1933-1959

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1933-1959

Fidel Castro

a biography
2004
Examines the life and career of Cuban ruler Fidel Castro, discussing his childhood, education, family, and rise to political power, and including information about the history of Cuba under his leadership.

Fidel's Cuba

a revolution in pictures
1998
History of the Cuban Revolution in pictures from Castro's fund-raising trip to New York in 1955 to the 1990s.

The road to Santiago

2003
In Cuba, in the early 1950s, a young boy and his family try their best not to let the rebel soldiers keep them from traveling to Santiago to celebrate Christmas with their relatives. Based on a true incident in the life of the author.

Fidel Castro

an unauthorized biography
2000
A biography of the president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, discussing his childhood, family, revolutionary activities, and role as leader of his country since 1959.

Fidel Castro

2003
Profiles the life of the Cuban leader, including his upbringing, his education, his political influences, his role in the Cuban revolution, and his government of the island nation.

Chang?'s beads and two-tone shoes

2011
Journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at a bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, and his writing style and life are radically changed in ways that carry Quinn through the next ten years as he witnesses violence, revolutions, and the darkest facets of human nature.

Tropical secrets

Holocaust refugees in Cuba
2009
Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.

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