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Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Max Pauling, formerly of the CIA, has moved from Washington to New Mexico, but he is still a pilot of small planes. It seems that Cuba has first-rate medical research facilities. Max is hired to investigate, on behalf of Signal Labs, a probable situation of a German and American company combining to buy out the Cuban research on cancer drugs.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Master storyteller Pablo Medina's The Cigar Roller is a radiant novel recounting the life of Cuban master cigar roller Amadeo Terra. A proud and capricious man, tobacco has been the center of Amadeo's life, the source of his passion. For his considerable talents with the leaves he had been forgiven a great number of sins. An imperious patriarch of enormous appetites, Amadeo now lies in a Florida hospital after a stroke looks back at his previously...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1934, the ultimate vacation becomes a fight for survival as the secrets of two women's pasts collide aboard a luxury cruise liner on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the tragedy of the SS Morro Castle. New York heiress Catherine Dohan seemingly has it all. There's only one problem. It's a lie. As soon as the Morro Castle leaves...
5) Havana
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Sent by the CIA to 1950s Cuba to eliminate young revolutionary Fidel Castro, ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger finds himself confronting outdated ideals about honor and duty as the world around him erupts into early Cold War violence
10) North of Havana
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 5
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Florida marine biologist Doc Ford receives a call for help from a friend whose boat strayed into Cuban waters. Equipped with money for fines, bills and bribes, Ford arrives in Havana with his girlfriend and as he searches for his friend becomes involved in a hunt for the coffin of Columbus.
11) White shadow
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The murder of mob boss Charlie Wall in Tampa, Florida sparks a scramble among local cops, reporters, and former associates to discern the truth about his death and the many secrets that marked his life.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in Havana during the Black Spring of 2003, a charming but poison-laced culinary mystery that reveals the darker side of the modern Revolution, complete with authentic Cuban recipes. Havana, Cuba, 2003: Matt, a San Diego journalist, arrives in Havana to marry his girlfriend, Yarmila, a 24-year-old Cuban woman whom he first connected with because of her food blog. But Yarmi isn't there to meet him at the airport. When he hitches a ride to her apartment,...
13) Hotel Cuba
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the terror of the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl Kahn and her lovestruck, impulsive younger sibling Frieda sail for America to join their sister in New York. But discriminatory new immigration laws bar their entry, and the young women are turned back at Ellis Island. With few options, Pearl and Frieda head for Havana, Cuba, convinced they will find a way to overcome this setback.
At first, life in...
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books/ Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy helps his father keep their very old car running as they make a trip to Havana for his newborn cousin's zero-year birthday. Includes author's note about cars in Cuba.
15) Carina Felina
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The trouble started when Pepe the parrot fell in love with . . . Carina Felina, a CAT! Hoping to win her paw, he invited her to his house for dinner. But within moments of arriving ― with a gobble and a gulp ― Carina swallowed that love-sick parrot whole! And he was just the appetizer! Carina Felina is an arrogant cat with an appetite so huge that she eats everything and everyone who crosses her path as she ambles through Havana--until a small...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some unpleasant changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations - a blatant example of discrimination. Forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin's Criminal Police, Bernie is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel. The discovery of two bodies - one a businessman and...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
If you try to assassinate your boss--even though brainwashed at the time--you must pay the price. To redeem himself James Bond is sent to kill one of the most lethal hit men in the world ... Paco "Pistols" Scaramanga. In the sultry heat of Jamaica, 007 infiltrates his target's criminal cooperative--only to find that Scaramanga's bullets are laced with snake venom. When the end comes, every shot will count.
Author
Series
Havana mystery volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Cuban-born Mercedes Spivey and her American husband, Nolan, win a five-day cruise to Cuba. Although the circumstances surrounding the prize seem a little suspicious to Mercedes, Nolan's current unemployment and their need to spice up their marriage make the decision a no-brainer. Once aboard, Mercedes is surprised to see two people she met through her ex-boyfriend Lorenzo- former University of Havana professor Selfa Segarra and down-on-his-luck Spanish...
19) Queen of bones
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Series
Language
English
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"Padrino, a former detective on the Cuban police force, has retired and found a new, happy life as a Santería priest. But he is drawn back in for a murder investigation when his goddaughter, Rosita, who works at the local cemetery, recognizes one of the bodies that crosses her embalming table. Meanwhile, an old flame of Rosita's, Juan, has returned to Cuba after fleeing by raft twenty years ago. He is with his American wife, Sharon, and has come...