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by Mark Masek
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
For more than 100 years, Hollywood Forever Cemetery has been one of the premier burial locations for entertainment celebrities, studio executives and members of the Hollywood film community. Today, it’s one of the top tourist destinations for fans who want to pay their respects to their favorite...
by Chen Lizra
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Enough books have been written about Cuba to fill an entire library, but few take the approach Chen Lizra does with "My Seductive Cuba." Deeply personal and always engaging, Lizra - an Israeli-born dance instructor and entrepreneur now living in Canada - fuses history and politics with...
The Double Life of Fidel Castro
My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba.
Responsible for protecting the Lider maximo...
by Matthew Parker
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Amid the lush beauty of Jamaica's northern coast lies the true story of Ian Fleming's iconic creation: James Bond.
For two months every year, from 1946 to his death eighteen years later, Ian Fleming lived at Goldeneye, the house he built on a point of high land overlooking a small white sand...
by Juan Francisco Manzano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Este es un sencillo pero elocuente relato del esclavismo en las colonias españolas del Nuevo Mundo, es el primer testimonio en lengua española de un esclavo, y un documento de un inmenso valor histórico y humano. Manzano inició su redacción en 1835, alentado por Domingo del Monte, escritor empeñado...
Voyager
Travel Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
“Banks’s narrative seductively juxtaposes rambles through lush volcanic mountains, white sand beaches and coral reefs with a barrage of memories of the hash he’s made of his private life.” —The New York Times Book Review
Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust...
The Americano
Fighting with Castro for Cuba's Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
The untold story of William Morgan, the man who left Ohio to become a high-ranking leader in Fidel Castro’s rebel army: “Reads like a great epic novel” (Carlos Eire, author of Waiting for Snow in Havana).
When William Morgan was twenty-two years old, he was working as a high school janitor...
by Jose Marti.
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
José Julián Martí y Pérez was born in Havana, Cuba on January 28, 1853. He is one of the most renowned writers in the history of Cuba and Latin America. He essentially devoted his life to the cause of independence and to the foundation of a new Cuban nation. As we perceive...
by Jeanie Buss, Steve Springer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The never-before-told story of the Buss family and of one woman's rise to the top in a man's world, Laker Girl is an unprecedented glimpse into the glamorous world of the Los Angeles Lakers. It is also a behind-the-scenes journal of the 2009–10 Lakers season, a year in which the franchise captured...
The Domino Diaries
My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A powerful and lively work of immersive journalism, Brin-Jonathan Butler's story of his time chasing the American dream through Cuba
Whether he's hustling his way into Mike Tyson's mansion for an interview, betting his life savings on a boxing match (against the favorite), becoming romantically...
The Cuba Wars
Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
There are few international relationships as intimate, as passionate-and as dysfunctional-as that of the United States and Cuba. In The Cuba Wars, Cuba expert Daniel Erikson draws on extensive visits and conversations with both Cuban government officials and opposition leaders-plus key players in...
The Sugar King of Havana
The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
"Fascinating...A richly detailed portrait." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man in prerevolutionary Cuba. He had a life fit for Hollywood: he barely survived both a gangland shooting and a firing squad, and...
by Robert Mailer Anderson, Will Christopher Baer, Kate Braverman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Brand new stories by: Domenic Stansberry, Barry Gifford, Eddie Muller, Robert Mailer Anderson, Michelle Tea, Peter Plate, Kate Braverman, David Corbett, Alejandro Murguía, Sin Soracco, Alvin Lu, Jon Longhi, Will Christopher Baer, Jim Nesbit, and David Henry Sterry.
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San Francisco Noir 2
The Classics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
The original San Francisco Noir is one of the top-selling titles in the Akashic Books Noir Series, now in its third printing.