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  • Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980

    The First Twenty Days

    by Kathleen Dupes Hawk, Ron Villella, Adolfo Leyva de Varona ...
    WINNER OF THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S STETSON KENNEDY AWARDThe definitive account of the first twenty days that transformed Florida, Cuba, and the American immigration debate.The 1980 Mariel Boatlift was a profound episode in twentieth-century American history, impacting not just Florida, but the entire country. During the first twenty days of the boatlift, with little support from the ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

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    Confessions of a Cuban Boy

    by Carlos Eire ...
    “Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban.” In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana—exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by Fidel Castro’s revolution. Winner of the National Book Award, this stunning memoir is a vibrant and evocative look at Latin America from a child’s unforgettable experience.Waiting for Snow in Havana is both an exorcism and an ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The Brilliant Disaster

    JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs

    by Jim Rasenberger ...
    A “balanced, engrossing account” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of the Bay of Pigs crisis drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering the vivid truth of five pivotal days in April 1961.At the heart of the Bay of Pigs crisis stood President John F. Kennedy, and journalist Jim Rasenberger traces what Kennedy knew, thought, and said as events unfolded. He examines whether Kennedy was ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Cuba beyond the Beach

    Stories of Life in Havana

    by Karen Dubinsky ...
    Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana’s residents—old Communist ladies, their ... Read more

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  • Perceptions of Cuba

    Canadian and American Policies in Comparative Perspective

    by Lana Wylie ...
    In 1976, with the US trade embargo against Cuba underway, Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau visited the island nation, befriended his counterpart, and exclaimed publicly "Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!" During the past half-century of communist rule in Cuba, Canada's policy of engagement with the country has contrasted sharply with the United States' policy of isolation. Based ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • True Paranormal Mystery From Haunted Islands

    by Damien Rollins ...
    Most people think of sun, sand, and endless parties when they hear the word 'Caribbean'. In some cases all of that's true, which is why the Caribbean islands remain one of the premier destinations for sun worshippers and party goers worldwide. Here's a not so hidden secret though: the history of the Caribbean is much darker than many people realize.The islands of the Caribbean became prized ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sea Rover's Practice

    by Benerson Little ...
    To read of sea roving's various incarnations - piracy, privateering, buccaneering, la flibuste, la course - is to bring forth romantic, and often violent, imagery. Indeed, much of this imagery has become a literary and cinematic clich?. And what an image it is! But its truth is by halves, and paradoxically it is the picaresque imagery of Pyle, Wyeth, Sabatini, and Hollywood that is often closer ... Read more

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  • Cuban Counterpoint

    by Random House ...
    Tobacco and sugar have made the history, the character, and the economy of Cuba. In this entertaining book, packed with fascinating lore, scholarship in its most humane form, and the flavor of Fernando Ortiz’s exceedingly civilized and humorous personality, the two important crops are seen from many points of view. Their economic aspects form the base, but they are examined, too, for their effects ... Read more

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  • Living Santería

    Rituals and Experiences in an Afro-Cuban Religion

    by Michael Atwood Mason ...
    In 1992 Smithsonian anthropologist Michael Atwood Mason traveled to Cuba for initiation as a priest into the Santería religion. Since then he has created an active oricha “house” and has initiated five others as priests. He is a rare combination: a scholar-practitioner who is equally fluent in his profession and his religion. Interweaving his roles as researcher and priest, Mason explores Santería ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Cuba's Car Culture

    Celebrating the Island's Automotive Love Affair

    by Tom Cotter, Bill Warner ...
    "A beautifully photographed documentary . . . and a history of the island's intertwined politics and passion for cars." — San Francisco ChronicleSilver Medal Winner, International Automotive Media CompetitionThe story of how Cuba came to be trapped in automotive time is a fascinating one. For decades, the island country had enjoyed a healthy tourism trade and American outpost status, and by the ... Read more

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  • To Die in Cuba

    Suicide and Society

    by Louis A. Pérez Jr. ...
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    For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world — a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cuba’s historic ties to the Catholic church. In this richly illustrated social and cultural history of suicide in Cuba, Louis A. Pérez Jr. explores the way suicide passed ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Miss Lou: Louise Bennett and the Jamaican Culture

    by Mervyn Morris ...
    Louise Bennett Coverley, ‘Miss Lou’, has for decades represented the ‘face’ of Jamaican culture, the essence of what it is to be Jamaican. As a poet, performer, storyteller, singer, actress, writer, broadcaster, folklore scholar and children’s television show host, she won hearts and souls for Jamaica with her humorous yet compelling performances worldwide.It is Miss Lou, more than any other ... Read more

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