Twelve-year-old Adrianna Villalobos and her older brother Feye travel the globe with their parents, the hosts of a suspenseful nature show called Wild Survival! The show features daring animal rescues and the work the family does at...
Cuba
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Auteur:Cleeton, ChanelSommaire:The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez. 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....
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When Charlie's artist mother is invited to visit a school in Cuba, the whole family goes along on the trip. But the island they discover is a far cry from the all-inclusive resorts that Charlie has heard his friends talk about....
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Auteur:Engle, MargaritaSommaire:In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles with dyslexia. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.
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Auteur:Jurmain, SuzanneSommaire:Tells the story of the doctors and researchers who worked to track down the cause of yellow fever and find a way to eliminate the disease.
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Auteur:Medina, PabloSommaire:Piedra Negra is an isolated village that is home to many soldiers who were injured in the revolution and now pass their time drinking firewater so intense that they all hallucinate and most never recover. The firewater distiller's...
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Auteur:Bergad, Laird W.Sommaire:Laird Bergad presents a comparative history of slavery in Brazil, Cuba and the United States, countries in which the institutions of slavery survived long into the 19th century ; in Brazil as late as 1888. He assesses the various...
- Auteur:Huddy, JohnSommaire:
This is the true story of a sixteen-month crime spree in 1998, when a Cuban-born former Red Army lieutenant launched a series of raids on the Las Vegas Strip, hitting five world-class hotels, three armored cars, and a department store...
- Auteur:Gratz, AlanSommaire:
A tour de force from acclaimed author Alan Gratz (Prisoner B-3087), this timely — and timeless — novel tells the powerful story of three different children seeking refuge. A New York Times bestseller! Josef is a Jewish boy living in...
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Auteur:Cardenas, TeresaSommaire:Winner of the Casa de las Americas Award, one of the most important prizes given in the Spanish-speaking world. Perro Viejo (Old Dog) is an old, worn-out black Cuban slave who just wants to die. Taken away from his mother at birth, he...
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Auteur:Ryan, GarrySommaire:His psyche still reeling from having to kill a criminal in the line of duty, Calgary’s Detective Lane flies to Cuba to celebrate the wedding of his beloved niece. While there, though, he finds himself drafted by the local police into...
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Auteur:Cardenas, Teresa, Unger, DavidSommaire:The narrator of Letters to My Mother is a young Afro-Cuban girl who, upon the death of her mother, must live with her aunt and cousins. Dependent on them and their good will, she finds their taunts about how dark her skin is and their...
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Auteur:Block, LawrenceSommaire:There were five of them, each prepared to kill, each with his own reasons for accepting what might well be a suicide mission: find a way into Cuba and kill Castro. This breathtaking thriller, originally published the year before the...
- Auteur:Guevara, ErnestoSommaire:
The definitive, authorized version of Che's manifesto on revolution - including his final revisions - completed just before his death. It is both an incisive handbook and an invaluable historical source. "Home will be the open...
- Auteur:Slahi, Mohamedou OuldSommaire:
Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been held at Guantánamo, Cuba, though he has never been charged with a crime. Begun three years into his captivity, Slahi's diary serves as a record of a miscarriage of justice, a deeply personal...
- Auteur:Guevara, CheSommaire:
Ernesto Che Guevara, Argentine by birth, became a central leader of the Cuban revolution and one of the outstanding communists of the 20th century. This book is his firsthand account of the military campaigns and political events that...
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Auteur:Sommaire:As the US and Cuba move toward the normalization of diplomatic relations after an epic fifty-six-year standoff, we find ourselves face-to-face with one of the few places in the world that has been off limits to most Americans. Standing...
- Auteur:Fleischman, AnneSommaire:
Drôles de vacances !!! De gré ou de force, Jean-Louis, Claudette, Léa et d'autres Québécois sont en vacances à Cuba. Ont-ils vraiment besoin de divinités mayas pour rafistoler la toile décousue de leurs relations familiales...
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Auteur:SpainSommaire: - Auteur:Wendel, TimSommaire:
A long-forgotten scrapbook stirs Billy Bryan's memories of a distant past and beckons him and his grown daughter on a reluctant journey to relive his role in history. In 1947 Billy Bryan was playing winter ball in Cuba, his future as...
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