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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Secretos sangrientos Secretos sangrientos Carolina Garcia-Aguilera The la Torre family left Cuba after swindling the Delgado family of $2 million. Twenty-five years later Luis Delgado escapes in turn, goes to see them in Miami and they call a hit man. On hearing the… OL15856677W
La Noche Buena La Noche Buena Antonio Sacre While spending Christmas with her Cuban American grandmother in Miami, Florida, young Nina misses her usual New England holiday but enjoys learning about the foods and other traditions her father kne… OL16603481W
Troika Troika Adam Pelzman Secretly working as a dancer in a club after the death of her father, Perla encounters the orphaned son of a legendary Siberian hunter who compels her to undertake a life-changing journey to Manhatta… OL19976663W
Game seven Game seven Paul Volponi "A sixteen-year-old shortstop in Cuba who dreams of playing with the pros must choose between his country and his father who defected to the U.S."-- Julio, a sixteen-year-old shortstop in Cuba, drea… OL19997988W
Make your home among strangers Make your home among strangers Jennine Capó Crucet "When Lizet-the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school-secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college, her parents are furious at her decisi… OL20010460W
Nely Galan Nely Galan Janel Rodriguez A biography of the young Cuban American woman who rapidly moved from high school student to magazine editor to president of her own television production company. OL2916358W
Days of Awe Days of Awe Achy Obejas Growing up in Chicago, Alejandra San Jose, a Cuban refugee, becomes an interpreter and travels back to Cuba where she discovers that her family is actually conversos, Jews who converted to Christiani… OL3264935W
Paco's Perro Paco's Perro Marion Heller When twelve-year-old Paco, his widowed mother, and a greyhound puppy arrive in Miami after leaving Cuba, their new life includes an extended family of Cuban immigrants, learning to speak English, and… OL7797375W