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My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog is a novel told in fifteen stories, linked by the same protagonist, our narrator, who--in her own voice and channeling the voices of others--creates an unsparing, multigenerational portrait of her native Cuba. Though she feels suffocated by the island and decides to leave, hers is not just a political novel--nor just a queer novel, an immigrant novel, a feminist novel--but a deeply existential one, in which...
44) The red umbrella
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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.
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1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1900s, the country faced an immediate crisis -- feeding the population -- and an ongoing challenge: how to create a new low-energy society. Cuba transitioned from large, fossil-fuel intensive farming to small, less energy-intensive organic farm and urban gardens, and from a highly industrial society to a more sustainable one." -- Container.
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Piedra Negra is an isolated village, whose citizens consist mainly of soldiers injured in the revolution who pass the time drinking a firewater so intense, all hallucinate, and most never recover. The firewater distiller's daughter Elena longs to be a poet, and after a chance encounter with Daniel Arcilla, Cuba's most important poet, Elena wins a national poetry prize and leaves Piedra Negra behind for Havana. There she encounters a population adjusting...
49) Cuban kids
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40 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 21 x 26 cm
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340 pages ; 25 cm
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In a part sequel and part retelling of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love," the inspiration for the Mambo King's biggest hit, Maria, now 60 years old, reminisces about her days and nights in Havana, offering a completely different perspective on the Mambo Kings' story.
51) I am Cuba
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1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
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52) Negra
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 521
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320 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Nirvana del Risco is the first black Cuban woman who openly and fearlessly confronts the prejudices that many of her compatriots hide: homophobia, racism, political mistrust, fear and a certain intimacy with the enemy. A daughter of the 60s generation and a rebel in Havana in the 2000s, she explores the path between the forbidden and the sacred, revealing the occult spells that lie deep within Afro Cuban culture. Revealing rituals passed down through...
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Scottish-born naturalist and writer John Muir undertook a daring adventure in 1867, just a few years after the Civil War. After recovering from an injury at a saw mill, Muir decided that he wanted to explore the world. He left his life in Indiana and walked one thousand miles to Florida. Without any real direction or purpose other than to study the flora and fauna, Muir trekked south through Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida...
55) Cuba
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543 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm + 1 pull-out map.
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59) Fabián y el caos
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 549
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235 pages ; 21 cm.
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The book takes place in Cuba. Castro's revolution has succeeded. There are two boys that become friends by chance: Pedro Juan is trim, stocky and will come to be a playboy, fond of sexy women. Fabian is totally the opposite: skinny, shy, short-sighted, a piano player and homosexual. Many years later, they will work in the same factory, but their destinies are hopelessly different.
60) Embracing Cuba
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xii, 210 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
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Photographs of the art, culture, and everyday life of Cuba taken from 2005-2015.
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