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Author : Darryl Brock
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803235892
"First Nebraska paperback printing"--T.p. verso.
Author : Carolina Garcia-aguilera
Publisher : Avon
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0380807408
When Miami P.I. Lupe Solano overhears a mysterious conversation at a posh dinner party, she finds herself drawn into a hunt for a legendary masterpiece, the eighth Unicorn Tapestry, a piece of art that someone will do anything, even murder, to possess. Reprint.
Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781904738091
A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.
Author : Hernando Calvo Ospina
Publisher : Latin America Bureau (Lab)
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007925832
A journey through the development of modern Salsa music. An evocative use of song lyrics bring color and passion to this lively profile of Latin dance music.
Author : Carolina Garcia-aguilera
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 038097780X
Miami P.I. Lupe Solano overhears a conversation and finds herself drawn into a hunt for a legendary masterpiece, the eighth Unicorn Tapestry, a piece of art that someone is willing to kill for.
Author : Paul Goldstein
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466802278
Fueled by alcohol and legal brilliance, Michael Seeley once oversaw his law firm's most successful litigation. Until it all fell apart. Recklessness and overreach cost him his wife, his job, and likely the life of his last client, a Chinese dissident journalist. Havana Requiem, the latest Seeley novel from the acclaimed author Paul Goldstein, opens after a year's sobriety has earned Seeley back most of what he lost: the partnership in his Manhattan law firm, if not his corner office; the wary respect of most of his partners; the lucrative clients—but not the gin-sharpened passion. Then the renowned Cuban musician Héctor Reynoso enters his office with a simple request: help him and other composers who defined Cuba's musical golden age of the 1940s and '50s—the music that made the Buena Vista Social Club internationally famous—reclaim the copyright to their work. When Reynoso goes missing, Seeley's reluctant promise to help draws him progressively deeper into Havana's violent underbelly and a decades-long conspiracy that runs from the partners in his firm to the U.S. State Department to Cuba's security police, who are willing to do anything to suppress the truth. In the heat of Havana, Seeley will lose himself to his worst and best passions as his pursuit of justice becomes a desperate gambit to save not only his composers but the stunning Amaryll, who is playing her own dangerous game.
Author : José Latour
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555846756
A “dark, rich, and satisfying” novel of mobsters, baseball, and 1950s Cuba (Entertainment Weekly). It is the fall of 1958 and all of Cuba is riveted to the World Series—the New York Yankees are playing the Milwaukee Braves, and the infamous Meyer Lansky’s gambling empire is raking in millions in bets. But rival mob boss Joe Bonnano, working with a team of Cuba’s boldest and most ingenious criminals, plans to hijack Lanksy’s fortune. The heist goes off brilliantly—until Bonnano’s point man is shot dead. As Lansky’s man in the police department investigates the case, he is caught up in a colorful and dangerous world of gangsters, misfits, and double-crosses . . . “A lively, entertaining read.” —Publishers Weekly “The characters are fascinating, the story compelling . . . You couldn’t ask for more.” —Orlando Sentinel “Suspenseful . . . captures the sights, sounds, smells and rhythms of Havana.” —The Miami Herald
Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781632863935
A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana celebrates the city's singular music, literature, baseball, and food; its five centuries of outstanding, neglected architecture; and its extraordinary blend of cultures. Like all great cities, Havana has a rich history that informs the vibrant place it is today--from the native Taino to Columbus's landing, from Cuba's status as a U.S. protectorate to Batista's dictatorship and Castro's revolution, from Soviet presence to the welcoming of capitalist tourism. Havana is a place of extremes: a beautifully restored colonial city whose cobblestone streets pass through areas that have not been painted or repaired since long before the revolution. Kurlansky shows Havana through the eyes of Cuban writers, such as Alejo Carpentier and José Martí, and foreigners, including Graham Greene and Hemingway. He introduces us to Cuban baseball and its highly opinionated fans; the city's music scene, alive with the rhythm of Son; its culinary legacy. Through Mark Kurlansky's multilayered and electrifying portrait, the long-elusive city of Havana comes stirringly to life.
Author : Carolina Garcia-Aguilera
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1417801190
A fabled art masterpiece allegedly left behind in Castro's Cuba has Cuban-American P.I. Lupe Solano contemplating an undercover excursion into the deadly heart of out-of-bounds Havana. But when the murder of a shady business contact is followed by another criminally assisted death, Lupe is searching for connections between the two homicides and her covert art-rescue mission.
Author : Robert Lawrence Holt
Publisher : Pacific Rim Press (CA)
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 093092617X
Author : Anastasia Amor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0991806212
Author : Alicia Castro,Ingrid Kummels,Manfred Schäfer
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780802199102
“This evocative memoir is a joyous, rhythmic history” of the 11-sister dance band that broke musical and cultural barriers in 1930s Cuba and beyond (Publishers Weekly). In the 1930s, Havana was the place to be for tourists, ex-pats, celebrities, and excitement-seekers. Nights were filled with drinking, dancing, romance, and the roar of infectious music spilling from cafés into the streets. It was a time and place immortalized by Hemingway, and a macho mecca where only men took the stage. That is until Alicia Castro, a thirteen-year-old greengrocer’s daughter, picked up a saxophone and led her sisters into the limelight. With infectious melodies and saucy lyrics, the Sisters Castro—professionally known as Anacaona—became a dance-band of irresistible force. In her jubilant memoir, Queens of Havana, Alicia Castro tells of her incredible rise beyond her native city, to international stardom—swinging alongside legends from Dizzy Gillespie and Celia Cruz to Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. In an age that insisted women be seen and not heard, Alicia Castro and her unstoppable sisters grabbed the world by the ears and got it dancing to their beat. At eighty-seven-years old, Alicia’s stories are intoxicating and gloriously punctuated with more than 100 vintage photos, posters, and other memorabilia in a book that “reverberates with exotic echoes of a fabulous long-ago era” (Publishers Weekly).
Author : Louise Fuller
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488044793
A scorching encounter in the Cuban heat… Now she’s carrying her boss’s baby! The wild vibrancy of Kitty’s new home in Havana must be infectious. Why else would the naturally cautious rum distiller have succumbed to the sudden desire to seize one night with a stranger? But if it’s shocking to learn that César is actually her powerful, elusive boss, it’s nothing compared to Kitty’s latest bombshell—she’s pregnant! Lose yourself in this sparkling pregnancy romance!
Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781904738893
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde.
Author : Chanel Cleeton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399586699
A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK “A beautiful novel that's full of forbidden passions, family secrets and a lot of courage and sacrifice.”—Reese Witherspoon After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity—and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution... Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest—until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary... Miami, 2017. Freelance writer Marisol Ferrera grew up hearing romantic stories of Cuba from her late grandmother Elisa, who was forced to flee with her family during the revolution. Elisa's last wish was for Marisol to scatter her ashes in the country of her birth. Arriving in Havana, Marisol comes face-to-face with the contrast of Cuba's tropical, timeless beauty and its perilous political climate. When more family history comes to light and Marisol finds herself attracted to a man with secrets of his own, she'll need the lessons of her grandmother's past to help her understand the true meaning of courage.