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322) Castro's Spies
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The thrilling story of an elite group of Cuban spies sent undercover to the US in the 1990s
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This is the fascinating true story of four generations of Cuban women whose personal lives are woven with the story of their nation. At its center is Naty, a socialite born in 1925, who becomes intoxicated with Castro and his revolution. Here, published for the first time, are the letters they exchanged while Castro was in jail. Naty raises Castro's unacknowledged daughter, who in turn bears her a granddaughter before immigrating to America to join...
334) Fidel y Raul, mis hermanos, la historia secreta (Fidel and Raul, My Brothers, a Secret History)
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Este libro relata la vida de una familia y unos acontecimientos que cambiaron para siempre la historia de America Latina. Como nadie mas podia hacerlo, Juanita nos adentra en el mundo familiar de los Castro, desde su infancia y juventud hasta las nuevas generaciones, pasando por la gesta contra Batista, la Revolucion y el posterior desencanto de muchos. A lo largo de este fascinante relato desfilan los miticos personajes de la Revolucion Cubana. Fidel...
337) The betrayal game
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Professor Mikhal Lammeck has spent much of his life pondering whether a single bullet could change history. Caught in Havana between a secret-police captain and an ice-cold CIA agent, Lammeck may just get the chance to see history firsthand--if he himself isn't eliminated in the plots to kill Castro.
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Young Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom-three hundred thousand acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane that surround their gated enclave. If the rural tropics are a child's dreamworld, Everly and K.C. nevertheless have keen eyes for the indulgences and betrayals of the grown-ups around them-the mordant drinking and illicit loves, the race hierarchies and violence.
In Havana,...
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This novel is based on the life story of Frank Mederos, who was born and raised in Guanabacoa, Cuba. Through a number of childhood experiences and the influence of his grandfather, he grew to despise the politics of his government. As a boy his grandfather teaches him to fish, to navigate the seas, and to think for himself, much needed skills under the new Castro regime. When Frank is drafted into the army, he is soon promoted to the Special Forces,...
340) Audition: a memoir
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After more than forty years of interviewing celebrities of all kinds, the most important woman in the history of television journalism has turned her gift for examination onto herself to reveal the forces that shaped her extraordinary life. Her father's risk-taking lifestyle gave Barbara her first taste of glamour, but Lou Walters didn't just make fortunes--he also lost them. Barbara's roller-coaster childhood played a large part in the choices she...
