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English
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Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez--her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A saga of a Chinese-Cuban family begins in 1857, when Chen Pan signs a contract that takes him from China to Cuba and enslavement on a sugarcane plantation and follows him as he finds prosperity in Havana's Chinatown.
8) Havana storm
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 23
Language
English
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"While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous--a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is, that...
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English
Description
"US Army combat veteran Daniel "Mac" MacCormick, now a charter boat captain, who is about to set sail on his most dangerous cruise. Daniel Graham MacCormick--Mac for short--seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he's living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat, The Maine. Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer with two tours in Afghanistan. He returned with the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts,...
12) Murder in Havana
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Retired CIA operative Max Pauling is hired by a former colleague to fly medical supplies to Havana. The covert reason for the mission is to discover the secret behind Cuba's top-notch cancer research.
Author
Publisher
Scribner Classics
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing -- from his earliest stories (In Our Time) to his last novella (The Old Man and the Sea) -- this compelling novel contains both the warmth of recollection that inspired A Moveable Feast and a rare glimpse...
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In 1961, Professor Mikhal Lammeck, a specialist in the history and weaponry of assassins, becomes caught in the middle of a series of failed assassination attempts as the CIA, Cuban exiles in Miami, the American mob, and the KGB all target Fidel Castro.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A vibrant and meticulously constructed debut novel about familial and cultural breakdown. A powerful, unsettling portrait of family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez's first novel is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned and bitter about the limited freedoms his country offers him as he endures compulsory military service. Mariana, the mother, is unwell, prone to mysterious seizures, and forced to relinquish...
17) Refugee
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
Author
Publisher
Self published
Pub. Date
©2015
Language
English
Description
A contemporary story of intrigue as American expatriates struggle to coexist with free-Cubans, after the revolution. Mitchell [Coop] Miles renews an old acquaintance with Rosalie Consuela Torres who dispenses an accurate history of the emergence of the Castro movement, before the revolution and the effects of the transition from the current regime to a free-Cuba. Coop tries to save a ten year old American boy who is kidnapped by a former Castro subversive....
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Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she's an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn't quite matched its promise; instead it has stifled her rebellious and artistic desires. Each night she DJs a...
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