sections the author's diagnosis of the difficulties of reconstruction is sharp." -- Economist"A gripping, profoundly moving book, an urgent dispatch from the front by one of our ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Sugar and Slaves

    The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713

    by Richard S. Dunn ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region. He examines sugar production techniques, the vicious character of the slave trade, the problems of adapting English ways to the ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD