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Puerto Rico / by Milivojevic, JoAnn.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 47) and index.Explores the landscape, culture, and people of Puerto Rico, a U.S. commonwealth made up of four islands.
© 2009., Lerner,
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Metro Puerto Rico
Mode of access: Internet.
Subjects: News;
© , Metro International
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A woman of endurance : a novel / by Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma,author.;
"A groundbreaking historical novel from a heralded author that explores the seldom discussed Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade. At a time when importing humans from Africa had been prohibited by the Spanish Crown, Pola and other slave women provide their master with babies who are immediately taken away and sold on the auction block. Her serial rapes by a number of men are routine and often provided entertainment for the master and his friends. Understandably she grows into an angry, distrustful and combative woman who lives life in survival mode at all times. After repeated attempts at escape and having been beaten almost to death, she is sent to a new plantation owner as payment of a gambling debt. Pola's life in the second plantation is much more bearable than her past experience. In this new hacienda, she is taken in by a supportive group of other enslaved black women. Within the confines of this enslaved community, she encounters a wide variety of people and situations that are new to her. Cautious and still hostile, she begins to find her way this new environment and the people in it, leading to conflicting feelings and much soul-searching. Among the people she meets is a Chachita, a young woman who becomes a surrogate daughter to her, and Simón, a man who, amazingly, takes nothing from her and offers her a hand in friendship. Her physical and emotional wounds begin to heal as she finds more freedom of movement and emotional support than she has known since captivity. Ultimately, she begins to reconcile her brutal past with a more nurturing present in which she allows herself to trust and love again"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Plantation life; Women slaves;
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We fed an island : the true story of rebuilding Puerto Rico, one meal at a time / by Andrés, José,1969-author.; Wolffe, Richard,1968-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Andrés, José, 1969-; Hurricane Maria, 2017.; Disaster relief; Food relief; Hurricanes;
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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;
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House of bone and rain : a Barrio noir / by Iglesias, Gabino,author.;
"Wanting to grow up and seeing it coming is just like calling the Devil and then seeing him show up: you think you want it, but when it gets there, you wish you could take it all back. Bimbo's mom is dead. Two weeks before graduation. Two bullets to the face. Maria had been working the door at Lazer Club where she checked IDs and occasionally yelled at rowdy kids. She also dealt a little on the side. So when two men, seemingly Scarface wannabes, had asked her to sell for them-she'd said no, not realizing her misstep. Xavier, Tavo, Paul, Gabe, and Bimbo have been friends forever. Growing up on the island, death has always been close. Hurricanes. Car accidents. Gang violence. suicide. As the boys carry out their pact, they are shocked by how easy it is to kill and how quickly it is over. The consequences however take longer to boil. A hurricane is coming. The water is rising. Gruesome, violent, sad, and surprisingly tender; a harrowing coming of age story; a Latinx STAND BY ME, with an obsidianly dark heart"--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Friendship; Mothers; Murder; Revenge;
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After the hurricane : a novel / by Franqui, Leah,author.;
"Reminiscent of Gabriela Garcia's OF WOMEN AND SALT, Leah Franqui brings us an engrossing, deeply personal novel with a mystery at its heart as a daughter returns to Puerto Rico to search for her troubled father, who has gone missing after Hurricane Maria"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Fathers and daughters; Hurricane Maria, 2017; Missing persons;
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Broken butterfly wings / by Ortiz, Raquel M.; Salazar, Carrie.;
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Subjects: Voyages and travels; Voyages, Imaginary; Spanish language materials;
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The rum diary [videorecording] / by Depp, Johnny.; Eckhart, Aaron.; Heard, Amber,1986-; Jenkins, Richard.; Rhulen, Anthony.; Ribisi, Giovanni,1974-; Rispoli, Michael.; Robinson, Bruce,1946-; Thompson, Hunter S.Rum diary.Videorecording.; Entertainment One (Firm); GK Films (Los Angeles, Calif.;
Music by Christopher Young ; edited by Carol Littleton ; cinematography, Dariusz Wolski.Johnny Depp, Giovanni Ribisi, Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard, Michael Rispoli, Richard Jenkins.Tired of the noise and madness of New York, journalist Paul Kemp moves to Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper. Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Kemp becomes obsessed with the fiancee of Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. When he is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme, Kemp is presented with the choice to use his words for the corrupt businessman's financial benefit, or use them to take him down.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, anamorphic widescreen presentation(1.85:1) aspect ratio ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Thompson, Hunter S.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Journalists; Real estate developers; Rum;
© c2012., GK Films ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
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Blind fear : a thriller / by Webb, Brandon,author.; Mann, John David,author.;
"Haunted by the death of his best friend and hunted by the FBI for war crimes he didn't commit, Finn lands on an island paradise that turns into his own personal hell in this gripping follow-up to Steel Fear and Cold Fear-from the New York Times bestselling writing team Webb & Mann ... By day, AWOL Navy SEAL Finn is hiding out on Vieques, a tiny island paradise off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, living in a spare room behind a seafood restaurant owned by a blind local. By night he scours the dark web, hunting for the rogue officer responsible for the crimes he is accused of committing. But Finn's world is about to be turned upside down by a new nightmare, when his employer's two grandchildren go missing. To find them, he'll have to infiltrate the island's dangerous criminal underbelly and expose a shadowy crime network known as La Empresa-even if it means exposing himself in the process. As the children go on their own harrowing odyssey to stay one step ahead of a cop-turned-killer, a hurricane batters the coastline, cutting Puerto Rico off from the rest of the world. Taking his pursuit to the sea, Finn's skills and endurance will be tested to their limits to rescue the lost children and escape his own pursuers before the clock runs out. No one is to be trusted. And those who are seemingly his friends might be the most dangerous foes he's faced yet"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; United States. Navy. SEALs; Absence without leave; Malicious accusation; Missing persons; Organized crime; War crimes investigation;
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