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While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous -- a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is,...

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.

First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing -- from his earliest stories (In Our Time) to his last novella (The Old Man and the Sea) -- this compelling novel contains both the warmth of recollection that inspired A Moveable Feast and a rare glimpse...

Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.

When Lieutenant Conde is roused from a terrible hangover and asked to investigate the disappearance of an old schoolmate that married the girl of his dreams, his desire for her threatens the already-sensitive investigation.

Mercado Suarez, a Cuban police officer, enters the United States illegally to revenge the killing of her father in Fairview, Colorado, posing as a maid to gain access to the homes of the wealthy residents and discovering secrets about her father's past that leave her uneasy.

En la tupida arboleda del Bosque de La Habana aparece un 6 de agosto, día en que la Iglesia celebra la transfiguración de Jesús, el cuerpo de un travesti con el lazo de seda roja de la muerte aún al cuello. Para mayor zozobra del Conde, aquella mujer "sin los beneficios de la naturaleza", vestida de rojo, resulta ser Alexis Arayán, hijo de un respetado diplomático del régimen cubano. La investigación se inicia con la visita del Conde al impresionante...

After playing baseball with Fidel Castro in pre-revolutionary Cuba, American catcher Billy Bryan is instructed to hire him for a U.S. team. He does not succeed, but the result is a friendship with Castro and a romance with the official photographer of the revolution. By the author of Going for the Gold.

When unrest his the streets of Havana, Cuba, Julian's parents decide to send him and his brother to Miami, where they face the challenges of isolation and confusion in their new home.

Following the death of her papa, Sofia fears that her mama will never find another dancing partner for Carnival.