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  Telex from Cuba

  by Rachel Kushner

  Rachel Kushner has written 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. The first novel to tell the story of the Americans who were driven out in 1958, this is a masterful debut. Young Everly Lederer and K. C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the... (more)
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  The Red Umbrella

  by Christina Gonzalez

  The Red Umbrella is the moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan—an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro's revolution.   In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía Álvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to... (more)
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  Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder

  by Gus Russo

  A groundbreaking new reporting of the historical drama linking the Kennedys and the Castros that sheds new light on the JFK assassination. Using breakthrough reporting and interviews with long-silent sources, Russo and coauthor Stephen Molton have crafted a dramatic retelling of the time before, during, and after the Kennedy killing. The book centers on the two opposed sets of brothers—the Kennedys and the... (more)
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  Havana Nocturne

  How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution

  by T. J. English

  In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—the old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars, and flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar and often romanticized, but little understood. In Havana Nocturne , T. J. English offers a riveting, multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution, and international conflict... (more)
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  Killing Castro

  by Lawrence Block

  First published under a pen name in 1961, this early thriller by MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block tells of five Americans dispatched to Cuba with a deadly assignment---the assassination of Fidel Castro. Here's what a reviewer had to say on Amazon's site: Hard Case Crime has done it again, bringing us a 1961 pseudonymous thriller from Lawrence Block. Killing Castro focuses on one member of a ragtag ensemble cast... (more)
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  Fidel Castro: Biografía a dos voces

  by Ignacio Ramonet, Andrew Hurley

  Fidel Castro is perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times. A dictatorial pariah to some, he has become a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cuba over nearly half a century. Numerous attempts have been made to get Castro to tell his own story. But only now, in the twilight of his years, has he been... (more)
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  Dirk Pitt Adventures: Book 8

  Cyclops

  by Clive Cussler

  A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men -- Soviet cosmonauts. DIRK PITT discovers a shocking scheme: a covert group of U.S. industrialists has put a colony on the moon, a secret base they will defend at any cost. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba -- and only... (more)
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  In the Name of Salome

  by Julia Alvarez

  "The story of my life starts with the story of my country... ." Thus begins Julia Alvarez's epic fictional account of the real-life Salomé Ureña-the "Emily Dickinson of the Dominican Republic." Born in the 1850s, in a time of intense political repression and turmoil, Salomé's fervent patriotic poems turned her-at seventeen-into a national icon. In the Name of Salomé is equally the story of Salomé's daughter,... (more)
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  Dead Morn

  by Piers Anthony, Roberto Fuentes

  With humankind surviving underground in the twenty-fifth-century's last city, a courageous man journeys back in time into Cuba's history to try to alter the past and stop the worldwide conflagration that would leave Earth a nuclear wasteland. Reprint.
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  The Red Umbrella

  by Christina Gonzalez

  The Red Umbrella is the moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan—an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro's revolution.   In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía Álvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to... (more)
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  The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs

  by Jim Rasenberger

  A recounting of the Bay of Pigs Crisis drawing upon the author’s father’s connection to the events as they played out.
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  By John Paul Rathbone: The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon [Audiobook]

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  After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro's Regime and Cuba's Next Leader

  by Brian Latell

  This is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of the extraordinary Castro brothers and the impending dynastic succession of Fidel's younger brother Raul. Brian Latell, the CIA analyst who has followed Castro since the sixties, gives an unprecedented view into Fidel and Raul's remarkable relationship, revealing how they have collaborated in policy making, divided responsibilities, and resolved disagreements for... (more)
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  Self-Esteem Revolutions in Children: Understanding and Managing the Critical Transitions in Your Child's Life

  by Thomas W. Phelan

  In Self-Esteem Revolutions In Children, Thomas Phelan describes "self-esteem revolutions" as the sweeping changes that youngsters experience in the foundations of self-respect as they mature. These "revolutions" include the transition from self-esteem based simply on unconditional parental love to self-esteem that is based on the conditional acceptance of other people, as well as based on competence. Another... (more)
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  Conspiracy in Camelot: The Complete History of the Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

  by Jerome A. Kroth

  On the 40th anniversary of one of the most important events in American history comes Conspiracy in Camelot: the complete history of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a dazzling, information-packed volume from New York’s Algora Publishers. Conspiracy in Camelot is a thoroughgoing analysis of the most relevant evidence uncovered and released by the government over the last 40 years, and a... (more)
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  Crossfire

  The Plot That Killed Kennedy

  by Jim Marrs

  "The big daddy of the conspiracy books on the JFK assassination, and one that can't be taken lightly. A sheer tour de force that may be the final word until 2039--when government files on the case can be unlocked."--Kirkus Reviews.
• Who Shot Jfk?: A Guide to the Major Conspiracy TheoriesBob Callahan, Mark Zingarelli

  

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  Who Shot Jfk?: A Guide to the Major Conspiracy Theories

  by Bob Callahan

  A guide to all of the major conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of J.F.K. provides possible answers to the vexing questions associated with this puzzling crime. National ad/promo. Tour.
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  Nate Perkins Live!

  by LTC (Ret) Nathaniel William Perkins

  NATE PERKINS LIVE! is a compiliation of six talk radio shows, including a DVD of four commericals, and info-commercial and photographs of family, friends, military comrades and mentors, newspaper and magazine articles about Perkins, information technology and businesses he created. The six talk shows entail Perkins' philosophy regarding education, employment, politics, the military and community. We're at... (more)
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  By Heart/De Memoria: Cuban Women's Journeys In and Out of Exile

  by María de los Angeles Torres

  In this moving account of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath, eleven women who lived through it as children or young adults recall the events of the last forty years. In Torres's words, "This book, which began in Miami, looking toward the island, ends on the island as it gazes toward the exile community." These poets, artists and scholars represent each post-revolution exile generation. Some left Cuba in the... (more)
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  The Ghosts of Guantanamo Bay

  by K. R. Jones

  In 1959, communist Fidel Castro assumed power of the island-nation of Cuba, but not before three of Havana's largest casino owners pooled resources to hide their fortunes on the American base. Nearly forty years later, Marine Captain Adam Claiborne and his wife Audrey arrive in Guantanamo Bay for a two-year tour of duty, completely unaware of its strangely eclectic society and turbulent past. Drug smuggling,... (more)