Alamosa Public Library

When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world.

When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.

Estrella learns about her Cuban and Jewish heritage as she helps her aunt move from her Miami apartment to an assisted living community.

Discusses the past and present political upheavals that drove the Cubans to American soil.

Maggie Diaz of Miami is excited to start seventh-grade with her best friends, Zoey and Julian, and finally getting a cellphone of her own; but after school her friends are wrapped up in their various clubs, her mother is attending college, and her older sister Caro has her sports and tutoring, so Maggie decides that she will find a club to join as well--but trying out ALL the different clubs while still juggling school work is exhausting and confusing--and...

The la Torre family left Cuba after swindling the Delgado family of $2 million. Twenty-five years later Luis Delgado escapes in turn, goes to see them in Miami and they call a hit man. On hearing the story, PI Lupe Solano is skeptical, until her investigator is strangled with piano wire. By the author of Bloody Shame.

Examines the life of the Cuban-born pop star who sings, dances, composes, and records with the Miami Sound Machine.

"The whims of politics are at the fore of Guillermo Vincente Vidal's memoir, in which young boys become men in the shadow of revolution and personal turmoil. Vidal writes about his family's participation in events that forever altered U.S.-Cuban relations after an effort to free children from the threat of Communist rule sparked Operation Peter Pan. From chance encounters with Fidel Castro and Robert F. Kennedy to life in a dismal Catholic orphanage...

Cuando Ruthie Mizrahi se muda con su familia desde su tierra natal, Cuba, a las animadas calles de Nueva York, tiene much que asimilar: nuevos paisajes, nuevos sonidos y un nuevo idioma. Justo cuando se esta adaptando, comienza a dominar el ingles y ha hecho nuevos amigos, tiene un accidente automovilistico y ttermina con un yeso que la cubre desde el pecho hasta los dedos de los pies. In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant,...