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1) Cuba libre
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Before Grand Master Elmore Leonard earned his well-deserved reputation as "the best writer of crime fiction alive" (Newsweek), he penned some of the finest western fiction to ever appear in print. (The classics Hombre, Valdez is Coming, and 3:10 to Yuma were just a few of his notable works.) With his extraordinary Cuba Libre, Leonard ingeniously combines all of his many talents and delivers a historical adventure/caper/western/noir like none other....
2) Cuba libre
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Drles de vacances !!!
De gré ou de force, Jean-Louis, Claudette, Léa et d'autres Québécois sont en vacances à Cuba. Ont-ils vraiment besoin de divinités mayas pour rafistoler la toile décousue de leurs relations familiales ? Peut-être bien. Qu'ils soient en préretraite ou en stage, des dieux bienveillants et des humains résilients sont les principaux héros de cette comédie aussi loufoque qu'étonnante et, tout compte fait, pas si folle...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau voulait se remémorer sa jeunesse sur son île dorée. II n'oubliera jamais ce qu'il y trouvera...
Le cadavre d'un célèbre architecte flotte dans les eaux calmes du marais d'Antigonish, une île du Rhode Island appréciée des millionnaires pour ses plages dorées et la quiétude de sa réserve naturelle. L'impassible Benjamin Still mène l'enquête. Au fil des jours, il se lie d'amitié avec Jean-Jacques Rousseau, un gynécologue...
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Alexander Strange has an unusual guardian angel -- she's the one who needs protection.
Not enough that he's typing his fingers to the bone covering resurrected triceratops maurading in Miami or that he's on a quest to find a headless baby Jesus snatched from a Florida megachurch and golf resort.
Now his shipboard mannequin is channeling a woman from the future. Her message: Fly immediately to Portugal, do not stop for Cuba Libres, and save...
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At a swanky rooftop restaurant, a young woman takes her final sip There's a stunning view from the top of the Ritz-Plaza Hotel, but it pales in comparison to Lois Winston's beauty. She arrives on the arm of David McIntosh-an agreeable young man who would marry her if she gave him the chance-to take in the scenery, eat a light supper, and forget the busy world below. Lois's first cocktail lifts her spirits, helping her dispel the strange sadness that...
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Came a moment she just slid over, hooked her arm through mine, and gave me one of those dazzling smiles that shed worn back in the days when I was courting her. Didnt fool me for a minute. I hoped it would. Fool me, I mean. At a certain point in his life a man wants nothing as much as he wants be fooled irrevocably, completely and everlastingly fooled. And for me this was one of those times. I dont have an analytical mind, but I do have a talent for...
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Where do you find the perfect boy, the boy all the girls on the radio sing about, the boy who will be better than God? Gina Fontana knows. After surviving a terrifying attack at the age of ten, Gina is haunted by paralyzing fears. Her mother laments that she is ruined. It becomes the big family problem and the big family secret. Gina copes by immersing herself in a dream world filled with the music of The Beatles. She becomes obsessed with Paul McCartney....
8) Havana libre
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In this explosive follow-up to the Edgar Award finalist, Havana Lunar, Dr. Mano Rodriguez takes an undercover assignment to the most dangerous city in Latin America: Miami. During the summer of 1997, a series of bombings terrorize Havana hotels. The targets are tourists, and the terrorists are exiles seeking to cripple Cuban tourism and kill the Revolution. After Mano finds himself helpless to save one of the victims, his nemesis Colonel Emilio Perez...