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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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"Cuando visitamos a abuelo, lo ayudo a vender frutas, pregonando los nombres de cada una mientras caminamos: nuestros pasos repican como tambores, nuestras manos, cual maracas, agitan las brillantes siluetas de las frutas mientras cantamos...con ritmo 'Mango limon coco melon naranja toronja platano pina' ...Vivo lejos de abuelo, pero podemos cantar rimas de ida y vuelta entre nuestros dos paises, nuestros versos en papel vuelan como aves cantoras,...
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Language
English
Description
Forced from her home in postwar Paris, aspiring young writer Delphine Auber embarks on a journey to New York's Harlem, and then to Havana and Key West, in search of her father, whom she believes is famed luminary Ernest Hemingway.
"When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to embark on the journey she's long dreamed of: finding the father she has never...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
A Rima le encanta montar a caballo con la abuela y las mambisas, las valientes veteranas que lucharon durante las guerras de independencia en Cuba. Feministas de varios orígenes se han reunido en clubes de votación para exigir el sufragio y la igualdad de las mujeres, pero no todos quieren igualdad para todo el mundo... especialmente para alguien como Rima Marín. En los años 1920 en Cuba, los niños "ilegítimos" como ella eran intimidados y rechazados....
45) Cuba straits
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 22
Language
English
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Description
"The remarkable new novel in the Doc Ford series by New York Times-bestselling author Randy Wayne White. Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar. He prefers what dealers call HPC items-high-profile collectibles-but when he manages to obtain a collection of letters written...
46) Lady Be Good
Author
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Kitty Tessler is the winsome and clever only child of self-made hotel and nightclub tycoon Nicolas Tessler. Kitty may not have the same pedigree as the tennis club set she admires, but she still sees herself as every inch the socialite--spending her days perfecting her "look" and her nights charming all the blue-blooded boys who frequent her father's clubs. It seems like the fun will never end until Kitty's father issues a terrible ultimatum: she...
47) Kantika: a novel
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika--"song" in Ladino--follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way--a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood....
Author
Series
Harlequin Bianca volume 1407
Publisher
Harlequin Ibérica
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
El ardor de la vibrante ciudad de la Habana debía de ser contagioso. ¿Por qué si no sucumbió Kitty al repentino deseo de disfrutar de una noche con un desconocido? Sin embargo, por muy escandaloso que fuera descubrir que César era su poderoso y reservado jefe, no fue nada comparado con la otra sorpresa que esperaba a Kitty: se había quedado embarazada.
The wild vibrancy of Kitty's new home in Havana must be infectious. Why else would the naturally...
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
"She Sang Boleros is the outcome of suggestions by two of Cabrera Infante’s writer friends: Mario Vargas Llosa and Javier Marías. The former advised him to publish Ella cantaba boleros / She Sang Boleros as an independent narrative, instead of including it as a common thread in Tres tristes tigres / Three Trapped Tigers. For his part, Marías pointed out that the last chapter of La Habana para un infante difunto / Infante's Inferno was perfect...
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English
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"A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling...
51) Flor de arrabal
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
La emocionante historia de una mujer que supo luchar contra el destino para convertirse en una estrella del espect�aculo a principios del siglo XX. En el arrabal zaragozano donde viv�ia, pocos pensaban que Flor, aquella ni�na nacida en uno de sus hogares m�as humildes, estaba destinada a convertirse en una de las grandes figuras de los escenarios, primero en Espa�na y luego en toda Europa. Un camino dif�icil, sembrado de duras pruebas,...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
One night, while Dalia slept safely wrapped in her mother's cool silken sheets, her hair grew and grew. By the time the rooster crowed, her hair had "grown straight up to the sky, tall and thick as a Cuban royal palm tree." Her mother was amazed, and wondered what her daughter would do with her wondrous hair. As Dalia looked at the flowers blooming in the garden, an idea sprouted inside her. She decorated her hair with leaves from the forest and...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Alicia Solomon apenas recuerda algo de sus primeros años de vida. Solo sabe que apareció abandonada en una balsa, de muy pequeña, y que fue recogida por unos marineros en alta mar. Ahora, convertida en una experta en documentos antiguos, se enfrenta al mayor reto de su carrera: descifrar un enigmático manuscrito hallado en una misteriosa tumba indígena no muy lejos de La Habana; una tarea que se vuelve más peligrosa a medida que Alicia se da...
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