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1	Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life more books like this by Neil Strauss add to wishlist Combining wit and journalistic detail, "Emergency" follows Strauss' search for an escape plan from the seemingly ever-more unstable United States and world, eventually obtaining a second citizenship in a small Caribbean island. Facing shady lawyers, cult leaders, crippling doubts, governmental corruption, and plane-flying, gun-toting billionaires ... see all copies from $6.01! new only from $8.50! \| SVS
2	Caribbean more books like this by James A Michener add to wishlist This novel covers the history of the area from the 1300s to Castro's Cuba, including tribal conflicts on the island of Domenica, the arrival of Columbus, the buccaneers, the rise of sugar plantations, the slave revolts, and the social problems of today. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis more books like this by Robert F Kennedy add to wishlist This volume presents Senator Robert F. Kennedy's perspective on the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, 13 days during which the world seemed on the brink of nuclear war. Kennedy was U.S. Attorney General at the time, which gave him a firsthand perspective on his brother's negotiations with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.83! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Dead in the Water more books like this by Stuart Woods add to wishlist Stone Barrington is on vacation in Bermuda, far away from his life as a lawyer and investigator in Manhattan. So he thinks. A beautiful socialite is on trial for murder after her husband disappears. Desperate, she asks Stone for help. Who can resist a beautiful woman in need, or a chance to lock horns with Antigua's wily and arbitrary minister of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy more books like this by Carlos Eire add to wishlist Carlos Eire remembers growing up privileged in 1950s Havana, an interlude that ends with Fidel Castro and the revolution. Eire delivers transcendent prose that details the Cuba he grew up with and the "many deaths" he experienced, including being airlifted out of Cuba in 1962 with his brother. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	City of the Beasts more books like this by Isabel Allende add to wishlist Accompanied by his grandmother, a writer for "International Geographic Magazine," 15-year-old Alexander Cold travels to the Amazon on a mission to uncover the legendary Yeti. Their exploration team also includes an anthropologist and a doctor and is lead by a local guide and his daughter, Nadia. Before long, Alexander finds himself bonding with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	A Salty Piece of Land more books like this by Jimmy Buffett add to wishlist Tully Mars lights out from Wyoming for a warmer climate after he incurs the wrath of his boss, who raises poodles for a living and has hired a squad of goons to track him down. As he heads south, Tully meets the woman of his dreams, leaves her with reluctance, evades the evil posse, and, after a series of adventures, ends up in the Caribbean. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Where Is Joe Merchant? more books like this by Jimmy Buffett add to wishlist Jimmy Buffett presents a novel about the eponymous Joe Merchant--a rock star at the height of his fame--who is missing and presumed dead, except by his sister. Accompanied by her former boyfriend--a seaplane pilot--and a pushy journalist in search of a story, she goes island-hopping in the tropics in search of Joe, encountering not only the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Reef more books like this by Nora Roberts add to wishlist When marine archaeologist Tate Beaumont teams up with the arrogant, young Matthew Lassiter to find a long-lost jewel at the bottom of the Caribbean, they encounter more secrets than they had planned. Forced to work closely to find the lost treasure, they soon realize they have more in common than their passionate longing to find the jewel. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The feast of the goat more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist When Urania Cabal returns home to the Dominican Republic, she is swept up in her memories of the days of Trujillo's dictatorship, when her father was in the midst of it all as secretary of state. She recalls the horrors of the regime, and also the conspiracies and the rumbling of a revolution that would ultimately bring Trujillo down in a wave of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down more books like this by Colin Woodard add to wishlist The Republic of Pirates features the 18th-century pirates Edward "Blackbeard" Teach and "Black Sam" Bellamy, both of whom rose from England's underclass to become wealthy, notorious, and enormously powerful. Along with their associates in the Bahamas-based "Flying Gang," Teach and Bellamy banded together to form a pirate cooperative, culminating ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis more books like this by Graham T Allison add to wishlist One of the most influental political science works written in the post World War II era, the original edition of Essence of Decision is a unique and fascinating examination of the pivotal event of the cold Cold War. Not simply revised, but completely re-written, the Second Edition of this classic text is a fresh reinterpretation of the theories ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.96! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War more books like this by Michael Dobbs add to wishlist October 27, 1962, was known as Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. With the Cuban missile crisis at its height, this was a day of nail-biting developments, when the hands of the metaphorical Doomsday Clock reached one minute to midnight and the world grew closer than ever before (or since) to nuclear apocalypse. On Black Saturday, the ... see all copies from $2.90! new only from $6.75! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec more books like this by Mary Ellen Miller add to wishlist This up-to-date account of the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica evocatively summarizes the artistic achievements of the high pre-Columbian civilizations--Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Aztec--as well as of their less-famous contemporaries. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.60! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Memories of a Cuban Kitchen: More Than 200 Classic Recipes more books like this by Mary Urrutia Randelman, Joan Schwartz add to wishlist Authentic Cuban recipes offer a mixture of Spanish, Indian, African, Chinese, and Portuguese cuisine, from appetizers like Green Plantain Chips, to such entrees as Roast Pork Creole, to tropical rum-based drinks and desserts. Filled with reminiscences and evocative halftone photos of Randelman's childhood in pre-Castro Cuba, this book presents ... see all copies from $9.24! new only from $12.47! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969 more books like this by Eric Williams add to wishlist This landmark work, by the late Prime Minister of Trinidad, illuminates a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world. 50 photos, maps. see all copies from $4.17! new only from $11.34! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome more books like this by Jim Carrier add to wishlist "Utterly compulsive and unputdownable - the most exciting, authentic, and humanly moving of all the recent Storm books. Brilliantly paced and perfectly balanced...Carrier is a marvelously trustworthy narrator...A terrific book." - Jonathan Raban, author of "Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings" and "Bad Land: An American Romance". "A ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.84! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign more books like this by Stephan Talty add to wishlist Awash with bloody battles, political intrigue, and an incredible epoch-ending natural disaster, this is the real-life story of Henry Morgan, the legendary pirate of the Caribbean, who in the 17th century challenged the greatest military power on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades and brought it to its knees. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Grab Hands and Run more books like this by Frances Temple add to wishlist Twelve-year-old Felipe, his eight-year-old sister, and their mother must flee El Salvador after his father, Jacinto, disappears. Following Jacinto's instructions to "grab hands and run" if anything ever happens to him, the three flee north to freedom in Canada. On their harrowing and frightening journey, they encounter people who use war to their ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame more books like this by Paul Farmer add to wishlist Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the USA rather than from hard evidence? Anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers in the affirmative with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. Farmer was present when the first ... see all copies from $5.08! new only from $23.95! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude more books like this by Ann Vanderhoof add to wishlist Ann and Steve Vanderhoof left Toronto to take a long-planned two-year cruise to the Caribbean, visiting 16 countries and immersing themselves in the local culture. This account of the trip includes recipes for the food they encountered and a keen appreciation for the people and the landscape. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.02! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Jolly Mon more books like this by Jimmy Buffett add to wishlist Songwriter/performer Jimmy Buffett and his daughter Savannah Jane collaborate on an engaging story that combines Buffett's vast knowledge of oceanic folklore with his personal experiences sailing across most of the world. Full color. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.93! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Texaco more books like this by Patrick Chamoiseau add to wishlist Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this novel tells the story of 150 years of Caribbean history via the remembrances of Sophie Laborieux, an aging freedom-fighter and the daughter of a slave. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	A Small Place more books like this by Jamaica Kincaid add to wishlist Kincaid's powerful, angry essay on the effects of colonialism and tourism on the people of the Caribbean. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	To Have and Have Not more books like this by Ernest Hemingway add to wishlist This novel, considered by Hemingway "not so good," takes place during the Depression in Key West, where he had recently settled. The novel's hero, Harry Morgan, is forced by economic desperation into smuggling, bootlegging, and transporting Cuban revolutionaries into the U.S. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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