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Let it Rain Coffee

Let it Rain Coffee
  • Author(s): Angie Cruz
  • Location(s): Dominican Republic, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Essentially the story of Esperanza and her father in law Don Chan, and their fractured relationship. Don Chan joins the family in New York shortly after his wife dies in the Dominican Republic. Esperanza recalls the country as largely...

Light Falling on Bamboo

Light Falling on Bamboo
  • Author(s): Lawrence Scott
  • Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

Trinidad, 1865. Michel Jean Cazabon returns home to be at his beloved mother s deathbed. Life on the island seems very different after the freedoms of post-Revolutionary Paris, where his paintings have hung in the Louvre. Despite the Emancipation...

Living La Vida Loca

Living La Vida Loca
  • Author(s): Belinda Jones
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, Havana, Seville
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Carmen has been feeling the need to break free for Too Darn Long. So when her equally frustrated friend Beth suggests the ultimate escape – dancing their way through a series of scorchingly-hot countries – she can’t resist! There’s...

Lover’s Leap

Lover’s Leap
  • Author(s): Horane Smith
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1830s

Jerome is a slave. He must wake up every morning knowing that he belongs to plantation owner Alfred Campbell. But things are changing with talk of abolition. He has fallen in love with Anita, Alfred’s daughter, and he must...

Message to Love

Message to Love
  • Author(s): Liz Arnold
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Audra Wakely’s father has been seized by Spanish authorities and imprisoned for sympathizing with Cuban rebels. Raising the money to bribe officials, if necessary, she sets off for Cuba to rescue her father. She doesn’t bargain on the interference...

Midnight in Havana

Midnight in Havana
  • Author(s): Peggy Blair
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Havana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

In beautiful, crumbling Old Havana, Canadian detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will help save his troubled marriage. He doesn’t yet know that it’s dead in the water – much like the little Cuban boy last seen...

Mockingbird

Mockingbird
  • Author(s): Julie Trimingham
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cuba. Music. Love. Theft. An out-of-work actress travels to Havana in search of purpose. Her entanglements there are filled with mixed motivations, selfishness and altruism, love and peril, faith and disaster. Mockingbird charts the hurricane-fraught course of Mia’s journey...

Mr Clarinet

Mr Clarinet
  • Author(s): Nick Stone
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

My Lost Cuba

My Lost Cuba
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th century

A moving portrait of Cuba from the 1950s which is actually fiction – could almost be memoir!

Queen of Exiles

Queen of Exiles
  • Author(s): Vanessa Riley
  • Location(s): Europe, Haiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 19th Century

Can a queen without a country still rule people’s hearts? Hayti 1811 As Queen of Hayti, Marie-Louise Christophe rules alongside her husband, the King, in a court of opulence and beauty. But when King Henry is overthrown, Queen Louise...

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