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Cuba Libre Cuba Libre Elmore Leonard Leonard's famous "Tropical Western" delivers a smuggler, a sugar baron, and one smart, pistol-hot lady to Havana during the Spanish-American War.War in Cuba isn't Ben Tyler's concern. Still, sailing … OL111670W
H-BOMB GIRL H-BOMB GIRL Stephen Baxter In Cuba nuclear tensions are at breaking point. The end of the whole world could be just days away. At the heart of it all is Laura Mann. She's on the run, hunted by strange forces fighting over the … OL12799235W
Best Kept Secrets Best Kept Secrets Rochelle Alers With Best Kept Secrets, bestselling author Rochelle Alers offers her most ambitious and sensual novel to date, reaching into the rich history of Florida and Cuba to tell the story of a family destine… OL15169608W
Havana Havana Stephen Hunter Sent by the CIA to 1950s Cuba to eliminate young revolutionary Fidel Castro, ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger finds himself confronting outdated ideals about honor and duty as the world around him erupts … OL15836851W
A mango in the hand A mango in the hand Antonio Sacre Guided by proverbs from his father and other relatives, Francisco makes several attempts to bring ripe mangoes home for dessert on his saint day, and in the process learns lessons in love and generos… OL15998429W
Adios, happy homeland! Adios, happy homeland! Ana Menéndez "Adios, Happy Homeland! is a group of interlinked tales that challenge our preconceptions of storytelling. This critical look at the life of the Cuban writer pulls apart and reassembles the myths tha… OL16571073W
Castro's daughter Castro's daughter David Hagberg "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 mak… OL16585652W
Wake of the Perdido Star Wake of the Perdido Star Gene Hackman A young man's adventures at sea in the early 1800s. After his parents are murdered in Cuba, Jack O'Reilly enlists on a U.S. merchant ship, where he distinguishes himself in deep diving, becomes a pir… OL17740706W
The wise women of Havana The wise women of Havana José Raúl Bernardo "Set against the background of Cuba in 1938, The Wise Women of Havana is the deeply moving, lyrical, and yet earthy story of three remarkable women whose lives are suddenly intricately intertwined.".… OL1841391W
The distant marvels The distant marvels Chantel Acevedo 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 o… OL20000801W
Heretics Heretics Leonardo Padura "A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refuge… OL20049956W
Martina The Beautiful Cockroach Martina The Beautiful Cockroach Carmen Agra Deedy Carmen Agra Deedy delivers a deliciously inventive Cuban version of the beloved Martina folktale, complete with a dash of cafe cubano. Martina the beautiful cockroach doesn't know coffee beans about … OL20332657W
Guantanamo Guantanamo Dorothea Dieckmann Dieckmann's novel is a terrifying work of the imagination, looking into the mind of a young man trapped in the nightmare of the notorious detention facility. OL2049074W
My Havana My Havana Rosemary Wells Relates events in the childhood of architect Dino Fernandez, who left his beloved Havana, Cuba, with his parents, first to spend a year in Spain, and later to move to New York City. OL32747W
Wake of the Perdido Star Wake of the Perdido Star Gene Hackman A new writing team--actor Gene Hackman and one of America's leading authorities on shipwrecks and diving, Daniel Lenihan--have combined their remarkable talent and experience to create a rousing adve… OL478722W
Old Rosa Old Rosa Reinaldo Arenas **From Amazon.com:** A terrifying and beautiful novel, Old Rosa is composed of two stories that converge on a single charged point in the lives of a Cuban mother and son. In the first, the mother … OL502651W
Honorable Mention Honorable Mention Robert N. Macomber Honorable Mention, the third volume in the award-winning “Honor” series, covers the tumultuous end of the Civil War in Florida and the Caribbean, from the re-election of Lincoln in 1864 to the reloca… OL5705784W
Islands in the Stream Islands in the Stream Ernest Hemingway A posthumously published novel in three parts. Set in the Caribbean, the stories follow the main character during different periods of his life. The first part introduces Thomas Hudson, an American a… OL63059W
The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway *The Old Man and the Sea* is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordea… OL63073W
Travesuras de la niña mala Travesuras de la niña mala Mario Vargas Llosa Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Llama in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, claiming to be from Chile but vanishing the mo… OL857660W
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