Caribbean West Indian category: 313 books
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...
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 Jose Marti
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
José Martí (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, Martí lived in exile in New York for most of his adult life, earning...
Cuba : What Everyone Needs To Know
What Everyone Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life...
Gangsterismo
The United States, Cuba and the Mafia, 1933 to 1966
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Gangsterismo is an extraordinary accomplishment, the most comprehensive history yet of the clash of epic forces over several decades in Cuba. It is a chronicle that touches upon deep and ongoing themes in the history of the Americas, and more specifically of the United States government, Cuba before...
The Bunna Man
Joe Grind Series
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
A book about love, lies and deception between two women and the man who stole their hearts and played then both as fools. The never ending story of how a cute face and a smile turn smart women into foolish girls.
by José Martí y Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
La presente antología de Poemas de José Martí, reúne la totalidad de la obra poética del autor conocida hasta la fecha —incluidos algunos poemas inéditos en vida del poeta cubano y esbozos inconclusos—, y comprende las siguientes obras: Poemas dispersos I; Poemas escritos en España (1871-1874);...
by José Martí y Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Ismaelillo es un libro de poemas de José Martí escritos en Nueva York en 1882, y dedicados a su hijo José Francisco. El poeta cubano expresa en él la enorme nostalgia que sentía por su tierra y su continente en general, pero también por su hijo y por la infancia como una época dorada. Tras...
by Adrian Musgrave
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
In his second book, originally intended for publication in 1898, but delayed by his recuperation from a chest wound received at the fall of Santiago, George Clarke Musgrave tells us about the patriotic struggles of the Cubans, and about the iniquities practised upon them by the impulsive Spanish occupation...
by Random House
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
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...
by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Once años antes de que La cabaña del tío Tom se ocupase del tema de la abolición de la esclavitud en Norteamérica, la Avellaneda escribió Sab, una historia de amor desgraciado entre un esclavo mulato y la hija de su dueño blanco. El libro fue tan polémico que no se publicó en Cuba hasta 1914,...
by José Martí y Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
El 19 de diciembre de 1875 se estrena Amor con amor se paga, obra ligera, de versificación sonora, que trata el tema amoroso con cierto humor y gracia. Escrita por José Martí en París durante su exilio para la actriz Concha Padilla, obtuvo la ovación de la crítica.