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Gothic mystery set in Florida kicks off Friends of the Library’s Author Spotlight

Naples Daily News 24 Oct 2024
In her earlier bestselling novels such as “Next Year in Havana,” “When We Left Cuba” and “The Last Train to Key West,” she explored the lives of Cuban exiles and their children in the United States, ...
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Graphic novel tells story of Wisconsin-born Charles Whittlesey, Medal of Honor recipient

Green Bay Press Gazette 03 Oct 2024
Now the commander of the famed Lost Battalion is remembered for his valor in a graphic novel titled "Medal of Honor ... 26, 1921, while traveling by ship to Havana, Cuba, from New York.How can I read the graphic novel "Medal of Honor.
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Seven Books to Read When Insomnia Strikes

The Atlantic 16 Jul 2024
Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Third Hotel , by Laura van den Berg Van den Berg’s slim and unsettling novel The Third Hotel follows Clare, a recent widow, to Havana for a film conference she had planned to attend with her husband.
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Writer Leonardo Padura chronicles life in Cuba as his detective 'alter ego' solves gripping crimes

TimesDaily 24 Apr 2024
Cuban writer Leonardo Padura has managed to turn his series of detective novels into a social and political chronicle of Cuba, especially his native Havana. Born in 1955, Padura studied literature at the University of Havana and worked as a ... .
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Writer Leonardo Padura chronicles life in Cuba as his detective ‘alter ego’ solves gripping crimes

The Associated Press 23 Apr 2024
Cuban writer Leonardo Padura has managed to turn his series of detective novels into a social and political chronicle of Cuba, especially his native Havana.
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'The Sympathizer' review: Brilliant, unsettling, entertaining

Newsday 10 Apr 2024
Downey's CIA handler almost jumps off the page of some novel (“Our Man in Havana?”), as an instantly recognizable archetype, in his tropical leisure suit and world-weary cynicism.
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Is your family like a broken artifact? This Cuban Jewish art restorer has a book ...

The Los Angeles Times 18 Jan 2024
When the pandemic happened, I took a writing class online and I started working on a novel about Havana in the 1950s.
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Graphic memoir serves as warning

Republican American 05 Dec 2023
He portrays the crowd on the Capitol much like the one in Havana in January 1959 that start the novel, bringing it full-circle in a striking visual comparison.
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Book Review: Edel Rodriguez shows Cuban history as a warning for the US in new ...

Wtop 06 Nov 2023
He portrays the crowd on the Capitol much like the one in Havana in January 1959 that start the novel, bringing it full-circle in a striking visual comparison.
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Book Review: Edel Rodriguez shows Cuban history as a warning for the US in new graphic memoir 'Worm'

North Shore News 06 Nov 2023
He portrays the crowd on the Capitol much like the one in Havana in January 1959 that start the novel, bringing it full-circle in a striking visual comparison.
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month With a Book! 25 Great Novels, Cookbooks, Memoirs and More by ...

The Marshall News Messenger 15 Sep 2023
The latest novel from Valdes is the sequel to her 2019 novel, Chilling Effect ... Paola Mendoza, the co-founder of the 2017 Women's March, makes her young adult debut in this near-future dystopian novel ... Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton.
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PAPA'S PILAR CELEBRATES TEN YEARS WITH THE INAUGURAL LAUNCH OF ERNEST, ITS MOST LIMITED, COLLECTABLE ...

Victoria Advocate 13 Jul 2023
... the novelist's home located in Cuba just southeast of Havana, most well known as the location where he wrote portions of his famed novels "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "The Old Man and the Sea."
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What does Trump tell us about us? | Letters to the editor

Sun Sentinel 14 Jun 2023
What caused us to fail so badly?. Perhaps foremost is a decades-long slide in teaching children to love the Constitution and the good that flows from it ... Until now. Rick Soskis, Havana, Fla ... George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’ has come true.
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Camila Cabello celebrates grandmother's novel and strength

The Lewiston Tribune 30 Mar 2023
Camila Cabello credits the strong women in her life for her success as an artist and a person, so it was important to her to celebrate her grandmother’s milestone — the publication of a novel. The “Havana” singer traveled last ... .
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100 of the best thriller novels of all time

North Shore News 24 Mar 2023
So why the increase in interest in these heart-racing novels? ... The novels are presented in no particular order ... Graham Greene's spy novel "Our Man in Havana" has been adapted into a movie, an opera, and a stage production.

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