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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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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Robert F Kennedy
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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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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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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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Graham T Allison
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 ...
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Fidel: A Critical Portrait
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Tad Szulc
This is the authorized biography of Fidel Castro - revolutionary and Chief of State. It tells the story of a revolution fought by an "army" which sometimes consisted of eight men and seven weapons as well as attempting to reveal the private face of the Cuban leader. The author was a "New York Times" reporter and has written "The Illusion of Peace: ...
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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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Broken Paradise
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Cecilia Samartin
In the spirit of "The Kite Runner," this shimmering literary debut traces thepath of two cousins--one who left Cuba at the brink of revolution and the onewho stayed behind.
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Telex from Cuba
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Rachel Kushner
Set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading up to Castro's revolution--a place that was a paradise for a few--Kushner's first novel is a tour de force with the urgency of a telex from a forgotten time and place.
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Biography of a Runaway Slave
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Miguel Barnet, W Nick Hill (Translator), Esteban Montejo
In this remarkable testimony, Cuban novelist and anthropologist Miguel Barnet presents the narrative of 105-year-old Esteban Montejo, who lived as a slave, as fugitive in the wilderness, and as a soldier in the Cuban War of Independence. Honest, blunt, compassionate, shrewd, and engaging, his voice provides an extraordinary insight into the ...
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Cuban Death-Lift
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Randy Wayne White, Randy Striker
Two decades ago, writing under the pen name Randy Striker, "New York Times" bestselling author White was delivering high-octane adventure with former Navy SEAL Dusky MacMorgan, who uncovers a conspiracy in deadly foreign waters. This edition includes a new Introduction by the author. Reissue.
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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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Murder in Havana
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Margaret Truman
Ex-CIA agent Max Pauling, now working freelance, travels to Cuba to investigate a suspicious German company that wants to invest in Cuban medical research. He soon gets wrapped up in dangerous intrigues.
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Dreaming in Cuban
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Cristina Garcia
Set in Havana and Brooklyn, this first novel takes the reader into the heart of the del Pino family, introducing four various, strong-willed women who are divided by by conflicting political loyalties and bound together by their complicated love for one another.
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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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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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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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Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars
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John Huddy
Huddy tells the memorable true-crime story of how a Cuban-born, Soviet-trained commando takes down the Las Vegas Strip to the tune of five world-class hotels, three armored cars, and three million dollars, over a 16-month period.
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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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High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Max Frankel
A Pulitzer Prize-winning Author One of the giants of American journalism now re-creates an unforgettable time in which the whole world feared extinction. Max Frankel captures the Cuban Missile Crisis in a new light, from inside the hearts and minds of the famous men who provoked and, in the nick of time, resolved the confrontation.
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The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera
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Joaquin J Fraxedas
Desperate to escape a society gone wrong, three men risk an incredible journey across 90 miles of treacherous water to get from Cuba to Florida. In this powerful and lyrical novel, Fraxedas has crafted an epic story of courageous men enduring the hazards of the open sea, caught in the mindless violence of a hurricane with nothing but an innertube ...
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Rough Riders
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Theodore Roosevelt, IV
The advent of war with Spain was a glorious opportunity for forceful leadership not to be missed by the hotheaded young Theodore Roosevelt. He resigned his post as assistant-secretary of the Navy in April, 1898, and, despite the strong disapproval of family and friends, he joined the Army as Lt. Colonel of a regiment to be raised in the ...
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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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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 invincibility-the ultimate victory of revolutionary forces-continues to influence the course of Latin ...
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Havana Before Castro: When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground
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Peter Moruzzi
Featuring hundreds of vintage photographs, postcards, brochures, and other materials evocative of time and place, "Havana Before Castro: When Cuba Was America's Tropical Playground" documents how the city of Havana evolved from Prohibition haven and rich man's playground to a heady blend of glittering nightclubs, outrageous cabarets, allnight bars ...
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