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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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Visiting the Cuban home of her husband, Anthony, Gail learns about Anthony's divided loyalties between his Revolution-supporting family and dissident writer friends, one of whom has a son who is part of a plot to assassinate a Cuban general.
4) Cuba
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Jake Grafton novels volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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A U.S. aircraft carrier launches a strike against Cuba after spies discover missiles with bacteriological warheads pointed at the U.S. The action comes amid a power struggle on the island in anticipation of Fidel Castro's imminent death.
5) Havana storm
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English
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While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea, Dirk Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitts children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The stone was believed to have been destroyed on the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898, which brings them both to Cuba...
6) Cuba libre
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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Bank robber Ben Tyler agrees to participate in a scheme to run guns into Cuba on the eve of the Spanish-American war in 1898, and once there meets and falls in love with Amelia Brown, the mistress of a wealthy American planter who has enough money to keep Ben and Amelia in style for a long time, if only they can figure out how to get it.
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2016.
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English
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Set in Berlin, New York, and Havana, this ambitious debut novel spans 70-plus years as two girls tell their gripping stories in alternating chapters. We meet Hannah Rosenthal in 1939 Berlin. A lively 11-year-old, she likes to roam the city with her best friend, Leo. But the Nazis-Leo and Hannah call them the Ogres-are closing in, forcing Jewish families like the Rosenthals to flee. Anna Rosen, also 11, lives in contemporary New York City with her...
9) Havana Bay
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Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
In this fourth book in Martin Cruz Smith's splendid series, an amiable Irish American gangster explains to Arkady Renko what he and the other 84 wanted Americans hiding out in Cuba do with themselves. "We try to stay alive. Useful. Tell me, Arkady, what are you doing here?" "The same," says Renko--and it's true. His life as a Russian cop has become so bleak and lonely that he takes any opportunity to shake things up, even spending his own savings...
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"From the legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author of Plum Island and Night Fall, Nelson DeMille's blistering new novel features an exciting new character--US Army combat veteran Daniel "Mac" MacCormick, now a charter boat captain, who is about to set sail on his most dangerous cruise. Daniel Graham MacCormick--Mac for short--seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he's living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Doc Ford's old friend General Juan Rivera has gone into the business of smuggling high-profile collectibles, but when he manages to obtain a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 1953 and 1963 to a secret girlfriend, it's not a matter of money anymore. Rivera has stumbled way out of his depth. Those letters contain a secret that someone cannot allow to be made public. A lot happened between Cuba and the U.S. in those years. Many men...
12) Metro Girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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A thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot nights, cold-blodded murder, sunken treasure, a woman with a chassis built for speed, and one very good, very sexy NASCAR driver who's along for the ride.