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Frías, Carlos.

Summary: Carlos Frías, award-winning journalist and the US-born son of Cuban exiles, grew up hearing stories about the homeland of his parents. Sent to Cuba by his newspaper when the country began to close to the foreign press in August 2006, Frías embarked on the journey of his life -- a secret twelve day trip to the land of his parents. That experience led to this evocative, dramatic and unforgettable...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: C.A. Press, Penguin Group 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH FRI

Ojito, Mirta.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OJITO, MIRTA OJI

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...

Format: text

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Anders, Gigi.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ANDERS, GIGI AND

Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina.

Summary: A baby develops an inherited disease which requires a bone-marrow transplant from the mother. But no one knows the mother, the baby having been illegally adopted. PI Lupe Solano, the daughter of upper-class Cuban immigrants, agrees to search for her and in the process discovers a racket in babies from Cuba and a murder. A first novel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta Pub. 2002

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH GAR

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Rodriguez, Edel

Summary: "A stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RODRIGUEZ, EDEL ROD

Omoth, Tyler

Summary: "Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Cuban immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 OMO

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOV

Eire, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 EIR

Parra, Jessica

Summary: Following her sister's disastrous quinceañera and her mother's sudden passing, sixteen-year-old Castillo strives to regain control of her life, but when she books a job to plan another quinceañera she finds her carefully devised plans unraveling.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Ariosto, David

Summary: "An exploration of Cuba's Cold War mindset and a people in the throes of transition, with tales of run-ins with spies, secret backrooms, and empty grocery shelves. Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump is in the White House. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never been more uncertain. But those who look close enough realize the blueprints for the island's next revolution may be etched in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B ARIOSTO ARI

Bardach, Ann Louise.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 BAR

Summary: Tells the story of ninety-one-year-old Cuban-American singer-songwriter, Angela Alvarez.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MIS

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...

Format: text

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Engle, Margarita

Summary: While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ENG

Alonso, Nathalie

Summary: "Magaly enjoys the yummy Cuban food her Abuela has been cooking since arriving from Havana, but when Magaly's sweater goes missing, she discovers that Abuela is making ropa vieja for dinner. Old clothes for dinner? Yuck! Magaly needs to hide the rest of her clothes before her family eats them up. Endnotes feature other imaginative names of food around the world, facts about Cuba, Spanish...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALO

Labrecque, Ellen

Summary: "Viva la revolucion! Find out how Che Guevara--a doctor turned communist leader and much more than a face on a T-shirt--ended up paying the ultimate price for his cause. His very image has become associated with a spirit of rebellion, but Ernesto Guevara--known around the world simply as Che--didn't dream of becoming a revolutionary. Author Ellen Labrecque takes readers on a journey through...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUE

Behar, Ruth

Summary: Estrella learns about her Cuban and Jewish heritage as she helps her aunt move from her Miami apartment to an assisted living community.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEH

Engle, Margarita

Summary: Told in alternating voices, determined to make a difference and heal from their troubled pasts, teens Ana and Leandro fight to protect California wildlife and the endangered puma.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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