Frías, Carlos.
Summary: Carlos Frías, award-winning journalist and the US-born son of Cuban exiles, grew up hearing stories about the homeland of his parents. Sent to Cuba by his newspaper when the country began to close to the foreign press in August 2006, Frías embarked on the journey of his life -- a secret twelve day trip to the land of his parents. That experience led to this evocative, dramatic and unforgettable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: C.A. Press, Penguin Group 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH FRIAriosto, David
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 ARIBehar, Ruth
Summary: "La inspiradora historia de una joven judía que escapa de Polonia para rehacer su vida en Cuba, mientras trabaja para rescatar al resto de su familia. La situación se está poniendo terrible para los judíos en Polonia en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El padre de Esther ha huido a Cuba y ella es la primera en seguir sus pasos y reencontrarse con él en la isla. Vivir separada de su...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BEHGratz, Alan
Summary: "Josef es un chico judío que vive en la Alemania nazi, Isabel es una chica cubana que se ve obligada a huir de su país después de las revueltas en contra del gobierno de Castro, en 1994, y Mahmoud es un muchacho que padece la guerra de Siria en 2015. Tres jóvenes distintos y una misión en común: huir de su país."--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Santillana 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH GRASummary: "Five legendary sessions (originally released 1956-1964) featuring an all-star line-up including: Julio Gutiérrez, Niño Rivera, José Fajardo and Cachao. Reissued together in their entirely for the first time, encapsulating a panorama of Cuban music; from mambo to Afro-Cuban rumba, big band son montuno, cha-cha-cha and more." Package label.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN COMDovalpage, Teresa
Summary: "Padrino, a former detective on the Cuban police force, has retired and found a new, happy life as a Santeria priest. But he is drawn back in for a murder investigation when his goddaughter, Rosita, who works at the local cemetery, recognises one of the bodies that crosses her embalming table. It will cost Padrino more than he expects to untangle everyone's lies and track down the killer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DOVContents: [cd. 1] "Cuban invocations". El sinsonte (Pancho Quinto y Su Grupo Añag7) -- Obatalá (Merceditas Valdés) -- La voz del congo (Clave y Guaguancó) -- Chacho (Los Munẽquitos De Mantanzas) -- Yemaya (Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba) -- Papa Aggun (Celeste Mendoza y Los Papines) -- Santa Bárbara [Que viva Changó] (Celina González) -- Con su pin, pin, pin (Comparsa San Agustin) -- Bata rhythm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Jackel 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CUBGonzález, Rubén
Contents: disc 1: Nuestra canción / César Portillo de La Luz (2:32) -- Indestructible / Luis Yánez, Jesús Valdés (2:56) -- Mil congojas / Juan Pablo Miranda (2:50) -- Date una vueltecita / Jorge Mazón (4:12) -- Clímax / Rubén González (2:43) -- Fabiando / Rubén González, Fabián Garcia (3:52) -- La gloria eres tú / José Antonio Méndez (3:28) -- Tu corazón otra vez / José Antonio Pinares (3:16) -- Préstame...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN GONDovalpage, Teresa
Summary: " In 2019, newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba to care after her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes's life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes was a little girl. Returning to Cuba revives Mercedes's hopes of finding her mother as she attempts to piece together the few scraps of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC DOVEstrellas de Areito (Musical group)
Contents: Pónganse para las cosas (10:20) ; Hasta pantojo baila mi son (11:34) ; Que traigan el guaguancó (6:27) ; Mi amanecer campesino (13:55) / Pedro Aranzola -- Llora timbero / Israel Rodríguez (7:12) -- Yo sí como candela / Luis "Lili" Martinez Griñán (10:28) -- Fefita / José Urfe (10:24) -- Guaguancó a todos los barríos / Pedro Aranzola (14:29) -- El pregón de la montaña / Pio Leyva (10:05) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Circuit/Nonesuch 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ESTGratz, Alan
Summary: Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRAOchoa, Eliades.
Contents: Ay papacito = Oh little darling (4:09) -- Pintate los labios María = Put on your lipstick Maria (4:52) -- Carino falso = False love (4:07) -- Sublime ilusión (4:12) -- Volver = Return (4:09) -- Saludo compay = Greetings, friend (4:55) -- Qué humanidad = What humanity (3:56) -- Un negrito en La Habana = A black boy in Havana (3:43) -- Mi sueño prohibido = My forbidden dream (2:12) -- Mi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Higher Octave World 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN OCHValdez, Carlos.
Contents: San Francisco tiene su propio son (9:41) -- Descarga en faux (5:41) -- Desde el fondo del rio (7:16) -- Luz (6:55) -- Yo tengo ritmo (3:08) -- Guloya swing (4:27) -- Oguerre (5:25) -- Son de Patato (7:17) -- Señor Blues/Mbula enoka (8:15) -- Guajira en el espacio (2:28) -- Sangre de Africa (4:20) -- Kora-son (6:31).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Six Degrees 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN VALGonzález, Rubén
Contents: El Tiburon (4:23) -- Quizaz, Quizaz, Quizaz (2:25) -- Amor de Loca Juventud (5:46) -- La ultima Noche (4:03) -- Enriqueta (3:07) -- Llego el Eulcerito (3:24) -- Mulatica Retozona (6:17) -- La Campana de Mi Tio Andres (3:59) -- Como Siento You (3:51) -- Papines en Descarga (8:52) -- Los Reflejos del Amanecer (5:28) -- Que Pollo! (4:04) -- El Plato Roto (4:27) -- Almendra (9:34).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contacto Latino 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN GONGratz, Alan
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRA2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRA
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2017Rodriguez, Edel
Summary: "A stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RODRIGUEZ, EDEL RODSegundo, Compay.
Contents: El camisón de pepa (3;51) -- Tú querías jugar (4:03) -- Desdichado (5:58) -- La ternera (3:27) -- Para vigo me voy (5:08) -- Fidelidad (3:20) -- Cuba y España (6:38) -- Es mejor vivir así (3:34) -- Frutas del Caney (3:04) -- La juma del ayer (4:43) -- Linda Graciela (4:25) -- La pluma (2:51) -- Juliancito (Tu novia te botó) (4:41) -- Son de negros en Cuba (4:58).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Music 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN COMFerrer, Ada
Summary: "In Cuba, the passing of Fidel Castro from this world and of Raúl Castro from power have raised urgent questions about the island's political future. In the United States, Barack Obama's opening to Cuba, the reversal of that policy during Donald Trump's administration, and Joseph Biden's apparent willingness to reinitiate open relations have made the nature of the historic relationship between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 972.91 FERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 FERMachito.
Contents: Holiday mambo -- Donde estabas tu -- Carambola -- Ay que mate -- Mambo a la savoy -- Que me falta -- Amalia los invita -- Bongo fiesta -- Oboe mambo -- Contigo en la distancia -- Freezelandia -- Hay que recordar -- Sambia -- Bee-ree-bee-kym-bee --Sí sí no no -- Mambo inn -- Negro nanamboro -- Adiós -- Bella mora -- Mambo mucho mambo.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MACRios, Orlando.
Contents: Mi tierra = My land (7:35) -- No me culpes a mi = Don't blame me (6:21) -- Caballeros, qué mujer = Gentlemen, what a woman (7:05) -- Solo, errante y bohemio = Alone, errant, and bohemian (5:50) -- Mal de yerba = The bad seed (7:20) -- Dónde estan los cubanos? = Where are the Cubans? (5:19) -- Siento que me reganã el corazón = I feel like my heart is scolding me (6:02) -- Yo soy tu ley = I am...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN RIOSummary: "Travel with award-winning filmmaker, Marlin Darrah, as he explores present-day Cuba. From the capital city of Havana to the beautiful seaport of Santiago de Cuba, you'll marvel at the forbidden natural beauty of Cuba. Travel to Pina del Rio and visit the lush tobacco fields that produce the most sought-after cigars in the world. See sugar plantations and colorful towns unfold before your eyes,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2015