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	Havana, History and Architecture of a Romantic City  •  Maria Luisa Lobo Montalvo  •  Hugh Thomas ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2009 •  HARD COVER  • 320 PAGES A magnificantly illustrated history of Havana, documenting the growth of the city from Spanish colony to independence. With 480 color illustrations. (CBA46, $85.00)
	Trading with the Enemy  •  Tom Miller TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 352 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. . (CBA11, $16.95)
	Cuba, What Everyone Needs to Know  •  Julia Sweig HISTORY •  2009 •  PAPER  • 279 PAGES Director for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, Julia Sweig traces the geography, history and identity of Cuba in this admirably succinct history of the nation and its role in world affairs. (CBA126, $16.95)
	Lonely Planet Cuba  •  Brendan Sainsbury GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 528 PAGES A compact, practical guide to Cuba geared for the independent traveler with sketch maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and much nuts-and-bolts information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. Fifth edition. (CBA03, $21.99)
	Cuba Map  •   World Mapping Project 2009 •  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. Two Sides. 28x36 inches. (CBA20, $9.99)

	Culture Smart! Cuba  •  Mandy Macdonald   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (CBA105, $9.95)
	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)
	Moon Handbook Cuba  •  Christopher P. Baker   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A detailed guide including the natural, cultural and political life of the island. (CBA04, $24.95)
	Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba  •  Tom Gjelten   • HISTORY  •  Gjelten chronicles the rich intersection of business and power, family and politics, community and exile in contemporary Cuba through the saga of the Bacardi family. (CBA117, $17.00)
	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 El Barrio, A Bottom-up View of Neighborhood Life in Castros Cuba  •  Henry Louis, Jr. Taylor   • HISTORY  •  Taylor's revealing portrait of neighborhoods and daily life in Cuba shows the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the U.S. embargo on the people of the island nation. (CBA116, $24.95)
	That Infernal Little Cuban Republic, The United States and the Cuban Revolution  •  Lars Schoultz   • HISTORY  •  Drawing on a rich array of firsthand documents and interviews, Schoultz douments the efforts of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution with insight and flair. (CBA128, $35.00)
	The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics  •  Aviva Chomsky  •  Barry Carr  •  Pamela Maria Smorkaloff   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Organized chronologically, this multi-faceted portrait of a nation, with most of the selections by Cuban writers, includes not only history, journalism and literature but also songs, paintings, poems and cartoons and speeches. (CBA93, $28.95)
	Without Fidel  •  Ann Louise Bardach   • HISTORY  •  A PEN award-winning journalist who has covered Cuba for 15 years, Bardach (Cuba Confidential) brings knowledge, tenacity and verve to this report on the future of the country. (CBA112, $28.00)
	Cuba and its Music, From the First Drums to the Mambo  •  Ned Sublette   • MUSIC  •  A thorough and entertaining history of Cuba and its music. (CBA129, $21.95)
	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)
	Cuba, Art and History from 1868 to Today  •  Nathalie Bondil   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  With ravishing color reproductions of murals, posters, paintings and photographs and incisive essays, this magnificent book documents the history of art in Cuba from independence. (CBA127, $49.95)
	Before Night Falls  •  Reinaldo Arenas  •  Delores Koch   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A deeply moving autobiography, highly critical of the Castro regime. (CBA37, $16.00)
	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)
	Enduring Cuba  •  Zoe Bran   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Bran, who writes wonderfully, probes beneath the surface in this absorbing portrait, meeting locals, witnessing a Santeria ceremony and asking questions about politics. (CBA84, $14.99)
	The Island That Dared  •  Dervla Murphy   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  Our favorite Irish grandmother traipses off to Cuba in this latest adventure, now-grown daughter Rachael and granddaughters in tow. (CBA115, $39.95)
	Travelers' Tales of Old Cuba, From Treasure Island to Mafia Den  •  John Jenkins   • ANTHOLOGY • COMING IN APRIL  •  This collection of first-hand accounts documents the evolution of Havana from a port popular with Caribbean pirates to the tourist-centered urban paradise of today and everything in between. (CBA137, $15.95)
	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, $13.95)
	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, $15.00)
	Telex from Cuba  •  Rachel Kushner   • LITERATURE  •  Kushner re-imagines the world of her mother in this astonishingly wise first novel set in the American enclave in 1950s Cuba. Riveting. (CBA111, $16.00)
	The Old Man and the Sea  •  Ernest Hemingway   • LITERATURE  •  Hemingway's brief story of a fisherman who after 84 days with no luck finally makes a big catch is also an affectionate portrait of life in Cuba. It won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. (CBA02, $12.00)
	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)

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