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Adios Hemingway
• Leonardo Padura Fuentes
• John King
MYSTERY •
2005 •
PAPER
• 229 PAGES
Following Padura's popular four-book series, Cuban detective Mario Conde, righteous and Marlowe-like, returns to investigate a murder that occurred on Ernest Hemingway's estate over 40 years before. This is the first Padura book translated into English.
(CBA100, $13.00) |
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Biography of a Runaway Slave
• Miguel Barnet
• W. Nick Hill
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1994 •
PAPER
• 217 PAGES
In the 1960s, Barnet, an ethnographer by training, spent hundreds of hours interviewing 104-year-old Esteban Montejo about his experiences as an fugitive slave, his work in the cane fields, the 1898 war with the Spaniards, the subsequent arrival of the Americans and his reflections on the early years of the revolution. A first person narrative, this is the work that, more than any other, helped to invent the genre of the Novela Testimonio.
(CBA13, $16.95) |
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The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
• Jim Rasenberger
HISTORY •
2012 •
PAPER
• 480 PAGES
In a book published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the author draws on recently released CIA information to shed new light on the botched operation, which was an embarrassment to JFK and the United States. Rasenberger's father, an attorny, worked with JFK to secure the release of men held prisoner in Cuba.
(CBA162, $18.00) |
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Cuba
• Jeffrey Milstein
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2010 •
HARD COVER
• 28 PAGES
Milstein's beautiful collection of 100 photographs captures the colors, textures and people of vivid and gritty urban Cuba. His images provide a portrait of everyday life -- full of bicycles, barber shops, graffiti, laundry, children and peeling paint -- with artistry and affection.
(CBA135, $25.00) |
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Cuba and the Night: A Novel
• Pico Iyer
LITERATURE •
1996 •
PAPER
Veteran travel writer Pico Iyer's vivid first novel is about an American photographer who washes up (emotionally) in contemporary Cuba and falls in love with a local girl with big ideas. "On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still, tonight," wrote the Los Angeles Times.
(CBA21, $15.95) |
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Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations, Shall We Play Ball?
• Jorge I. Dominguez
HISTORY •
2012 •
PAPER
• 268 PAGES
The authors in this academic anthology argue that U.S.-Cuban relations are in many respects still in poor shape, yet some cooperative elements have begun to take hold and offer promise for future developments. Each topic is represented by perspectives from both Cuban and non-Cuban scholars.
(CBA156, $39.95) |
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Eyewitness Guide Cuba
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 328 PAGES
A comprehensive, illustrated guide with excellent maps, hundreds of photographs and succinct listings. With a very useful 60-page section on Habana Vieja (old Quarter), Centra Habana and the Prado area, including detailed street finders and large-scale neighborhood maps and innovative 3-D color diagrams of cathedrals, palaces and museums.
(CBA67, $25.00) |
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Fidel's Last Days
• Roland Merullo
MYSTERY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 268 PAGES
A clandestine scheme to assassinate Fidel Castro spirals into paranoia, betrayal, and deceit in this dazzling thriller.
(CBA171, $15.00) |
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Frommer's Cuba
• Claire Boobbyer
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for hotels, restaurants and excursions. With two-color maps throughout.
(CBA125, $21.99) |
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Cuba, Dilemmas of a Revolution
• Juan M. Del Aguila
HISTORY •
1994 •
PAPER
• 222 PAGES
A concise introduction to the modern history of the island nation with a focus on the economic impact of the collapse of communism.
(CBA122, $42.00) |
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Guantanamo, An American History
• Jonathan M. Hansen
HISTORY •
2011 •
HARD COVER
• 428 PAGES
A historian at Harvard, Hansen traces the history and myth surrounding America's oldest naval base.
(CBA167, $35.00) |
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Havana Map
• Cognoscenti
MAP
A full-color map to the city center of Havana, at a scale of 1:10,000. One Side. 27x39 inches.
(CBA64, $10.95) |
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The Island That Dared
• Dervla Murphy
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2010 •
PAPER
• 432 PAGES
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
Our favorite Irish grandmother traipses off to Cuba in this latest adventure, daughter and granddaughters in tow. As you might imagine, she's not all that interested in beaches or the rumba (and returns later on a solo trip to more effectively deploy her trademark curiosity. What emerges is a candid portrait of a complex, multi-layered society.
(CBA115, $39.95) |
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The History of Havana
• Raphael Hernandez
• Dick Cluster
HISTORY •
2008 •
PAPER
• 300 PAGES
Co-authored by a Cuban and an American, this multi-faceted history of the city looks at culture, art, politics and economic development. Beginning with the founding of Havana in 1519, the book continues through the Battle of Havana in 1933, the "Fabulous Fifties," and the complicated contemporary era.
(CBA159, $19.95) |
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An Island Called Home, Returning to Jewish Cuba
• Ruth Behar
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2009 •
PAPER
Now a professor of anthropology in Michigan, Behar travels back to her native island to uncover the remarkable history of Jews in Cuba. With chapters including "Einstein in Havana" and "The Ketubah That Became a Passport," she provides many unexpected surprises, and Humberto Mayol's black-and-white photographs of Behar's interview subjects give extra life to the stories.
(CBA169, $24.95) |
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Last Dance in Havana, The Final Days of Fidel and the Start of the New Cuban Revolution
• Eugene Robinson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
Robinson, an assistant managing editor at the Washington Post, looks at the music scene in Cuba, not just salsa but also hip-hop, and its potential to confront the status quo. The book is a journalist's account from street level, interviewing anecdote, interview and observation.
(CBA96, $19.95) |
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Lonely Planet Havana
• Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK •
2007 •
PAPER
• 232 PAGES
A comprehensive city guide with good full-color maps, a few photographs and excellent information on what to do and where to go.
(CBA130, $19.99) |
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Looking For History, Dispatches From Latin America
• Alma Guillermoprieto
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2002 •
PAPER
• 303 PAGES
This collection of essays, originally appearing in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, displays Guillermoprieto's flare, heart and knowledge of the region. She's not only an outstanding writer but an incisive reporter and portraitist. With chapters on Eva Peron, Columbia's drug wars, Che Guevara, Havana, Fidel Castro, Vargas Llosa and contemporary Mexico.
(SAM60, $16.95) |
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Rough Guide Cuba Map
• Rough Guides
2011 •
MAP
A laminated, folded map of Cuba at a scale of 1:850,000. Cartography by the World Mapping Project. Two Sides. 8.5x32 inches.
(CBA66, $9.99) |
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This is Cuba
• Ben Corbett
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 304 PAGES
Corbett interviews everyday people living on the fringe's of Castro's official Cuba for this account, both a stinging indictment government policy and testimony to the Cuban spirit.
(CBA157, $18.00) |
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Time Out Havana, And The Best Of Cuba
• Ismay Atkins
GUIDEBOOK •
2007 •
PAPER
• 252 PAGES
An up-to-date guide on what to do and where to go by the people who publish Time Out Magazine.
(CBA101, $19.95) |
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The Cuban Revolution, Origins, Course, and Legacy
• Marifeli Perez-Stable
HISTORY •
2011 •
PAPER
• 207 PAGES
Perez-Stable offers insights into the triumphs and failures of the revolution, blaming the weakened economy on Cuba's dependence on the Soviet Union and failure to diversify commerce.
(CBA124, $39.95) |
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To and from Utopia in the New Cuban Art
• Rachel Weiss
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 322 PAGES
Weiss (Art Institute of Chicago), who has been traveling to and writing about Cuba since 1986, presents an in-depth critical history of the new Cuban art, with a focus on its role in public debate. Includes dozens of color photographs.
(CBA154, $34.95) |
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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, $29.95) |
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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) |
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Dancing to Almendra
• Mayra Montero
MYSTERY •
2007 •
PAPER
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) |
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