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Like most young children, Mimi loves Christmas time, so much so that she doesn't even mind the bitter cold. But while her friends plan to ask for skates, sleds, coats and boots for Christmas, Mimi wants a straw hat, new sandals, a polka-dot bathing suit, and maybe even a beach ball. Mimi especially looks forward to her annual parranda, the Puerto Rican version of Christmas caroling. But when she learns that her family won't be able to go to Puerto...
83) Casi una mujer
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The memoir of a young Puerto Rican girl who moves with her family to New York in 1961.
85) Cuando era puertorriquena (When I was Puerto Rican): (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)
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La bella memoria de Santiago cuenta su ninez en el rural Puerto Rico y su adolesencia en la ciudad de Nueva York. (Santiago's artful memoir recounts her childhood in rural Puerto Rico and her teenage years in New York City.)
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Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house...
88) Carlito's way
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Sprung from prison on a legal technicality, former drug kingpin Carlito Brigante stuns the local underworld when he vows to go straight. Taking a job managing a glitzy, low-life nightclub, he tracks down his onetime girlfriend and rekindles their romance, promising he's changed for good. But Carlito's dream of going legitimate is undermined at every turn by murderous former cronies and even deadlier young thugs out to make a name for themselves. Ultimately,...
89) Carlito's way
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A drug kingpin gets out of prison and tries to go straight but the forces of his former life draw him back into it.