books about: havanas     books:       North of Havana (Doc Ford)10 reviews Randy Wayne White Berkley, 1998 One of my all time favorite writers RWW is always excellent! I have read his 1st five books this last year- normally I get bored with authors and will not read more than 2 a year. Each story is very different from the previous yet is very much part of the series. Each character seems authentic and with a voice unique from the others. Most authors seem to have trouble doing this - their characters talk from the roughly the ...             Robert Polidori: Havana10 reviews Steidl, 2001 Robert Polidori: Havana Visceral images of a unique city, in which splendor and squalor are juxtaposed, and the past is suspended within the present, decaying yet enduring. Robert Polidori has captured the beauty and melancholy of Havana, gazing unflinchingly at the ruins and the people who inhabit them. When the boycott is finally lifted, all this will be swept away by a tide of new development, so try to see it now ...             Havana Before Castro4 reviews Peter Moruzzi Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2008 Nostalgia at its best! My wife and I escaped Cuba during the early sixties. Almost certain that we might be returning within a month or two (50 years ago) we did not bring along photographs, memories, or keepsakes of any kind. "Havana Before Castro" is the best collection of memorabilia ever to touch my hands. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You've made my day! Andrew J. Rodriguez, author of: "Adios, Havana" a ...             Adios, Havana: A Memoir8 reviews Andrew J. Rodriguez Outskirts Press, 2005 Interested in Cuba and its people? . . . read this book. Adios, Havana Andrew J. Rodriguez Outskirts Press 10940 S. Parker Rd - 515, Denver, CO USA www.outskirtspress.com ISBN: 1598000489, $14.95, 262 pp. 2005 I specialize in reviewing Print-On-Demand (POD) published books, primarily because many reviewers in the "traditional book reviewing community" are not interested in them-regardless of how well-written or engaging. There is a strong ...             Havana Then and Now (Then & Now)4 reviews Llilian Llanes Thunder Bay Press, 2004 Another excellent entry in the Then and Now series If you have an interest in the architecture of Havana and want a taste of what might welcome you if you visited there, this book is for you. Archival photos primarily from the early 1900s are matched with modern photos on the opposite page. It's nice to know there is a movement on now to save some of these historic gems and we get to see restorations. If you want to learn about politics, Cuban ...             Havana Bay: A Novel (Mortalis.)123 reviews Martin Cruz Smith Ballantine Books, 2008 John LeCarre move over! Cruz Smith's best since Gorky Park. Protaganist, Arkady Renko, wounded though he is, manages to rise to the occasion in his pursuit of identifying a fellow Russian pulled from the waters of Havana Bay. Set in today's Cuba, with its beauty and crumbling decay wrought by years of communism, our hero teams up with a beautiful Cuban policewoman and becomes embroiled in a world where Russians are ...             Havana Deco2 reviews Alejandro G. Alonso, Pedro Contreras, ... W. W. Norton, 2007 Stunning. And this is just a sample. While Miami Beach is the world capitol of Art Deco, it really doesn't compare to Havana. Here are 175 pages of everything from world class, French inspired Deco to modest streamlined structures. But wait, there's more. In fact, there is so much Art Deco in neighborhoods like Vedado, that this is but a sample. And that's just Havana! Take the Autopista in either direction and you will find ...             Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics)64 reviews Graham Greene Penguin Classics, 2007 An Entertaining Footnote to History Graham Greene, a major, well-known 20th century British author, had a very long life, most of the century, and a very long and prolific writing career. He may be best known for "The Third Man," "The End of the Affair," and "The Power and the Glory," but his books were greatly honored, highly-praised by the critics, generally best sellers, and often made into movies. As was "Our Man in Havana," ...             Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution38 reviews T. J. English William Morrow, 2008 An unexpected gem. I picked this book up in a situation where very little was available to me. It looked interesting, but wasn't something I'd have picked out from a larger selection. I'm really happy my selection was limited. It's great when a good author with solid research skills finds an undertold story and brings it to life. Such is the case with Havana Nocturne. English really brings to life the glory ...             Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy71 reviews Carlos Eire Free Press, 2006 An Excellent Read This is a beautiful book. I read it about 3 years ago when it first came out and it still haunts me. While it was written by one of the children evacuated from Cuba, that's really not the story. It's a story of Cuba and the people that lived there prior to and during the revolution. Funny, yet sad, heart-warming yet shocking, foreign yet hitting all too close to home. It's story-telling without ...             Havana: An Earl Swagger Novel (Earl Swagger Novels)56 reviews Stephen Hunter Pocket, 2005 Earl Swagger Hunts Again! I fell in love with Stephen Hunter's Earl Swagger novels this year. Luckily I discovered the first one at the beginning and listened to them on audiobook in order. There are three of them so far. HOT SPRINGS, PALE HORSE COMING, and HAVANA. The Swagger name may sound familiar to people. Mark Wahlberg just starred in the movie SHOOTER as Earl's son, Bob Lee Swagger. Stephen Hunter has been ...             Time Out Havana: And the Best of Cuba (Time Out Guides) Time Out Time Out, 2007 The Caribbean outpost of communism that is Cuba holds an enduring fascination for the free world, redolent of glamour and gamblers, musicians, writers, and mafiosi. Written by informed residents, Time Out Havana highlights all the vibrancy, cultural richness, and architectural beauty of Havana. Here are authoritative reviews of where to stay ? including the rewarding casas particular (private homes) ? and play ? from colorful salsa joints to hip ...             Havana Red7 reviews Leonardo Padura Bitter Lemon Press, 2007 A warning 'Havana Red' is NOT "The first of the Havana quartet featuring Inspector Mario Conde... ", nor is it "... a fantastic first tale." A fantastic tale, no problem, but not the first. It is the first one translated into English, but it's actually the third volume of the quartet (Spanish title 'Mascaras'), and the forthcoming 'Havana Black' (*'Paisaje de otono') was the final volume, not the second. ...             Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays3 reviews William Styron Random House, 2008 Less Is More: Occasional Pieces by a Master Although he wrote precious little, compared to some of his contemporaries, surely William Styron was one of the best American writers of his generation and produced fiction that will be read as long as there are any readers left. I would argue that SOPHIE'S CHOICE is one of the ten best twentieth century novels by an American writer even though Shelby Foote didn't care for it. It is a treat then ...             Havana Harlot1 review Pierre Motteux Erotic Print Society, 2008 Going down...to Havana. This isn't a bad book overall in the Past Venus Series. I liked it slightly less than the other books in the series just because the sex is written in a less exciting manner than I've come to expect. There's plenty of forced sex, incest, a bit of torture--so if that's your thing, enjoy. There's also an incident of forced male on male sex depicted as well, which didn't really appeal to me and may ...             Perelman's Pocket Cyclopedia of Havana Cigars1 review Richard B. Perelman Perelman, Pioneer & Co., 2005 A Specialist's Guide to Cuban Cigars This is a book about Cuban cigars, past and present, and only about them. In reality, it is a book for the more serious smoker as the information is rather specialised. The book tells you which company made what cigars and whether they exist today or not. And of present cigars, it tells you which factory produces them and in what form of packing. This is THE defintive guide to date and I have ...             Dirty Havana Trilogy: A Novel in Stories29 reviews Pedro Juan Gutierrez Harper Perennial, 2002 Read a wee bit deeper than the booze and sex ... There's some truth to the reviews submitted by readers prior to mine. The book is lewd & full of debauchery, but there's more to it. The stories are about the destitute and hopeless at the edge at risk of slipping outside civilized society. It's commentary about 1990s Cuba, but it's also about meaning and purpose. Pedro Juan's character has nothing, no one - he escapes the banality of poverty ...             Havana Dreams: A Story of a Cuban Family19 reviews Wendy Gimbel Vintage, 1999 PORTRAIT OF A CUBAN FAMILY... Hailed by the New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year when it was first released, this is a lyrically written chronicle of Cuba as seen through the eyes of the women of a prominent, yet notorious, Cuban family. It is also an elegant narrative of Cuba's past and its present, its good and its bad. Its genesis is the Cuban-American author's own memories of a pre-Castro Cuba of the nineteen ...             Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-19943 reviews Maria Cristina Garcia University of California Press, 1997 A fascinating and very well-researched book. Havana USA is a very thorough account of post-revolutionary Cuban migration to America. One of the interesting aspects of Cuban emigration since Castro has been the perspectives given to us by the media and the government - many of them misleading. Garcia dispels these myths with facts backed up my extensive research and personal interviews. A very interesting read.             Havana Blue (Mario Conde Mystery 3)2 reviews Leonardo Padura Bitter Lemon Press, 2007 excellent Havana police procedural Havana police lieutenant Mario Conde enjoyed the New Year's Eve celebration but he drank too much as he expected the day off to recover. Instead in spite of a four poster headache, his superior calls to tell him that Ministry for Industry official and party VIP Rafael Morin Rodriguez vanished. Mario knew Rafael and the man's wife Tamara when the trio attended high school together and the cop ...              search for books 1959-1994, americans, before, camelot, castro, cigars, classics, confessions, cyclopedia, exiles, florida, guides, harlot, havana, havanas, memoir, mortalis, mystery, nocturne, penguin, perelman, personal, pocket, polidori, revolution, robert, stories, swagger, trilogy, waiting books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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