 | Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 The tale of how a well-off Cuban family lost everything during the revolution, told from the perspective of a little boy.
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 | This is Cuba: An Outlaw Culture Survives by Ben Corbett
Buy new: $19.76 / Used from: $0.01 An excellent and balanced look at Cuba today: neither the best nor worst place on earth. Cubans want economic and personal freedom, but many still venerate dictator Fidel Castro.
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 | Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $4.00 Many Cubans believe things would be different today (for the better) in their country if Che, not Castro, had prevailed.
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 | Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.47 An engrossing tale of a family devided by history.
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 | Buena Vista Social Club by Ry Cooder
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.58 Fantasic! "Son" music is one of Cuba's many gifts to the world, and the best of the best are all here.
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 | Buena Vista Social Club
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.00 View right before or right after listening to the CD!
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 | A Lo Cubano by Orishas
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $4.74 Cuban hip-hop. Three rappers and a singer (although one MC has since left the group) with a voice that makes one think of the fellows from "Buena Vista Social Club."
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 | Our Man in Havana: An Entertainment (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Graham Greene
Buy used from: $0.84 Harkens back to an earlier Cuba, revealing the sinister elements of the pre-revolutionary period with dry humor.
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 | Cuba by Franc Nichele
Buy used from: $0.01 A beautiful photo book. Takes you on a tour of the country.
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 | Rediscovering Cuba: A Personal Memoir by Jorge Reyes
Buy new: $10.95 / Used from: $4.36 A young man goes back to his roots in the city of Santiago de Cuba, the country's second largest city.
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 | Cuba: A Short History (Cambridge History of Latin America)
Buy new: $20.51 / Used from: $2.06 A great primer on the country's complex history. The story of Cuba speaks volumes about why the US is so obsessed with the island.
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 | The Real Fidel Castro by Leycester Coltman
Buy used from: $0.90 Balanced. Savior or devil? Corrupt tyrant or doting father of a nation?
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 | Éxitos Eternos by Celia Cruz
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $6.44 !Azucar! Celia Cruz's greatest hits. You can't miss with Celia.
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 | 100% Azucar!: The Best of Celia Cruz con la Sonora Matancera by Celia Cruz & la Sonora Matancera
Buy new: $13.96 / Used from: $7.39 Hits from Celia Cruz's early years.
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 | Cuba
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.18 Sean Connery is a gun for hire -- in this case hired by Batista's government to discredit Castro's revolutionary message and demoralize his followers. Suspenseful, with a dash of farcical humor.
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 | The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $0.09 The classic.
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 | Memories of a Cuban Kitchen: More Than 200 Classic Recipes by Mary Urrutia Randelman
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.24 !Buen provecho! Cuban food is hearty and delicious.
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 | Lonely Planet Cuba by Conner Gorry
Buy used from: $7.01 In case you are heading for the island. Americans: be sure you know the current US travel restrictions.
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 | Streetwise Cuba by Streetwise Maps
Buy used from: $3.87 Ditto above! Havana is a sprawling, fascinating city.
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 | Inside Havana
Buy used from: $28.95 An inviatation into Havana's home life.
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 | Mafia in Havana by Enrique Cirules
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $3.00 The story of the mafia in Cuba is one of the most fascinating chapters in the island's history. The Hotel Nacional was mob HQ in Havana.
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 | In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd by Ana Menendez
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Ana Menendez captures eloquently what happens when a people find themselves outside of their country looking wistfully back in.
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 | Before Night Falls: A Memoir by Reinaldo Arenas
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.89 Intense. Autobiograhy of a gay man struggling to live and to express himself through his writiing.
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 | Havana Bay (Arkady Renko Novels) by Martin Cruz Smith
Buy used from: $0.01 Most Cubans didn't think very highly of the Soviets, but the legacy of their presence remains. Here Arkady is hiding out in Havana.
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 | The Very Best of Beny Moré & His All Star Afro Cuban Big Band, Vol. 1 by Beny Moré
Buy used from: $25.95 The music that tugs at the heartstrings of Cubans of a certain age.
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