Six Days in Havana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Six Days in Havana write by James Albert Michener. This book was released on 1989-01-01. Six Days in Havana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides a close-up look at modern Havana thirty years after the Revolution, showing its neighborhoods, plantations, and people
Six Days in Havana
Six Days in Havana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Six Days in Havana write by James A. Michener. This book was released on 2014-12. Six Days in Havana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hostage in Havana
Hostage in Havana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hostage in Havana write by Noel Hynd. This book was released on 2011-07-05. Hostage in Havana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From bestselling ABA author Noel Hynd comes this new series set against the backdrop of Havana, an explosive capital city of faded charm locked in the past and torn by political intrigue. U.S. Treasury Agent Alexandra LaDuca leaves her Manhattan home on an illegal mission to Cuba that could cost her everything. Accompanying her is the attractive but dangerous Paul Guarneri, a Cuban-born exile who lives in the gray areas of the law. Together, they plunge into subterfuge and danger. Without the support of the United States, Alex must navigate Cuban police, saboteurs, pro-Castro security forces, and an assassin who follows her from New York. Bullets fly as allies become traitors and enemies become unexpected friends. Alex, recovering from the tragic loss of her fiancé a year before, reexamines faith and new love while taking readers on a fast-paced adventure. Readers of general market thrillers, such as John le Carré, David Baldacci, and Joel Rosenberg, will eagerly anticipate this first installment.
Last Dance in Havana
Last Dance in Havana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Last Dance in Havana write by Eugene Robinson. This book was released on 2012-11-20. Last Dance in Havana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In power for forty-four years and counting, Fidel Castro has done everything possible to define Cuba to the world and to itself -- yet not even he has been able to control the thoughts and dreams of his people. Those thoughts and dreams are the basis for what may become a post-Castro Cuba. To more fully understand the future of America's near neighbor, veteran reporter Eugene Robinson knew exactly where to look -- or rather, to listen. In this provocative work, Robinson takes us on a sweaty, pulsating, and lyrical tour of a country on the verge of revolution, using its musicians as a window into its present and future. Music is the mother's milk of Cuban culture. Cubans express their fondest hopes, their frustrations, even their political dissent, through music. Most Americans think only of salsa and the Buena Vista Social Club when they think of the music of Cuba, yet those styles are but a piece of a broad musical spectrum. Just as the West learned more about China after the Cultural Revolution by watching From Mao to Mozart, so will readers discover the real Cuba -- the living, breathing, dying, yet striving Cuba. Cuban music is both wildly exuberant and achingly melancholy. A thick stew of African and European elements, it is astoundingly rich and influential to have come from such a tiny island. From rap stars who defy the government in their lyrics to violinists and pianists who attend the world's last Soviet-style conservatory to international pop stars who could make millions abroad yet choose to stay and work for peanuts, Robinson introduces us to unforgettable characters who happily bring him into their homes and backstage discussions. Despite Castro's attempts to shut down nightclubs, obstruct artists, and subsidize only what he wants, the musicians and dancers of Cuba cannot stop, much less behave. Cubans move through their complicated lives the way they move on the dance floor, dashing and darting and spinning on a dime, seducing joy and fulfillment and next week's supply of food out of a broken system. Then at night they take to the real dance floors and invent fantastic new steps. Last Dance in Havana is heartwrenching, yet ultimately as joyous and hopeful as a rocking club late on a Saturday night.
Good-bye, Havana! Hola, New York!
Good-bye, Havana! Hola, New York! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Good-bye, Havana! Hola, New York! write by Edie Colon. This book was released on 2011-08-23. Good-bye, Havana! Hola, New York! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Lush, evocative.” —School Library Journal “Raul Colón’s art…has a sweetness that’s sometimes tinged with anxiety, sometimes with hope. A fine addition to books about the immigrant experience.” —Booklist “This gentle look back at an important time will also speak to contemporary children whose families are starting anew in the United States.” —Publishers Weekly When five year old Gabriella hears talk of Castro and something called revolution in her home in Cuba, she doesn't understand. Then when her parents leave suddenly and she remains with her grandparents, life isn't the same. Soon the day comes when she goes to live with her parents in a new place called the Bronx. It isn't warm like Havana, and there is traffic not the ocean outside her window. Their life is different—it snows in the winter and the food at school is hot dogs and macaroni. What will it take for the Bronx to feel like home?
