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"A searing and deeply personal memoir that explores the institutions -- family, society, country -- that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself. Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned by her family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the whiteness that surrounded them. In Mother Island, Figueroa traces her search for identity as shaped...
3) Familia
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"As the fact checker for a popular magazine, Gabby DiMarco believes in absolute, verifiable Truths -- until they throw the facts of her own life into question. The genealogy test she took as research for an article has yielded a baffling result: Gabby has a sister -- one who's been desperately trying to find her. Except, as Gabby's beloved parents would confirm if they were still alive, that's impossible. Isabella Ruiz can still picture the face of...
4) Most wanted
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Melanie Vargas thrillers volume 1
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English
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A betrayed wife and dedicated mother suddenly forced to raise her six-month-old daughter alone, Melanie Vargas is also an ambitious, hard-working professional who has had to bite and claw for recognition in the federal prosecutor's office. Then, while strolling with her baby girl on a steamy New York night, Melanie stumbles onto the kind of high-profile case that could make a career: the burning townhouse of a wealthy former prosecutor, its owner's
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"An award-winning journalist, TV political analyst, and creator of TheGrio documentary, Afro-Latinx Revolution: Puerto Rico, recounts her experiences as an African American and Puerto Rican woman, reflecting on her improbable journey from Syracuse to Harvard, hedge fund boardrooms to newsrooms, and beyond in pursuit of America's infinite opportunities. Part inspiring memoir, part cultural analysis, with remarkable self-determination, Natasha S. Alford...
6) Pura Belpré
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Philomel
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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This inspiring chapter book biography introduces readers to Pura Belpré who brought Spanish and bilingual storytelling and books to libraries across the country, giving Spanish speakers the opportunity to read and find community in ways they never had before.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"An inspiring picture book biography of storyteller, puppeteer, and New York City s first Puerto Rican librarian, who championed bilingual literature. When she came to America in 1921, Pura Belpř carried the cuentos folkl̤ricos of her Puerto Rican homeland. Finding a new home at the New York Public Library as a bilingual assistant, she turned her popular retellings into libros and spread story seeds across the land. Today, these seeds have grown...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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Cuando lleg̤ a Am̌rica en 1921, Pura Belpř llevaba los cuentos folkl̤ricos de su patria puertorriquęa. Al encontrar un nuevo hogar en la Biblioteca P︢blica de Nueva York como asistente biling|e, convirti̤ sus recuentos populares en libros y extendi̤ semillas de la historia por toda la tierra. Hoy en d̕a, estas semillas se han convertido en un paisaje exuberante mientras generaciones de nįos y narradores contin︢an compartiendo sus historias...
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Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Rhythmic verse presents three sisters who moved from Puerto Rico to New York City as children and grew up to be pioneering activists in their Bronx community, focusing on schools, libraries, and the arts"--
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