Mora, Gilles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9123 MORCooke, Julia.
Summary: "Over a period of five years, beginning when Fidel Castro stepped down from his presidency after almost a half-century of reign, journalist Julia Cooke embedded herself in Cuba, gaining access to a dynamic Havana--one that she found populated with twenty-five-year-old Marxist philosophy students, baby-faced anarchists, children of the whiskey-drinking elite, Santera̕ trainees, pregnant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9123 COOFoerstner, Abigail
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.99 FOEKurlansky, Mark
Summary: "Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana celebrates the city's singular music, literature, baseball, and food; its five centuries of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9 KURDovalpage, 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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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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Summary: With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003
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Summary: In 1954, during the height of the Cold War, the CIA carried out a coup to overthrow the first democratically-elected president in Guatemala. In the months leading up to the coup, the CIA Station Chief in Guatemala City was Grossinger’s grandfather. Dying long before Grossinger was born, his presence still loomed like a mythological creature throughout much of her childhood. Serpent Tongue...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daylight Books 2023
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Summary: "Modern Cuba comes alive in a vibrant portrait of a group of families's varied journeys in one community over the last twenty years. Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. Inhis new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 DEPCopeland, Sebastian.
Summary: A collection of photographs documents the effect of global warming on the southern polar continent, in a volume that includes contributions by Will Steger, David De Rothschild, and Stephen Schneider.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Earth Aware 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 998 COPDovalpage, Teresa
Summary: Matt, a San Diego journalist, arrives in Havana to marry his girlfriend, Yarmila, a 24-year-old Cuban woman whom he first met through her food blog. But Yarmi isn't there to meet him at the airport, and when he hitches a ride to her apartment, he finds her lying dead in the bathtub. With Yarmi's murder, lovelorn Matt is immediately embroiled in a Cuban adventure he didn't bargain for. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2018
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Summary: "Cuban-born Mercedes Spivey and her American husband, Nolan, win a cruise to Cuba. Once aboard, Mercedes is surprised to see two people she met through her ex-boyfriend Lorenzo: former University of Havana professor Selfa Segarra and down-on-his-luck Spanish writer Javier Jurado. When Selfa disappears on their first day at sea, Mercedes and Javier begin to wonder if their presence on the cruise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomasson-Grant 1988
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.074 LIVSummary: Geoffrey Baer is the viewer's guide on a walking tour of Havana, meeting singers, dancers, chefs, and more, and focusing on people, architecture, culture, and history of the Cuba just re-opened to Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Engle, Margarita
Summary: A boy helps his father keep their very old car running as they make a trip to Havana for his newborn cousin's zero-year birthday. Includes author's note about cars in Cuba.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ENGHunter, Stephen
Summary: When Soviet intelligence takes Castro under its wing, the CIA's response is to send in ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger, and in Cuba, Earl finds himself up to his neck in treacherous ambiguity, where the old rules about honor and duty don't apply.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION HunterBaldwin, James
Summary: First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 305.8 BALSummary: A look at life and everyday struggles in Havana through three main stories -- when a woman dies in childbirth, the new father runs away; a lonely woman is courted by an older man, but can't forget her first love; a couple's relationship crumbles when they can't conceive a child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cine Cubano a Precios Muy Bajos 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAREstrada, Alfredo José.
Summary: Takes readers from the Plaza de Armas, the tree-lined square where Havana was founded by Spanish conquistadors in 1519, to the Malecon, the elegant boulevard along the shore where Fidel Castro rode a Soviet tank in triumph. Estrada reveals the essence of his native city through the events that shaped its fascinating history and the people who left their stamp on its cobblestoned streets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2007