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Capital crimes series volume 18
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English
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Asked to investigate an American pharmaceutical firm that may be using a German company as a front to avoid the U.S. scientific embargo of Cuba, Max Pauling is caught in a scheme to seize control of some groundbreaking medical research.
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First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing -- from his earliest stories (In Our Time) to his last novella (The Old Man and the Sea) -- this compelling novel contains both the warmth of recollection that inspired A Moveable Feast and a rare glimpse...
3) Havana
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"Sent by the CIA to 1950s Cuba to eliminate young revolutionary Fidel Castro, ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger finds himself confronting outdated ideals about honor and duty as the world around him erupts into early Cold War violence"--NoveList Plus.
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In the “riveting” finale to the New York Times–bestselling series, Miami lawyer Gail Connor is caught between the CIA, the Cuban government, and her husband (Publishers Weekly).
Now married to fellow attorney Anthony Quintana, Gail agrees to accompany him to his native Cuba along with their children on a family vacation. But their plans for a holiday in Havana are...
Now married to fellow attorney Anthony Quintana, Gail agrees to accompany him to his native Cuba along with their children on a family vacation. But their plans for a holiday in Havana are...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
940L
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English
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The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, "The Old Man and the Sea" has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.
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"Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he`s tempted. In return all he has to do is file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true things suddenly get more complicated." -- provided by publisher.
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Cuban trilogy volume 1
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English
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U.S. Treasury agent Alexandra LaDuca is on an illegal mission to Cuba that could cost her everything. At stake is the recovery of a large amount of cash, the return of an expatriate American fugitive... and her life. She will have to re-examine her faith... and her new love... while bullets fly.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
590L
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English
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In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.
9) Cuba straits
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Doc Ford novels volume 22
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English
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"Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar. He prefers what dealers call HPC items--high-profile collectibles--but when he manages to obtain a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 1960-62 to a secret girlfriend, it's not a matter of money anymore. Garcia...
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Arkady Renko novels volume 4
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he body, what was left of it, was drifting in Havana Bay the morning Arkady arrived from Moscow. He had received an urgent message from the Russian embassy in Havana saying that his friend Pribluda was missing and asking that he come. The Cubans insisted that the corpse was Pribluda, but Arkady wasn't so sure. Communism has shrunk to Cuba.
12) Hard currency
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As a serial killer terrorizes Moscow, Rostnikov gets an assignment in Havana The young girl leads her target into a park, planning on robbing him at knifepoint as soon as they are out of sight. But before she can strike, her quarry changes from a stooped middle-aged man to a feral beast, swinging a lead pipe with sadistic glee. By the time the police find the thief, her murderer is long gone. He is the first serial killer in Russian history, responsible...
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James Bond, agent 007, has been brainwashed by Soviet captors into becoming the tool of Russia's K.G.B. to perpetrate an act of treachery--against the British Secret Service. In this adventure, he and his adversary, Francisco Scaramanga, meet in mortal combat in that pleasure paradise, the island of Jamaica. (Publisher)
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
790L
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English
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When unrest hits the streets of Havana, Cuba, Julian's parents must make the heartbreaking decision to send him and his two brothers away to Miami via the Pedro Pan operation. But when the boys get to Miami, they are thrust into a world where bullies seem to run rampant and it's not always clear how best to protect themselves.
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Havana mystery volume 1
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English
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"Havana, Cuba, 2003: Matt, a San Diego journalist, arrives in Havana to marry his girlfriend, Yarmila, a 24-year-old Cuban woman whom he first connected with because of her food blog. But Yarmi isn't there to meet him at the airport. When he hitches a ride to her apartment, he finds her lying dead in the bathtub. Love-lorn Matt is immediately embroiled in a Cuban adventure he hadn't bargained for: the police and secret service have him down as their...
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When Cristina García's first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, was published in 1992, The New York Times called the author "a magical new writer...completely original." The book was nominated for a National Book Award, and reviewers everywhere praised it for the richness of its prose, the vivid drama of the narrative, and the dazzling illumination it brought to bear on the intricacies of family life in general and the Cuban American family...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Guided by proverbs from his father and other relatives, Francisco makes several attempts to bring ripe mangoes home for dessert on his saint day, and in the process learns lessons in love and generosity. Includes glossary of Spanish terms.
18) The rough rider
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House of Winslow volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
930L
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English
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"Aaron Winslow, The Rough Rider, is determined to protect his younger brother in the fight against the Spanish in Cuba"--Provided by publisher.
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Albany cycle volume 8
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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A dramatic novel of love, revolution, and redemption from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ironweed
When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight. So begins a tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany...
When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight. So begins a tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany...
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