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Teresa Piñeiro knew no fear. In 1960, thirty-one years old and pregnant, she is arrested alongside a group of men for attempting to hijack an airplane bound for Miami. The local newspaper splashes her image across its pages: a young woman defying convention, the daughter of a retired Army first lieutenant and professor, and the granddaughter of one of the pioneering Spanish families who had founded the town of La Palma in western Cuba. For her boldness, Teresa is confined to a maximum-security prison, where she eventually stands face-to-face with Cuba’s Comandante en Jefe, Fidel Castro. ...

***Winner of the ILBA Mimi Lozano Best Family History Book, and from the author of the award-winning "Waiting on Zapote Street" and "Brothers: A Pedro Pan Story." Betty Viamontes, a multi-award-winning author, is celebrated for her honest and authentic storytelling that captivates readers from the first page. Her works, often rooted in true stories, are renowned for their engaging narratives. ________________ In April 1980, a family is abruptly awakened by loud banging and screaming at their door. Government officials have come for them to drive them to the Port of Mariel in Havana, where a...

Por la galardonada autora de Esperando en la calle Zapote llega otra inolvidable novela de resiliencia, exilio e identidad. Nueve años después del ascenso de Fidel Castro al poder, el joven Rodolfo Hernández se ve obligado a irse de Cuba solo hacia los Estados Unidos. Lo que le espera en Miami es mucho más complejo de lo que imaginaba, comenzando por su tío Arturo, un hombre agobiado por un pasado misterioso y un corazón endurecido. Cuando Rodolfo ingresa al duodécimo grado en Miami High, conoce a Lissy, una chica brillante con espejuelos grandes y una bella personalidad que se ...

De la autora de Esperando en la calle Zapote, ganadora del premio Latino Books Into Movies, llega una novela épica basada en hechos reales. En la provincia de Camagüey, en el corazón de Cuba, el año 1955 marca el inicio de una revolución que cambiará el destino de un pueblo para siempre. Arroyo Blanco, fértil y lleno de vida gracias a sus arroyos, está condenado a desaparecer bajo el peso de la nueva política. Allí, Madeline, con apenas catorce años, descubre el amor por primera vez. Pero la pasión, la inocencia y los sueños pronto chocan con la violencia de una transformación...

After twelve years apart, a family torn by distance is finally reunited in Tampa, Florida. The mother and her three children have spent over a decade in Cuba, while the father built a life alone in the United States. Now, the girls are teenagers, the boy is eleven, and the father dreams of picking up where he left off. But too much time has passed. Nothing is the same. The mother, a woman of deep faith, has her own ideas about raising their children. Her devotion guides her, while the father—hardened by loneliness—has lost his belief in everything, including himself. Beneath the surface...

Desde que Joel Camacho era un niño, sabía que no quería quedarse en Cuba. Sus estudios de medicina se convierten en su boleto de salida hacia Venezuela como parte de una misión médica. Pero sus experiencias en Venezuela lo conllevan a un elaborado laberinto de esclavitud moderna, bandidos, corrupción y tráfico humano del que se debe escapar. Para él existe solo una salida. Tratar de alcanzarla se convierte en el desafío más difícil de su vida. *** A pesar de los horrores, Cruzando hacia el norte es en última instancia una historia de amor y familia. Sus personajes son ...

It’s 2021, in the midst of a global pandemic, when twenty-four-year-old Lena Pérez stumbles upon a collection of her grandfather’s love letters. Reeling from the end of a three-year relationship with Paulo Oliveira—a charming Brazilian ex-soccer player whom her Cuban-American mother never accepted—Lena feels adrift and unmoored. As she unpacks the weathered letters left behind by Rolando Pérez, a wounded Vietnam veteran, Lena begins to piece together a powerful story that predates her birth: a journey that carried her grandfather from the streets of Havana to the battlefields of ...

La danza de la rosa es una novela apasionante, donde la autora, Betty Viamontes, recrea los momentos que atraviesa una familia cubana, desde la fractura de un matrimonio que se ve obligado a soportar doce años de separación –el esposo en Estados Unidos y la esposa con tres hijos pequeños en Cuba– sosteniendo la ilusión del reencuentro frente a continuas adversidades. Esta obra, continuidad de Esperando en la calle zapote, narra el reencuentro de la familia y los esfuerzos de la madre, no solo para vencer el extrañamiento que pudo producir la distancia de los hijos y el padre –y ...

From the author of the award-winning Waiting on Zapote Street comes a powerful, multigenerational novel of secrets, separation, and survival in revolutionary Cuba. On the night of September 15, 1961, the emergency room of Havana’s La Covadonga Hospital overflows as two women give birth within hours of each other. Andrea, a frightened teenage mother, and Maritza, a married woman rooted in her homeland, share more than a crowded hospital—they are bound by a secret neither of them yet understands. Forced by circumstance to flee Cuba alone, Andrea immigrates to the United States, leaving ...

El vuelo del tocororo es una colaboración entre dos cubanas quienes salieron de la isla en diferentes periodos históricos, Susana Jiménez-Mueller en 1959, y Betty Viamontes, durante el éxodo del Mariel en 1980. Susana era una niña de cinco años, y Betty una jovencita de quince primaveras. Ambas pasaron por experiencias extraordinarias que hubieran derrumbado a cualquiera. ¿Cómo logra una niña que pierde a su padre y a su hermana en el exilio recoger los pedacitos de su niñez despedazada y alcanzar lo inconcebible? ¿Cómo puede una jovencita que vivió sin su padre por doce años ...

“A story that encompasses a lifetime. It is rich in imagery and sometimes light and funny, despite the seriousness of the backdrop of a Cuba still in chains.” Susana Jiménez-Mueller, international podcaster of The Green Plantain – The Cuban Series Project and author of Now I Swim. “An amazing story that spans decades. It takes readers on a roller coaster ride of highs and lows and keeps them wanting to know what's around the corner. Then, when the ride seems to end, there's one last surprise waiting.” Conchita Hernández Hicks, author of Leaving Havana. ------------------- An ...

From the author of the award-winning Waiting on Zapote Street comes a story based on true events. In 1960’s central Cuba, a young middle-class woman’s life is interrupted as she finds herself a victim in what will quickly become a hurricane of world politics and idealistic dogma. *** “Betty Viamontes’s books are not intended to be classic literature. Instead they are deliberately simple, about real people caught in an historical cataclysm. Like most holocaust memoirs, their strength lies in their simplicity. Ms. Viamontes tells a simple story of normal people, allowing the reader's ...

Flight of the Tocororo is a collaboration between two Cuban-American authors who left the island in different historical periods, Susana Jiménez-Mueller in 1959 and Betty Viamontes, during the Mariel exodus in 1980. Susana was five years old and Betty, fifteen. Both went through extraordinary experiences that would have left anyone crushed. How does a girl who loses her father and sister in exile manage to collect the pieces of her shattered childhood and reach the inconceivable? How can a young woman who lived without her father for twelve years, suffered severe traumas during her ...

They are both on a collision course with destiny. Amelia, a single woman of faith in her mid-forties, lives with her family in the town of Remedios, located in the center of Cuba. For over twenty years, she has lived her life caring only for others and neglecting herself. In 2022, Frank leaves his home in Miami, Florida to learn about his deceased mother’s life by visiting the town of Remedios. Once in the town of his mother’s birth, he forges a friendship with Amelia, who connects him to his past, not knowing how much he will impact her life in the process. A creature of habit, Amelia ...

Since Joel Camacho was a child, he knew he didn’t want to stay in Cuba. Becoming a medical doctor turns into his ticket out. But it also propels him into an elaborate labyrinth of modern-day slavery, gangs, corruption, and international human trafficking from which he must escape. For him, there is only one haven. Trying to reach it becomes the most difficult challenge of his life. *** Despite the horrors, Crossing North is ultimately a tale of love and family. Its characters are strikingly familiar. They are parents and children like our own, clinging to each other while their world ...