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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her against Hitler’s deadly ideology of Aryan purity. But as she grows, it becomes more and more difficult to keep Lilith hidden...Havana, 1958: Lilith has few memories of her mother or her childhood in Germany. But as the flames...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Cuando la fallida invasi�on de Bah�ia de Cochinos en 1961 solidifica el poder de Castro en Cuba, la familia de Cumba, de doce a�nos, toma la dif�icil decisi�on de enviarlo solo a la Florida. Ante la idea de vivir en otro pa�is por s�i mismo, Cumba intenta recordar el sonido del clarinete de su padre, el olor del perfume de lavanda de su madre. La vida en Estados Unidos presenta toda una nueva serie de desaf�ios. Perdido en un mar de...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the...
Author
Language
English
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Publisher's description: In 1962, at the age of eleven, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba, his parents left behind. His life until then is the subject of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a wry, heartbreaking, intoxicatingly beautiful memoir of growing up in a privileged Havana household -- and of being exiled from his own childhood by the Cuban revolution. That childhood, until his world changes, is as joyous and troubled as...
86) Ivory pearl
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Set in Cuba's Sierra Maestra in the 1950s, in the days leading up to the Revolution--Manchette's unfinished masterpiece with a fearless female protagonist. Four of the ten titles in Jean-Patrick Manchette's celebrated 1970s cycle of hard-boiled novels, which the author originally dubbed neo-polars, or "neo-crime novels," have now appeared in English translation. Manchette is beginning to have a significant following among English-language readers,...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ernesto Che Guevara was a voyager-and thus a letter writer-for his entire adult life. The letters collected in I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 range from letters home during his Motorcycle Diaries trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959 (from which the book's title comes), from the most personal to the intensely political, revealing someone who not only thought deeply...
88) Cartas de Cuba
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"La inspiradora historia de una joven judía que escapa de Polonia para rehacer su vida en Cuba, mientras trabaja para rescatar al resto de su familia. La situación se está poniendo terrible para los judíos en Polonia en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El padre de Esther ha huido a Cuba y ella es la primera en seguir sus pasos y reencontrarse con él en la isla. Vivir separada de su querida hermana es desgarrador, por lo que Esther promete...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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 on the infamous Mariel boatlift. When Edel was nine, Fidel...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espa�nol
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Berl�in, 1931: La joven poeta Ally Keller da a luz a solas a Lilith, una ni�na mestiza. Mientras los Nazis ascienden al poder, Ally sabe que debe mantener a su beb�e oculta para protegerla de la ideolog�ia de la raza aria promovida por Hitler. Pero a medida que Lilith crece, cada vez resulta m�as dif�icil protegerla... Hasta que un d�ia Ally decide poner en marcha un plan desesperado para enviar a su hija a un lugar seguro al otro lado...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
agosto 2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Un viaje al corazón de la Cuba contemporánea que convoca a los fantasmas del oscuro pasado revolucionario de la isla. Por escribir un poema a los dieciocho años en Cuba, Néstor Díaz de Villegas fue acusado por la Seguridad del Estado de ser un "diversionista ideológico" y condenado a seis años en un campo de trabajos forzados, de donde saldrá en 1979 rumbo a Miami. Treinta y siete años después, el autor regresa a la isla con la perspicacia...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Baseball has been as much of a national pastime to Cuba as it has to the U.S., due in no small part to Fidel Castro's love of the game. This book chronicles the central role Castro played in transforming the sport from professional to amateur status in the small island country, which has produced dozens, if not hundreds, of baseball stars.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Sergio, through his life following the departure of his wife, parents and friends in the wake of the Bay of Pigs incident. Alone in a brave new world, Sergio observes the constant threat of foreign invasion while chasing young women all over Havana before finally meeting Elena, a young virgin girl he seeks to mold into the image of his ex-wife, but at what cost to himself?
Author
Series
Havana mystery volume 5
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"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 information she has. Could her mother still be alive? Thirty-three...
96) El comandante del pueblo: una novela basada en la vida de Camilo Cienfuegos y su misteriosa muerte
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"Camilo Cienfuegos fue un carismático revolucionario que se hizo amigo de Fidel Castro cuando empezaron las protestas para derrocar la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista. Siempre fiel a los ideales de la Revolución, Cienfuegos luchó al lado de Fidel, Raúl y el Che Guevara, y llegó a ganarse la simpatía del pueblo cubano gracias a su humildad y franqueza. Tras ganar varias batallas, la rivalidad entre Camilo y Fidel se fue acentuando y sus ideales...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Reckoning offers the first rounded account of the rise and fall of the Second Slavery—largescale plantation slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil, Cuba and the US South. Robin Blackburn shows how a fusion of industrial capitalism and transatlantic war and revolution turbo-charged racial oppression and the westwards expansion of the United States. Blackburn identifies the new territories, new victims and new battle cries of the Second Slavery....
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