Coming August 15, 2026
Les Quatre Souffles de Kiskeya by Carole Demesmin →
Impending release · August 15, 2026
Featured author partnership · First-printing collaboration
Four Breaths of Kiskeya
By Carole Demesmin Arty, professionally known as Carole Arty Manbo Kalala
A profound trilingual journey into the life of Queen Anacaona—poet, diplomat, mother, and guardian of Xaragua. Rooted in oral tradition, spiritual memory, and ancestral knowledge, the book follows four sacred breaths: Earth & Origins, Body & Life, Speech & Knowledge, and Community & Resistance.
Queen Anacaona
Taíno heritage
Oral tradition
Ancestral memory
English · French · Kreyòl Ayisyen
Casseus & Co. Books is supporting the first-printing collaboration. The author retains her copyright, ISBN, manuscript, translations, creative rights, and long-term publishing control.
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Stories rooted in memory. Books written for tomorrow.
Preserving Haitian and diasporic history through beautifully made books for young readers, families, classrooms, and every reader seeking the stories too often left outside the canon.
Book One · Cover concept
Why we publish
Memory is more than what we inherit. It is what we choose to carry forward.
Casseus & Co. Books creates culturally grounded work where scholarship meets wonder. We publish with historical care, artistic excellence, and an unwavering belief that children deserve to see Haiti—and themselves—through courage, brilliance, complexity, and possibility.
The inaugural title
Ayiti (Haiti): A Story of Courage
Book One · From Ayiti to Independence · 1492–1804
Preserving Haitian and diasporic history through beautifully made books for young readers, families, classrooms, and every reader seeking the stories too often left outside the canon.
Author
Adlore “Addi” Casseus
Audience
Young readers, families & classrooms
Status
Coming soon
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The Ayiti illustrated history collection
Twelve doors into Haiti’s history.
Each forthcoming volume centers one courageous life and gives young readers an accessible path into the people, ideas, and cultural memory that shaped Ayiti. Titles are shown as our publishing roadmap while manuscripts, illustrations, and educator materials are developed.
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Ayiti · Illustrated History
Victoria Montou
The Warrior
Book 02
Book 02 · In development
Victoria Montou
The Warrior
A fearless woman of the Haitian Revolution whose courage helped shape a generation of freedom fighters.
Ayiti · Illustrated History
Toussaint Louverture
The Precursor of Freedom
Book 03
Book 03 · In development
Toussaint Louverture
The Precursor of Freedom
The strategist, statesman, and revolutionary leader who transformed an uprising into a movement for liberation.
Ayiti · Illustrated History
Dutty Boukman
The Man Who Lit the Spark
Book 04
Book 04 · In development
Dutty Boukman
The Man Who Lit the Spark
The spiritual and revolutionary leader remembered for helping ignite the great uprising of 1791.
Ayiti · Illustrated History
Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière
Soldier of Crête-à-Pierrot
Book 05
Book 05 · In development
Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière
Soldier of Crête-à-Pierrot
A vivid portrait of bravery through one of the Revolution’s most legendary women combatants.
Ayiti · Illustrated History
Cécile Fatiman
Priestess of Bwa Kayiman
Book 06
Book 06 · In development
Cécile Fatiman
Priestess of Bwa Kayiman
Sacred memory, spiritual leadership, and the woman at the heart of a defining gathering for freedom.
Ayiti · Illustrated History
Sanité Bélair
The Brave Freedom Fighter
Book 07
Book 07 · In development
Sanité Bélair
The Brave Freedom Fighter
The life and sacrifice of a young revolutionary lieutenant who refused to surrender her dignity.
Ayiti · Illustrated History
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Father of the Nation
Book 08
Book 08 · In development
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Father of the Nation
The general who led Haiti to independence and proclaimed a nation free from colonial rule.
Ayiti · Illustrated History
Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité
Empress of Compassion
Book 09
Book 09 · In development
Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité
Empress of Compassion
A story of healing, moral courage, and compassionate leadership during revolution and nation-building.
Ayiti · Illustrated History
Catherine Flon
Who Sewed the Flag
Book 10
Book 10 · In development
Catherine Flon
Who Sewed the Flag
The artisan and patriot whose hands helped create an enduring symbol of Haitian unity and freedom.
Ayiti · Illustrated History
Henri Christophe
The King of the North
Book 11
Book 11 · In development
Henri Christophe
The King of the North
From revolutionary commander to builder of a northern kingdom, schools, fortresses, and a contested legacy.
Ayiti · Illustrated History
Charlemagne Péralte
The Caco Leader
Book 12
Book 12 · In development
Charlemagne Péralte
The Caco Leader
Resistance, sovereignty, and the leader who became a symbol of opposition to foreign occupation.
Series titles and publication order are subject to editorial development. Institutional inquiries and early expressions of interest are welcome.
The Casseus & Co. standard
Books made with memory, rigor, and care.
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Culturally grounded
Haiti and the African diaspora are rendered with specificity, dignity, and lived cultural intelligence—not generic symbolism.
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Historically responsible
Research, chronology, language, material culture, and context are treated as essential parts of the storytelling.
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Beautifully made
Every title is conceived as an enduring object: visually rich, thoughtfully written, and worthy of homes, schools, and libraries.
For schools, libraries & cultural institutions
Bring a fuller Haiti into the classroom.
We are developing educator guides, institutional ordering, author visits, collection previews, and discussion materials that help young people encounter Haitian history beyond disaster narratives. Schools and libraries may register interest before publication and help shape the resources they need.
Series titles and publication order are subject to editorial development. Institutional inquiries and early expressions of interest are welcome.