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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Told in language of great simplicity and power, The Old Man and the Sea is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal--a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant merlin far out in the Gulf Stream. --Publisher.
Author
Series
Jericho Quinn volume 8
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Language
English
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Description
Cuba and the United States are in talks to normalize relations, something the old guard on the Communist-controlled island has vowed to stop--by any means necessary. Zayda de la Guardia, a rogue general in the Cuban security services, has gotten his hands on a nuclear weapon left over from the Cold War. He plans to launch it on Miami, an attack that could kill millions. There's just one thing standing in his way: special agent Jericho Quinn and his...
3) Havana storm
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous--a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is, that...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In present-day Miami. Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding,...
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English
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"US Army combat veteran Daniel "Mac" MacCormick, now a charter boat captain, who is about to set sail on his most dangerous cruise. Daniel Graham MacCormick--Mac for short--seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he's living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat, The Maine. Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer with two tours in Afghanistan. He returned with the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts,...
6) Cuba
Author
Series
Jake Grafton volume 7
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Fidel Castro lies dying in Cuba, the U.S. awaits the unavoidable power struggle, but unbeknownst to everyone, the President of the United States has hidden secret weapons on Cuba's Guantanemo Bay, and when those weapons are discovered by Cuban factions, only Admiral Grafton can save America from total annihilation.
7) Havana
Author
Series
Earl Swagger novel volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Capital crimes volume 18
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Max Pauling is 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 and finds himself caught in a scheme to seize control of some groundbreaking medical research.
10) Queen of bones
Author
Series
Havana mystery volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Juan, a Cuban construction worker who has settled in Albuquerque, returns to Havana for the first time since fleeing Cuba by raft twenty years ago. He is traveling with his American wife, Sharon, and hopes to reconnect with Victor, his best friend from college and, unbeknownst to Sharon, he also hopes to discover what has become of two ex-girlfriends, Elsa and Rosita. Juan is surprised to learn that Victor has become Victoria and runs a popular...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez-her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash...
13) Passage by night
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Language
English
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Harry Manning had fled the Cuban revolution, sacrificing everything for freedom and seeking solace on the tranquil waters of the Bahamas. For a time he finds solace in the arms of the beautiful Maria. Then once again his life is shattered when a terrorist bomb claims the lives of those he loves. He is filled with a deep seething desire to avenge his friends. Unknowingly, his lust for retribution has unearthed a deadly conspiracy that threatens to...
14) Cuba libre
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
On February 18, 1898 as the battleship Maine lies at the bottom of Havana harbor, a wealthy sugar baron, his mistress and a gunrunner are set on a collision course in a story of power and romance.
16) Cuba straits
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 22
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Doc Ford's old friend, General Garcia, has gone into the business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He prefers high-profile collectibles, but when he obtains a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro in the early sixties, to a secret girlfriend, Garcia disappears, and then the man to whom he sold the letters. Doc Ford begins to investigate; he soon becomes convinced that those letters contain a secret that someone, or some powerful...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books in association with William Heinemann
Pub. Date
1971, c1958
Language
English
Description
Follows the plight of Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, who becomes a slave to the expensive whims of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Milly, and takes on a job as Secret Agent 5920015 to pay for them.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she's an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn't quite matched its promise; instead it has stifled her rebellious and artistic desires. Each night she DJs a...
19) The German girl
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal’s harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas asylum they had been promised is an illusion.
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Retired Army Ranger John Holliday and his friend Eddie travel to Cuba in search of Eddie's brother, who has vanished mysteriously. Soon they find themselves trying desperately to stop the shocking plot of a secet Templar cabal that has been growing for five hundred years. As the conspiracy tightens its iron grip around the corrupt and dying Castro regime, Holliday must find Eddie's brother before it is too late and the secret horror of what lies...
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