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The story of four strong-willed women of the del Pino family of Havana and of Brooklyn who are divided by conflicting political loyalties. La estoria de cuatro mujeres resueltos de el familia del pino de Havana y de Brooklyn que son dividido por fidelidade politicos diferente.

"A powerful, unsettling portrait of ordinary family life in Cuba, and masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned and bitter about the limited freedoms his country offers him. Mariana, the mother, is unwell and forced to relinquish her control over the home to her daughter, Maria, who has left school and is working as a chambermaid in one of the state-owned tourist hotels. The father, Armando, is a committed revolutionary...

Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez-her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash...

Streetwise New York detective Paul Devlin searches for his lover's missing aunt, a beloved doctor known for her work with the poor, in Castro's Cuba, delving deeply into the island's dangerous voodoo culture.

Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos, is a luminous work of fiction inspired by the real-life, 37-year friendship between two towering figures of the late 19th century, famed writer and humorist Mark Twain and legendary explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley.Hijuelos was fascinated by the Twain-Stanley connection and eventually began researching and writing a novel that used the scant historical record of their...

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.

Retired Army Ranger John Holliday and his friend Eddie travel to Cuba in search of Eddie's brother, who has vanished mysteriously. Soon they find themselves trying desperately to stop the shocking plot of a secet Templar cabal that has been growing for five hundred years. As the conspiracy tightens its iron grip around the corrupt and dying Castro regime, Holliday must find Eddie's brother before it is too late and the secret horror of what lies...

"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...

The story of the middle-aged Aguero sisters and how personal tragedy and the legacy of Castro's revolution affect one family's history and collective memory.