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In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream. By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent...
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Rachel Kushner has written an astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting debut novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading up to Castro's revolution - a place that was a paradise for a time and for a few. Young Everly Lederer and K. C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom. When the cane fields start to burn, K. C. and Everly begin to discover the brutality that keeps the colony...
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Follows a young Cuban girl in the 1930s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there's never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
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"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,...
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Working as a consigliere to the Bartolo crime family, traveling between Tampa and Cuba, former crime kingpin Joe Coughlin, who has everything -- money, power, anonymity and a beautiful mistress -- is forced to pay for his lifetime of sin when the dark truth of his past emerges.
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A California lawyer finds herself on the trail of a murderer while searching for her missing mother in Cuba in the final entry of this mystery series.
Attorney Willa Jansson's mother is a lifelong activist. So, it's no surprise when she and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom disregard federal regulations and head to Cuba for a goodwill tour. The real shock occurs when the group returns ... with one less member.
Worried about her...
11) Cuba libre
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Before Grand Master Elmore Leonard earned his well-deserved reputation as "the best writer of crime fiction alive" (Newsweek), he penned some of the finest western fiction to ever appear in print. (The classics Hombre, Valdez is Coming, and 3:10 to Yuma were just a few of his notable works.) With his extraordinary Cuba Libre, Leonard ingeniously combines all of his many talents and delivers a historical adventure/caper/western/noir like none other....
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Camila, whose mother, Salome, inspired a Dominican revolution with her poetry, spends most of her life trying to please her father and her brothers, all prominent men, before seeking a place for herself in the days following the Cuban revolution.
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In the eighth title in the Suspicion series, Suspicion of Rage, Gail Connor agrees to accompany her new husband, Anthony Quintana, to his beloved native Cuba. Caught between a family that supports the Revolution; ties to a radical underground group; a threatening secret message from the CIA to his brother-in-law, a Cuban General; threats of terrorism; and a long-lost love, the hard-won peace of a new family is at risk. Suspicion of Rage is the 8th...
15) Havana libre
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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...
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Todo en Santiago es viejo, a excepción de sus ojos invictos. El anciano pescador lleva ochenta y cuatro días sin conseguir presa. Pese a esto, un día decide salir solo al mar, donde un pez gigante muerde al fin el anzuelo. Una batalla decisiva se desata entre el viejo y el enorme animal. El viejo y el mar está considerado como una de las obras de ficción más destacadas del s. XX. Fue escrita en Cuba por el Nobel Ernest Hemingway y publicada...
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"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,...
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