Dovalpage, Teresa

Summary: "Padrino, a former detective on the Cuban police force, has retired and found a new, happy life as a Santeria priest. But he is drawn back in for a murder investigation when his goddaughter, Rosita, who works at the local cemetery, recognises one of the bodies that crosses her embalming table. It will cost Padrino more than he expects to untangle everyone's lies and track down the killer"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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

Engle, Margarita

Summary: "Cuando visitamos a abuelo, lo ayudo a vender frutas, pregonando los nombres de cada una mientras caminamos: nuestros pasos repican como tambores, nuestras manos, cual maracas, agitan las brillantes siluetas de las frutas mientras cantamos...con ritmo 'Mango limón coco melón naranja toronja plátano piña' ...Vivo lejos de abuelo, pero podemos cantar rimas de ida y vuelta entre nuestros dos...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, un sello editorial de la División Infantil de Simon & Schuster 2021

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH ENG

Dovalpage, Teresa

Summary: " In 2019, newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba to care after her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes's life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes was a little girl. Returning to Cuba revives Mercedes's hopes of finding her mother as she attempts to piece together the few scraps of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOV

Dovalpage, Teresa

Summary: "Newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba in 2019 to care for her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes's life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes was a little girl. Returning to Cuba revives Mercedes's hopes of finding her mother as she attempts to piece together the few scraps of information...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024

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

Engle, Margarita

Summary: "Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardín secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracán derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados...Soleida huye sola a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023

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

Kurlansky, Mark

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9 KUR