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Series
Capital crimes series volume 18
Language
English
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Best-selling author Margaret Truman is beloved for her highly acclaimed Capital Crimes mystery series. In this adventure, former secret agent Max Pauling is offered a chance to do investigative work in Cuba. Although not anticipating danger, one of his sources is killed and he is assaulted. Max realizes that someone doesn't want him to uncover certain secrets of the isla bonita. Narrator Richard Poe brings out the suspense in this international thriller....
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez-her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash...
5) 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 something even more dangerous--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...
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English
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In pre-Castro Cuba, vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold is a single father whose teenage daughter's spending outstrips his modest salary. To make a little extra money, he agrees to work for the British Secret Service, but lacking any actual inside information, he invents a ring of spies and sends his handlers fictitious reports. Imagine his surprise when the stories he creates start to come true and enemy spies attempt to kill him
8) Cuba libre
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Language
English
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A novel on the Spanish-American War featuring adventurer Ben Tyler, an Arizona horse dealer. Just as he arrives in Cuba with a shipment of guns and horses, war breaks out. To get his money, he is sucked into fighting between Spain, the U.S. and Cuban revolutionaries seeking independence from both
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Draws on little-known Cuban history to tell a stirring story in poetry. Based on the diaries and letters of Swedish suffragist Fredrika Bremer, who spent three months in Cuba in 1851, the story focuses on oppressed women, the privileged as well as the enslaved, in three alternating free-verse narratives
10) THE CUBAN AFFAIR
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Language
English
Description
"US Army combat veteran Daniel "Mac" MacCormick, now a charter boat captain, who is about to set sail on his most dangerous cruise. Daniel Graham MacCormick--Mac for short--seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he's living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat, The Maine. Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer with two tours in Afghanistan. He returned with the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In a part sequel and part retelling of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love," the inspiration for the Mambo King's 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
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Language
English
Description
"In 1934, the ultimate vacation becomes a fight for survival as the secrets of two women's pasts collide aboard a luxury cruise liner 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 tragedy 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...
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Cuban girl transforms her long and unruly hair into a garden. Includes information about plants and animals native to Cuba, as well as directions for creating your own butterfly garden
15) CUBA STRAITS
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia obtains and sells a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 1960-62 to a secret girlfriend. When both Garcia and the who bought the letters disappear, Doc Ford investigates, convinced that those letters contain a secret that someone, or some powerful agency, cannot allow to be made public"--
16) Kantika: a novel
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Language
English
Description
"A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika--"song" in Ladino--follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way--a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood....
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Language
English
Description
"In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War and becomes drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in the devastating conflict. It's the adventure she's been looking for and her chance to prove herself a worthy journalist in a field dominated by men. But she also finds herself unexpectedly--and uncontrollably--falling in love with Hemingway, a man on his way to becoming...
18) The Third Hotel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. He's wearing a white linen suit she's never seen before, and he's supposed to be dead. Grief-stricken and baffled, Clare tails Richard, a horror film scholar, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his every move. As the distinction between reality and fantasy blurs,...
Author
Series
Havana mystery volume 5
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
" 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 information she has. Could her mother still be alive? Thirty-three...
20) Cuba straights
Author
Series
A Doc Ford novel volume 19
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar. He prefers what dealers call HPC items-high-profile collectibles-but when he manages to obtain a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 1960-62 to a secret girlfriend, it's not a matter of money anymore. Garcia...
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