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The addicted lawyer : tales of the bar, booze, blow, and redemption / by Cuban, Brian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-241).Brian Cuban was a successful lawyer-and an addict. Brian Cuban was living a lie. With a famous last name and a successful career as a lawyer, Brian was able to hide his clinical depression and alcohol and cocaine addictions-for a while. Today, as an inspirational speaker in long-term recovery, Brian looks back on his journey with honesty, compassion, and even humor as he reflects both on what he has learned about himself and his career choice and how the legal profession enables addiction. His demons, which date to his childhood, controlled him through failed marriages and stays in a psychiatric facility, until they brought him to the brink of suicide. That was his wake-up call. This is his story. Brian also takes an in-depth look at why there is such a high percentage of problematic alcohol use and other mental health issues in the legal profession. What types of therapies work? Are 12-step programs the only answer? Brian also includes interviews with experts on the subject as well as others in the profession who are now in recovery. The Addicted Lawyer is both a serious study of addiction and a compelling story of redemption.
Subjects: Addicts; Recovering addicts.; Lawyers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Shark tank : jump start your business : how to grow a business from concept to cash / by DuDell, Michael Parrish,author.(CARDINAL)404594; Cuban, Mark,contributor.(CARDINAL)555019;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-284)."From the ABC hit show "Shark Tank," this book--filled with practical advice and introductions from the Sharks themselves--will be the ultimate resource for anyone thinking about starting a business or growing the one they have. Full of tips for navigating the confusing world of entrepreneurship, the book will intersperse words of wisdom with inspirational stories from the show. Throughout the book, readers will learn how to: Determine whether they're compatible with the life of a small business owner Shape a marketable idea and craft a business model around it Plan for a launch Run a business without breaking the bank (or burning themselves out) Create a growth plan that will help them handle and harness success Pitch an idea or business plan like a pro Responding to the fans' curiosity about past show contestants, readers will also find approximately 10 "Where Are They Now" boxes in which they learn what happened to some of the most asked-about and/or most popular guests ever to try their luck in front of the Sharks--and what they learned in the process"--
Subjects: New business enterprises.; Small business; Strategic planning.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Kid start-up : how you can be an entrepreneur / by Cuban, Mark,author.(CARDINAL)555019; Patel, Shaan,author.(CARDINAL)604166; McCue, Ian(Businessman),author.(CARDINAL)806864; Expanded version of (work):Cuban, Mark.How any kid can start a business.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-122)"A guide for kids interested in starting their own business."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: New business enterprises; Home-based businesses; Entrepreneurship;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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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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The man who loved dogs / by Padura, Leonardo.; Kushner, Anna,translator.;
"A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940"--
Subjects: Fiction.; Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940; Authors, Cuban;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Oye what I'm gonna tell you : stories / by Rodríguez Milanés, Cecilia,author.(CARDINAL)495604;
Niñas de casa -- The law of progress -- Enough of anything -- Who knows best -- Big difference -- Other people's homes -- Dr. Cubanita -- What remains of Max -- Like a dog -- Barbie doll -- Love and punishment at the clerk of the county courts office -- Tall dark -- Offerings for a capricious God -- El chino y la rubia -- Poor and unhappy -- Patron saints.When is your culture bad for you? That is the question that weaves its way through this collection chronicling the lives of Cuban Americans from WWII-era Havana to contemporary times in "el norte." Whether they inhabit blue collar neighborhoods in the northeast, the increasingly Latino-populated south, or Florida, the characters that populate this book -- many of whom are the children and grandchildren of exiles, who have been raised in traditional Cuban homes but whose only homeland has been the United States -- must decide what to take and what to leave from their upbringing.
Subjects: Short stories.; Cuban Americans; Short stories;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Before night falls / by Arenas, Reinaldo,1943-1990,author.(CARDINAL)711652;
"Before Night Falls" is Reinaldo Arenas's stunning autobiography - a bold and unrestrained account of his life as a writer and a homosexual. Arenas, acknowledged as one of the great twentieth-century Cuban writers, was born in 1943 into a poor, rural Cuban family. At the age of fifteen he joined Castro's guerrillas against Batista's right-wing regime, only to discover that repression under Castro would be on a monumental scale. Reinaldo Arenas spent twenty years of his life trying to survive his "re-education," to safeguard his manuscripts, and to maintain his sanity when he was imprisoned in El Morro prison in Havana. But despite everything that happened to him, including betrayal by his aunt and some of his closest "friends," Arenas triumphed, finally leaving Cuba during the Mariel exodus in 1980." "But America could never replace his beloved Cuba, and his anti-Castro stance made him unsympathetic to many American intellectuals. The final irony was his battle with AIDS, which dominated the last years of his life until he committed suicide on December 7, 1990, at the age of forty-seven." "Before Night Falls was begun before Arenas left Cuba and was completed in the last stage of the disease. It is an extraordinary document - a compelling and moving account of the hell that Arenas experienced in Cuba and the purgatory he endured in the United States. It is a book both raw and fierce, tender and lyrical, particularly about the Cuban landscape. In it you will discover a man of enormous vitality, resilience, and courage. Arenas writes of his own book, "I tell my truth like a Jew who has suffered from racism, a Russian who has been in the Gulag, or any human being who has eyes to see things as they are: I cry out: therefore I am."
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Arenas, Reinaldo, 1943-1990.; Authors, Cuban;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Antes que anochezca / by Arenas, Reinaldo,1943-1990.(CARDINAL)711652;
Subjects: Biographies.; Arenas, Reinaldo, 1943-1990.; Authors, Cuban;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Cesto de llamas : biografía de José Martí / by Toledo Sande, Luis,1950-(CARDINAL)720166;
Subjects: Biographies.; Martí, José, 1853-1895.; Revolutionaries; Authors, Cuban;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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José Martí : man of poetry, soldier of freedom / by West, Alan,1953-(CARDINAL)357378;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Martí, José, 1853-1895; Revolutionaries; Statesmen; Authors, Cuban; Revolutionaries; Authors, Cuban;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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