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"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"--
From the outside, Elena Vega's life appears to be an easy one: the only child of two professional parents, private school, NYU. But her twenties are aimless and lacking in connection. Something...
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Series
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Rayo/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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Rafi Coquí y su hermanita Rosi celebran la mágia del carnaval de Puerto Rico.
Two Latin American tree frogs, mischievous Rafi and his younger sister Rosi, enjoy the events of Puerto Rico's Carnival season.
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English
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"There was always an old woman dying in the back room of her grandmother's house when Isla was a child... Isla Larsen Sanchez's life begins to unravel when her father passes away. Instead of being comforted at home in New Jersey, her mother starts leaving her in Puerto Rico with her great-aunt each summer, like a piece of forgotten luggage. It is only when Isla turns eighteen, and her grandmother, a great storyteller, dies, that Isla discovers she...
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Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"Puerto Rico, 2017. Apenas una semana despǔs de restablecida la electricidad, las noticias alertan de la llegada de un segundo hurac̀n, m̀s potente que el anterior. Propensos a la inexactitud y la exageraci̤n, los reportes meteorol̤gicos esta vez parecen ser reales. Han pasado muchos ąos desde que un hurac̀n con un potencial tan destructivo azot̤ la Isla. Si Irma la hab̕a dejado una semana sin luz, ¿qǔ podr̀ esperarse ahora de Mar̕a?......
5) Familia
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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A fact-checker for a popular magazine, Gabby DiMarco, takes a DNA test and discovers she has a sister in Puerto Rico who has been desperately trying to find her for 25 years, despite her parents saying it is impossible.
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English
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"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...
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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In the 1950s, 9-year-old Andrea Rodriguez and her brother leave Woronoco, Massachusetts, for the mountain villages of Puerto Rico and then, months later, are brought back to the tiny factory town where everything has changed and must navigate the rifts between their family's values and all-American culture as they journey into adulthood.
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Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Lana Torres has always preferred dragons to people. In a few weeks, sixteen countries will compete in the Blazewrath World Cup, a tournament where dragons and their riders fight for glory in a dangerous relay. Lana longs to represent her native Puerto Rico in their first ever World Cup appearance, and when Puerto Rico's Runner--the only player without a dragon steed--is kicked off the team, she's given the chance. But when she discovers that a former...
10) Velorio: a novel
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HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Camila is haunted by the death of her sister, Marisol, who was caught by a mudslide during the huracán. Unable to part with Marisol, Camila carries her through town, past the churchyard, and, eventually, to the supposed utopia of Memoria. Urayoán, the idealistic, yet troubled cult leader of Memoria, has a vision for this new society, one that in his eyes is peaceful and democratic. The paradise he preaches lures in the young, including Bayfish,...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Marisel Vera emerges as a major voice of contemporary fiction with a heart- wrenching novel set in Puerto Rico on the eve of the Spanish-American War. It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente...
12) Conquistadora
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Vintage Español, una divisioń de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Durante su adolescencia en España, Ana Larragoity Cubillas llega a sentir una poderosa atracción por Puerto Rico después de leer los diarios de un antepasado que colonizó la isla con Juan Ponce de León. Y en los apuestos gemelos Ramón e Inocente --que comparten su amor por ella-- encuentra una manera de llegar a la isla. Ana se casa con Ramón, y en 1844, con solo dieciocho años, cruza el océano para establecerse en una remota plantación...
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Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
A powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and The Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together--Provided by publisher.
Se hacen llamar "Las Madres", un grupo muy cercano de mujeres que, junto con sus hijas, han creado una familia basada en la amistad y los lazos de sangre. Su historia comienza en Puerto Rico, en 1975, cuando Luz, de quince años, la niña...
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Bantam
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"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...
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Madi Ramírez has it all ; a thriving career she loves, a successful boyfriend, and a wedding to plan ; when he finally proposes. So why does she feel like there is something missing? Jayden even has the right initials ; the JR that appeared to Madi years ago, in a dream visitation from her beloved, wise abuela. Madi's friends think her expectations are too high, but she can't help wishing for that dreamy feeling in real-life. Wishing that Jayden...
16) Velorio
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Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Camila is haunted by the death of her sister, Marisol, who was caught by a mudslide during the huracaan. Unable to part with Marisol, Camila carries her through town, past the churchyard, and, eventually, to the supposed utopia of Memoria. Urayoaan, the idealistic, yet troubled cult leader of Memoria, has a vision for this new society, one that in his eyes is peaceful and democratic. The paradise he preaches lures in the young, including Bayfish,...
17) Category five
Author
Series
Five midnights volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"After the hurricane, some see destruction and some sell blood. Viques: a small island just off the northeastern coats of the main island of Puerto Rico. A place struggling to recover after Hurricane Maria, where developers see desparation and smell opportunity. A paradise turned hunting ground for something angry that the storm revived. Lupe, Javier, and Marisol are back to investigate a series of murders that follow in the wake of destruction and...
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