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"In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as two women's pasts collide on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the SS Morro Castle. New York heiress Catherine Dohan seemingly has it all. There's only one problem. It's a lie. As soon as the Morro Castle leaves port, Catherine's past returns with a vengeance and threatens her...
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Havana mystery volume 2
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English
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Juan, a Cuban construction worker who has settled in Albuquerque, returns to Havana for the first time since fleeing Cuba by raft twenty years ago. He is traveling with his American wife, Sharon, and hopes to reconnect with Victor, his best friend from college-and, unbeknownst to Sharon, he also hopes to discover what has become of two ex-girlfriends, Elsa and Rosita. Juan is surprised to learn that Victor has become Victoria and runs a popular drag...
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Havana mystery volume 1
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English
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"Set in Havana during the Black Spring of 2003, a charming but poison-laced culinary mystery that reveals the darker side of the modern Revolution, complete with authentic Cuban recipes. Havana, Cuba, 2003: Matt, a San Diego journalist, arrives in Havana to marry his girlfriend, Yarmila, a 24-year-old Cuban woman whom he first connected with because of her food blog. But Yarmi isn't there to meet him at the airport. When he hitches a ride to her apartment,...
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"Cuban-born Mercedes Spivey and her American husband, Nolan, win a five-day cruise to Cuba. Although the circumstances surrounding the prize seem a little suspicious to Mercedes, Nolan's current unemployment and their need to revamp their marriage make the decision a no-brainer. Once aboard, Mercedes is surprised to see two people she met through her ex-boyfriend Lorenzo: former University of Havana professor Selfa Sagarra and down-on-his-luck Spanish...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Told with wry wit and keen insight, this entertaining and richly satisfying story about a fictionalized Fidel Castro-like octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with seeking revenge against the dictator--from the National Book Award finalist and author of "Dreaming in Cuban."
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HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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Three members of the National Revolutionary Police Force unit in Old Havana navigate social changes in their district while working to investigate an apparent suicide, a serial rapist, and a dead body tied up with designer drugs.
11) Murder in Havana
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Capital crimes series volume 18
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
12) Havana gold
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Mario Conde mysteries volume 2
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Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
13) Sacrificio
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"Rafa, an Afro-Cuban orphan from the provinces, moves to Havana with nothing to his name and no clue what his future will be or what he stands for (he doesn't even know his age-seventeen? eighteen?). He falls into a job as a waiter in a tiny makeshift tourist restaurant that the resilient, middle-aged Cecilia has created out of her backyard patio. Rafa is soon drawn into a web of bizarre, ever-shifting entanglements, first with Cecilia's older son...
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Pintail
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Detective Mike Ellis returns home after he is cleared in the death of a young boy while on vacation in Cuba, only to discover that his estranged wife, Hilary, is dead, and that he's the main suspect. Meanwhile, Inspector Ramirez, head of the Havana Major Crimes Unit, is dispatched to Ottawa to take custody of a Cuban priest apprehended by authorities while in possession of a laptop full of child pornography. Ramirez will uncover a web of deceit and...
15) Palmiche
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Español
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El autor de Los cinco nudos nos presenta su segunda novela que pone en primer plano los horrores y las tragedias del mundo acutal. Palmiche plantea pregunta que parecen no tener respuesta alguna, e incita emociones que amenazan con derrumbar la misma estructura de nuestra sociedad.
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"«Éste es mi recuerdo inaugural de La Habana: ir subiendo unas escaleras con escalones de mármol.» A medio camino entre la autobiografía y la ficción, en La Habana para un Infante Difunto un joven escritor recuerda su niñez y adolescencia en Cuba, desde su nacimiento en Oriente hasta su despertar sexual y sus vivencias en la ciudad de La Habana en la década de los cincuenta, antes del inicio de la etapa castrista. En esta novela magistral,...
17) Herejes
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Tusquets Editores
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©2013.
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Español
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In 1939, the S.S. Saint Louis spent several days anchored at Havana while waiting for the Cuban authorities to allow 900 Jewish refugees from Germany into their country. Confident that a painting by Rembrandt that had belonged to their family since the 17th century--and which they had smuggled on board the ship--would convince the Cubans to let them in, little Daniel Kaminsky and his uncle waited at the dock for their relatives to disembark. But the...
18) After the winter
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Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Le Monde Claudio's apartment faces a wall. Rising from bed, he sets his feet on the floor at the same time, to ground himself. Cecilia sits at her window, contemplating a cemetery, the radio her best companion. In parallel and entwining stories that move from Havana to Paris to New York City, no routine, no argument for the pleasures of solitude, can withstand our most human drive to find ourselves in another, and fall in love. And no depth of emotion...
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Dundurn
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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For Charlie Hillier, a posting to Cuba could be the perfect place to start his new life -- if he survives it. With his career stalled and the office abuzz about his soon-to-be-ex-wife's indiscretions, Ottawa bureaucrat Charlie Hillier is desperate for a change. So when the chance at a posting to the Canadian embassy in Havana comes up, he jumps at it, grateful to get as far away as he can from his ex and his dead-end job at Foreign Affairs headquarters....
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Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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La gran novela p̤stuma de Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Con esta novela, digna sucesora de Tres tristes tigres y La Habana para un infante difunto, culmina el fresco de novelas en las que Guillermo Cabrera Infante retrat̤ La Habana prerrevolucionaria como solo pod̕a hacerlo un enamorado de la ciudad. La trama cuenta una pasi̤n entre una adolescente arrolladora y un cr̕tico de cine que le saca unos cuantos ąos, pero el tema no es la corrupci̤n...
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