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Sal and Gabi novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In order to heal after his mother's death, Sal learned how to meditate. But no one expected him to be able to take it further and 'relax' things into existence. Turns out he can reach into time and space to retrieve things from other universes.
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"US Army combat veteran Daniel "Mac" MacCormick, now a charter boat captain, who is about to set sail on his most dangerous cruise. Daniel Graham MacCormick--Mac for short--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, The Maine. Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer with two tours in Afghanistan. He returned with the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts,...
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Series
Creoles series volume 1
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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As a young girl, Chantel faced overwhelming tragedy, and now the realization of who the mysterious child on the street might be sends Chantel on a perilous journey through her own heart and through the dangerous wiles deep in the Louisiana swamplands.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As seventeen-year-old Rubi secretly juggles participating in a baking competition, improving her grades for college admission, and a newfound romance, she soon realizes she must learn how to manage her family's expectations while finding her own path. Graduation is only a few months away, and Rubi Ramos's plans to get into prestigious Alma University has been wait-listed. She needs a distraction-free way to keep her parents from finding out-- and...
7) Running
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero-while the whole country is watching"--
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Outlaw saints volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Simultaneous battles rage in the Caribbean and Brooklyn as sixteen-year-olds Mateo and Chela, two gods-turned-teenagers, try to get to the bottom of what is keeping them apart.
"Healer. Destroyer. Creator. Mateo Matisse and Chela Hidalgo are not just two teenagers in love--they're powerful gods in human form. Powerful enough to have saved their Brooklyn diaspora community from the wrath of an ancient enemy and to have raised their once-sunken native...
12) Free Baseball
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English
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Angry with his mother for having too little time for him, eleven-year-old Felix takes advantage of an opportunity to become bat boy for a minor league baseball team, hoping to someday be like his father, a famous Cuban outfielder. Includes glossaries of baseball terms and Spanish words and phrases.
13) The mambo kings
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Musician brothers, Cesar and Nestor, leave Cuba for America in the 1950s, with the hopes of making it to the top of the Latin music scene. Cesar is the older brother who serves as the business manager and is a consumate ladies' man. Nestor is the brooding songwriter, who cannot forget the woman in Cuba who broke his heart.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Publisher Annotation: When Estrella's Tía Fortuna has to say goodbye to her longtime Miami apartment building, The Seaway, to move to an assisted living community, Estrella spends the day with her. Tía explains the significance of her most important possessions from both her Cuban and Jewish culture, as they learn to say goodbye together and explore a new beginning for Tía. A lyrical book about tradition, culture, and togetherness, Tía Fortuna's...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Lo único que Néstor López quiere es vivir en un mismo lugar por más de unos meses y cenar con su papá. Después de que el papá de Néstor se marcha a otra misión, el muchacho y su mamá se mudan a un nuevo pueblo a vivir con su abuela. Néstor planea pasar desapercibido, y de ninguna manera quiere que nadie sepa su secreto más profundo: que puede hablar con los animales....
"A Cuban American boy must use his secret ability to communicate...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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When his family's restaurant and Cuban American neighborhood in Miami are threatened by a greedy land developer, thirteen-year-old Arturo, joined by Carmen, a cute poetry enthusiast, fight back, discovering the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sofía Acosta, a fifth grader trying to fit into her ballet-obsessed Cuban American family and her affluent suburban New York community, learns to speak up for herself and others when she mistakenly reveals a visiting dancer's plan to defect to the United States.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
""A haunting coming of age story that reads like a Dickensian novel, though. all true."-Helen Thorpe, journalist. Never before released in Spanish, Boxeando por Cuba memorializes Guillermo Vicente Vidal's emigration to America at the behest of his parents, fearful of Fidel Castro's regime. This is his story of overcoming incredible odds"--
"In 1961, fearing the communist rule of Fidel Castro, Guillermo Vicente Vidal's family sent him to America through...
19) Cuba 15
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English
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Violet Paz, a Chicago high school student, reluctantly prepares for her upcoming "quince," a Spanish nickname for the celebration of an Hispanic girl's fifteenth birthday.
20) Un día nuevo
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
"Siendo una de los primeros artistas latinos en cruzar fronteras culturales en este país, Jon Secada dominó las listas de música pop al inicio de los años noventa lanzando títulos como Otro día más sin verte y Ángel y ganó varios premios Grammy. Como cubano en el exilio, Jon entiende que vivir significa comenzar de nuevo cada vez y aceptar las oportunidades que se presenten, algo que nunca perdió de vista mientras alcanzaba su sueño de...
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