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2) Cuba
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Describes the history and culture of Cuba, including its fight for independence; its economy, politics, human rights, international relations, and arts and recreation; and Fidel Castro's rise to power.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
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Description
In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued—through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country’s future. Meanwhile,...
Author
Series
Evergreen black cat book volume B-177
Publisher
M.R. Press; distributed by Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
The people of Cuba struggled against immense odds to emerge victorious from years of brutal dictatorship and poverty in 1959. This is Che Guevara's classic eyewitness account of the transformation of a country and also the transformation of Che himself - from a troop doctor to a revolutionary leader, who would become one of the greatest icons of the 20th century. Following the phenomenally successful film adaptation of The Motorcycle Diaries, two...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Covering popular culture, the economy, and Cuban politics, veteran reporter Reese Erlich combines original photography with on-the-ground reporting from Havana and Miami. He explores Cuba's strained history with the US, the power of the Cuba Lobby and offers a fresh look at the island nation nearly 50 years after their historic Revolution to create a tableau that is at once moving and informative.--from publisher description.
6) October fury
Author
Publisher
J. Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
" ... a U.S. Navy officer who served on one of the ships involved reveals the startling truth behind the single most harrowing moment of the Cold War."--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Zed Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Providing the definitive oral history of the Cuban revolution, tells the powerful story of Cuba's struggle for liberation from the Batista dictatorship, its transition to socialism, and its evolving relationship with the rest of Latin American and the Caribbean. Drawing on a vast array of original testimonies, including interviews with more than seventy Cuban officials and former combatants, Dirk Kruijt examines the pivotal role of veterans and the...
12) Live by night
Author
Series
Coughlin novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world.Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Description
Coming of age in mid-1950s Cuba where the local sugar and nickel production are controlled by American interests, Everly Lederer and KC Stites observe the indulgences and betrayals of the adult world and are swept up by the revolt led by Fidel and Raúl Castro.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Modern Cuba comes alive in a vibrant portrait of a group of families's varied journeys in one community over the last twenty years. Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous challenges...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Rosa knows how to heal sickness with medicines made from wild plants, but with a price on her head for helping the rebels, she dare not go out in the open. Instead, she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and leadership of Dictator Fidel Castro focusing on the revolution, the takeover, and how citizens lived under his rule. Also examines Cuba's economy, relationships with other nations, and political prisoners.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Nearly half a century after his death, Ernesto "Che" Guevara remains a compelling and controversial figure. He was an original social theorist, and many of his writings attest to an innovative interpretation of various concepts and commitments central to Marxist thought. This is one of the first works to comprehensively consider his contribution to social and political theory for a student audience. Firstly, the book provides thorough and reliable...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money - she was a favorite in the cigar factory where she worked as a lettora - and for love, spinning gossamer tales out of her own past for the benefit of friends, neighbors, and family. But now, like a modern-day Scheherazade, she will be asked to tell one last story so that eight women can keep both hope and themselves alive. Cuba, 1963. Hurricane Flora, one of the deadliest hurricanes in recorded history,...
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As a U.S.-born journalist who has called Havana home for almost a quarter century, Mark Frank has observed in person the best days of the revolution, the fall of the Soviet bloc, the great depression of the 1990s, the stepping aside of Fidel Castro, and the reforms now being devised by his brother. In Cuban Revelations, Frank offers a first-hand account of daily life in Cuba at the turn of the twenty-first century, the start of a new and dramatic...