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1) Cuba libre
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Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
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Description
An astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading up to Castro's revolution - a place that was a paradise for a time and for a few. Young Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom. When the cane fields start to burn, K.C. and Everly begin to discover the brutality that keeps the colony humming.
Author
Series
Albany cycle volume 8
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight. So begins Kennedy's tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany race riots, and the improbable rise of Fidel Castro.
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 18
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
6) Revolution
Author
Series
Cold War magic volume 2
Publisher
ACE
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In Cold War Berlin, American magician Karen O'Neil defeated the ghosts of Germany's past and sealed the breach that threatened the whole world, but in doing so she learned a terrible truth: Magic cannot be trusted. Despite her wariness of the new and growing powers she gained in Germany, Karen agrees to help an old friend and is drawn to Cuba, a world of opulence run by a corrupt government and ruthless, magic-obsessed mobsters. In Havana, while the...
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