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Book The Havana Sun

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  • Author : B. A. Carroll
  • Publisher : B. A. Carroll
  • Release : 2008-06-02
  • ISBN : 1438227515
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book The Havana Sun written by B. A. Carroll and published by B. A. Carroll. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cuban Expatriate, and Washington DC resident Zulma Ibanyez arrives home for her son, she finds the babysitter bound, and Lucas missing. This sets off a chain of events that hurls her into a frantic race against time and two governments to find him. Unsure, but suspecting the boys father Marcus Parrilla. A Minister in the Castro Regime, as the kidnapper. She must now risk everything to return to Cuba and retrieve her son before he succumbs to the symptoms of a life threatening illness, and facilitating the forced recruitment of an ex Navy pilot named Kyle Cordel. Set during present time, THE HAVANA SUN is about several things. The unshakable Love of a mother for a child, and of how the drastic actions we take, whether for good or bad, always have a ripple effect thats unpredictable. It is also about trust, betrayal and redemption. However, ultimately it shows how unwavering determination plus a little luck can sometimes make the impossible happen.

Book Our Place in the Sun

Download or read book Our Place in the Sun written by Robert Anthony Wright and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penned during the transition of power from Fidel Castro to Raúl Castro, Our Place in the Sun explores the Canadian-Cuban relationship from 1959 to the present day. The essays in this volume reflect upon the past but also explore the internal issues and external forces that will continue to influence the Canada-Cuba association in the years to come. Many of this volume's contributors draw upon newly declassified sources and original interviews, providing unique insight into the historical, economic, and political realities affecting the Canada-Cuba connection. Featuring twelve original essays by a variety of scholars as well as a short memoir by former Canadian Ambassador to Cuba, Mark Entwistle, this important interdisciplinary collection calls into question past understandings of the Canadian-Cuban relationship. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Canadian and Cuban history of the last half-century, and the dynamics of North American politics more broadly.

Book Next Year in Havana

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  • Author : Chanel Cleeton
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2021-03
  • ISBN : 0593337204
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Next Year in Havana written by Chanel Cleeton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK "A beautiful novel that's full of forbidden passions, family secrets and a lot of courage and sacrifice."--Reese Witherspoon After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution... Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest--until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary... Miami, 2017. Freelance writer Marisol Ferrera grew up hearing romantic stories of Cuba from her late grandmother Elisa, who was forced to flee with her family during the revolution. Elisa's last wish was for Marisol to scatter her ashes in the country of her birth. Arriving in Havana, Marisol comes face-to-face with the contrast of Cuba's tropical, timeless beauty and its perilous political climate. When more family history comes to light and Marisol finds herself attracted to a man with secrets of his own, she'll need the lessons of her grandmother's past to help her understand the true meaning of courage.

Book Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents

Download or read book Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Summary of Commerce of the Island of Cuba

Download or read book Monthly Summary of Commerce of the Island of Cuba written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Summary of Commerce of the Island of Cuba

Download or read book Monthly Summary of Commerce of the Island of Cuba written by United States. Division of Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cuba Review and Bulletin

Download or read book The Cuba Review and Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba

Download or read book Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba written by Adriana Méndez Rodenas and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon her return to Paris, Merlin expanded this into La Havane, an ambitious three-volume account of the political, social, and economic organization of the island. From the viewpoint of feminist and psychoanalytical theory, Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba explores the many ways in which issues of gender have contributed to Merlin's virtual absence from the canons of literature and from the discourses on Cuban national identity.

Book Havana

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  • Author : Joseph L. Scarpaci
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780807853696
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Havana written by Joseph L. Scarpaci and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised and redesigned, this book assesses nearly 500 years of urban development and planning in Havana, paying particular attention to the city's rich blend of Spanish-Cuban-Latin American-North American architecture and design.

Book Hubbell s Legal Directory for Lawyers and Businessmen

Download or read book Hubbell s Legal Directory for Lawyers and Businessmen written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The United States and Cuba

Download or read book The United States and Cuba written by Marifeli Pérez-Stable and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great power and a weaker, rival neighbor can eventually have normal relations. Prior to 1959, Cuba and the United States didn’t have a mutually beneficial and respectful relationship, and amid the Cold War, Cuba’s alliance with the Soviet Union made U.S.-Cuba normality even more elusive. What the United States and Cuba now face is relating to each other as normally as possible, a task made all the more difficult by the shadow of the Cold War. After 1989, regime change returned to the heart of U.S.-Cuba policy, a major obstacle for Washington-Havana dialogue. In turn, Cuban leaders have generally shirked their responsibility to do their part to ease the fifty-year enmity with the United States. This book systematically covers the background of U.S.-Cuban relations after the Cold War and explores tensions that extend into the twenty-first century. The author explores the future of this strained relationship under Obama's presidency and in a post-Castro Cuba.

Book The Cuba Review

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 550 pages

Download or read book The Cuba Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book CultureShock  Cuba

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  • Author : Mark Cramer
  • Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
  • Release : 2010-08-15
  • ISBN : 9814484261
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book CultureShock Cuba written by Mark Cramer and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CultureShock! Cuba offers an insight into a highly contradictory country, where there are more grey areas than black and white. Here is a balanced account of Cuba’s current realities, a useful guide for people who wish to visit or do business in Cuba. Learn from the locals how they survive in Cuba with the little they have. Find out how the importance of public good over individual right has helped take care of every single citizen in the country. More than just providing the practical information to help you settle into Cuba, the authors draw from their personal experiences to give a deeper understanding of the life and culture of these friendly, warm and straight-forward people. CultureShock! Cuba is your ultimate survival guide to this colourful country.

Book Cuba and the Night

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  • Author : Pico Iyer
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2011-10-05
  • ISBN : 0307764648
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Cuba and the Night written by Pico Iyer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba. "On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still, tonight."--Los Angeles Times.

Book The Book of Havana

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  • Author : Daniel Chavarria
  • Publisher : Comma Press
  • Release : 2018-06-21
  • ISBN : 1912697041
  • Pages : 133 pages

Download or read book The Book of Havana written by Daniel Chavarria and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a history teacher decides to throw out an old, threadbare Cuban flag, he doesn’t plan for the air of suspicion that quickly descends on him… A woman’s attempt to register ownership of her family home draws her into a bureaucratic labyrinth that requires a grasp of higher mathematics to fully comprehend… On the day of their graduation, a group of students spend the night drinking around the ‘Fountain of Youth’, ironically celebrating the bright future that doesn’t await them… The stories gathered in this anthology reflect the many complex challenges Havana’s citizens have had to endure as a result of their country’s political isolation – from the hardships of the ‘Special Period’, to the pitfalls of Cuba’s schizophrenic currency system, to the indignities of becoming a cheap tourist destination for well-heeled Westerners. Moving through various moments in its recent history, as well as through different neighbourhoods – from the prefab, Soviet-era maze of Alamar, to the bars and nightclubs of the Malecón and Vedado – these stories also demonstrate the defiance of Havana: surviving decades of economic disappointment with a flair for the comic, the surreal and the fantastical that remains as fresh as the first dreams of revolution. Translated from the Spanish by Orsola Casagrande and Séamas Carraher.

Book Infante s Inferno

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  • Author : Guillermo Cabrera Infante
  • Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781564783844
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Infante s Inferno written by Guillermo Cabrera Infante and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden behind a cloak of exotic mystery, Cuba is virtually unknown to American citizens. G. Cabrera Infante--in Infante's Inferno and several of his other novels--allows readers to peek behind the curtain surrounding this island and see the vibrant life that existed there before Fidel Castro's regime. Detailing the sexual education and adventures of the author, Infante's Inferno is a lush, erotic, funny book that provides readers with insight into what it was like to grow up in pre-revolutionary Havana. Viewing every girl as a potential lover, and the movies as a place both for entertainment and potential sexual escapades, Cabrera Infante captures the adolescent male mindset with a great deal of fun and self-consciousness. With his hallmark of puns and wordplay--excellently translated by Suzanne Jill Levine--Cabrera Infante has hilariously updated the Don Juan myth in a tropical setting.

Book Our Cuban Colony

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  • Author : Leland Hamilton Jenks
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Our Cuban Colony written by Leland Hamilton Jenks and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: