Author: Randy Wayne White
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698184351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The remarkable new novel in the Doc Ford series by New York Times–bestselling author Randy Wayne White. Doc Ford’s old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar. He prefers what dealers call HPC items—high-profile collectibles—but when he manages to obtain a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 1960–62 to a secret girlfriend, it’s not a matter of money anymore. Garcia has stumbled way out of his depth. First Garcia disappears, and then the man to whom he sold the letters. When Doc Ford begins to investigate, he soon becomes convinced that those letters contain a secret that someone, or some powerful agency, cannot allow to be made public. A lot happened between Cuba and the United States from 1960–62. Many men died. A few more will hardly be noticed.
Cuba Straits
Cuba
Author: Joy Gregory
Publisher: Weigl Publishers
ISBN: 148964606X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Cuba is an island nation in North America, located about 90 miles (150 kilometers) south of Florida. Beaches, swamps, and coral reefs line the country’s coast. Learn about Cuba’s fascinating history, culture, geography, and more in Cuba, an Exploring Countries book.
Publisher: Weigl Publishers
ISBN: 148964606X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Cuba is an island nation in North America, located about 90 miles (150 kilometers) south of Florida. Beaches, swamps, and coral reefs line the country’s coast. Learn about Cuba’s fascinating history, culture, geography, and more in Cuba, an Exploring Countries book.
Night Moves
Author: Randy Wayne White
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN: 0425264629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Doc Ford has his share of secrets. One of them has returned with a vengeance in this deadly New York Times bestseller from Randy Wayne White. While trying to solve one of Florida’s most profound mysteries, Doc Ford is the target of a murder attempt by someone who wants to make it look like an accident. Or is the target actually his friend Tomlinson? Whatever the answer, the liveaboards and fishing guides at Dinkin’s Bay on Sanibel Island are becoming increasingly nervous—and wary—after a plane crash and other near-death incidents make it apparent that Ford and Tomlinson are dangerous companions. What their small family of friends doesn’t know is that their secret pasts make it impossible for them to seek help from the law. There is an assassin on the loose, and it is up to Doc and Tomlinson to find a killer before the grisly job is done.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN: 0425264629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Doc Ford has his share of secrets. One of them has returned with a vengeance in this deadly New York Times bestseller from Randy Wayne White. While trying to solve one of Florida’s most profound mysteries, Doc Ford is the target of a murder attempt by someone who wants to make it look like an accident. Or is the target actually his friend Tomlinson? Whatever the answer, the liveaboards and fishing guides at Dinkin’s Bay on Sanibel Island are becoming increasingly nervous—and wary—after a plane crash and other near-death incidents make it apparent that Ford and Tomlinson are dangerous companions. What their small family of friends doesn’t know is that their secret pasts make it impossible for them to seek help from the law. There is an assassin on the loose, and it is up to Doc and Tomlinson to find a killer before the grisly job is done.
Cuban Memory Wars
Author: Michael J. Bustamante
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469662043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
For many Cubans, Fidel Castro's Revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality and national disappointment. For others—especially those exiled in the United States—Cuba's turn to socialism made the prerevolutionary period look like paradise lost. Michael J. Bustamante unsettles this familiar schism by excavating Cubans' contested memories of the Revolution's roots and results over its first twenty years. Cubans' battles over the past, he argues, not only defied simple political divisions; they also helped shape the course of Cuban history itself. As the Revolution unfolded, the struggle over historical memory was triangulated among revolutionary leaders in Havana, expatriate organizations in Miami, and average Cuban citizens. All Cubans leveraged the past in individual ways, but personal memories also collided with the Cuban state's efforts to institutionalize a singular version of the Revolution's story. Drawing on troves of archival materials, including visual media, Bustamante tracks the process of what he calls retrospective politics across the Florida Straits. In doing so, he drives Cuban history beyond the polarized vision seemingly set in stone today and raises the prospect of a more inclusive national narrative.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469662043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
For many Cubans, Fidel Castro's Revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality and national disappointment. For others—especially those exiled in the United States—Cuba's turn to socialism made the prerevolutionary period look like paradise lost. Michael J. Bustamante unsettles this familiar schism by excavating Cubans' contested memories of the Revolution's roots and results over its first twenty years. Cubans' battles over the past, he argues, not only defied simple political divisions; they also helped shape the course of Cuban history itself. As the Revolution unfolded, the struggle over historical memory was triangulated among revolutionary leaders in Havana, expatriate organizations in Miami, and average Cuban citizens. All Cubans leveraged the past in individual ways, but personal memories also collided with the Cuban state's efforts to institutionalize a singular version of the Revolution's story. Drawing on troves of archival materials, including visual media, Bustamante tracks the process of what he calls retrospective politics across the Florida Straits. In doing so, he drives Cuban history beyond the polarized vision seemingly set in stone today and raises the prospect of a more inclusive national narrative.
Publication
Author: United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Distances Between Ports
Author: United States. Naval Oceanographic Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Hurricanes
Author: Henry F. Diaz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642606725
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Hurricanes of the North Atlantic Ocean have left their imprint on the landscape and human cultures for thousands of years. In modern times, fewer lifes have been lost due, in part, to the development of modern communication systems, and to improved understanding of the mechanisms of storm formation and movement. However, the immense growth of human populations in coastal areas, which are at risk to hurricanes, has resulted in very large increases in the amount of property damage sustained in the last decade in the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean regions. This book is of interest to climatologists and meteorologists and as source of information for policymakers and emergency management planners.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642606725
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Hurricanes of the North Atlantic Ocean have left their imprint on the landscape and human cultures for thousands of years. In modern times, fewer lifes have been lost due, in part, to the development of modern communication systems, and to improved understanding of the mechanisms of storm formation and movement. However, the immense growth of human populations in coastal areas, which are at risk to hurricanes, has resulted in very large increases in the amount of property damage sustained in the last decade in the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean regions. This book is of interest to climatologists and meteorologists and as source of information for policymakers and emergency management planners.
Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the Fiscal Year Ending ...
Author: United States. Life-Saving Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lifesaving
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lifesaving
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Distances Between Ports
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Distances
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Distances
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1688
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1688
Book Description