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A la orilla del viento volume 99
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199 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Español
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Un poema y doce cuentos acerca de jóvenes metidos entre su herencia puertorriqueña y el ambiente de los Estados Unidos.
A poem and twelve stories about young people caught between their Puerto Rican heritage and their surroundings in the United States.
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1 videodisc (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When Carlito is released from prison on a technicality, he feels that this is his chance to go straight. However, his cronies from the past and younger gangsters who are trying to make a name for themselves, make this impossible.
A drug kingpin gets out of prison and tries to go straight but the forces of his former life draw him back into it.
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240 pages ; 21cm
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In a stunning narrative combining the gritty rhythms of Junot Diaz with the noir genius of Walter Mosley, Bodega Dreams pulls us into Spanish Harlem, where the word is out: Willie Bodega is king. Need college tuition for your daughter? Start-up funds for your fruit stand? Bodega can help. He gives everyone a leg up, in exchange only for loyalty-and a steady income from the drugs he pushes. Lyrical, inspired, and darkly funny, this powerful debut novel...
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"When Miguel and his parents move from Puerto Rico to the U.S. mainland, Miguel misses their home, his grandparents, and his pet frog, Coquí, but he soon realizes that New York City has more in common with back home than he originally thought."--
"La mascota de Miguel, Coquí, siempre anda con el: mientras saluda a sus vecinos en San Juan, compra quesitos en la panadería y mientras escucha la historia de su abuelo cuando conoció al famoso pelotero...
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xvi, 368 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Long-overdue translation of Down these mean streets (New York: Knopf, 1967), which was important for the development of US Puerto Rican literature. This bildungsroman focuses on the adolescent life of the author, a black Puerto Rican growing up in Spanish Harlem in the 1960s. Introduces important issues of racial discrimination, intergenerational and ethnic conflict, and the overall marginalization of Puerto Ricans during those years"--Handbook of...
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380 pages ; 21 cm
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"Juliet Milagros Palante es una adolescente lesbiana puertorriqueña, nacida en el Bronx. Aún está 'en el clóset', aunque no tanto como ella cree. Una noche antes de viajar a Portland, Oregón, donde ha logrado conseguir un trabajo de verano con su escritora feminista favorita, Juliet le confiesa la verdad a su familia. Pero como su anuncio oficial no sale de la manera que esperaba, queda convencida de que su madre no le volverá a hablar. Sin...
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30 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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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.
Durante los primeros anos de la gran Depresion (1929-1935), muchos puertorriquenos dejaron su islita en busca de trabajo y de oportunidades en la gran ciudad de Nueva York. Muchos de ellos se establecieron en una seccion...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.
Overview: This prequel to Eric Velasquez's biographical picture book, Grandma's Records, is the story of a Christmas holiday that young Eric spends with his grandmother. After they prepare their traditional...
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