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  • Waiting for Snow in Havana

    Confessions of a Cuban Boy

    by Carlos Eire ...
    “Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban.” In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana—exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by Fidel Castro’s revolution. Winner of the National Book Award, this stunning memoir is a vibrant and evocative look at Latin America from a child’s unforgettable experience.Waiting for Snow in Havana is both an exorcism and an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Learning to Die in Miami

    Confessions of a Refugee Boy

    by Carlos Eire ...
    Continuing the personal saga begun in the National Book Award-winning Waiting for Snow in Havana, the inspiring, sad, funny, bafflingly beautiful story of a boy uprooted by the Cuban Revolution and transplanted to Miami during the years of the Kennedy administration.In his 2003 National Book Award–winning memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire narrated his coming of age in Cuba just before ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Very Brief History of Eternity

    by Carlos Eire ...
    From the author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a brilliant cultural history of the idea of eternityWhat is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations?In A Very Brief History of Eternity, Carlos ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Jews, Christians, Muslims

    A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions

    by John Corrigan, Frederick Denny, Carlos Eire, Martin S Jaffee ...
    Thematic examination of monotheistic religions The second edition of Jews, Christians, Muslims: A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions, compares Judaism, Christianity, and Islam using seven common themes which are equally relevant to each tradition. Provoking critical thinking, this text addresses the cultural framework of religious meanings and explores the similarities and ... Read more

    $165.00 USD

  • The Age of Reform, 1250-1550

    An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

    by Steven Ozment ...
    Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of this seminal book, this new edition includes an illuminating foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. RittgesThe seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that reshaped European thought in the 1500s were sown in the late Middle Ages. In this book, Steven Ozment traces the growth and dissemination of dissenting intellectual trends through three ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila

    A Biography

    by Carlos Eire ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    The life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever writtenThe Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all, but rather a confession written for inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical claims had aroused suspicion. Despite its troubled ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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    A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen

    by Susan Bordo ...
    This illuminating history examines the life and many legends of the 16th century Queen who was executed by her husband, King Henry VIII.Part biography, part cultural history, The Creation of Anne Boleyn is a fascinating reconstruction of Anne's life and a revealing look at her afterlife in the popular imagination. Why is her story so compelling? Why has she inspired such extreme reactions? Was she ... Read more

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  • Dreaming in Cuban

    A Novel

    by Cristina García ...
    “Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—TimeCristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Domino Diaries

    My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba

    by Brin-Jonathan Butler ...
    A powerful and lively work of immersive journalism, Brin-Jonathan Butler's The Domino Diaries tells the story of his time chasing the American dream through Cuba.Whether he's hustling his way into Mike Tyson's mansion for an interview, betting his life savings on a boxing match, becoming romantically entangled with one of Fidel Castro's granddaughters, or simply manufacturing press credentials to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rosemary

    The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

    by Kate Clifford Larson ...
    The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation."[Larson] succeeds in providing a well-rounded portrait of a woman who, until now, has never been viewed in full."—The Boston Globe“A biography that chronicles her life with fresh details . . . By making ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Particular Appeal of Gillian Pugsley

    by Susan Örnbratt ...
    To satisfy her wandering feet, eighteen-year-old Gillian McAllister is sent from Ireland to Canada in the summer of 1932. She arrives with her Irish ways intact, determined not to let the wiles of crop duster Christian Hunter woo her into submission. Yet as the summer unfolds and the sweet taste of love grows, Gillian's appeal lures more than she anticipates, shattering the life they've built. ... Read more

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  • Dropping The Habit

    by Marion dante ...
    Marion Dante always knew she would be a nun. She was her mother’s ‘‘sin offering’’, pledged to God even before her birth. So, at the age of fourteen, she entered a convent.Ten years later, she was wrestling with doubts and misery. Shunned by the nuns, her only ‘‘family’’, she set out on the long road to freedom. But freedom was a terrifying prospect. Like a caged bird she clung to her prison bars ... Read more

    $6.99 USD