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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,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
245 p. : geneal. table ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three generations of the Del Pino family--Cuban expatriates--play out their dreams and dramas in Havana, Brooklyn, and the Cuban seaside in the years between 1972-1980.
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Florida marine biologist Doc Ford receives a call for help from a friend whose boat strayed into Cuban waters. Equipped with money for fines, bills and bribes, Ford arrives in Havana with his girlfriend and as he searches for his friend becomes involved in a hunt for the coffin of Columbus.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
728 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Una absorbente historia que recupera el valioso legado de los indigenas cubanos a traves de una intriga protagonizada por dos mujeres que, en distintas �epocas, se enfrentan a la peligrosa codicia de los hombres.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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, scars that don't tan, and a boat with a big bank loan. Truth be told, Mac's finances are more than a little shaky. One day, Mac...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
322 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Coming of age in mid-1950s Cuba where the local sugar and nickel production are controlled by American interests, Everly Lederer and KC Stites observe the indulgences and betrayals of the adult world and are swept up by the revolt led by Fidel and Ra©ðl Castro.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The brutal story of Harry Morgan, an honest boat owner who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who swarm the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Havana, detective Arkady Renko of the Moscow police joins forces with beautiful Ofelia of the Cuban police to investigate the murder of a Russian diplomat. The protagonists find love while the reader gets an inside look at post-Cold War Havana.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
p2012
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
If you try to assassinate your boss--even though brainwashed at the time--you must pay the price. To redeem himself James Bond is sent to kill one of the most lethal hit men in the world ... Paco "Pistols" Scaramanga. In the sultry heat of Jamaica, 007 infiltrates his target's criminal cooperative--only to find that Scaramanga's bullets are laced with snake venom. When the end comes, every shot will count.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Berlin, 1934: The Nazis have secured the 1936 Olympiad for the city but are facing foreign resistance. Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, have connived to soft-pedal Nazi anti-Semitism and convince America to participate. Bernie Gunther, now the house detective at an upscale Berlin hotel, is swept into this world of international corruption and dangerous double-dealing, caught between the warring factions of the Nazi...
14) Cuba straits
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 22
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....
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money — she was a favorite in the cigar factory where she worked as a lettora — and for love, spinning gossamer tales out of her own past for the benefit of friends, neighbors, and family. But now, like a modern-day Scheherazade, she will be asked to tell one last story so that eight women can keep both hope and themselves alive. Cuba, 1963. Hurricane Flora, one of the deadliest hurricanes in recorded...
16) Cuban death-lift
Author
Series
Dusky MacMorgan adventures volume 3
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xi, 239 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Fidel Castro allows thousands of Cubans to depart for America in the Mariel Boatlift, he exports the worst criminals and undesirables of his country along with them. To monitor the situation, the CIA sends infiltrators to Cuba--where they vanish without a trace. In desperation, the Agency turns to ex-Navy SEAL Dusky MacMorgan to go in and find out what happened.Amid the chaos and deception in Mariel's savage underworld, MacMorgan must keep on...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (11 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Hannah Rosenthal sets sail on the SS St. Louis, a transatlantic liner offering Jews safe passage out of Germany. She soon discovers that the overseas asylum she had been promised is an illusion.
18) A pesar del amor
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara/Santillana USA
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Tells the story of a family, the Salvatierras, in its fourth generation between 1868 and 1936 in the island of Cuba. With the setting and the racial diversity of the Caribbean, it has a combination of personal destiny interwoven with historical destiny. The births and the deaths of the characters are intertwined with political events of a country that will undergo a war, the Ten-Year War, and will find itself influenced by the United States and Spain.
Dice...
Author
Publisher
Beck & Branch Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the spring of 1956, a young American photographer falls in love with a Cuban line cook in New York. They have a ten-week affair which ends when Immigration arrests and deports him, and by then Clare Miller is pregnant. Few Americans know the name Camilo Cienfuegos. All Cubans do. He was the most charismatic of Castro's rebel commanders. But Clare, who never hears from him after he's deported, believes he has died in Fidel's invasion of the island....
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
526 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Río Hondo, Cuba, hoy. A sus setenta años, Ángela Falcón, plácidamente sentada en una de las mecedoras del asilo en el que se encuentra, rememora la que fue la historia de su familia, una historia apasionante: “Es curioso como un olor determinado puede aferrarse a la memoria más que el rostro querido de los muertos…” Con esta frase, esta anciana enjuta, hermética y solitaria que se aferra a sus recuerdos y a su bastón como única defensa...
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