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4 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: History of Cuba, History of Havana, Cuba Travel Guide and Havana Travel Guide!
Book 1)
History of Cuba: Cuba Libre! Cuban History from Christopher Columbus to Fidel Castro
Have you always been interested in Cuba, its people, its history and fascinated with Cuban beliefs? Then this book is essential!
Book 2)
History of Havana: Cuba Libre! Havana's History from Christopher Columbus to Fidel Castro
Are you...
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In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.
11) The Bay of Pigs
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xvi, 237 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of President Eisenhower's disastrous attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. He deftly examines the train of missteps and self-deceptions that led to the invasion of U.S.-trained exiles at the Bay of Pigs.
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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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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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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.
16) The wild book
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130 pages ; 21 cm
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In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles with dyslexia. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.
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209 pages ; 22 cm
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In Cuba's "special period in times of peace" of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together.
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327 pages ; 24 cm
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"The spirit of Marisol, who vanished during the Cuban Revolution, visits her nephew, Ramon, in modern-day New Jersey, and her presence prompts him to investigate the story of his ancestor, unaware of the forces driving him on his search"--
"Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, disappearing with hardly a trace. Now, shaped by atrocities long-forgotten, her tenacious spirit visits her nephew, Ramón, in modern-day New Jersey. Her hope: that...
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