Best Novels Set In Cuba - April 2024

The Charm School

• ASIN: B000SEGDRW
• ASIN: B000SEGDRW
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Refugee

A New York Times bestseller!JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America . . .MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe . . .All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0545880831
• ASIN: 0545880831
• ISBN: 9780545880831
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Press

In the Time of the Butterflies

25th Anniversary Edition "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.” --St. Petersburg Times It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas--the Butterflies. I... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1565129768
• ASIN: 1565129768
• ISBN: 1565129768
• Brand: Algonquin Books
• Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

Night Fall (John Corey Book 3)

• ASIN: B000FC2LXM
• ASIN: B000FC2LXM
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Unsheltered: A Novel

• ASIN: 0062684566
• ASIN: 0062684566
• ISBN: 9780062684561
• Manufacturer: Harper

Wild Fire (John Corey Book 4)

• ASIN: B000OT8GVC
• ASIN: B000OT8GVC
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library (Paperback))

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeDescribed by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt becoming president.

• ASIN: 0375756787
• ASIN: 0375756787
• ISBN: 0375756787
• Brand: Random House Trade
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

The Lion's Game (John Corey Book 2)

• ASIN: B000Q9IN4K
• ASIN: B000Q9IN4K
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel (P.S.)

• ASIN: B003GFIW3S
• ASIN: B003GFIW3S
• Brand: HarperCollins e-books
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

Telex from Cuba: A Novel

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction The debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Kushner, called “shimmering” (The New Yorker), “multilayered and absorbing” (The New York Times Book Review), and “gorgeously written” (Kirkus Reviews).Young Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom—three hundred thousand acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane that surround their gated enclave. If the rural tropics are a child's dreamworld, Everly and K.C. nevertheless have keen eyes for the indulgences and... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1416561048
• ASIN: 1416561048
• ISBN: 9781416561040
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Radiant Angel (John Corey Book 7)

Prescient and chilling, DeMille's #1 New York Times bestselling novel takes us into the heart of a new Cold War with a clock-ticking plot that has Manhattan in its crosshairs.After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, John Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York City, taking a job with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Although Corey's new assignment with the DSG-surveilling Russian diplomats working at the U.N. Mission-is thought to be "a quiet end," he is more than happy to be out from under the thumb of the FBI and free f... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00NERQRC6
• ASIN: B00NERQRC6
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Our Man in Havana

A hapless salesman in Cuba is recruited into Cold War spy games in Greene’s classic “comical, satirical, atmospherical” novel (The Daily Telegraph).   James Wormold, a cash-strapped vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, finds the answer to his prayers when British Intelligence offers him a lucrative job as an undercover agent. To keep the checks coming, Wormold must at least pretend to know what he’s doing. Soon, he’s apparently deciphering incomprehensible codes, passing along sketches of secret weapons that look suspiciously like vacuum parts, and claiming to recruit fellow operative... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07CMKNQ3G
• ASIN: B07CMKNQ3G
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Up Country (Paul Brenner Book 2)

• ASIN: B000FA65KY
• ASIN: B000FA65KY
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Our Man in Havana

MI6’s man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true… First published in 1959 against the backdrop of the Cold War, Our Man in Havana remains one of Graham Greene’s most widely read novels. It is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire of government intelligence that still resonates ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142438006
• ASIN: 0142438006
• ISBN: 0142438006
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

If the Dead Rise Not: A Bernie Gunther Novel

Detective Bernie Gunther navigates two corrupt regimes in this “richly satisfying mystery...that evokes the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald while breaking new ground of its own”(Los Angeles Times). Berlin, 1934. Former policeman Bernie Gunther, now a hotel detective, finds himself caught between warring factions of the Nazi apparatus as Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, connive to soft-pedal Nazi anti-Semitism before the 1936 Olympiad...   Havana, 1954. Batista, aided by the CIA, has just seized power; Castro is in prison; and th... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0030CVRFM
• ASIN: B0030CVRFM
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

When We Left Cuba

9780451490865

• UPC: 795780546
• Rating: 4.8

The Best of Us : A Novel

Paradise isn't quite what it seems as four college friends meet for an island vacation in this captivating new novel from the acclaimed author of "These Girls." An all-expense-paid week at a luxury villa in

• UPC: 21277570
• Rating: 4.222

The Cuban Affair : A Novel

"Daniel Graham MacCormick ... 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 ... One day, Mac is sitting in the famous

• UPC: 55801289
• Rating: 4.4

The Cuban Affair : A Novel

In his latest thriller, the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Plum Island" and "Night Fall" introduces an exciting new characterDU.S. Army combat veteran Daniel "Mac" MacCormick, now a charter boat captain, who's about to

• UPC: 828537516
• Rating: 4.4

My Best Friend's Exorcism : A Novel

An unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist that blends teen angst, adolescent drama, unspeakable horrors, and a mix of '80s pop songs into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller The year is 1988. High school sophomores

• UPC: 55695819
• Rating: 4.087

Telex from Cuba

Set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading up to Castro's revolution--a place that was a paradise for a few--Kushner's first novel is a tour de force with the urgency of a

• UPC: 10763324
• Rating: 3.458

Half Past Noon in Cuba

Two large, wooden doors led to the open courtyard surrounded by concrete walls twelve feet high. It resembled a fort from Cuba's glory days as a Spanish satellite, used to successfully defend itself against foreign

• UPC: 53052616

Dreaming in Cuban

Three women within a Cuban family struggle to persevere during the Cuban

• UPC: 469622
• Rating: 3.462

Cuban Death-Lift - eBook

When Fidel Castro allows thousands of Cubans to depart for America in the Mariel Boatlift, he exports the worst criminals and undesirables of his country along with them. To monitor the situation, the CIA sends

• UPC: 819061774
• Rating: 4.0

Zane Grey, Best Novels

Pearl Zane Grey (1872 -1939) was an American dentist and author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier.

• UPC: 312706690