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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 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593098875
  • ISBN: 0593098870
  • ISBN: 9780593197813
  • ISBN: 059319781X
  • Physical Description: 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Berkley, [2021]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes readers' guide.
Subject: Cossio y Cisneros, Evangelina, 1879-1970 > Fiction.
Cossio y Cisneros, Evangelina, 1879-1970.
Women prisoners > Fiction.
Women journalists > Fiction.
Newspapers > Fiction.
Revolutions > Fiction.
Guerrilla couriers > Fiction.
Cuba > History > Revolution, 1895-1898 > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1865-1898 > Fiction.
Guerrilla couriers.
Women prisoners.
Women journalists.
Revolutions.
Newspapers.
Revolution.
War.
Cuba.
New York (State) > New York.
Newspapers > Fiction.
Revolutions > Fiction.
Genre: Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
History.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at Skagit Evergreen Libraries. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Burlington Public Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Burlington Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Burlington Public Library F CLEETON OCT 2021 39851001621920 Adult Fiction Copy hold Available -

Originally from Florida, Chanel Cleeton grew up on stories of her family's exodus from Cuba following the events of the Cuban Revolution. Her passion for politics and history continued during her years spent studying in England, where she earned a bachelor's degree in International Relations from Richmond, The American International University in London, and a master's degree in Global Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Chanel also received her Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law.


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