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1) Cuba
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32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 21 x 25 cm.
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Welcome to Cuba--home of the beautiful Playa Coral, historic Old Havana, and long-standing fortresses! Informative, easy-to-read text and oversize scenic photos draw in readers as they learn about Cuba's history, government, major cities, land features, natural resources, culture, and more! Maps, a timeline with photos, and a facts page that includes major statistics complement the text.
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277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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The Incomplete Traveler is a human story of strength and grit in the face of a series of historical events that lead to the loss of a homeland, and the need to adapt to life in exile. The history of the Fidel Castro revolution, along with the events that preceded it, is woven throughout the experiences of the book's main character Elena, her family, and her friends. Survival is the thread that holds the story together, as Elena faces her circumstances...
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314 pages ; 22 cm
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"There are two versions of Héctor: the public and the private. It's the only way to survive in communist Cuba -- especially when your father was exiled to the U.S. and labeled an enemy of the people. Héctor must always be seen as a fierce supporter of the regime, even if that means loudly rejecting the father he still loves. But in the summer of 1980, those two versions are hard to keep separate. No longer able to suppress a public uprising, the...
4) Water day
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Includes author's note.
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"A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika -- "song" in Ladino -- follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way -- a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood....
6) El comandante del pueblo: una novela basada en la vida de Camilo Cienfuegos y su misteriosa muerte
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xiii, 317 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Camilo Cienfuegos fue un carismático revolucionario que se hizo amigo de Fidel Castro cuando empezaron las protestas para derrocar la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista. Siempre fiel a los ideales de la Revolución, Cienfuegos luchó al lado de Fidel, Raúl y el Che Guevara, y llegó a ganarse la simpatía del pueblo cubano gracias a su humildad y franqueza. Tras ganar varias batallas, la rivalidad entre Camilo y Fidel se fue acentuando y sus ideales...
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In 1960, twelve-year-old Victoria's family leaves Cuba and seeks refuge in Miami, and when Victoria's best friend and cousin Jackie makes the trip alone, the reunited girls attempt to bring the rest of their family to safety.
"Basada en las experiencias reales de la madre de Alexandra Diaz como una refugiada cubana en los Estados Unidos, una historia oportuna y conmovedora de la familia, la amistad, y la lucha por un futuro mejor. A Victoria le encanta...
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"A stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there. Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage on the infamous Mariel boatlift. When Edel was nine,...
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"In 1934, the ultimate vacation becomes a fight for survival as the secrets of two women's pasts collide aboard a luxury cruise liner on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the tragedy of the SS Morro Castle. New York heiress Catherine Dohan seemingly has it all. There's only one problem. It's a lie. As soon as the Morro Castle leaves...
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328 pages ; 22 cm
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"Victoria loves everything about her home in Cuba. The beautiful land, the delicious food, her best friend and cousin, Jackie, and her big, loving family. But it's 1960 in Cuba, and as the political situation grows more and more dangerous, Victoria, her parents, and her two younger siblings are forced to seek refuge in America with nothing more than two changes of clothes and five dollars. Worse, they're forced to leave the rest of their family, including...
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In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as the outcome of Spain's defeat in 1898 was heavily compromised by the U.S. military intervention that immediately followed. To many Cubans it seemed almost...
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In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in Caribbean history. Matt Childs provides the first in-depth analysis of the rebellion, situating it in local, colonial, imperial, and Atlantic World contexts.Childs explains how slaves and free people of color responded to the nineteenth-century "sugar boom" in the Spanish...
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La Revolución Cubana trastocó las vidas de millones de individuos. También la de La escultural Mary. En 2019 la Revolución Cubana cumple su 60º aniversario desde su triunfo y 20º aniversario del caso Elián González. Estos acontecimientos tienen una conexión íntima con este libro ya que cuenta, desde cierta perspectiva histórica, los avatares de algunos cubanos y cubanas en el largo exilio de su país. Y, singularmente, los de los niños...
15) History of Havana: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Capital of Cuba, Starting From Christop
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Explore the Captivating History of HavanaThe story of Havana has all the elements of a great epic. It has tragic heroes and cunning villains, dramatic battles and fine culture, explosions, killings, horrible murders, rousing speeches, and courageous displays of determination. The history of Cuba's capital is about more than just one city. It's about the astounding resilience of the Cuban people, a people that has been through so much and yet continues...
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La Historia elemental de Cuba para uso de las escuelas primarias, tuvo más de diez ediciones entre 1928 y 1964. La presente selección abarca varios capítulos del texto original. A cargo de Ramiro Guerra, uno de los más connotados historiadores cubanos, esta obra relata los avatares de la historia nacional de Cuba desde los tiempos previos a la conquista hasta el siglo XX.
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Domingo del Monte fue un escritor y crítico literario cubano. Su obra Centón epistolario (1823-1857), recoge la correspondencia recibida a lo largo de su vida y ordenada por él mismo. Estas cartas ofrecen datos esenciales sobre la historia política y literaria cubana de los años 1822-1843. Constituyen una de las obras más excepcionales, originales y útiles de la historia intelectual cubana.
El Centón se editó en siete tomos entre 1923 y 1957...
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To tell the history of the Caribbean is to tell the history of the world,' write Laurent Dubois and Richard Lee Turits. In this powerful and expansive story of the vast archipelago, Dubois and Turits chronicle how the Caribbean has been at the heart of modern contests between slavery and freedom, racism and equality, and empire and independence. From the emergence of racial slavery and European colonialism in the early sixteenth century to U.S. annexations...
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Get the Summary of Ada Ferrer's Cuba in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Ada Ferrer's "Cuba" is a comprehensive history that intertwines the island's past with American history, starting from Columbus's arrival in 1492. The book details the violent colonization of Hispaniola and Cuba, the establishment of settlements, and the resistance of indigenous peoples like Hatuey. It explores the strategic importance of Havana,...
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La Descripción de diferentes piezas de historia natural, es la primera obra científica que se publicó en Cuba, apareció. La publicó Antonio Parra, en 1787. Fue el resultado de un esfuerzo de varias décadas. Con solo dieciséis años Manuel Antonio Parra, hijo de Parra, se encargó de los grabados y coloración del libro que consagró a los Parra como impresores y autores.
Felipe Poey clasificó y estudió los peces de Parra. Le dedicó además...
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