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	200 Conspicuous, Unusual, or Economically Important Tropical Plants of the Caribbean • John Kingsbury • FIELD GUIDE • A general purpose plant identification guide to Caribbean shores, also useful for subtropical Florida. Features color photographs and short plant descriptions. (CRB01, $20.00)
	Adios Hemingway • Leonardo Padura Fuentes • John King • MYSTERY • Following Padura's popular four-book series, Cuban detective Mario Conde returns in this literary novella to investigate a murder that occurred on Ernest Hemingway's estate over forty years before. (CBA100, $20.00)
	Amphibians and Reptiles of La Selva, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean Slope • Craig Guyer • Maureen A. Donnelly • FIELD GUIDE • This comprehensive guide covers the reptiles and amphibians of the Caribbean slope. (CRB177, $24.95)
	Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana • Stephanie Elizondo Griest • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The offbeat memoirs of a Texan who spent four years as a volunteer in Moscow, a propaganda officer in Beijing, and a belly dancer in Havana. (RUS242, $14.95)
	Art Cuba, The New Generation • Holly Block • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A collection of contemporary Cuban art. (CBA48, $49.50)
	A Brief History of the Caribbean, From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present • Jan Rogozinski • HISTORY • Written for a scholarly audience, this concise history presents the full sweep of Caribbean geography, culture and commerce from aboriginal inhabitants through European colonization and modern developments. (CRB38, $17.00)
	Caribbean Art • Veerle Poupeye • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A survey of art found throughout the Caribbean and created by artists of Caribbean descent, highlighting the multitude of influences from Africa, Europe, Asia and South America. (CRB76, $14.95)
	Communism, A History • Richard Pipes • HISTORY • A short, fiercely critical history of communism from the ideas of Karl Marx to the end of the 20th century. (GEN367, $13.95)
	Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara • Jorge G. Castaneda • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A masterful, scholarly portrait of the willful, passionate leader and his short, intense life. (CBA60, $16.95)
	The Complete Guide to Caribbean Cruises • Linda Coffman • GUIDEBOOK • (CRB186, $22.95)
	Cuba • David Alan Harvey • Elizabeth Newhouse • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A portrait of Cuba by a veteran National Geographic photographer. (CBA65, $50.00)
	Cuba and the Night: A Novel • Pico Iyer • LITERATURE • A vivid first novel is about an American in contemporary Cuba who falls in love with a local girl. (CBA21, $14.95)
	Cuba in Mind, An Anthology • Maria Finn • LITERATURE • A wide-ranging collection of satisfyingly long excerpts from travel accounts and eyewitness reports. (CBA94, $14.00)
	Cuba Libre • Elmore Leonard • LITERATURE • A novel set against the backdrop of the Spanish-American War. (CBA24, $7.50)
	Cuba, A Traveler's Literary Companion • Ann Louise Bardach • ANTHOLOGY • A collection of mostly contemporary stories in the excellent series. (CBA58, $13.95)
	Cuba, Between Reform and Revolution • Louis A. Perez • HISTORY • A classic history of the island, and especially of the period leading up to the Cuban revolution. (CBA22, $28.95)
	Cuba, Going Back • Tony Mendoza • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An illustrated account of Tony Mendoza's trip back to Cuba after 36 years. (CBA61, $22.95)
	Cuba, The Contours of Change • Susan Kaufman Purcell • David J. Rothkopf • HISTORY • A snapshot of contemporary Cuba, its political and economic future, by a team of contributors. (CBA92, $16.95)
	Cubana, Contemporary Fiction by Cuban Women • Mirta Yanez • ANTHOLOGY • A highly regarded collection of short stories by 16 women writing in Cuba today. (CBA80, $20.00)
	Culture Smart! Cuba • Mandy Macdonald • GUIDEBOOK • A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (CBA105, $9.95)
	Dancing with Cuba, A Memoir of the Revolution • Alma Guillermoprieto • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • In this lovely memoir, Guillermoprieto writes with her usual insight, wit and lucid prose. about teaching at the National School of Dance in Havana in the 1970s (CBA97, $13.95)
	Deep Cuba, The Inside Story of an American Oceanographic Expedition • Bill Belleville • EXPLORATION • (CBA99, $27.95)
	Dirty Havana Trilogy • Natasha Wimmer • Pedro Juan Gutierrez • LITERATURE • A novel of contemporary Havana's steamy underbelly, originally published in Spain -- and banned in the author's native Cuba. (CBA44, $14.95)
	Divided Soul, A Journey Through the Secular and Religious in Hispanic Life • David Alan Harvey • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A culmination of a photographer's two decade quest to capture the global Hispanic spirit on film. (SPN191, $49.95)
	Eastern Caribbean Cruise Tour Guide • Coastal Cruise Tour Guides • A handy guide and booklet that unfolds to a six-foot-long full color map. It features historical background, visitor attractions and maps of all the islands from Puerto Rico to Trinidad. (CRB135, $15.95)
	Enduring Cuba • Zoe Bran • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • COMING IN SEPTEMBER • 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)
	Eyewitness Guide Cuba • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive, illustrated guide with excellent neighborhood maps, hundreds of photographs and succinct listings. Features innovative 3-D diagrams of cathedrals, palaces and museums. (CBA67, $25.00)
	Footprint Cuba Handbook • Sarah Cameron • GUIDEBOOK • A detailed, comprehensive guide to travel in Cuba (CBA33, $19.95)
	Gay Cuban Nation • Emilio Bejel • LITERATURE • An in-depth, scholarly study of homoeroticism in Cuban liteerature, film and society. (CBA50, $22.00)
	The Ghost with Trembling Wings • Scott Weidensaul • NATURAL HISTORY • The search, sometimes successful, for lost species, worldwide including such island havens as Tasmania, Madagascar and Cuba. (CON24, $16.00)
	A Girl like Che Guevara • Teresa de la Caridad Doval • LITERATURE • A coming-of-age tale set in revolutionary Cuba. (CBA95, $13.00)
	A Guide to the Coral Reefs of the Caribbean • Mark D. Spalding • Sylvia Earle • FIELD GUIDE • A diver's guide and atlas of coral reefs of the Caribbean (CRB176, $25.95)
	Havana Bay • Martin Cruz Smith • LITERATURE • The detective hero of Gorky Park here goes digging for answers with a female colleague in a wildly exotic, crumbling city. (CBA23, $15.00)
	Havana Black • Leonardo Padura • Peter R. Bush • MYSTERY • In the final Inspector Mario Conde book of the quartet series (the second of the books translated into English), Conde -- aka "The Count"-- resigns from office, but not before taking on the case of a brutally murdered Cuban defector in the wake of a torrential hurricane headed for Havana. (CBA104, $14.95)
	Havana Red • Peter R. Bush • Leonardo Padura • MYSTERY • The third book in Padura's Inspector Mario Conde series (and the first of the quartet series translated into English) finds a diplomat's son in the Havana Woods, strangled by a red ribbon and wearing a flashy red dress, Inspector Conde must unravel the controversial mystery under the eyes of the 1989 Communist Party. (CBA103, $13.95)
	Havana, Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis • Joseph Scarpaci • Roberto Segre • Mario Coyula • ART & ARCHITECTURE • The historical geography of the city by a team of authors, Cuban and American. (CBA91, $23.95)
	Hemingway in Cuba • Hilary Hemingway • Charlene Brennen • HISTORY • This sepia-toned tribute surveys the life and work of Hemingway from 1939-1960, (CBA81, $34.95)
	A High Wind in Jamaica • Richard Hughes • LITERATURE • The thrilling novel of a group of children who set off to England on a ship after their home in Jamaica is destroyed by a hurricane. (CRB57, $14.00)
	Islands in the Stream • Ernest Hemingway • LITERATURE • Hemingway's story of artist and adventurer Thomas Hudson in the Caribbean. (CRB71, $16.00)
	Jose Mart� Reader: Writings on the Americas • Jos� Mart� • Deborah Shnookal • LITERATURE • Here's Mart� -- political prisoner, freedom fighter, poet and revolutionary -- at his most eloquent. (CBA15, $19.95)
	Knopf Guide Cuba • Knopf Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A handsomely illustrated guide to Cuba. (CBA34, $25.00)
	Knopf Mapguide, Havana • Knopf Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps. (CBA106, $9.95)
	Last Dance in Havana, The Final Days of Fidel and the Start of the New Cuban Revolution • Eugene Robinson • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A journalist's account of life in Cuba and especially the importance of music and dance. (CBA96, $25.00)
	Looking For History, Dispatches From Latin America • Alma Guillermoprieto • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A beautifully written, incisive collection of essays on contemporary Argentina, Columbia, Cuba, Peru and Mexico. (SAM60, $14.95)
	Loving Che, A Novel • Ana Menendez • LITERATURE • Menendez evokes the excitement and upheaval of Havana in the 1960's in this acclaimed, inventive debut novel. (CBA98, $13.00)
	Machos, Maricones and Gays: Cuba and Homosexuality • Ian Lumsden • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A history and analysis of homosexuality in Cuba, attitudes and issues. (CBA90, $30.95)
	The Messenger • Mayra Montero • Edith Grossman • LITERATURE • A richly imagined tale of a frightened Enrico Caruso at large (and in love) in Havana in 1920. (CBA55, $13.00)
	Mi Moto Fidel, Motorcycling through Castro's Cuba • Christopher P. Baker • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A lively account of a three-month tour through Cuba on a big, red BMW motorcycle. (CBA41, $14.00)
	Murder in Havana • Margaret Truman • MYSTERY • The 18th in the wildly popular series of crime novels. (CBA70, $7.99)
	Musica! The Rhythm of Latin America: Salsa, Rumba, Merengue, and More • Sue Steward • MUSIC • This exuberant, marvelously illustrated book traces diverse Latin American musical styles from their origins in Cuba to Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Columbia, Miami and New York. With a focus on musicians and an excellent discography. (CBA87, $22.95)
	National Audubon Society Field Guide to Tropical Marine Fishes: Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, the Bahamas and Bermu • C. Lavett Smith • FIELD GUIDE • A photographic guide to coral reef fishes found in the Caribbean, Florida, the Bahamas and Bermuda. This portable, pocket-size book features 417 excellent color photographs, each with a range map and description. (FG24, $19.95)
	Odyssey Guide Cuba • Andrew Coe • GUIDEBOOK • A compact, handsomely illustrated guide. (CBA63, $19.95)
	Paradiso • Jos� Lezama Lima • Gregory Rabassa • LITERATURE • A baroque masterpiece by Cuba's greatest poet. (CRB128, $14.50)
	A Photographic Guide to Birds of the West Indies • Allan Sander • G. Michael Flieg • FIELD GUIDE • A compact shirt-pocket guide. With a map of the islands and 300 color photographs. (CRB127, $15.95)
	Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century • Mar�a de los Reyes Castillo Bueno • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The story of a warm, dignified and frank woman in Cuba (1902-1997) as told to her daughter. (CBA86, $19.95)
	Santeria Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion • David H. Brown • RELIGION • A scholarly overview of the symbols, rituals, and institutions of religious practice in Cuba. (CBA85, $38.00)
	A Simple Habana Melody, From When the World Was Good • Oscar Hijuelos • LITERATURE • An unlikely love story and lyrical tribute to Latin music by the author of Mambo Kings. (CBA72, $13.95)
	Singing from the Well • Reinaldo Arenas • LITERATURE • A poignant novel of coming of age in rural Cuba. (CBA51, $15.00)
	Strawberry and Chocolate • Juan Carlos Tabio • Tomas Guti�rrez • LITERATURE • The heartwarming story of three neighbors, daily life and intellectual seduction in contemporary Havana. (CBA68, $19.99)
	Streetwise Cuba Map • Streetwise • A laminated, folded map of Cuba. (CBA66, $7.95)
	Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes and Golden Sharks: Travels of a Water-Bound Adventurer • Bill Belleville • EXPLORATION • (CRB184, $29.95)
	Tango for a Torturer • Daniel Chavarr�a • MYSTERY • (CBA108, $15.95)
	A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf • John Muir • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A botanical expedition through the post-Civil War South. (FLA09, $11.95)
	Time Out Havana, And The Best Of Cuba • Ismay Atkins • GUIDEBOOK • An up-to-date guide on what to do and where to go by the people who publish Time Out Magazine. (CBA101, $19.95)
	Top 10 Cuba • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions. (CBA110, $12.00)
	A Traveller's History of the Caribbean • James Ferguson • HISTORY • A concise history of the Caribbean Islands, beginning with a description of the islands' formation and geologic attributes and carrying through the first civilizations in the region all the way up to the modern tourism boom. (CRB42, $14.95)
	Waiting for Fidel • Christopher Hunt • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A camp but vivid portrait of daily life in a place where they're continuously making up their own rules. (CBA01, $13.00)

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