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The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon
by John Paul Rathbone
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by Mark Kurlansky
Published Mar 2018
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by Mal Peet
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsCan love survive a lifetime? With its urgent sense of history, sweeping emotion, and winning young narrator, Mal Peet's latest is an unforgettable, timely exploration of life during wartime.
by Paula McLain
Published Nov 2012
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by Paul Hendrickson
Published Jul 2012
Read ReviewsA brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood.
by Mahvish Khan
Published Jun 2009
Read ReviewsOutraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guantanamo, Mahvish Khan volunteered to translate for the prisoners. Her story is a challenging, brave, and essential test of who she is and who we are.
by Leonardo Padura
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsMario Conde, retired from the police force, now makes a living trading antique books. In a book, Conde discovers a newspaper article about a beautiful bolero singer of the 1950s, who disappeared mysteriously. Condes intuition sets him off on an investigation into the murder.
by Dan Koeppel
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsA gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the worlds most humble fruit - the banana.
by Tracy Kidder
Published Aug 2004
Read ReviewsThis powerful and inspiring book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.
by Martin Cruz Smith
Published Apr 2001
Read ReviewsA dead Russian is followed by the murders of a Cuban boxer and a prostitute. Although none of them is supposed to be investigated, Arkady cannot be stopped.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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