Son Of Havana
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Son Of Havana
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Author : Luis Tiant
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Books
Release Date : 2019-05-14
Son Of Havana written by Luis Tiant and has been published by Diversion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A memoir by the mustachioed baseball pitcher who went playing rocky, trash-ridden fields in Castro’s Cuba to becoming a Boston Red Sox legend. Luis Tiant is one of the most charismatic and accomplished players in Boston Red Sox and Major League Baseball history. With a barrel-chested physique and a Fu Manchu mustache, Tiant may not have looked like the lean, sculpted aces he usually played against, but nobody was a tougher competitor on the diamond, and few were as successful. There may be no more qualified twentieth-century pitcher not yet enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. His big-league dreams came at a price: racism in the Deep South and the Boston suburbs, and nearly fifteen years separated from a family held captive in Castro’s Cuba. But baseball also delivered World Series stardom and a heroic return to his island home after close to a half-century of forced exile. The man whose name—“El Tiante” —became a Fenway Park battle cry has never fully shared his tale in his own words, until now. In Son of Havana, Tiant puts his heart on his sleeve and describes his road from torn-up fields in Havana to the pristine lawns of major league ballparks. Readers will share Tiant’s pride when appeals by a pair of US senators to baseball-fanatic Castro secure freedom for Luis’s parents to fly to Boston and witness the 1975 World Series glory of their child. And readers will join the big-league ballplayers for their spring 2016 exhibition game in Havana, when Tiant—a living link to the earliest, scariest days of the Castro regime—threw out the first pitch.
Havana A Son S Journey Home
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Author : Betty Viamontes
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2018-09-23
Havana A Son S Journey Home written by Betty Viamontes and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-23 with Fiction categories.
By the author of the award-winning book "Waiting on Zapote Street," another epic saga that will take readers into an unforgettable journey. When Rodolfo Hernandez's mother forces him to leave Cuba alone, nine years after Fidel Castro comes to power, he doesn't suspect the twists and turns his life would take. But nothing could prepare him for his encounter with his uncle Arturo in Miami, a man who seemed to care little about Rodolfo and anyone else around him, a troubled man with a secret past who would take him years to understand. When Rodolfo begins the twelfth grade at Miami High School, he meets Lissy, a girl with geeky glasses who offers to help him assimilate into a new culture and master a new language. As Rodolfo struggles to understand his uncle, tries to comprehend the changes occurring within the United States as a result of the Vietnam War, and deals with unforeseen events that his parents are facing in Cuba, he fails to understand Lissy and her motivation to help him, a mistake he recognizes when it is almost too late.Havana: A Son's Journey Home also explores the question: Where is home? Is it where we are born, or where our dreams come true? It is a novel that will take readers on an engaging historical adventure that will make them laugh and cry.
Havana Thursdays
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Author : Virgil Suàrez
language : en
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 1995-01-01
Havana Thursdays written by Virgil Suàrez and has been published by Arte Publico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Fiction categories.
One phone call shatters the facade of tranquility presented by the entire Torres family, pitching its members into shockwaves of emotional upheaval that reveal the unsavory realities the clan prefers to ignore. Told in a fast-paced documentary style, Havana Thursdays is a compelling collection of voices of a Cuban-American family gathering during the crucial aftermath of a family memberÍs death. In alternating chapters, six strong-willed and vibrant women unfurl before the reader the richly hued tableau of their lives. Suàrez delivers a hopeful message that human dignity and good will provide the resilience to help overcome crises. Ultimately, the Torres family of Cuban exiles is no different in its sorrows and joys than any other American family, regardless of ethnicity. With forays into the individual psyches of characters in crisis over love and loyalty, growing up and growing old, marrying and dissolving, SuàrezÍs portrayal of women is as daring as their resolve to pioneer generational changes for this conservative clan.
Havana Real
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Author : Yoani Sanchez
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2011-04-26
Havana Real written by Yoani Sanchez and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-26 with History categories.
She's been kidnapped and beaten, lives under surveillance, and can only get online—in disguise—at tourist hotspots. She's a blogger, she's a Cuban, and she's a worldwide sensation. Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about what it means to live under the Castro regime: the chronic hunger and the difficulty of shopping; the art of repairing ancient appliances; and the struggles of living under a propaganda machine that pushes deep into public and private life. For these simple acts of truth-telling her life is one of constant threat. But she continues on, refusing to be silenced—a living response to all who have ceased to believe in a future for Cuba.
Child Of The Revolution
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Author : Luis M. Garcia
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2006-06
Child Of The Revolution written by Luis M. Garcia and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Cuba, a land of cigars, hot nights, sultry music and romantic revolutionary heroes. But what was it really like to live in Fidel Castro's tropical paradise? With an evocative wide-eyed innocence, Luis M. Garcia takes us back to his Cuban childhood and his parents' dreams of escape. Child of the Revolution is a story about growing up in an extraordinary place at an extraordinary time, as the superpowers prepared to go to war over nuclear missiles installed on the tiny Caribbean island. It's a story set in a world of uncertainty and revolutionary upheaval, where a 10-year-old swears allegiance to Lenin, Marx and the legendary Che Guevara under swaying palm trees, with no idea of what it all means, except this is the only way to become a better revolutionary' and get out of school early. It is also the story of brothers and sisters torn apart by politics and how a Cuban teenager and his family end up by sheer accident - on the other side of the world. Warm, generous and gently amusing, Child of the Revolution stirs the heart and brings music to the soul.
All The Way To Havana
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Author : Margarita Engle
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Release Date : 2017-08-29
All The Way To Havana written by Margarita Engle and has been published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-29 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
So we purr, cara cara, and we glide, taka taka, and we zoom, zoom, ZOOM! Together, a boy and his parents drive to the city of Havana, Cuba, in their old family car. Along the way, they experience the sights and sounds of the streets—neighbors talking, musicians performing, and beautiful, colorful cars putt-putting and bumpety-bumping along. In the end, though, it’s their old car, Cara Cara, that the boy loves best. A joyful celebration of the Cuban people and their resourceful innovation. ALSC Notable Book
Letters From Cuba By A Son To His Mother
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Author : Thomas Graham Grier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906
Letters From Cuba By A Son To His Mother written by Thomas Graham Grier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1906 with Cuba categories.
Havana Sunrise
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Author : Kymberly Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Genesis Press, Inc.
Release Date : 2011-10-01
Havana Sunrise written by Kymberly Hunt and has been published by Genesis Press, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with Fiction categories.
Reserved, inhibited Nicole Evans desperately wants to escape a past that took the life of her detective husband, left her guilt-ridden, and has caused her young son to become an emotionally scarred mute. She has accepted an uninspired life as a nurse in Miami, where she encounters famous Cuban musician Julian Marquez. Impressed by her quiet beauty and unassuming strength, Julian is drawn to Nicole, but his family stands in the way. Can the romance between the two opposites ignite and survive cultural differences and intolerant family members, or will Julian and Nicole be driven apart?
The Duke Of Havana
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Author : Steve Fainaru
language : en
Publisher: Villard
Release Date : 2001-06-01
The Duke Of Havana written by Steve Fainaru and has been published by Villard this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In 1998, a mysterious right-handed pitcher emerged from the ashes of the Cold War and helped lead the New York Yankees to a World Championship. His origins and even his age were uncertain. His name was Orlando El Duque Hernandez. He was a fallen hero of Fidel Castro's socialist revolution. The chronicle of El Duque's triumph is at once a window into the slow death of Cuban socialism and one of the most remarkable sports stories of all time. Once hailed as a paragon of Castro's revolution, the finest pitcher in modern Cuban history was banned from baseball for life for allegedly plotting to defect. Instead of accepting his punishment, he fearlessly fought back, defying the Communist party authorities, vowing to pitch again, and ultimately fleeing his country in the bowels of a thirty-foot fishing boat. Here, for the first time and in astonishing detail, the secrets behind El Duque's persecution and escape are revealed. Moving from the crumbling streets of post Cold War Havana to the polarized world of exile Miami, from the deadly Florida Straits to the hallowed grounds of Yankee Stadium, it is a story of cloak-and-dagger adventure, audacious secret plots, the pull of big money, and the historic collision of ideologies. Present throughout are the larger-than-life characters who converged at this bizarre intersection of baseball and politics: El Duque himself, Fidel Castro, the Miami sports agent Joe Cubas, the late John Cardinal O'Connor along with scouts, smugglers, and the Cuban ballplayers who gave up their lives as tools of socialism to test the free market and chase their major-league dreams. Reported in the United States and Cuba by two award-winning journalists who became part of the story they were covering, The Duke of Havana is a riveting saga of sports, politics, liberation, and greed.
Havana World Series
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Author : José Latour
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2007-12-01
Havana World Series written by José Latour and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Fiction categories.
A “dark, rich, and satisfying” novel of mobsters, baseball, and 1950s Cuba (Entertainment Weekly). It is the fall of 1958 and all of Cuba is riveted to the World Series—the New York Yankees are playing the Milwaukee Braves, and the infamous Meyer Lansky’s gambling empire is raking in millions in bets. But rival mob boss Joe Bonnano, working with a team of Cuba’s boldest and most ingenious criminals, plans to hijack Lanksy’s fortune. The heist goes off brilliantly—until Bonnano’s point man is shot dead. As Lansky’s man in the police department investigates the case, he is caught up in a colorful and dangerous world of gangsters, misfits, and double-crosses . . . “A lively, entertaining read.” —Publishers Weekly “The characters are fascinating, the story compelling . . . You couldn’t ask for more.” —Orlando Sentinel “Suspenseful . . . captures the sights, sounds, smells and rhythms of Havana.” —The Miami Herald