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21) Escape to Havana
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For Charlie Hillier, a posting to Cuba could be the perfect place to start his new life -- if he survives it. With his career stalled and the office abuzz about his soon-to-be-ex-wife's indiscretions, Ottawa bureaucrat Charlie Hillier is desperate for a change. So when the chance at a posting to the Canadian embassy in Havana comes up, he jumps at it, grateful to get as far away as he can from his ex and his dead-end job at Foreign Affairs headquarters....
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Piedra Negra is an isolated village, whose citizens consist mainly of soldiers injured in the revolution who pass the time drinking a firewater so intense, all hallucinate, and most never recover. The firewater distiller's daughter Elena longs to be a poet, and after a chance encounter with Daniel Arcilla, Cuba's most important poet, Elena wins a national poetry prize and leaves Piedra Negra behind for Havana. There she encounters a population adjusting...
23) Palmiche
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Los cristales se cuarteaban como piel de leproso, y las persianas tecleaban en las vertebras de los marcos, como si formaran parte de un esqueleto rumbero. Se abrazo al tronco aspero y fresco, y recorrio con los ojos los nuevos racimos que brotaban tiernos como un acento de violin. Apretando el puno, sobre un monton de granos, se dejo caer por el tronco hasta dar de rodillas entre las raices sinuosas desencajadas del suelo. Y el puno, sosegado por...
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"A novel based on the dazzling story of one of Hollywood's most celebrated Hispanic actresses and her daughter's search for closure. Cuba, 1936: When Estelita Rodriguez sings in a hazy Havana nightclub for the very first time, she is nine years old. From then on, that spotlight of adoration--from Havana to New York's Copacabana and then Hollywood--becomes the one true accomplishment no one can take from her. Not the 1933 Cuban Revolution that drove...
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Kitty Tessler is the winsome and clever only child of self-made hotel and nightclub tycoon Nicolas Tessler. Kitty may not have the same pedigree as the tennis club set she admires, but she still sees herself as every inch the socialite--spending her days perfecting her "look" and her nights charming all the blue-blooded boys who frequent her father's clubs. It seems like the fun will never end until Kitty's father issues a terrible ultimatum: she...
26) North of Havana
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Doc Ford novels volume 5
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Florida marine biologist Doc Ford receives a call for help from a friend whose boat strayed into Cuban waters. Equipped with money for fines, bills and bribes, Ford arrives in Havana with his girlfriend and as he searches for his friend becomes involved in a hunt for the coffin of Columbus.
28) The third hotel
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Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. He's wearing a white linen suit she's never seen before, and he's supposed to be dead. Grief-stricken and baffled, Clare tails Richard, a horror film scholar, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his every move. As the distinction between reality and fantasy blurs,...
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Inspector Ricardo Ramirez investigates the murder of a Cuban boy in Havana.
The little Cuban boy was last seen begging the couple for a few pesos... now he's dead in the water. For Inspector Ricardo Ramirez, head of the Havana Major Crimes Unit, arresting suspect Mike Ellis isn't the problem-- the law is. He has only seventy-two hours to secure an indictment and prevent Ellis from flying back to Ottawa. And Ramirez has his own troubles-- he's dying...
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"Clementina nació con un don especial: poder viajar a través del tiempo, saltando de la revolución mexicana a La Habana de 1930. En uno de esos viajes encuentra a Ramiro, un hombre al que su abuela amó con todas sus fuerzas y del que Clementina también se enamorará perdidamente."-- Back cover.
37) Habana réquiem
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"Del ganador del premio L'H confidencial, nos llega Habana réquiem, un thriller policiaco que nos arrastra por las calles de La Habana Vieja. Cuba se tensa en medio del panorama de recesión y el Estado intenta maniobrar con un falso aperturismo económico, pero la mentalidad insular ha cambiado y el ciudadano promedio ya no parece tan dócil como ha sido durante el último medio siglo. La marginalidad amenaza con desbordar al sistema. En la Mazmorra,...
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Mario Conde investigates a murder in the Barrio Chino, the rundown Chinatown of Havana. Not his usual beat, but when Conde was asked to take the case by his colleague, the sultry, perfectly proportioned Lieutenant Patricia Chion, a frequent object of his nightly fantasies, he could n't resist. The case proves to be unusual. Pedro Cuang, a lonely old man, is found hanging naked from a beam in the ceiling of his dingy room. One of his fingers has been...
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