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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
Language
English
Formats
Description
Into an ordinary vacuum cleaner salesman's life slithers the Secret Service with a not-so-ordinary proposition, and Wormold, high on incredulity but low on cash, accepts the offer: a $300 a month assignment as England's new "man" in Havana. To keep the job and, more importantly, the cash flowing, Wormold fabricates non-existent agents, fake expense accounts, false stories, even a phony weapons conspiracy. But the stakes change when people start turning...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a part sequel and part retelling of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love," the inspiration for the Mambo Kings' biggest hit, Maria, now 60 years old, reminisces about her days and nights in Havana, offering a completely different perspective on the Mambo Kings' story.
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
A mysterious legacy connects a manuscript written in the 16th century by Juana, a young woman of Jewish origin who travels to Cuba with her father as they are persecuted by the Inquisition, and Alicia Solomon, the language expert who finds herself involved in a dangerous conflict of political interests during Cubas first democratic elections. Two women from different centuries, united by a secret that can alter the future of the island. Two heroines...
29) Hidden in Havana
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The story of an enormous cathedral constructed in a marginal, majority-black neighborhood in Cienfuegos, Cuba, told by a chorus of narrators whose sometimes conflicting, overlapping accounts knit together to form a portrait of the neighborhood and the family of outsiders whose arrival in Cienfuegos sparks a series of dramatic events"--
32) Cubana
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Saint's dangerous visit to Cuba comes with much more than he anticipated as he enters an underground secret society of high stakes gambling. He gets tangled in a web of heinous crimes, money games, and backstabbing. Torn between a woman he meets in Cuba and his wife at home, Saint finds himself embroiled in an intricate plan, which threatens his freedom and everything that he has worked for. Lines are crossed, both internationally and morally"--
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
Formats
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...
35) Queen of bones
Author
Series
Havana mystery volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Padrino, a former detective on the Cuban police force, has retired and found a new, happy life as a Santería priest. But he is drawn back in for a murder investigation when his goddaughter, Rosita, who works at the local cemetery, recognizes one of the bodies that crosses her embalming table. Meanwhile, an old flame of Rosita's, Juan, has returned to Cuba after fleeing by raft twenty years ago. He is with his American wife, Sharon, and has come...
36) Havana libre
Author
Series
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In this explosive follow-up to the Edgar Award finalist, Havana Lunar, Dr. Mano Rodriguez takes an undercover assignment to the most dangerous city in Latin America: Miami. During the summer of 1997, a series of bombings terrorize Havana hotels. The targets are tourists, and the terrorists are exiles seeking to cripple Cuban tourism and kill the Revolution. After Mano finds himself helpless to save one of the victims, his nemesis Colonel Emilio Perez...
Author
Series
Havana mystery volume 4
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Cuban-born Mercedes Spivey and her American husband, Nolan, win a five-day cruise to Cuba. Although the circumstances surrounding the prize seem a little suspicious to Mercedes, Nolan's current unemployment and their need to spice up their marriage make the decision a no-brainer. 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...
Author
Series
Havana mystery volume 1
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Set in Havana during the Black Spring of 2003, a charming but poison-laced culinary mystery that reveals the darker side of the modern Revolution, complete with authentic Cuban recipes. Havana, Cuba, 2003: Matt, a San Diego journalist, arrives in Havana to marry his girlfriend, Yarmila, a 24-year-old Cuban woman whom he first connected with because of her food blog. But Yarmi isn't there to meet him at the airport. When he hitches a ride to her apartment,...
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...
40) Escape to Havana
Author
Series
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For Charlie Hillier, a posting to Cuba could be the perfect place to start his new life -- if he survives it. With his career stalled and the office abuzz about his soon-to-be-ex-wife's indiscretions, Ottawa bureaucrat Charlie Hillier is desperate for a change. So when the chance at a posting to the Canadian embassy in Havana comes up, he jumps at it, grateful to get as far away as he can from his ex and his dead-end job at Foreign Affairs headquarters....
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