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Author
Publisher
Random House Spanish
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Los quince años de destierro que José Martí pasó en Estados Unidos le proporcionaron una perspectiva que abarca tanto el norte como el sur del hemisferio, una visión reflejada en su ensayo "Nuestra América." La selección de textos de este volumen imprime a "lo nuestro" martiano, un giro contemporáneo que incluye a la comunidad hispanoamericana en los Estados Unidos, personificada en Martí durante un período"--WorldCat.org.
2) Heat
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
220 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Free-spirited Dottie Perez is leaving Cuba for America, her head filled with dreams of movies, mascara and dates with John Wayne. Strait-laced Juan Perez is headed for a reunion with Carmela, the wife he hasn't seen in 20 years. But when an overworked immigration officer mistakes Dottie and Juan for husband and wife, the stage is set for a merry marital mix-up, and some very unpredictable romances.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Reina Castillo is [an] alluring young woman whose beloved brother is serving a death sentence for a crime that shocked the community: throwing a baby off a bridge--a crime for which Reina secretly blames herself. With her brother's death, though devastated and in mourning, Reina is finally released from her prison vigil. Seeking anonymity, she moves to a sleepy town in the Florida Keys where she meets Nesto Cadena, a recently exiled Cuban awaiting...
Author
Description
Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez-her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash...
7) Chiquita
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara/Santillana USA
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
550 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Description
In 1980, a rural Cuban family is torn apart during the Mariel Boat-lift. Uxbal Encarnación--father, husband, political insurgent--refuses to leave behind the revolutionary ideals and lush tomato farms of his sun-soaked homeland. His wife Soledad takes young Isabel and Ulises hostage and flees with them to America, leaving behind Uxbal for the promise of a better life. But instead of settling with fellow Cuban immigrants in Miami's familiar heat,...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Description
A wordless graphic novel in which twelve-year-old Marisol must adapt to a new life 1960s Brooklyn after her parents send her to the United States from Cuba to keep her safe during Castro's regime.
Author
Physical Desc
747 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Ildefonso Falcones nos propone un viaje a una época apasionante, teñida por los prejuicios y la intolerancia. Desde Sevilla hasta Madrid, desde el tumultuoso bullicio de la gitanería hasta los teatros señoriales de la capital, los lectores disfrutarán de un fresco histórico poblado por personajes que viven, aman, sufren y pelean por lo que creen justo. Fiel reflejo de unos hombres y mujeres que no agacharon la cabeza y que alzaron la voz para...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Cuba, 1936: When Estelita Rodriguez sings in a hazy Havana nightclub for the very first time, she is nine years old. From then on, that spotlight of adoration--from Havana to New York's Copacabana and then Hollywood--becomes the one true accomplishment no one can take from her. Not the 1933 Cuban Revolution that drove her family into poverty. Not the revolving door of husbands or the fickle world of film. Thirty years later, her young adult daughter,...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Pub
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
15 CDs (19 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the United States examines the role of South Florida's exile community in building a criminal empire as part of a plot to reclaim Cuba from the Castro regime.
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