Marsha goes to Haiti tells the story of the adventures of 8 year old Marsha going to Haiti for the very first time. Her excitement at flying along with vacationing in a country where she does not know the language really opens her curiosity and sense of wonder. How she reacts to all the new sights and sounds along with her two teen brothers and Mom and Dad of course offer many family moments. As Marsha relates with her grandparents and family in this world full of wonder, other children will see Haiti like Marsha does. In fact, this story will also help adults to once again see the world through a child's eyes.

Jessie Kennedy has learned through many trials and tribulations to listen to the Lord and feels He has led her to Baltimore to work for a large newspaper there. Things seem to fall together well. She meets new friends, good Christian friends, at the church she finds there, and feels she is definitely on the right trackGods track. Until one of her dearest new friends becomes seriously ill. Now she has to accept that this also is in Gods willand has big decisions to make

Deeply exploring the role of women in religious practices and the related themes of family and of religion and social change, Brown provides a rich context in which to understand the authority that urban Haitian women exercise in the home and in the Vodou temple.

Dance on the Volcano tells the story of two sisters growing up during the Haitian Revolution in a culture that swings heavily between decadence and poverty, sensuality and depravity. One sister, because of her singing ability, is able to enter into the white colonial society otherwise generally off limits to people of color. Closely examining a society sagging under the white supremacy of the French colonist rulers, Dance on the Volcano is one of only novels to closely depict the seeds and fruition of the Haitian Revolution, tracking an elaborate hierarchy of skin color and class through the experiences of two young women. It is a story about hatred and fear, love and loss, and the complex tensions between colonizer and colonized, masterfully translated by Kaiama L. Glover.

Haiti may well be the only country in the Americas with a last name. References to the land of the "black Jacobins" are almost always followed by the phrase "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere". To that dubious distinction, on 12 January 2010 Haiti added another, when it was hit by the most devastating natural disaster in the Americas, a 7.0 Richter scale earthquake. More than 220,000 people lost their lives and much of its vibrant capital, Port-au-Prince, was reduced to rubble. Since 2004, the United Nations has been in Haiti through MINUSTAH, in an ambitious attempt to help Haiti raise itself by its bootstraps. This effort has now acquired additional urgency. Is Haiti a failed state? Does it deserve a Marshall-plan-like program? What will it take to address the Haitian predicament? In this book, some of the world's leading experts on Haiti examine the challenges faced by the first black republic, the tasks undertaken by the UN, and the new role of hemispheric players like Argentina, Brazil and Chile, as well as that of Canada, France and the United States.