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Engle, Margarita

Summary: In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom and suffrage. Includes historical note.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENG

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENG

Gratz, Alan

Summary: "Josef es un chico judío que vive en la Alemania nazi, Isabel es una chica cubana que se ve obligada a huir de su país después de las revueltas en contra del gobierno de Castro, en 1994, y Mahmoud es un muchacho que padece la guerra de Siria en 2015. Tres jóvenes distintos y una misión en común: huir de su país."--Publisher's description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Santillana 2018

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1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH FIC GRA

Gratz, Alan

Summary: Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRA

Guerra, Wendy

Summary: "A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she's an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn't quite matched its promise; instead it has stifled her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUE

Gratz, Alan

Summary: Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRA

Correa, Armando Lucas

Summary: Una novela inolvidable ambientada en el Berlín de la primavera de 1939, la Cuba pre- y postrevolucionaria y el Nueva York después del 11 de septiembre. Antes de que todo se desmoronara, Hannah Rosenthal y sus padres tenían una vida encantadora. Su familia, una de las más distinguidas en los altos círculos sociales berlineses, era admirada por amigos y vecinos. Ahora en 1939, Berlín se ha teñido...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Español 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC COR

Hunter, Stephen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION Hunter

Correa, Armando Lucas

Summary: Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places that once felt like home. Hannah and her best friend, Leo Martin, make a pact: whatever the future has in store for them, they'll meet it together....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION COR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Correa 2016

Lehane, Dennis

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: Working as a consigliere to the Bartolo crime family, traveling between Tampa and Cuba, former crime kingpin Joe Coughlin, who has everything -- money, power, anonymity and a beautiful mistress -- is forced to pay for his lifetime of sin when the dark truth of his past emerges.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEH

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEH

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction LeHane 2015

Leonard, Elmore

Summary: A novel on the Spanish-American War featuring adventurer Ben Tyler, an Arizona horse dealer. Just as he arrives in Cuba with a shipment of guns and horses, war breaks out. To get his money, he is sucked into fighting between Spain, the U.S. and Cuban revolutionaries seeking independence from both

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEO

Toutonghi, Pauls

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Born in Beirut in 1922, Marguerite Toutoungi lives a life of loss and sacrifice. She dreams of traveling to Europe and studying music at the Conservatoire de Paris but her family, and her society, hold her back. When she meets the son of a Cuban tobacco farmer at a formal dance, love transforms her life. Together with him, she flees across the Pacific Ocean. She's hoping for a new beginning....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOU

Ephron, Amy.

Summary: An American journalist is sent to 1890s Cuba to rescue from prison the daughter of an opponent of Spanish rule. The operation, which leads to love, is organized by a newspaper to raise support for war with Spain.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPH

Hijuelos, Oscar

Summary: Chronicles the sojourn of journalist-explorer Henry Stanley; his wife, the painter Dorothy Tennant; and Mark Twain, Stanley's longtime friend, as they head for Cuba in search of Stanley's father.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIJ

Fein, Louise

Summary: "A new historical drama from Daughter of the Reich bestselling author Louise Fein, about a London bookshop involved in an espionage network, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis, perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Pam Jenoff"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEI

Shaara, Jeff

Summary: "From the bestselling author comes the story of rising conflict between the super-powers that gripped the world, a global war that almost happened: The Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1961, the new president John F. Kennedy, inherited an ill-conceived, poorly executed invasion of Cuba that failed miserably and set in motion the events that put the U.S. and the Soviet Union on a collision course that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Correa, Armando Lucas

Summary: "Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her against Hitler's deadly ideology of Aryan purity. But as she grows, it becomes more and more difficult to keep Lilith hidden, so Ally sets in motion a dangerous and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC COR

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Correa

Kerr, Philip.

Summary: Berlin, 1934: The Nazis have secured the 1936 Olympiad for the city but are facing foreign resistance. Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S Olympic Committee, have connived to soft-pedal Nazi anti-Semitism and persuade America to participate despite a movement to boycott the games--with Brundage gaining government contracts worth millions in return. For Bernie Gunther, now the house...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KER

Lemmie, Asha

Summary: When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to embark on the journey she's long dreamed of: finding the father she has never known. But her quest--spanning from Paris to New York's Harlem, to Havana and Key West--is complicated by the fact that she believes him to be famed luminary Ernest Hemingway,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEM

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEM

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEM

Brock, Amber

Summary: Kitty Tessler is the winsome and clever only child of self-made hotel and nightclub tycoon Nicolas Tessler. Kitty may not have the same pedigree as the tennis club set she admires, but she still sees herself as every inch the socialite--spending her days perfecting her "look" and her nights charming all the blue-blooded boys who frequent her father's clubs. It seems like the fun will never end...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

McLain, Paula

Summary: "In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War and becomes drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in the devastating conflict. It's the adventure she's been looking for and her chance to prove herself a worthy journalist in a field dominated by men. But she also finds herself unexpectedly--and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McLain 2018

Vincent, E. Duke.

Summary: When Chicago mob insider Dante Amato is ordered to participate in plots against Castro and President Kennedy, he turns to his CIA agent brother for help.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook/Derby 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIN

Cleeton, Chanel

Summary: "At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's captivating new novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman-Evangelina Cisneros-who changed the course of history. A feud rages in Gilded Age New York City between newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cleeton 2021

Correa, Armando Lucas

Summary: Separated by time but united by sacrifice, four women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the fall of the Berlin Wall as they embark on journeys of self-discovery and find themselves to be living testaments to the power of maternal love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

Gratz, Alan

Summary: Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRA

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