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• Puerto Rico

  a National History

  Meléndez-Badillo, Jorell,

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  A panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Taste of Sugar

  a Novel

  Vera, Marisel,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Down These Mean Streets

  Thomas, Piri, 1928-2011

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  Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating memoir. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Puerto Rican War

  a Graphic History

  Mejias, John Vasquez,

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  Rendered in gorgeously carved wood blocks and buffeted with historical supplemental material, John Vasquez Mejias's The Puerto Rican War tells the story of the the 1950 insurrection on the island that resulted in 38 deaths and a failed assassination…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Olga Dies Dreaming

  Gonzalez, Xochitl, 1977-

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  A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots--all in the wake of Hurricane Maria It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Conquistadora

  a Novel

  Santiago, Esmeralda

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  As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente—both in love with Ana—she finds a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• War Against All Puerto Ricans

  Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

  Denis, Nelson A.

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  In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ordinary Girls

  a Memoir

  Díaz, Jaquira,

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  In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of age. While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Díaz found herself caught between extremes. As her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Speak to Me of Home

  a Novel

  Cummins, Jeanine,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Silent Dancing

  a Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood

  Cofer, Judith Ortiz, 1952-2016

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  "Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood" by Judith Ortiz Cofer is a reflective collection comprising fourteen essays and accompanying poems that explore the author's upbringing in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, and Paterson,…Read moreRead more of this annotation