Baker, Christopher P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.291 BAKFrías, 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 FRIForgy, M. N.
Summary: I'm an outlaw. I don't fall in love and I sure as fuck don't run . . . All that changed, though, when I met Jillian McAdams. I fell for a law abiding sheriff, breaking my vows to my own club, and turning her against her family of blue. An outlaw and a sheriff, it can only end in one way-mayhem. Now we both have to pay the ultimate price for betraying our families. I swore to kill my...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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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.
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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 OMOEngle, Margarita
Summary: "Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardín secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracán derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados...Soleida huye sola a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH ENGDovalpage, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Engle, Margarita
Summary: While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ENGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ENGRodriguez, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a tale akin to "Romeo and Juliet," the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist who is proud of her family's social standing, and places similar restrictions on her son....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VIVGreen, Sara
Summary: ""Engaging images accompany information about Coca-Cola. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338.7 GREAriosto, 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 ARISaborit
Contents: La invitacion de Tomasa : son montuno / Daniel Alarcon (5:30) -- Caminito de Guarena : guaracha / Villo Frometa (3:13) -- Que bueno suena la timba : son / Bartolo Hernandez (3:23) -- El Don Juan : son / Miguel Arias Napoles (3:47) -- Amargo dolor : cumbia / Cinesio Figueredo (5:18) -- La cocaleca : guaracha (3:16) -- El platanar de Bartolo : pilon / Electo Rossell Chepin (2:29) -- Dame tu amor...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tumi 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN SaborEire, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 EIREngle, Margarita
Summary: In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom and suffrage. Includes historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGAnders, Gigi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ANDERS, GIGI ANDFabiny, Sarah
Summary: Describes the life of a man who has ruled Cuba since 1959, after leading a successful revolution overthrowing Batistas government and establishing a Communist regime in its place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CASCooke, 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 COOBarroso, Abelardo.
Contents: En Guantánamo -- La hija de Juan Simón -- Tiene sabor -- El guajiro de cunagua -- Un brujo en guanabacoa -- El panquelero -- El huerfanito -- El manisero -- La mulata rumbera -- Yo ta cansá (Ña Teresa) -- Macorina -- Bruca maniguá -- La reina del guaguancó -- Triste lucha.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Circuit 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BARTaffa, Deborah Jackson
Summary: "Whiskey Tender is a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and the frictions between being raised to strive towards the American dream while also coming into an understanding of how the narratives of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo heritages have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A look at the life of Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to his death in New York City. His writings and homosexuality get him in trouble with Castro's Cuba and he spends two years in prison before leaving for the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEFOjito, Mirta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OJITO, MIRTA OJISummary: "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