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 COOFrías, 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 FRIEire, Carlos M. N.
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: "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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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 DOVOmoth, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 OMOStuart, Scott
Summary: Inspired by the author's own little boy, 'Shadow's' main character likes princesses, fairies and things 'not for boys'... he soon learns (through the support of his dad) that everyone has a shadow that they sometimes feel they need to hide. This is an important book for a new generation of children (and adults alike) which exemplifies the concepts of unconditional love, respect and positive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Larrikin House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STUSummary: 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 BARLubbers, David
Summary: Michigan-based photographer Lubbers combines efforts with environmental advisor and author Dempsey in creating a portrait of the waters of Michigan and their significance to the state's identity. Each of the 79 black and white photographs is accompanied by a short text offering readers historical background to the sites depicted and providing a sense of how precious and fragile this natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MIC 977.40 LubbeLubbers, David
Summary: Michigan-based photographer Lubbers combines efforts with environmental advisor and author Dempsey in creating a portrait of the waters of Michigan and their significance to the state's identity. Each of the 79 black and white photographs is accompanied by a short text offering readers historical background to the sites depicted and providing a sense of how precious and fragile this natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2008
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.4009 LUBResnick, Lorne
Summary: Being in Cuba feels like falling in love with the person you know you were meant to be with. It's exhilarating and bewitching. During more than fifty trips to the island over the past twenty years, award-winning photographer Lorne Resnick has sought to capture the experience of being in Cuba; the result is a collection of moments filled with passion, desire and laughter. Those moments, exactly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Editions 2015
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 910 CUBLubbers, David
Summary: Michigan-based photographer Lubbers combines efforts with environmental advisor and author Dempsey in creating a portrait of the waters of Michigan and their significance to the state's identity. Each of the 79 black and white photographs is accompanied by a short text offering readers historical background to the sites depicted and providing a sense of how precious and fragile this natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4009 LUBLuchetti, Cathy
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 978.02 LUCLiving Cities (U.S.)
Summary: "From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to digest. At a time where everyone is inundated with information on structural racism, it can be hard to know where to start or how to visualize the disenfranchisement of BIPOC Americans. In Systemic Racism 101, you will find infographic spreads alongside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 SYSAriosto, 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 ARIRyan, Hugh
Summary: "The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates--Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.43 RYARoberts, Dorothy E.
Summary: "An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change. Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.7 ROBJanicki, Peggy
Summary: "This illustrated nonfiction picture book tells the true story of how a group of girls at a residential school sewed secret pockets into their clothes to hide food."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 371.829 JANArnaud, Michel
Summary: [This book] is a visual essay on the rebuilding and resurgence of the city of Detroit by photographer Michel Arnaud, co-author of Design Brooklyn. In recent years, much of the focus on Detroit has been on the negative stories and images of shuttered, empty buildings-- the emblems of Detroit's financial and physical decline. In contrast, Arnaud aims his lens at the emergent creative enterprises...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 972.91 SALSpielman, David G.
Summary: This uniquely intimate collection of correspondence and photographs from the "ground zero" of post-Katrina New Orleans offers special, new insight into the tragedy. Previously published and renowned New Orleans photographer, David Spielman, remained in his uptown New Orleans home during and after the storm. Armed with his camera and a gun for a self-protection, he captured the turmoil on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2007