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 KURDovalpage, 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 DOVCooke, Julia.
Summary: "Over a period of five years, beginning when Fidel Castro stepped down from his presidency after almost a half-century of reign, journalist Julia Cooke embedded herself in Cuba, gaining access to a dynamic Havana--one that she found populated with twenty-five-year-old Marxist philosophy students, baby-faced anarchists, children of the whiskey-drinking elite, Santera̕ trainees, pregnant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9123 COOMora, Gilles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9123 MORDovalpage, 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 DOVDovalpage, Teresa
Summary: Matt, a San Diego journalist, arrives in Havana to marry his girlfriend, Yarmila, a 24-year-old Cuban woman whom he first met through her food blog. But Yarmi isn't there to meet him at the airport, and when he hitches a ride to her apartment, he finds her lying dead in the bathtub. With Yarmi's murder, lovelorn Matt is immediately embroiled in a Cuban adventure he didn't bargain for. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOVDovalpage, Teresa
Summary: "Cuban-born Mercedes Spivey and her American husband, Nolan, win a cruise to Cuba. Once aboard, Mercedes is surprised to see two people she met through her ex-boyfriend Lorenzo: former University of Havana professor Selfa Segarra and down-on-his-luck Spanish writer Javier Jurado. When Selfa disappears on their first day at sea, Mercedes and Javier begin to wonder if their presence on the cruise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DOVDePalma, Anthony
Summary: "Modern Cuba comes alive in a vibrant portrait of a group of families's varied journeys in one community over the last twenty years. Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. Inhis new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 DEPEire, Carlos M. N.
Summary: A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 EIRChavarria, Daniel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAEngle, Margarita
Summary: A boy helps his father keep their very old car running as they make a trip to Havana for his newborn cousin's zero-year birthday. Includes author's note about cars in Cuba.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ENGDovalpage, 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 DOVSummary: Geoffrey Baer is the viewer's guide on a walking tour of Havana, meeting singers, dancers, chefs, and more, and focusing on people, architecture, culture, and history of the Cuba just re-opened to Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.2 WEE1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WEE
Hunter, Stephen
Summary: When Soviet intelligence takes Castro under its wing, the CIA's response is to send in ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger, and in Cuba, Earl finds himself up to his neck in treacherous ambiguity, where the old rules about honor and duty don't apply.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUNHunter, Stephen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION HunterTruman, Margaret
Summary: Former CIA agent Max Pauling agrees to fly medical supplies to Havana as a favor to an old friend, but his simple mission takes a deadly turn when Max's contact in Havana is found dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUSummary: A look at life and everyday struggles in Havana through three main stories -- when a woman dies in childbirth, the new father runs away; a lonely woman is courted by an older man, but can't forget her first love; a couple's relationship crumbles when they can't conceive a child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cine Cubano a Precios Muy Bajos 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAREstrada, Alfredo José.
Summary: Takes readers from the Plaza de Armas, the tree-lined square where Havana was founded by Spanish conquistadors in 1519, to the Malecon, the elegant boulevard along the shore where Fidel Castro rode a Soviet tank in triumph. Estrada reveals the essence of his native city through the events that shaped its fascinating history and the people who left their stamp on its cobblestoned streets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 ESTAtkins, Ace.
Summary: The murder of mob boss Charlie Wall in Tampa, Florida sparks a scramble among local cops, reporters, and former associates to discern the truth about his death and the many secrets that marked his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKBrock, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROWhite, Randy Wayne.
Summary: Florida marine biologist Doc Ford receives a call for help from a friend whose boat strayed into Cuban waters. Equipped with money for fines, bills and bribes, Ford arrives in Havana with his girlfriend and as he searches for his friend becomes involved in a hunt for the coffin of Columbus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHISummary: Castro at rally in Havana;(biased) narration indicates that summary trials and executions of Batista followers are under reconsideration; great indication of Castro's popular power in the years after the revolution
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959