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Player's vendetta / by Lantigua, John,author.(CARDINAL)756205;
"Willie Cuesta, former Miami Police Department detective-turned-private investigator, is swinging in his hammock, estimating the number of mango daquiris he can squeeze from a ripe piece of fruit about to fall from his tree. He's also waiting for a prospective client who refused to discuss her case over the phone. Ellie Hernandez hasn't seen her fiancé, Roberto "Bobby" Player, in ten days, and she wants Willie to find him. Bobby has been obsessed with the suspicious death of his parents more than thirty-five years ago in Cuba, and he recently went to the island to find their killers. Only six years old when they were murdered, he was living in the United States, where they were supposed to join him. He was one of the "Peter Pan" kids smuggled out when Fidel Castro took over. Willie learns the Players controlled one of the most successful casinos on the island and a large sum of money-half a million dollars-disappeared with their deaths. His investigation reveals an assortment of suspicious characters who were in Havana when the Players were killed, including a former Cuban spy now living in Little Havana, Mafia gangsters involved in gambling institutions and even an undercover US intelligence agent. Were they murdered by the Cuban government for being involved in the counter-revolution underground movement? Did the Mafia kill them to steal their fortune? Or did anti-communist Cubans believe they were traitors and execute them? Rumors and questions abound, but when men in rubber masks firing machine guns turn up, Willie knows someone is trying to keep a long-buried secret under wraps!" --
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Cuban Americans;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Worm : a Cuban American odyssey / by Rodriguez, Edel,author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)540444;
"A stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage on the infamous Mariel boatlift. When Edel was nine, Fidel Castro announced his surprising decision to let 125,000 traitors of the revolution, or "worms," leave the country. The faltering economy and Edel's family's vocal discomfort with government surveillance had made their daily lives on a farm outside Havana precarious, and they secretly planned to leave. But before that happened, a dozen soldiers confiscated their home and property and imprisoned them in a detention center near the port of Mariel, where they were held with dissidents and criminals before being marched to a flotilla that miraculously deposited them, overnight, in Florida. Through vivid, stirring art, Worm tells a story of a boyhood in the midst of the Cold War, a family's displacement in exile, and their tenacious longing for those they left behind. It also recounts the coming-of-age of an artist and activist, who, witnessing American's turn from democracy to extremism, struggles to differentiate his adoptive country from the dictatorship he fled. Confronting questions of patriotism and the liminal nature of belonging, Edel Rodriguez ultimately celebrates the immigrants, maligned and overlooked, who guard and invigorate American freedom"--
Subjects: Autobiographical comics.; Autobiographies.; Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Historical comics.; Nonfiction comics.; Rodriguez, Edel; Cuban American artists; Political refugees; Political socialization;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10
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Barbacoa, bomba, and betrayal [large print] / by Reyes, Raquel V.,author.(CARDINAL)863850;
"A surprise trip to Miriam's parents in Punta Cana, which should be filled with arroz con pollo and breezy days under the tamarind tree, quickly becomes a hunt for a possible property saboteur. But before Miriam can begin to uncover the person damaging the vacation rentals her parents manage, she's called away to Puerto Rico to film a Three Kings Day special. She's welcomed to the blue ballast-stone streets of Old San Juan by crime scene tape, and things only get worse from there. An anonymous personal gift on Miriam's doorstep on New Year's Eve screams stalker, and the 400-year-old guesthouse creaks and moans like there is something trapped in its walls. Luckily, her BFF, Alma, and their mutual friend Jorge are in town to keep her distracted between filming cultural segments for the network. But private chef tables and spa days come to an abrupt halt when Jorge's telenovela heartthrob novio goes missing. And there is something worrisome about Alma's too-perfect boyfriend--specifically, his duffle bag full of cash. Will demon masks, African drumbeats, and dark alleys lead to Miriam's demise? Or will the mysterious events come together like the delicious layers of a pastelon?"--
Subjects: Cozy mysteries.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Large print books.; Cuban Americans; Women anthropologists;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10
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La travesía solitaria de Juan Cabrera / by Fraxedas, J. Joaquín.(CARDINAL)373377;
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Cuban Americans; Refugees;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Cuban affair [large print] / by DeMille, Nelson,author.(CARDINAL)341420;
Daniel Graham MacCormick -- Mac for short -- seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he's living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat, The Maine. Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer with two tours in Afghanistan. He returned with the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, scars that don't tan, and a boat with a big bank loan. Truth be told, Mac's finances are more than a little shaky. One day, Mac is sitting in the famous Green Parrot Bar in Key West, contemplating his life, and waiting for Carlos, a hotshot Miami lawyer heavily involved with anti-Castro groups. Carlos wants to hire Mac and The Maine for a ten-day fishing tournament to Cuba at the standard rate, but Mac suspects there is more to this and turns it down. The price then goes up to two million dollars, and Mac agrees to hear the deal, and meet Carlos's clients: a beautiful Cuban-American woman named Sara Ortega and a mysterious older Cuban exile, Eduardo Valazquez. What Mac learns is that there is sixty million American dollars hidden in Cuba by Sara's grandfather when he fled Castro's revolution. With the "Cuban Thaw" underway between Havana and Washington, Carlos, Eduardo, and Sara know it's only a matter of time before someone finds the stash. And Mac knows if he accepts this job, he'll walk away rich.
Subjects: Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); Cuban Americans;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The Aguero sisters / by García, Cristina,1958-(CARDINAL)370601;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Cuban American families; Cuban American families; Cuban Americans; Cuban Americans;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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The Mariel Boatlift : a Cuban-American journey / by Triay, Victor Andres,1966-author.(CARDINAL)649157;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-225) and index.
Subjects: Mariel Boatlift, 1980.; Cubans; Immigrants; Political refugees; Political refugees;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Little Havana blues : a Cuban-American literature anthology / by Poey, Delia.(CARDINAL)369388; Suárez, Virgil,1962-(CARDINAL)768192;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-444).980L
Subjects: Literature.; American literature; Cuban Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Las hermanas Aguero [large print] by García, Cristina,1958-(CARDINAL)370601; West, Alan,1953-(CARDINAL)357378;
Subjects: Fiction.; Large print books.; Cuban American families; Cuban Americans;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Our house in the last world : a novel / by Hijuelos, Oscar.;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Cuban American families; Cuban Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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