Download or read book Havana Heat written by Darryl Brock and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First Nebraska paperback printing"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book Havana Heat written by Robert Lawrence Holt and published by Pacific Rim Press (CA). This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Havana Heat written by Carolina Garcia-aguilera and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miami P.I. Lupe Solano overhears a conversation and finds herself drawn into a hunt for a legendary masterpiece, the eighth Unicorn Tapestry, a piece of art that someone is willing to kill for.
Download or read book Havana Heat written by Anastasia Amor and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Havana Heat written by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fabled art masterpiece allegedly left behind in Castro's Cuba has Cuban-American P.I. Lupe Solano contemplating an undercover excursion into the deadly heart of out-of-bounds Havana. But when the murder of a shady business contact is followed by another criminally assisted death, Lupe is searching for connections between the two homicides and her covert art-rescue mission.
Download or read book Havana Heat written by Felicia Cummings and published by eXtasy Books. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say Teresa Moreno was a wild child, since the rich get to do as they please, but some things were forbidden to Teresa, like the right to love. She was young, rich, and the most beautiful Latina girl Carmine Castanos had ever seen, but he was merely her bodyguard. What right had he to fall in love with her? From the moment they met, eyes ablaze with heat and mystery, they were destined to be together, at all costs. For him, he had never had a woman love him as deeply as Teresa did, and for her, he was the first guy to actually be able to make her quiver just by hearing her name roll off his delectable lips. The fire that was ignited between them could not be easily extinguished, as her powerful father, Antonio Moreno, tried to do. He had his own plans for his baby girl and they did not include the hired help. After a lifetime of being daddy's little girl, Teresa makes the decision to run away, leaving the mobster life she had been groomed to lead and start a new life with the man she loved. As long as she had Carmine by her side, her escape from Hell would be well worth the emotional burns that would mark her skin for a lifetime.
Download or read book Havana Heat written by Robert Lawrence Holt and published by Pacific Rim Press (CA). This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sleuthing Ethnicity written by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Download or read book The Havana Habit written by Gustavo Perez Firmat and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U.S. coast. Yet the island’s influences on America’s cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In the engaging and wide-ranging Havana Habit, writer and scholar Gustavo Pérez Firmat probes the importance of Havana, and of greater Cuba, in the cultural history of the United States. Through books, advertisements, travel guides, films, and music, he demonstrates the influence of the island on almost two centuries of American life. From John Quincy Adams’s comparison of Cuba to an apple ready to drop into America’s lap, to the latest episodes in the lives of the “comic comandantes and exotic exiles,” and to such notable Cuban exports as the rumba and the mambo, cigars and mojitos, the Cuba that emerges from these pages is a locale that Cubans and Americans have jointly imagined and inhabited. The Havana Habit deftly illustrates what makes Cuba, as Pérez Firmat writes, “so near and yet so foreign.”
Download or read book Cuban American Fiction in English written by M. Delores Carlito and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography contains listings and annotations of all novels, anthologies, and short story collections written by the first, 1.5, and second generations of Cuban Americans. This work also contains listings and annotations of all secondary works dealing with this fiction, as well as related memoirs, autobiographies and interviews.
Download or read book Hollywood in Havana written by Megan Feeney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the turn of the twentieth century through the late 1950s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn, John Wayne, and Marlon Brando. In fact, Hollywood was seemingly everywhere in pre-Castro Havana, with movie theaters three to a block in places, widely circulated silver screen fanzines, and terms like “cowboy” and “gangster” entering Cuban vernacular speech. Hollywood in Havana uses this historical backdrop as the catalyst for a startling question: Did exposure to half a century of Hollywood pave the way for the Cuban Revolution of 1959? Megan Feeney argues that the freedom fighting extolled in American World War II dramas and the rebellious values and behaviors seen in postwar film noir helped condition Cuban audiences to expect and even demand purer forms of Cuban democracy and national sovereignty. At the same time, influential Cuban intellectuals worked to translate Hollywood ethics into revolutionary rhetoric—which, ironically, led to pointed critiques and subversions of the US presence in Cuba. Hollywood in Havana not only expands our notions of how American cinema was internalized around the world—it also broadens our view of the ongoing history of US-Cuban interactions, both cultural and political.
Download or read book Last Seasons in Havana written by César Brioso and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 SABR Baseball Research Award Last Seasons in Havana explores the intersection between Cuba and America’s pastime from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, when Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. César Brioso takes the reader through the triumph of the revolution in 1959 and its impact on professional baseball in the seasons immediately following Castro’s rise to power. Baseball in pre?Castro Cuba was enjoying a golden age. The Cuban League, which had been founded in 1878, just two years after the formation of the National League, was thriving under the auspices of organized baseball. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, players from the Major Leagues, Minor Leagues, and Negro Leagues had come to Cuba to play in the country’s wholly integrated winter baseball league. Cuban teams had come to dominate the annual Caribbean Series tournament, and Havana had joined the highest levels of Minor League Baseball, fielding the Havana Sugar Kings of the Class AAA International League. Confidence was high that Havana might one day have a Major League team of its own. But professional baseball became one of the many victims of Castro’s Communist revolution. American players stopped participating in the Cuban League, and Cuban teams moved to an amateur, state?sponsored model. Focusing on the final three seasons of the Cuban League (1958–61) and the final two seasons of the Havana Sugar Kings (1959–60), Last Seasons in Havana explores how Castro’s rise to power forever altered Cuba and the course of a sport that had become ingrained in the island’s culture over the course of almost a century.
Download or read book Raining over Havana written by Julio Travieso Serrano and published by RUTH. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without any doubt "Raining over Havana" by Julio Travieso Serrano is a faithful portrait of Cuban life in the 1990's. Here we may find characters who move on the margins of Havana society: prostitutes, pimps, procurers, all of them marked by pain and despair but, at the same time, full of love, passion, humor and irony, and always fighting to subsist. Their existential conflicts and psychology have been carefully delineated by the author. Havana, dirty, chaotic, but always beautiful, impregnated by magic and mystery, could well be the main character of this novel that will definitely entrap readers, because from its initial pages they will want to know whether pain or love, life or death triumphs.
Download or read book The Last Brothel of Havana written by Jean Michel Mikad and published by Jean Michel Mikad. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the heart of 1950s Havana, where whispers of revolution stir the air, and enter "The Last Brothel of Havana," a place shrouded in mystery and intrigue. This gripping historical thriller unfolds in a city pulsating with the promise of change, capturing a crucial moment in Cuban history. Alejandro, an idealistic rebel with a crucial mission, must infiltrate Havana's most infamous brothel. The brothel, managed by the enigmatic and captivating Lucía, is a nexus of hidden agendas and clandestine meetings. As Alejandro delves deeper, he finds himself entwined with Lucía in a dangerous dance of espionage and deception. Together, they navigate a perilous path that tests their loyalties and forges an unexpected bond. Set against the backdrop of a Cuba on the brink of revolution, "The Last Brothel of Havana" weaves a tale of suspense, emotional turmoil, and moral quandaries. Alejandro and Lucía, bound by a shared purpose, face betrayals and threats that challenge their beliefs and desires. Their journey reveals the intricate web of secrets that could ignite a revolutionary fervor or smother it entirely. As tensions mount and the stakes rise, Alejandro and Lucía stand at the forefront of a decisive moment. Their choices and actions echo through the vibrant streets of Havana, leading to a climax filled with stunning revelations. The novel masterfully captures the essence of a city and a people caught in the throes of change, highlighting the sacrifices made in the name of freedom. "The Last Brothel of Havana" is not just a story of political intrigue; it is an exploration of the human heart in times of conflict. It is a compelling narrative that promises to captivate readers with its rich portrayal of a pivotal era in Cuban history. This novel is a must-read for fans of historical fiction and anyone intrigued by the complex tapestry of Cuba's past.
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Download or read book The Essential Mystery Lists written by Roger M Sobin and published by Poisoned Pen Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in one place, Roger M. Sobin has compiled a list of nominees and award winners of virtually every mystery award ever presented. He has also included many of the “best of” lists by more than fifty of the most important contributors to the genre.; Mr. Sobin spent more than two decades gathering the data and lists in this volume, much of that time he used to recheck the accuracy of the material he had collected. Several of the “best of” lists appear here for the first time in book form. Several others have been unavailable for a number of years.; Of special note, are Anthony Boucher’s “Best Picks for the Year.” Boucher, one of the major mystery reviewers of all time, reviewed for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times. From these resources Mr. Sobin created “Boucher’s Best” and “Important Lists to Consider,” lists that provide insight into important writing in the field from 1942 through Boucher’s death in 1968.? This is a great resource for all mystery readers and collectors.; ; Winner of the 2008 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Nonfiction.
Download or read book Great Women Mystery Writers written by Elizabeth A. Blakesley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysteries are among the most popular books today, and women continue to be among the most creative and widely read mystery writers. This book includes alphabetically arranged entries on 90 women mystery writers. Many of the writers discussed were not even writing when the first edition of this book was published in 1994, while others have written numerous works since then. Writers were selected based on their status as award winners, their commercial success, and their critical acclaim. Each entry provides biographical information, a discussion of major works and themes, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with appendices and a selected, general bibliography. Public library patrons will value this guide to their favorite authors, while students will turn to it when writing reports.
