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Summary: "An exploration of Cuba's Cold War mindset and a people in the throes of transition, with tales of run-ins with spies, secret backrooms, and empty grocery shelves. Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump is in the White House. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never been more uncertain. But those who look close enough realize the blueprints for the island's next revolution may be etched in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ARIOSTO ARILatell, Brian.
Contents: More radical than me -- A peasant from Biran -- The victim of exploitation -- We will all be heroes -- My true destiny -- So we can seize power -- He is our father -- My job is to talk -- I detest solitude -- The moral and political duty -- The corpse of imperialism -- My brother twice over -- More than enough cannons-- Afterword.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 LATViña, Rose
Summary: "As a young girl in Cuba, Alicia Alonso practiced ballet in tennis shoes. Within a few years, she was in New York City, with a promising ballet career. But her eyesight began to fail. When Alicia needed surgeries to save her vision, dancing was impossible, but she wouldn't give up her dream. She found the strength and determination to return to the stage and become a prima ballerina. This is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021