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A Puerto Rican childhood / by Mwai, Melissa H.;
Learn all about Carmen's childhood in Puerto Rico.
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Children;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Speak to me of home : a novel / by Cummins, Jeanine,author.;
"What does it mean to call a place home? From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeanine Cummins comes a deeply felt multigenerational family story. On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments. In the 1980s, against the backdrop of her mother's isolation in St. Louis, Missouri, Rafaela's daughter, Ruth Brennan, wants only to belong. Eager to fit in, Ruth lets go of her language, habits, and childhood memories of Puerto Rico. It's not until decades later when Ruth's own daughter, Daisy, returns to San Juan that her mother and grandmother begin to truly reflect on the choices that have come to define their lives. When a hurricane ravages the island in 2023, leaving Daisy critically injured, Rafaela and Ruth return to the city where it all began. As they gather at Daisy's bedside, we follow them back into the pasts that brought them to this point: we watch as they come of age, fall in love, take risks, and contend with all the heartbreaks, triumphs, and reversals of fortune -- both good and bad -- that make up a meaningful life. As old memories come to light, so do buried secrets, leaving everyone in the family wondering exactly where it is that they belong. A striking, resonant examination of marriage, family, and identity, Speak to Me of Home is ultimately a story of mothers and daughters that asks: How can three women who share geography and genetics have such wildly different ideas of where they come from? And, more importantly, can they discover a common language to find their way back home?"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Puerto Rican women; Puerto Ricans; Women; Mothers and daughters; Grandmothers;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Speak to me of home [sound recording] : a novel / by Cummins, Jeanine,author.; Guerra, Almarie,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Almarie Guerra."What does it mean to call a place home? From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeanine Cummins comes a deeply felt multigenerational family story. On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments. In the 1980s, against the backdrop of her mother's isolation in St. Louis, Missouri, Rafaela's daughter, Ruth Brennan, wants only to belong. Eager to fit in, Ruth lets go of her language, habits, and childhood memories of Puerto Rico. It's not until decades later when Ruth's own daughter, Daisy, returns to San Juan that her mother and grandmother begin to truly reflect on the choices that have come to define their lives. When a hurricane ravages the island in 2023, leaving Daisy critically injured, Rafaela and Ruth return to the city where it all began. As they gather at Daisy's bedside, we follow them back into the pasts that brought them to this point: we watch as they come of age, fall in love, take risks, and contend with all the heartbreaks, triumphs, and reversals of fortune -- both good and bad -- that make up a meaningful life. As old memories come to light, so do buried secrets, leaving everyone in the family wondering exactly where it is that they belong. A striking, resonant examination of marriage, family, and identity, Speak to Me of Home is ultimately a story of mothers and daughters that asks: How can three women who share geography and genetics have such wildly different ideas of where they come from? And, more importantly, can they discover a common language to find their way back home?"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Grandmothers; Mothers and daughters; Puerto Rican women; Puerto Ricans; Women;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Hair story / by Ramos, NoNieqa.; Morris, Keisha.;
Illustrations and rhythmic, rhyming text follow a Boricua girl and a Black girl from birth through early childhood, culminating in a playdate where they celebrate their natural hair.Ages 5-9.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Hair; Puerto Ricans; African Americans; Friendship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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What happened to Ruthy Ramirez / by Jimenez, Claire,author.;
"The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen year old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left eye is instantly recognizable. Could it be Ruthy, after all this time? The years since Ruthy's disappearance haven't been easy on the Ramirez family. It's 2008, and their mother, Dolores, still struggles with the loss, Jessica juggles a newborn baby with her hospital job, and Nina, after four successful years at college, has returned home to medical school rejections and is forced to work in the mall folding tiny bedazzled thongs at the lingerie store. After seeing maybe Ruthy on their screen, Jessica and Nina hatch a plan to drive to where the show is filmed in search of their long lost sister. When Dolores catches wind of their scheme, she insists on joining, along with her pot-stirring holy roller best friend, Irene. What follows is a family road trip and reckoning that will force the Ramirez women to finally face the past and look toward a future--with or without Ruthy in it. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez is a vivid family portrait, in all its shattered reality, exploring the familial bonds between women and cycles of generational violence, colonialism, race, and silence, replete with snark, resentment, tenderness, and, of course, love"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Missing persons; Puerto Ricans; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Something like home / by Arango, Andrea Beatriz.;
When a lost dog helps Laura find a way home to her family, they discover family in each other along the way.
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Foster home care; Dysfunctional families; Human-animal relationships; Dogs; Puerto Ricans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Juliet takes a breath [graphic novel] / by Rivera, Gabby,author.; Moscote, Celia,artist.; Fenner, James,colourist.; Graphic novelization of (expression):Rivera, Gabby.Juliet takes a breath.;
"Juliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color"--
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Lesbians; Puerto Ricans; Feminism; Authors; Prejudices; Internship programs; Coming-of-age;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The storyteller's candle = La velita de los cuentos / by González, Lucía M.; Delacre, Lulu.;
During the early days of the Great Depression, New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian, Pura Belpré, introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood's first Three Kings' Day fiesta.LSC
Subjects: Belpré, Pura; Librarians; Libraries; Puerto Ricans; Epiphany; Spanish language materials;
© c2008., Children's Book Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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12 angry men [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Fonda, Henry; Balsam, Martin; Warden, Jack; Cobb, Lee J.; Marshall, E.G.; Klugman, Jack; Begley, Ed; Rose, Reginald;
Director, Sidney Lumet.Henry Fonda, Jack Klugman, E.G. Marshall, Ed Begley, Martin Balsam, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden.A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose's teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. What results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. One of the most radical big-screen courtroom dramas in cinema history.OFRB rating: PG.Blu-ray.
Subjects: Drama.; National Film Registry.; Drama.; Classics.;
© 2011., The Criterion Collection,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Two Rivers. by Samuels, Ben,film director.; New Day Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by New Day Films in 2020.Alejandro Jimenez fled Oaxaca, Mexico as a child and survived the desert to fight for a better life. As DACA policies and his status remain embattled in America, he trains tirelessly to embody the best of both his countries: his homeland, and the one he calls home. An inspirational knockout. TWO RIVERS celebrates the immigrant story in America, looking back at how Presidents of both parties have uplifted and disparaged these new arrivals; looking ahead at the best our country has to offer when we uplift our champions. Centered around Alejandro's relationship with his Coach, Puerto Rican-American Mark Roxey, the film provides an intimate and inspiring look at a surrogate father raising a son born to two worlds.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; Current affairs.; Emigration and immigration.; Hispanic Americans.;
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