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| Author | : Sarah McCoy |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2010-08-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307460177 |
It is 1961 and Puerto Rico is trapped in a tug-of-war between those who want to stay connected to the United States and those who are fighting for independence. For eleven-year-old Verdita Ortiz-Santiago, the struggle for independence is a battle fought much closer to home. Verdita has always been safe and secure in her sleepy mountain town, far from the excitement of the capital city of San Juan or the glittering shores of the United States, where her older cousin lives. She will be a señorita soon, which, as her mother reminds her, means that she will be expected to cook and clean, go to Mass every day, choose arroz con pollo over hamburguesas, and give up her love for Elvis. And yet, as much as Verdita longs to escape this seemingly inevitable future and become a blond American bombshell, she is still a young girl who is scared by late-night stories of the chupacabra, who wishes her mother would still rub her back and sing her a lullaby, and who is both ashamed and exhilarated by her changing body. Told in luminous prose spanning two years in Verdita’s life, The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico is much more than a story about getting older. In the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Annie John, it is about the struggle to break free from the people who have raised us, and about the difficulties of leaving behind one's homeland for places unknown. At times joyous and at times heartbreaking, Verdita’s story is of a young girl discovering her power and finding the strength to decide what sort of woman she’ll become.
| Author | : Leo Smith |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2013-08-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1491703318 |
Special Agent Robin Perez, Federal Bureau of Narcotics, has a new assignment brings him back to the island where he spent his teenage years as an army brat. The island, Puerto Rico, has become springboard in the traffic of narcotics toward the United States. Times have changed. The criminal unrest is threatening. The island is not as peaceful as it was when he was a student. More people are getting caught in the crossfire. There are factions trying to pull the island toward independence. Law enforcement results are slow. Robin is at odds with the heads of the Bureau. His previous assignments caused some hiccups but they know he gets the job done. He does not believe that keeping the drugs on the island (containment) is the solution. His plan to purchase of 500 kilos of cocaine is the opportunity to bring down the source of the drug distribution. He must go undercover and abandon his identity assuming a new one as a successful drug dealer. His life will be in constant danger.
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| Total Pages | : 564 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Storms |
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| Author | : Barbara Briggs Ward |
| Publisher | : Wheatmark, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2017-06-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1627874887 |
While curious of the world outside her Amish community, Annie Finley's love for her husband, Daniel, and their son, Jacob, is why she's content to stay. A devastating accident one stormy night changes that, propelling Annie beyond those boundaries. With the help of two women who sell Annie's quilts, she learns those responsible for the accident are ruthless owners of a newspaper dynasty who'll do anything to keep the presses running. A plan is devised enabling Annie to shed her simplicity and travel to Philadelphia where she infiltrates that dynasty, moving amongst them as one of them until the moment when she must make her move—a move with grave consequences reaching all the way to the White House in a fight over the Second Amendment.
| Author | : Tom Henderson |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2011-04-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780312948122 |
Henderson tells the true story behind Stephen Grant, a Detroit stay-at-home dad who reported his high-powered wife as missing and later confessed to her murder. photos. Original.
| Author | : J. Delgado-Figueroa |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 442 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0595099521 |
During the final seconds of his life Jorge Blanco’s past appears as a spiraled succession of images on a dynamic canvas. Deluded by the conviction of a religious vocation and motivated by the desire to escape his troubled home life, Jorge migrates from Puerto Rico to Minnesota, where he joins a Benedictine monastery. Jorge’s dismay at the reality of monastic hypocrisy, however, drives him to a cynical outrage, with fatal consequences. Tropical Snow is set against the backdrop of life in the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico during the first half of the twentieth century and in the mainland in the early 1970s. Jorge’s life becomes a fluid metaphor that simultaneously reflects and becomes the history of his homeland—dreams soiled and promises betrayed—and the role that the Catholic Church played in its downfall.
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| Total Pages | : 968 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Hydrology |
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| Author | : Sarah McCoy |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2022-05-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062984403 |
From bestselling author Sarah McCoy, a sun-splashed romp with a rich divorcée and her two wayward daughters in 1970s Mustique, the world’s most exclusive private island, where Princess Margaret and Mick Jagger were regulars and scandals stayed hidden from the press. It’s January 1972 but the sun is white hot when Willy May Michael’s boat first kisses the dock of Mustique Isle. Tucked into the southernmost curve of the Caribbean, Mustique is a private island that has become a haven for the wealthy and privileged. Its owner is the eccentric British playboy Colin Tennant, who is determined to turn this speck of white sand into a luxurious neo-colonial retreat for his rich friends and into a royal court in exile for the Queen’s rebellious sister, Princess Margaret—one where Her Royal Highness can skinny dip, party, and entertain lovers away from the public eye. Willy May, a former beauty queen from Texas—who is also no stranger to marital scandals—seeks out Mustique for its peaceful isolation. Determined to rebuild her life and her relationships with her two daughters, Hilly, a model, and Joanne, a musician, she constructs a fanciful white beach house across the island from Princess Margaret—and finds herself pulled into the island’s inner circle of aristocrats, rock stars, and hangers-on. When Willy May’s daughters arrive, they discover that beneath its veneer of decadence, Mustique has a dark side, and like sand caught in the undertow, their mother-daughter story will shift and resettle in ways they never could have imagined.
| Author | : Robert Leckie |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 405 |
| Release | : 2000-09-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0471390208 |
"Leckie is a gifted writer with the ability to explain complicatedmilitary matters in layperson's terms, while sustaining the dramainvolved in a life-and-death struggle. His portraits of the keyplayers in that struggle . . . are seamlessly interwoven with hisexciting narrative." -Booklist"As always, [Leckie] describes themaneuvers, battles, and results in telling detail with a cinematicstyle, and his portraits . . . are first-rate."-The Dallas MorningNews"Leckie's accounts of battles, important individuals, and therole of Native Americans bring to life the distant drama of theFrench and Indian Wars."-The Daily Reflector With his celebrated sense of drama and eye for colorful detail,acclaimed military historian Robert Leckie charts the long, savageconflict between England and France in their quest for supremacy inpre-Revolutionary America. Packed with sharply etched profiles ofall the major players-including George Washington, Samuel deChamplain, William Pitt, Edward Braddock, Count Frontenac, JamesWolfe, Thomas Gage, and the nobly vanquished Marquis deMontcalm-this panoramic history chronicles the four great colonialwars: the War of the Grand Alliance (King William's War), the Warof the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War), the War of theAustrian Succession (King George's War), and the decisive Frenchand Indian War (the Seven Years' War). Leckie not only providesperspective on exactly how the New World came to be such a fiercelycontested prize in Western Civilization, but also shows us exactlywhy we speak English today instead of French-and reminds us howeasily things might have gone the other way.
| Author | : Max Mermelstein |
| Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Here is the incredible story of the only American alive ever admitted into the inner circle of the Columbian cocaine cartel. From 1978 to 1985, Mermelstein was the Medellin cartel's Miami connection--a man who ran the American traffic and personally supervised the smuggling of 58 tons of cocaine into Florida. 8 pages of photographs.
