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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: C.A. Press, Penguin Group 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH FRIRodriguez, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Dovalpage, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Omoth, Tyler
Summary: "Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Cuban immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 OMOAriosto, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ARIOSTO ARIDovalpage, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DOVPrado, Ric
Summary: "A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.127 PRALehane, Dennis
Summary: Working as a consigliere to the Bartolo crime family, traveling between Tampa and Cuba, former crime kingpin Joe Coughlin, who has everything -- money, power, anonymity and a beautiful mistress -- is forced to pay for his lifetime of sin when the dark truth of his past emerges.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEHCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION LEHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction LeHane 2015Machito.
Contents: Tanga -- Vaya Nina -- Babarabatiri -- Cleopatra rumba (Desert dance) -- Llora timbero -- Carambola -- Oboe mambo (with Mitch Miller, oboe) -- Freezelandia -- Mambo Inn -- Mambo mucho mambo -- Mambo America -- Asia minor -- No me molesto -- Tibiri tabara -- Frenzy -- Oyeme -- Minor rama -- Brazilian soft shoe -- Barbarabae -- Coisa nova -- The Afro-Cuban jazz suite (written, arranged and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Él in association with Cherry Red Records 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MACSummary: "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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN COMViña, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Gratz, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2017Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRAGratz, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRASegundo, Compay.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Galaxy Music 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN SEGSummary: This compilation features some of Cuba's most legendary musicians. All of them have appeared in the Buena Vista Social Club film. In addition there are some until now unreleased songs with special appearances by 75 year old Raúl Planas, Teresa García Caturla and Felix Baloy, all key figures of the Afro-Cuban All Stars.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN STAOchoa, 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...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Higher Octave World 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
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).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Six Degrees 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN VALSummary: "After a decade living in the United States, [filmmaker Asori] Soto returns to his homeland of Cuba to search for the missing flavors of his childhood--a journey to discover culinary traditions long thought lost due to the hardship that Cuba survived after the collapse of the Soviet Union."--
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Segundo, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN COMLópez, Orlando
Contents: Siempre con swing (intro) -- Redención / Israel López -- Mis dos pequeñas / Anais Cruz -- A gozar el tumbao / Israel López -- Cachaíto in laboratory ; Tumbao no. 5 (para Charlie Mingus) ; Conversación / Orlando López -- Tumbanga / Orlando López, Miguel Angá Díaz, Hugh Masekela -- Oración lucumi / Arsenio Rodriguez -- Wahira / Orlando López, Lazaro Villa -- Anais / Orlando López, Miguel Angá...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Circuit/Nonesuch 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN LOPAfroCubism (Musical group)
Contents: Mali Cuba -- Al vaivén de mi carreta -- Karamo -- Djelimady rumba -- La culebra -- Jarabi -- Eliades tumbao 27 -- Dakan -- Nima diyala -- A la luna yo me voy -- Mariama -- Para los pinares se va Montoro -- Benséma -- Guantanamera.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Circuit 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ AFRDel Rio, Aldo.
Contents: Aurora -- Tómame o déjame -- Deja que hablen de mi -- Si me pudieras querer -- Congo de ampanga -- El bardo -- El aguacero -- Mia -- Tu eres plante na'ma -- Lagrimas negras -- Cayetano baila bembé -- La rosa oriental.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sunnyside 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN DELIrakere
Contents: Las Margaritas -- Variaciones sobre la opera 'La molinaria' -- Homenaje al Beny -- Los ojos de papa -- De una manera espantosa -- Vida es un sueño -- Preludio a Catalina -- Juana 1600 -- Estela va a estallar -- Adagio (Concerto para flaut y adagio de Mozart) -- Misaluba -- La comparsa.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Club 1998