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Old Man and the Sea
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Ernest Hemingway
In language of great simplicity and power, Hemingway tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck--he hasn't caught a fish in 84 days--who goes out in his small skiff one more time. This time he hooks a huge marlin. During his relentless ordeal, a long and agonizing battle with the marlin far out in the Gulf Stream, the old man ...
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba- And Then Lost It to the Revolution
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T J English
An award-winning journalist and historian offers the complete story of how the Mob infiltrated Havana in the 1950s, made a fortune--and lost it all to Fidel Castro. 16-page b&w photo insert.
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Metro Girl
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Janet Evanovich
In this #1 "New York Times" bestseller, Alex Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother and becomes involved in high-speed car chases, a search for sunken treasure, and an amorous NASCAR driver.
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
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Jon Lee Anderson
A biography of the Argentinean Communist who became Fidel Castro's lieutenant in the Cuban revolution that overthrew Battista in 1959.
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Essence of decision; explaining the Cuban missile crisis
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Graham T. Allison
This classic book has been substantially rewritten to reflect the significant new American and Soviet archival sources now available to the researchers. Using the central case of the Cuban missile crisis as a basic frame of reference, The Essence of Decision teaches readers how to compare and contrast perspectives on foreign affairs.
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
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Michael Dobbs
Veteran "Washington Post" reporter Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce this authoritative book on the Cuban missile crisis, offering an hour-by-hour account of just how close the nations came to war. Illustrated.
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
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Carlos Eire
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.
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Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause
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Tom Gjelten
This unique history of Cuba is captured in the life and times of the famous rum dynasty. In chronicling the saga of the remarkable Bacardi family, Gjelten describes the intersection of business and power, family and politics, community and exile. b&w photo inserts.
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Telex from Cuba
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Rachel Kushner
An astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting first novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading to Castro's revolution, this masterful debut is a compelling tour de force.
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Robert F Kennedy, Jr.
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.
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Islands in the Stream
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Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's novel is about an artist-adventurer, Thomas Hudson, tracing his life from Bimini in the 1930s to the coast of Cuba in World War II.
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Dreaming in Cuban
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Cristina Garcia
A vivid and funny first novel about three generations of a Cuban family divided by conflicting loyalties over the Cuban revolution, set in the world of Havana in the 1970s and '80s and in an emigre neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is a story of immense charm about women and politics, women and witchcraft, women and their men.
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The Man with the Golden Gun
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Ian Fleming
Struck by a case of amnesia, James Bond finds himself set up and falsely accused of treason. Scaramanga, a deadly killer with a gold-plated gun, is the maniacal villain, and Mary Goodnight the gorgeous Bond girl.
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Our Man in Havana
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Graham Greene
English expatriate Wormold, who sells vacuum cleaners in Havana, becomes entangled in British government affairs at the beginning of the story and is pressed into service as an operative of M.I.5. He agrees reluctantly, so as to earn some extra money for his 17-year-old daughter's education, but does not bother to engage in any actual espionage. ...
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North of Havana
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Randy Wayne White
Doc Ford is called to Havana to rescue a hippie friend named Tomlinson. But when Doc gets to Cuba, he finds his friend has disappeared, leaving Doc in a dangerous situation.
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Guerrilla warfare
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Ernesto Che Guevara
Che Guevara, the larger-than-life hero of the 1959 revolutionary victory that overturned the Cuban dictatorship, believed that revolution would also topple the imperialist governments in Latin America. Che's call to action, his proclamation of invincibil
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Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK
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Lamar Waldron, Thom Hartmann
Historians, conspiracy theorists, director Oliver Stone, and the general public have long speculated on the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. Was it payback--or blowback--for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 or the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962? Was the Mafia involved? Or the CIA? Did the Warren Commission Report ...
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Cuba
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Stephen Coonts
Predicting a political struggle in Cuba when the ailing Fidel Castro dies, the US desperately tries to clear out a top secret (not even the CIA knows of it's existence) chemical weapons storage facility hidden in a naval base on Guantánamo Bay. When the freighter spiriting the weapons away is hijacked, Rear Admiral Jake Grafton is brought in to ...
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The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Prof. Ernest R May (Editor), Philip D Zelikow (Editor)
An account of the reaction within Kennedy's White House to news that the Soviets had constructed long-range missile bases in Cuba, based on recently declassified tape recordings of Cabinet and National Security Council meetings.
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Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story
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Peter Wyden
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Cuba Libre
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Elmore Leonard
Gunrunner Ben Tyler travels to Cuba during the Spanish-American war hoping to sell arms to Cuban nationals and make a hefty profit. Then the USS Maine explodes, sending the already turbulent region into greater turmoil.
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Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
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Dr. Fidel Castro, Ignacio Ramonet, Andrew Hurley (Translator)
The post-war worlds longest-serving and most storied head of state presents a compelling chronicle of his life. Drawing on more than 100 hours of interviews and including never-before-seen photographs, this work is the definitive record of an extraordinary life lived in turbulent times.
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Topaz
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Leon Uris
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Cuba 15
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Nancy Osa
The 2001 winner of the Delacorte Press Prize for a First Young Adult Novel tells the story of a girl who while preparing for her 15th year celebration--her "quince"--probes into her Cuban roots and unwittingly unleashes a hotbed of conflicted feelings about Cuba within her family. Young Adult.
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Aguero Sisters
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Cristina Garcia
The story of two middle-aged Cuban sisters, long estranged, and the reunion that reveals the continuing attachment between them. The novel chronicles their lives in a large, complex family group.
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