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   Na viděnou v Havaně

   • Chanel Cleeton

   • 328 stránek
   • 12 hodin čtení

   3,9(113977)Ohodnotit

   Havana, 1958. Dcera cukrového barona, devatenáctiletá Elisa Perezová, jež je součástí kubánské smetánky, žije stranou rostoucích politických nepokojů - dokud si nezačne tajnou aféru s vášnivým revolucionářem… Miami, 2017. Marisol Ferrerová, novinářka na volné noze, vyrůstala na romantických příbězích své babičky Elisy, která byla během revoluce spolu se svou rodinou donucena uprchnout z Kuby. Elisiným posledním přáním bylo, aby Marisol rozptýlila její popel v její rodné zemi. Po příjezdu na Kubu Marisol čelí kontrastu mezi tropickou, nadčasovou krásou Kuby a nebezpečnou politickou situací. Když se na světlo dostane hluboko pohřbená minulost její rodiny a Marisol se zamiluje do muže s řadou tajemství, nezbývá jí než za pomoci babiččiny minulosti pochopit, co znamená skutečná odvaha.

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   When We Left Cuba

   • Chanel Cleeton

   • 368 stránek
   • 13 hodin čtení

   4,2(1019)Ohodnotit

   Instant New York Times bestseller! In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of The Last Train to Key West and Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez—her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash of Cuban American politics and the perils of a forbidden affair with a powerful man driven by ambitions of his own. When the ever-changing tides of history threaten everything she has fought for, she must make a choice between her past and future—but the wrong move could cost Beatriz everything—not just the island she loves, but also the man who has stolen her heart...

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   The Last Train to Key West

   • Chanel Cleeton

   • 320 stránek
   • 12 hodin čtení

   4,1(3921)Ohodnotit

   Instant New York Times bestseller One of Bustle’s Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020 “The perfect riveting summer read!”—BookBub In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler’s legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person’s paradise can be another’s prison, and Key West-native Helen Berner yearns to escape. After the Cuban Revolution of 1933 leaves Mirta Perez’s family in a precarious position, she agrees to an arranged marriage with a notorious American. Following her wedding in Havana, Mirta arrives in the Keys on her honeymoon. While she can’t deny the growing attraction to her new husband, his illicit business interests may threaten not only her relationship, but her life. Elizabeth Preston's trip to Key West is a chance to save her once-wealthy family from their troubles after the Wall Street crash. Her quest takes her to the camps occupied by veterans of the Great War and pairs her with an unlikely ally on a treacherous hunt of his own. Over the course of the holiday weekend, the women’s paths cross unexpectedly, and the danger swirling around them is matched only by the terrifying force of the deadly storm threatening the Keys.

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   The Most Beautiful Girl In Cuba

   • Chanel Cleeton

   • 384 stránek
   • 14 hodin čtení

   3,9(11963)Ohodnotit

   At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton’s captivating new novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman–Evangelina Cisneros–who changed the course of history.A feud rages in Gilded Age New York City between newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. When Grace Harrington lands a job at Hearst’s newspaper in 1896, she’s caught in a cutthroat world where one scoop can make or break your career, but it’s a story emerging from Cuba that changes her life.Unjustly imprisoned in a notorious Havana women’s jail, eighteen-year-old Evangelina Cisneros dreams of a Cuba free from Spanish oppression. When Hearst learns of her plight and splashes her image on the front page of his paper, proclaiming her, “The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba,” she becomes a rallying cry for American intervention in the battle for Cuban independence. With the help of Marina Perez, a courier secretly working for the Cuban revolutionaries in Havana, Grace and Hearst’s staff attempt to free Evangelina. But when Cuban civilians are forced into reconcentration camps and the explosion of the USS Maine propels the United States and Spain toward war, the three women must risk everything in their fight for freedom.

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