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The most beautiful girl in Cuba  Cover Image Book Book

The most beautiful girl in Cuba / Chanel Cleeton.

Cleeton, Chanel, (author.).

Summary:

"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 onescoop 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 learnsof 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593098875
  • ISBN: 0593098870
  • Physical Description: 372 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Berkley, 2021.
Subject: Cossio y Cisneros, Evangelina, 1879-1970 > Fiction.
Women > Fiction.
Women prisoners > Fiction.
Women journalists > Fiction.
Newspapers > Fiction.
Revolutions > Fiction.
Guerrilla couriers > Fiction.
Authors, Cuban.
Cuban American authors.
Havana (Cuba) > History > 19th century > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1865-1898 > Fiction.
Genre: War fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 24 of 24 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
  • 0 of 0 copies available at North Kansas City.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 24 total copies.
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Barry Lawrence - Aurora Library FIC CLE (Text) 37884103199711 Fiction Available -
Barry Lawrence - Cassville Library FIC CLE (Text) 37884103199836 Fiction Available -
Barry Lawrence - Monett Library FIC CLE (Text) 37884103199703 Fiction Available -
Cape Girardeau Public Library CLE (Text) 33042004752732 Adult Fiction Available -
Caruthersville Public Library SPN F CLE (Text) 38417100547548 Spinner Rack Available -
Grundy County Jewett Norris F CLE (Text) 33577000100852 Fiction (Adult) Available -
Jefferson County Library-Northwest F CLEETON Chanel (Text) 30051000313426 Fiction Available -
Jefferson County Library-Windsor F CLEETON Chanel (Text) 30065000194800 Fiction Available -
Little Dixie - Main Library - Moberly F CLEETON (Text) 2004590955 Adult Fiction Shelves Available -
Livingston County Library - Main Library CLEETON (Text) 2601933267 Adult Fiction Available -
Mississippi County - Clara Drinkwater Newnam Library F CLE (Text) 38530100733320 Adult Fiction Available -
Montgomery City Public Library F CLE (Text) 31927000028539 Adult Fiction Available -
Nevada Public Library FIC CLE 2021 (Text) 32770114369523 Adult Fiction Available -
Ray County Library F CLE (Text) 2901820130 Adult Fiction Available -
Riverside Regional-Perryville F CLE (Text) 30000005441591 Adult Fiction Available -
Scenic Regional-Owensville FIC CLE (Text) 3007291186 Fiction Available -
Scenic Regional-Pacific FIC CLE (Text) 3007291178 Fiction Available -
Scenic Regional-Warrenton FIC CLE (Text) 300729116+ Fiction Available -
St. Joseph - Downtown Library F CLE (Text) 32002005465859 Adult Fiction Available -
St. Joseph - East Hills Library F CLE (Text) 32002005567316 Adult Fiction Available -
Stone County-Galena F CLE (Text) 31358001333108 Adult Fiction Available -
Trails Regional-Concordia FIC CLE Cuba #4 (Text) 2205069905 Adult Fiction Available -
Trails Regional-Holden FIC CLE Cuba #4 (Text) 2205069913 Adult Fiction Available -
Webster County-Main Library-Marshfield F Cleeton (Text) 3991271838 * Adult Fiction Available -


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