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1) Havana storm
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 23
Language
English
Description
While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is, that stone was believed to have been...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A vivid and funny first novel about three generations of a Cuban family divided by conflicting loyalties over the Cuban revolution, set in the world of Havana in the 1970s and '80s and in an emigre neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is a story of immense charmabout women and politics, women and witchcraft, women and their men.
"Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the...
Author
Publisher
Ballatine Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
Español
Description
"EL BESTSELLER NACIONAL • “Impresionante . . . Su historia se trata de tres generaciones de mujeres cubanas y sus reacciones por separado a la revolución. Su hazaña particular es la de contaria en un estilo tan caluroso y dulce como los ‘aromas continuos de la vainilla y la almendra,’ tan rítmico como la música de Beny Moré.”٬٢٠١٤؛Amelia Weiss, Time El celebrado libro de Cristina García cuenta la sobrecogedora y agridulce...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as two women’s pasts collide on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the SS Morro Castle. New York heiress Catherine Dohan seemingly has it all. There’s only one problem. It’s a lie. As soon as the Morro Castle leaves port, Catherine’s past returns with...
Author
Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 16
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Cuban Intelligence Service Colonel Maria Leon is called to the bedside of the dying Fidel Castro. She is his illegitimate daughter but has never been acknowledged by her father until now. Castro makes her promise to contact the legendary former Director of the CIA Kirk McGarvey to help her on a mysterious quest to find Cibola, the fabled seven cities of Gold. As the Cuban government unravels, Leon has to use every means at her disposal just to find...
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