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Author : Darryl Brock
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803235895
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Havana Heat written by Darryl Brock and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First Nebraska paperback printing"--T.p. verso.
Author : Megan Feeney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022659369X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Hollywood in Havana written by Megan Feeney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the turn of the twentieth century through the late 1950s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn, John Wayne, and Marlon Brando. In fact, Hollywood was seemingly everywhere in pre-Castro Havana, with movie theaters three to a block in places, widely circulated silver screen fanzines, and terms like “cowboy” and “gangster” entering Cuban vernacular speech. Hollywood in Havana uses this historical backdrop as the catalyst for a startling question: Did exposure to half a century of Hollywood pave the way for the Cuban Revolution of 1959? Megan Feeney argues that the freedom fighting extolled in American World War II dramas and the rebellious values and behaviors seen in postwar film noir helped condition Cuban audiences to expect and even demand purer forms of Cuban democracy and national sovereignty. At the same time, influential Cuban intellectuals worked to translate Hollywood ethics into revolutionary rhetoric—which, ironically, led to pointed critiques and subversions of the US presence in Cuba. Hollywood in Havana not only expands our notions of how American cinema was internalized around the world—it also broadens our view of the ongoing history of US-Cuban interactions, both cultural and political.
Author : Paul Goldstein
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466802278
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Havana Requiem written by Paul Goldstein and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fueled by alcohol and legal brilliance, Michael Seeley once oversaw his law firm's most successful litigation. Until it all fell apart. Recklessness and overreach cost him his wife, his job, and likely the life of his last client, a Chinese dissident journalist. Havana Requiem, the latest Seeley novel from the acclaimed author Paul Goldstein, opens after a year's sobriety has earned Seeley back most of what he lost: the partnership in his Manhattan law firm, if not his corner office; the wary respect of most of his partners; the lucrative clients—but not the gin-sharpened passion. Then the renowned Cuban musician Héctor Reynoso enters his office with a simple request: help him and other composers who defined Cuba's musical golden age of the 1940s and '50s—the music that made the Buena Vista Social Club internationally famous—reclaim the copyright to their work. When Reynoso goes missing, Seeley's reluctant promise to help draws him progressively deeper into Havana's violent underbelly and a decades-long conspiracy that runs from the partners in his firm to the U.S. State Department to Cuba's security police, who are willing to do anything to suppress the truth. In the heat of Havana, Seeley will lose himself to his worst and best passions as his pursuit of justice becomes a desperate gambit to save not only his composers but the stunning Amaryll, who is playing her own dangerous game.
Author : M. Delores Carlito
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810856806
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (568 download)
Download or read book Cuban-American Fiction in English written by M. Delores Carlito and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography contains listings and annotations of all novels, anthologies, and short story collections written by the first, 1.5, and second generations of Cuban Americans. This work also contains listings and annotations of all secondary works dealing with this fiction, as well as related memoirs, autobiographies and interviews.
Author : Mike Lupica
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142407578
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Heat written by Mike Lupica and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 Bestseller! Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat along with aspirations of leading his team all the way to the Little League World Series. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family’s escape from Cuba, Michael’s only family is his seventeen-yearold brother Carlos. If Social Services hears of their situation, they will be separated in the foster-care system—or worse, sent back to Cuba. Together, the boys carry on alone, dodging bills and anyone who asks too many questions. But then someone wonders how a twelve-year-old boy could possibly throw with as much power as Michael Arroyo throws. With no way to prove his age, no birth certificate, and no parent to fight for his cause, Michael’s secret world is blown wide open, and he discovers that family can come from the most unexpected sources. Perfect for any Little Leaguer with dreams of making it big--as well as for fans of Mike Lupica's other New York Times bestsellers Travel Team, The Big Field, The Underdogs, Million-Dollar Throw, and The Game Changers series, this cheer-worthy baseball story shows that when the game knocks you down, champions stand tall.
Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN 13 : 1904738095
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Havana Red written by Leonardo Padura and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.
Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN 13 : 1904738893
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Havana Fever written by Leonardo Padura and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde.
Author : Kim Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521117217
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Havana Heat: Romance Set in Paradise written by Kim Knight and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Havana Heat is book one of the Romance in Paradise Series of modern,steamy, suspenseful and romantic stories, set in exotic locations around the world. In Havana Heat readers are transported to the paradise of Cuba's capital Havana, following the romance and heat build between Spaniard Detective Sebastian Garcia, and London born and bred wedding planner Melinda Jones. Melinda's path crosses with the handsome and charming Detective at Casa De Amour Hotel as a guest at her client's exotic location wedding. Both characters are in search of a slice of paradise, away from their own troubled love life back home. Once their paths cross the romance and sizzle begins.When all hell breaks out at Casa De Amour Hotel, and conflict builds over their past both characters are faced with a decision to take a risk and see out their romance, or walk away forever asking themselves what could have been. Romance, thrills and excitement await in book one of this modern romance series set in paradise.
Author : Carolina Garcia-Aguilera
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062035193
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Bitter Sugar written by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dearest friend of Lupe Solana's beloved "Papi," Ramón Suarez was the owner of a prosperous sugar mill back in Cuba until Castro forced him into exile. Now an unnamed Spanish source wants to purchase the confiscated property at a fraction of its true value. Suarez wants the sexy, smart, hot-tempered South Florida P.I. to find out why, but Ramon's lazy, no-good nephew Alexander just wants to take the money and run. Then Alexander is found brutally slain in a sleazy Miami hotel -- his last known visitor, Tío Ramón, accused of murder. Lupe's routine journey down a paper trail now turns into something darker and more twisted, entangling her in a mysterious web of spun sugar and blood that will bring bullets smashing through her window and death to her door.
Author : Christopher Hull
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 164313101X
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Our Man Down in Havana written by Christopher Hull and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When U.S. immigration authorities deported Graham Greene from Puerto Rico in 1954, the British author made an unplanned visit to Havana and the former MI6 officer had stumbled upon the ideal setting for a comic espionage story. Three years later, he returned in the midst of Castro’s guerrilla insurgency against a U.S.-backed dictator to begin writing his iconic novel Our Man in Havana. Twelve weeks after its publication, in January 1959, the Cuban Revolution triumphed, soon transforming a capitalist playground into a communist stronghold.Combining biography, history, politics, and a measure of psychoanalysis, Our Man Down in Havana investigates the real story behind Greene’s fiction. It includes his many visits to a pleasure island that became a revolutionary island, turning his chance involvement into a political commitment. His Cuban novel describes an amateur agent who dupes his intelligence chiefs with invented reports about “concrete platforms and unidentifiable pieces of giant machinery.” With eerie prescience, Greene’s satirical tale had foretold the Cold War’s most perilous episode, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Author : John Boyd
Publisher : Surrounded by Links
ISBN 13 : 0983128006
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Twisted Fate written by John Boyd and published by Surrounded by Links. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TWISTED FATE THRILLER DRAWS ON AUTHOR'S INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE Major Robert Davis has almost captured Bin Laden. He's rescued the U.S. President's son from kidnappers and met with the Castro brothers to prevent a war between the U.S. and Cuba. Now, with his Colombian-born mother recovering from a heart attack, all he wants is to resign from military intelligence and help her with the family's international manufacturing company. And then the President calls. In John Boyd's debut thriller, TWISTED FATE, Davis-the only person to have found Bin Laden-must travel to Colombia on a black mission to stop a planned terrorist attack on the U.S. by the revolutionary FARC and its secret leader, Gilberto Rodriquez. Supported by Bin Laden's organization, Rodriquez has the attack plan in motion, but he has not counted on Robert Davis. With the help of his brother and team, including a nerdy genius with a sophisticated tracking device, Robert races against time, with his life-and the life of the woman he loves-at stake. "Rich with details and author integrity. This book pulls you into a world of intrigue, secrets and danger. Robert Davis is the perfect blend of sex appeal and courage." --Thriller novelist Bonnie Hearn Hill John Boyd was an international construction executive and traveled the world living in Asia and South America. This is the first of the Robert Davis series.
Author : Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846942101
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Coltan written by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The board members of US company Dall & Houston receive a death threat from an alleged Islamic terrorist called Aarohum Al Rashid: unless they return the one billion dollars that they reaped from their direct involvement in the Iraq war, they will be killed off one by one. The plot addresses current global issues like the war for the control of coltan supplies, a mineral so valuable that it has become essential to new technology in the developed world. A great novel, charged with action, intrigue and first-class story telling.
Author : Brandon Massey
Publisher : Dafina
ISBN 13 : 0758263910
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)
Download or read book Within The Shadows written by Brandon Massey and published by Dafina. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be Careful What You Wish For At just thirty-one, Andrew Wilson has it all: close friends, a great house in an Atlanta suburb, and a successful career as a mystery writer. Only one thing is missing--a special person to share it with. Then one day he meets someone new, a woman who seems almost too good to be true. Beautiful, smart, and sophisticated, Mika Woods is everything that Andrew has ever wanted and more--at first. After one night of passion, Andrew soon discovers that Mika isn't quite who she appears to be. Or even what she appears to be. But it's too late to turn back. Mika has been waiting a lifetime for a man like Andrew. And what she wants, what she desires, she will have--no matter who has to die. . . Praise for the novels of Brandon Massey Thunderland "Spellbinding. Keeps you turning the pages to see what will happen next. A great debut novel!" --Zane, New York Times bestselling author of Addicted "I've been waiting a long time for a writer like Brandon Massey. Thunderland is my favorite kind of supernatural suspense book." --Tananarive Due, national bestselling author of The Living Blood Dark Corner "Mr. Massey's gripping style is reminiscent of Stephen King."--QBR "Massey creates effective suspense, some harrowing scenes, and characters you actually care about." --Fangoria "His most innovative and chilling work yet."--R.A.W. Sistaz Reviewers
Author : Angharad N. Valdivia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405171952
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Media Studies written by Angharad N. Valdivia and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Media Studies is a comprehensive collection that brings together new writings by an international team to provide an overview of the theories and methodologies that have produced this most interdisciplinary of fields. Tackles a variety of central concepts and controversies, organized into six areas of study: foundations, production, media content, media audiences, effects, and futures Provides an accessible point of entry into this expansive and interdisciplinary field Includes the writings of renowned media scholars, including McQuail, Schiller, Gallagher, Wartella, and Bryant Now available in paperback for the course market.
Author : Gina Ponce de Leon
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443862835
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Twenty-First Century Latin American Narrative and Postmodern Feminism written by Gina Ponce de Leon and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of Twenty-First Century Latin American Narrative and Postmodern Feminism argue that, while the more traditional feminists of the 20th century did not recognize in their theoretical and literary work the diversity of women’s experiences, current Latin American post-feminist and post-modern writers are proposing a transgressive new social order, resulting in a more significant cultural resistance to the society they represent. The authors included in this volume show that the narrative of the writers analyzed here is not limited to recognizing issues focused on gender or even sexuality, but also explores the female aspiration of a dignified life and overcoming the dominant structures in their social, political and cultural dimension. The complex female situation of this millennium has become the primary quandary while searching for new forms to represent women in literature. In Twenty-First Century Latin American Narrative and Postmodern Feminism, the authors confront this dilemma in a sharp, sophisticated and harmonious way, offering a critical text that will be of interest for both specialists and general readers interested in Latin American literature and culture of the recent years.
Author : Robert Elias
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317325176
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Baseball and the American Dream written by Robert Elias and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at how America's favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and
Author : Steve Glassman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786480688
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Florida Crime Writers written by Steve Glassman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines 24 crime novelists who set their work in the Sunshine State. From James W. Hall's Under Cover of Daylight in the Florida Keys, to Barbara Parker's Suspicion of Betrayal in Miami to Tim Dorsey's Florida Roadkill at Cape Canaveral and Tampa, these writers and their works span all of Florida's 67 counties. A biographical sketch of each author precedes an interview by a critic who has immersed him- or herself in the novelist's works, producing interview-essays of noteworthy perception and insight.
