havana (cuba)

Carina Felina is an arrogant cat with an appetite so huge that she eats everything and everyone who crosses her path as she ambles through Havana--until a small crab outsmarts her and saves the day.

A boy helps his father keep their very old car running as they make a trip to Havana for his newborn cousin's zero-year birthday. Includes author's note about cars in Cuba.

"It is 1957 in Marianao, a suburb on the outskirts of Havana. Adela Santiago is thriteen years old and lives in a small blue house with her mother, father, brother, and grandfather. An yet something is a miss. The students on her street are disappearing. Not only that, but her parents' marriage seems to be disintegrating and her cousin is caught up in a bombing at the Hotel Nacional. Welcome to a world where a revolution is brewing. Welcome to Cuba"--Provided by publisher.

"Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana celebrates the city's singular music, literature, baseball, and food; its five centuries of outstanding, neglected architecture; and its extraordinary blend of cultures"--Jacket flap.

A young Cuban boy and his family fix up the family car for a trip to Havana and enjoy the amazing sights along the way until they reach their Abuelo's house.

Wormold, in an effort to support his spoiled daughter, accepts a job as a secret agent in Havana, in service to England, but the imaginary reports he files in the interest of keeping his job, somehow start coming true.

In 1953 Havana, tough war veteran Earl Swagger is conned into being the CIA's pawn, sent to assassinate the threatening young revolutionary Castro, while a Russian veteran of the same grit is sent to protect Swagger's target.

The author describes his privileged life in Havana before he was sent at the age of eleven to the U.S. in 1962, in the wake of the Cuban Revolution.

The author describes his privileged life in Havana before he was sent at the age of eleven to the U.S. in 1962, in the wake of the Cuban Revolution.

Relates events in the childhood of architect Secundino Fernandez, who left his beloved Havana, Cuba, with his parents, first to spend a year in Spain, and later to move to New York City.