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	Moon Handbook Cuba  •  Christopher P. Baker GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 941 PAGES A detailed guide to Havana and the provinces, including the natural, cultural and political life of the island. There's information on the best beaches, cigars and nightclubs as well as background on the slave trade, Ernest Hemingway and the Revolution. (CBA04, $24.95)
	Trading with the Enemy, A Yankee Travels through Castro's Cuba  •  Tom Miller TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1996 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES • FAVORITE Written in 1992, during the worst of the "special period," this excellent travelogue rings as true now as it did then. Miller does a wonderful job of capturing the openness, sensuality, and pride in the revolution that characterizes the Cuban spirit. In a manner both entertaining and warm, he takes the readers on his adventures, (including traveling with a Cuban baseball team, studying the oboe and shadowing "the Cuban Julia Child" as she teaches TV viewers suffering from chronic food shortages how to make "steak" out of grapefruit rinds). He manages to cover all the important bases -- from literature to automobiles -- and by the time you're done you feel you might understand something real about Cuba. Currently available in a print-on-demand paper edition. (CBA11, $20.00)
	Cuba in Focus, A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture  •  Emily Hatchwell  •  Simon Calder GUIDEBOOK •  1999 •  PAPER  • 94 PAGES A compact overview of the history, culture and changing economy of Cuba. Despite a frank sympathy for Castro and his enduring legacy, the authors give a fair and detailed assessment of the island, its contradictions and prospects for the immediate future. (CBA09, $12.95)
	The Reader's Companion to Cuba  •  Alan Ryan ANTHOLOGY •  1997 •  PAPER  • 392 PAGES An anthology of travel writing on Cuba, beginning with 19th century writers like Anthony Trollope, John Muir and Frederic Remington and continuing on with Anais Nin and Langston Hughes. It's full of surprising gems about baseball, the mob, rumba and revolution. Don't miss Frank Mankiewicz's jeep tour of Havana with Fidel at the wheel or Martha Gellhorn's trip through Oriente province. Editor Alan Ryan introduces each 10-20 page excerpt. (CBA06, $22.00)
	Havana Dreams, A Story of a Cuban Family  •  Wendy Gimbel BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  1999 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES The story of Fidel Castro's illegitimate family, this chronicle -- by a journalist who logged hours of interviews with her subjects and had access to many personal documents -- is in many ways a tale of Cuba's multiple transformations during the 20th century. At the book's center is Castro's former mistress, Naty Revuelta Clews, a bourgeoise of European stock who bore Castro a daughter. Included are many of Castro's love letters. (Not every book can boast that.) (CBA26, $15.00)
	Cuba Map  •   World Mapping Project 2003 •  MAP A detailed, double-sided map showing Cuba, surrounding water and parts of the Bahamas to 24 degrees north at the very good scale of 1:850,000. Using the latest cartography from the World Mapping Project, the full color map, printed on rip-proof and waterproof paper, includes topographic features, latitude and longitude, and key visitor attractions. Water depths are indicated by contour lines in shades of blue and white. (CBA20, $8.95)

	Havana Map & Guide  •   Cognoscenti    •  An excellent map of the city center of Havana. (CBA64, $7.95)
	Havana, A Cultural and Literary Companion  •  Claudia Lightfoot   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An illuminating guide to the city, its history and geography, as the inspiration for writers, artists, musicians and intellectuals. A terrific survey of the literature of Havana. (CBA49, $15.00)
	Lonely Planet Cuba  •  David Stanley   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive, practical guide to Cuba geared for independent travelers. (CBA03, $21.99)
	Moon Handbook Havana  •  Christopher P. Baker   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An up-to-date, practical guide to Havana. It includes maps, information on the city's restaurants and attractions, and short introductory chapters the city's people, history and culture. (CBA35, $17.95)
	National Geographic Traveler Cuba  •  Christopher Baker   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A traveler's guide to the history, nature, culture, and attractions of Cuba, thoroughly illustrated in dependable National Geographic style. (CBA109, $22.95)
	Rough Guide Cuba  •   Rough Guide   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A nicely written, comprehensive guide in the British series. (CBA89, $21.99)
	Cuba Confidential, Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana  •  Ann Louise Bardach   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An investigative reporter, Bardach uses the media circus and shenanigans surrounding Elian Gonzalez as a lens to examine the heated, often very personal, and almost always political relations between the Cuban exiles in Miami, the Castro government and the United States. (CBA71, $15.95)
	Cuba, From Columbus to Castro and Beyond  •  Jaime Suchlicki   • HISTORY  •  A concise and highly readable history of the island with a critical discussion of U.S.-Cuban relations. (CBA69, $24.95)
	Cuba: Neither Heaven nor Hell  •  Maria Lopez Vigil   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A collection of seven essays on contemporary life and social reality in Cuba. (CBA47, $15.95)
	Havana  •  Robert Polidori   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Originally commissioned to accompany an article in the New Yorker, Polidori's gorgeously produced collection of large format photographs depict the crumbling splendor and dazzling colors of the city. (CBA57, $75.00)
	Havana, The Photography of Hans Engels  •  Hans Engels   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An award-winning photographic essay on the beauty and architecture of Havana, reflecting two decades of work. (CBA54, $45.00)
	Inside Cuba  •  Gianni Basso  •  Julio Cesar Perez Hernandez  •  Angelika Taschen   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The art publisher Taschen wins again with this solid, playful and oversize celebration of the architecture people and culture of Cuba. Featuring color photographs of modernist masterpieces, villas and palacios, hotels and traditional wooden homes. (CBA102, $59.99)
	Inside Havana  •  Andrew Moore   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A portfolio of color-saturated, large-format photographs, showing the personality of Havana, its architecture and people. (CBA75, $40.00)
	On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture  •  Louis A. Perez   • HISTORY  •  A masterful scholarly history of Cubanidad, and the love-hate relationship with the United States. (CBA43, $19.95)
	The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics  •  Aviva Chomsky  •  Barry Carr  •  Pamela Maria Smorkaloff   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A multi-faceted selection of writings by Cubans. (CBA93, $27.95)
	The Cuban Way: Capitalism, Communism and Confrontation  •  Ana Julia Jatar-Hausmann   • HISTORY  •  A balanced analysis of the economic and social policies of the Cuban revolution, focusing on those policies' effects on the everyday lives of individuals. (CBA32, $21.95)
	Walker Evans, Cuba  •  Walker Evans   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The original 1933 photographs of Cuba by the great social realist Walker Evans. (CBA56, $24.95)
	Cuba, 400 Years of Architectural Heritage  •  Rachel Carley  •  Andrea Brizzi   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A sweeping survey of the island's architecture, featuring three hundred gorgeous color photographs. The book starts with an essay on what defines Cuban style, and moves in chronological order, from the colonial period to the post-revolutionary. (CBA16, $29.95)
	Havana/La Habana  •  Nancy Stout  •  Jorge Rigau   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Gorgeous photographs emphasize living neighborhoods. The text thoroughly explores the roots and development of Cuban architecture. (CBA08, $50.00)
	New Art of Cuba  •  Luis Camnitzer   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A survey of work by 40 Contemporary Cuban artists. (CBA79, $29.95)
	The Houses of Old Cuba  •  Lilian Llanes  •  Jean-Luc d' Lagaurigue   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A beautifully illustrated history of Cuban architecture as shown through its private houses, with essays accompanying 168 color photographs. (CBA31, $34.95)
	Before Night Falls  •  Reinaldo Arenas  •  Delores Koch   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A deeply moving autobiography, highly critical of the Castro regime. (CBA37, $15.00)
	Biography of a Runaway Slave  •  Miguel Barnet  •  W. Nick Hill   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An extraordinary portrait of Esteban Monteja, a 105-year-old man who lived through slavery and the Cuban war of independence. (CBA13, $14.95)
	Conversations With Cuba  •  C. Peter Ripley  •  Bob Shacochis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A contemporary profile of Cuba based on the author's interviews and encounters visiting Cuba in the 1990s. (CBA38, $24.95)
	Cuba Diaries, An American Housewife in Havana  •  Isadora Tattlin   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An intimate, anecdotal account of life in Cuba in the mid-1990s. Tattlin writes with verve of the "rowdy, ambiguous, ironic and sometimes exhilirating time". (CBA74, $13.95)
	Fidel, A Critical Biography  •  Tad Szulc   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A full-length, now-classic biography of Castro by the New York Times correspondent. (CBA73, $18.95)
	Waiting for Snow in Havana, Confessions of a Cuban Boy  •  Carlos Eire   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A lyrical memoir of a privileged, eccentric boyhood in 1950s Havana. Eire, a historian at Yale, fled with his brother to the United States in 1962 in the wake of the revolution. (CBA78, $15.00)
	Cubanisimo, The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature  •  Cristina Garcia   • ANTHOLOGY  •  An eccentrically organized, inspired collection of stories, poems, essyas and literary excerpts. (CBA76, $14.00)
	The Voice of the Turtle: An Anthology of Cuban Stories  •  Peter R. Bush   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A collection of 20th-century stories by diverse writers ranging from the famous exile Gabriel Cabrera Infante to the much younger Senel Paz (who wrote the screenplay for the film Strawberry and Chocolate). (CBA17, $14.00)
	Travelers' Tales Cuba  •  Tom Miller   • ANTHOLOGY  •  An anthology of mostly contemporary writing on Cuba, as collected by Tom Miller ("Trading with the Enemy") (CBA42, $17.95)
	Dancing to Almendra  •  Mayra Montero   • MYSTERY  •  Montero weaves real people and events with invention in this compelling tale marvelously set in 1957 Havana of the advantures of Yolanda a beautiful, one-armed former circus performer. (CBA107, $25.00)
	Dreaming in Cuban  •  Cristina Garcia   • LITERATURE  •  A short, poetic novel of three generations of Cuban women, their reaction to the revolution and the complex relation between those who remained in Cuba and those who settled in the United States. Excellent reading. (CBA18, $14.00)
	Memories of Underdevelopment and Inconsolable Memories  •  Tomas Gutiérrez  •  Edmundo Desnoes  •  Michael Chanan   • LITERATURE  •  This book incorporates the seminal novel of the revolution and the screenplay for the popular film by Tomas Guttierez. (CBA12, $24.00)
	Our Man in Havana  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE • FAVORITE  •  The story of a British vacuum cleaner salesman who gets accidentally drawn into cold war espionage with disastrous results. (CBA19, $14.00)
	The Old Man and the Sea  •  Ernest Hemingway   • LITERATURE  •  Hemingway's last major work of fiction is the story of an old Cuban fisherman. A quick, easy read. (CBA02, $12.00)
	White Rose  •  Amy Ephron   • LITERATURE  •  A romantic novel set in turn-of-the-century Havana during Cuba's fight for freedom from Spanish rule. (CBA52, $19.00)
	Natural Cuba  •  Alfonso Silva Lee   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A natural history of the Caribbean's largest tropical island. (CBA25, $24.95)
	Birds of Cuba  •  Orlando Garrido  •  Arturo Kirkconnell  •  Lester Short   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact field guide to the birds of Cuba, featuring 51 color plates, detailed species accounts, and 144 local maps. The authors are curators at the National Museum of Natural History of Cuba. (CBA28, $29.95)
	Snorkeling Guide to Marine Life  •  Paul Humann   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact guide illustrating all the fishes, corals, invertebrates and plants you are most likely to encounter in under 15 feet of water in the Caribbean. (DIV02, $14.95)

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