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Esmeralda Santiago
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“The jíbaro can never wash away the stain of the plantain,” declares Esmeralda “Negi” Santiago as she begins telling her story. In this poignant audiobook, the first volume of her memoirs, she explores what it means to be Puerto Rican in the United States.
Esmeralda Santiago reminisces about her childhood in Puerto Rico and her early years in Brooklyn as the oldest of seven (soon to be 11) children. Her upbringing is turbulent on account of her parents’ relentless fighting, which only ever seems to stop when they decide to have another baby. When her youngest brother has an accident, her mother decides to move to New York with her children to seek medical treatment. Arriving in the United States, 13-year-old Santiago experiences uprooting and a loss of identity while she tries to adapt to a culture and language that are foreign to her.
The author herself narrates the memoir, which provides an additional emotional element to the story. Hearing her talk about the taste, color and smell of guavas makes the listener almost feel the texture of the fruit on their lips. It’s inspiring to hear a female perspective of what it’s like to be an immigrant pursuing the American dream.
When I was Puerto Rican is not only the literary debut of an extraordinary author and an entertaining autobiography sprinkled with touches of humor, but it is also a cultural text. This listen’s themes are so relevant that many schools across the country include it in the curriculum. It has also been adapted for the stage on several occasions.
©2006 Esmeralda Santiago (P)2018 CANTOMEDIALos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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- Narrado por: Robin Miles
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Two sisters, ages 10 and 16, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados, after their mother can no longer care for them. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live, for the summer of 1989, with their grandmother, Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah. Dionne spends the summer in search of love, testing her grandmother's limits, and wanting to go home. Phaedra explores Bird Hill, where her family has lived for generations.
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My absolute favorite book of all time
- De Eme en 07-16-15
De: Naomi Jackson
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The Other Side of Paradise
- A Memoir
- De: Staceyann Chin
- Narrado por: Staceyann Chin
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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Stacyann Chin has appeared on television and radio, including The Oprah Winfrey Show , CNN, and PBS, discussing issues of race and sexuality. But it is her extraordinary voice that launched her career as a performer, poet, and activist. Here, she shares her unforgettable story of triumph against all odds in this brave and fiercely candid memoir.
No one knew Staceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house in Jamaica, on Christmas Day.
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Incredible life, incredible performer
- De RyRy en 10-21-19
De: Staceyann Chin
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Gathering of Waters
- De: Bernice L. McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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Gathering of Waters is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi - a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation. Money is personified in this haunting story, which chronicles its troubled history following the arrival of the Hilson and Bryant families. Tass Hilson and Emmett Till were young and in love when Emmett was brutally murdered in 1955. Anxious to escape the town, Tass marries Maximillian May and relocates to Detroit
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Loved it!!
- De Dr. Allen en 07-26-16
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
- De: Leslye Walton
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga. Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender.
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Beautiful and Haunting Fairytale
- De FanB14 en 07-24-15
De: Leslye Walton
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Glorious
- De: Bernice L. McFadden
- Narrado por: Alfre Woodard
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of Bernice L. McFadden's rich imagination, this is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success, ruin, and revival offers a candid portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty.
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Gruesome violence
- De Marilyn en 11-22-11
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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Avoid this Plague
- De Andre en 05-16-08
De: Louise Erdrich
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This Side of the Sky
- De: Elyse Singleton
- Narrado por: Myra Taylor, Sharon Washington, Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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Award-winning journalist Elyse Singleton delivers what Essence calls “a gem - the perfect book to curl up with.”
Best friends Lilian and Myraleen, two African American women from rural Mississippi, travel to Europe during World War II to act as members of the Women’s Army Corps. During this time of segregation and destruction, both women discover love and heartbreak, triumph and defeat.
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A Breath of Fresh Air
- De Adina Andreu en 07-19-12
De: Elyse Singleton
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Tar Baby
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Desiree Coleman
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
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So good that I'm writing my first Audible review!
- De BL en 12-10-11
De: Toni Morrison
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Paradise
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
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In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void.
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MORRISON AT HER MOST COMPLEX
- De Kennedi Hill en 11-07-19
De: Toni Morrison
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Habibi
- De: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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For 14-year-old Liyana Abboud, life in St. Louis, Missouri is perfect. She loves shopping in the nearby stores and walking down streets where she knows everyone. Even better, she has just had her first kiss. But her father is moving the family to Jerusalem - the land where he was born. Suddenly Liyana finds herself a stranger in a threatening world.
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Very good Performance
- De Muhammad en 04-07-15
De: Naomi Shihab Nye
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The Kite Runner
- De: Khaled Hosseini
- Narrado por: Khaled Hosseini
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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Why we think it’s a great listen: Never before has an author’s narration of his fiction been so important to fully grasping the book’s impact and global implications. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them.
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A Worhty Read
- De P. C..S. en 08-17-03
De: Khaled Hosseini
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Nowhere is a Place
- De: Bernice McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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Nothing can mend a broken heart quite like family. Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most important, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family's past. Like many family histories, it is fractured and stubbornly reluctant to reveal its secrets. But Sherry is determined to know the full story. In a few days' time, her extended family will gather for a reunion, and Sherry sets off across the country with her mother, Dumpling, to join them.
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A Mother and Daughter Tear. It. Up.
- De Susie en 01-15-14
De: Bernice McFadden
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Puerto Rico
- A National History
- De: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
- Narrado por: Tony Chiroldes
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today.
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very nice summary of Island history
- De Jacobite McFee en 02-18-25
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Fantasy Island
- Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
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In Fantasy Island, Ed Morales traces how, over the years, Puerto Rico has served as a colonial satellite, a Cold War Caribbean showcase, a dumping ground for US manufactured goods, and a corporate tax shelter. He also shows how it has become a blank canvas for mercenary experiments in disaster capitalism on the frontlines of climate change, hamstrung by internal political corruption and the US federal government's prioritization of outside financial interests.
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Gringo Narrattion
- De shakira julia en 02-08-21
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Cuando Era Puertorriquena (Texto Completo) [When I was Puerto Rican ]
- De: Esmeralda Santiago
- Narrado por: Esmeralda Santiago
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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Esmeralda Santiago era una niña en el seno de una familia numerosa en una zona rural de Puerto Rico. En aquel entonces, la vida estaba en orden. Pero cuando su hermano menor sufre un accidente y los padres se separan, la madre se lleva a Esmeralda, de trece años, y sus seis hermanos menores a Estados Unidos. Se van en busca de un tratamiento médico para el chico accidentado y de una mejor vida.
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Enjoyable and beautifully narrated
- De Babo Wright en 02-28-12
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Mother Island
- A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico
- De: Jamie Figueroa
- Narrado por: Jamie Figueroa, Kelle Rae Oien
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Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned by her family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the whiteness that surrounded them. In Mother Island, Figueroa traces her search for identity as shaped by and against a mother who settled into the safety of assimilation, and presents a cultural coming-of-age story.
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Las Madres
- A Novel
- De: Esmeralda Santiago
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From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, 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.
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- De Julian en 09-23-23
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The Taste of Sugar
- De: Marisel Vera
- Narrado por: Kyla García
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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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 in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of others, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii.
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Loved it!
- De Ebitimi Igbaseimokumo en 01-30-23
De: Marisel Vera
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Puerto Rico
- A National History
- De: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
- Narrado por: Tony Chiroldes
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This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today.
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very nice summary of Island history
- De Jacobite McFee en 02-18-25
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Fantasy Island
- Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
- De: Ed Morales
- Narrado por: Sean Duffy
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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In Fantasy Island, Ed Morales traces how, over the years, Puerto Rico has served as a colonial satellite, a Cold War Caribbean showcase, a dumping ground for US manufactured goods, and a corporate tax shelter. He also shows how it has become a blank canvas for mercenary experiments in disaster capitalism on the frontlines of climate change, hamstrung by internal political corruption and the US federal government's prioritization of outside financial interests.
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Gringo Narrattion
- De shakira julia en 02-08-21
De: Ed Morales
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Cuando Era Puertorriquena (Texto Completo) [When I was Puerto Rican ]
- De: Esmeralda Santiago
- Narrado por: Esmeralda Santiago
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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Esmeralda Santiago era una niña en el seno de una familia numerosa en una zona rural de Puerto Rico. En aquel entonces, la vida estaba en orden. Pero cuando su hermano menor sufre un accidente y los padres se separan, la madre se lleva a Esmeralda, de trece años, y sus seis hermanos menores a Estados Unidos. Se van en busca de un tratamiento médico para el chico accidentado y de una mejor vida.
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Enjoyable and beautifully narrated
- De Babo Wright en 02-28-12
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Mother Island
- A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico
- De: Jamie Figueroa
- Narrado por: Jamie Figueroa, Kelle Rae Oien
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Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned by her family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the whiteness that surrounded them. In Mother Island, Figueroa traces her search for identity as shaped by and against a mother who settled into the safety of assimilation, and presents a cultural coming-of-age story.
De: Jamie Figueroa
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Las Madres
- A Novel
- De: Esmeralda Santiago
- Narrado por: Esmeralda Santiago
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From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, 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.
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Accurate information
- De Julian en 09-23-23
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The Taste of Sugar
- De: Marisel Vera
- Narrado por: Kyla García
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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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 in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of others, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii.
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Loved it!
- De Ebitimi Igbaseimokumo en 01-30-23
De: Marisel Vera
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America's Dream
- A Novel
- De: Esmeralda Santiago
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América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on Vieques, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don’t look her in the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her; her married boyfriend, Correa, beats her; and their 14-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with América. So when América is offered the chance to work as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester, New York, she takes it as a sign to finally make the escape she's been longing for.
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La Cultura
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Clap When You Land
- De: Elizabeth Acevedo
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Acevedo, Melania-Luisa Marte
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In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.
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War Against All Puerto Ricans
- Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
- De: Nelson A. Denis
- Narrado por: Luis Vega
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Through oral histories, personal interviews, eyewitness accounts, congressional testimony, and recently declassified FBI files, War Against All Puerto Ricans tells the story of a forgotten revolution and its context in Puerto Rico's history, from the US invasion in 1898 to the modern-day struggle for self-determination.
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The Young Lords
- A Radical History
- De: Johanna Fernández
- Narrado por: Joana Garcia
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Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city's racist policies and contempt for the poor. Their dramatic flair, uncompromising vision, and skillful ability to link local problems to international crises riveted the media, alarmed New York's political class, and challenged nationwide perceptions of civil rights and black power protest. The group called itself the Young Lords.
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- De Joseph narvaez en 06-28-21
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The Tainos
- Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus
- De: Irving Rouse
- Narrado por: Adam Barr
- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
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Drawing on archeological and ethno-historical evidence, Irving Rouse sketches a picture of the Tainos-the first people Columbus encountered when he arrived in the Americas-as they existed during the time of Columbus, contrasting their customs with those of their neighbors. He then moves backward in time to the ancestors of the Tainos-two successive groups who settled the West Indies and who are known to archeologists as the Saladoid peoples and the Ostionoid peoples.
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The Taínos PR
- De Tonyajfa250 en 11-20-24
De: Irving Rouse
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Conquistadora
- De: Esmeralda Santiago
- Narrado por: Esmeralda Santiago
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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 way to get there. She marries Ramón, and in 1844, just 18, she travels across the ocean to a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited on the island. Ana faces unrelenting heat, disease and isolation, and the dangers of the untamed countryside....
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Conquuistadora
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The Tainos and Caribs
- The History of the Indigenous Natives Who Encountered Christopher Columbus in 1492
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: KC Wayman
- Duración: 1 h y 36 m
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On October 12, 1492, one of the most important “first contacts” of the modern era was made when three ships of Spanish origin approached the island archipelago now known as the Bahamas, cautiously dropping anchor as the captain of the fleet gazed across to what he assumed was the coast of India. According to the popular version of the story, amazed at the sight of ships and men of such unfamiliar appearance, the native people of the island plunged into the clear waters of the western Atlantic, expertly swimming or aboard dugout canoes, and came out to greet the strangers.
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poor narration and poor pronunciation in this audible version
- De Donna L. DeCaul en 04-04-24
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When We Make It
- De: Elisabet Velasquez
- Narrado por: Elisabet Velasquez
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Sarai is a first-generation Puerto Rican question asker who can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister, Estrella, she navigates the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. Sarai questions the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives with determination and an open heart, learning to celebrate herself in a way that she has long been denied.
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Waiting on the next Audible
- De CV en 01-22-25
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The Battle for Paradise
- Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
- De: Naomi Klein
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
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In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich "Puertopians" are locked in a pitched struggle over how to remake the island. In this vital and startling investigation, The New York Times best-selling author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the forces of shock politics and disaster capitalism seek to undermine the nation's radical, resilient vision for a just recovery.
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- De carol j pridgeon en 06-08-18
De: Naomi Klein
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En el Tiempo de las Mariposas (Texto Completo) [In the Time of the Butterflies]
- De: Julia Alvarez
- Narrado por: Rosie Berrido
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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En esta novela, Julia Álvarez recrea magistralmente la historia real de tres hermanas que fueron brutalmente asesinadas por oponerse a la dictadura de Rafael Trujillo en República Dominicana. Treinta años después del crimen, la autora dio voz a cada una de ellas en un sentido homenaje a su valentía. Incluyo también a Dedé, la hermana sobreviviente que cuenta un capítulo muy oscuro de la historia con ternura y bondad.
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Las Mariposas – listen in Spanish
- De Babo Wright en 06-02-13
De: Julia Alvarez
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Puerto Rican Spanish
- A Guide to the Spanish Dialect of Puerto Rico
- De: Angelica Torres
- Narrado por: Tiffany Yi
- Duración: 5 h y 27 m
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This audio guide focuses on the Spanish dialect as spoken in Puerto Rico and also includes an overview of Puerto Rican culture as expressed through its language. Content is organized into more than 10 simple sessions, including the opportunity to review content later in the course. Topics covered include vocabulary that you can put to use daily, such as food, numbers, places, and many others. Before you know it, you will build an intermediate understanding of Puerto Rican Spanish through this course, including an understanding of some of the nuances of Puerto Rican linguistics and culture.
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This is a great way to learn a language
- De Fernando Falcoff en 04-07-23
De: Angelica Torres
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The Arawak: The History and Legacy of the Indigenous Natives in South America and the Caribbean
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Dan Gallagher
- Duración: 1 h y 34 m
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The Arawak: The History and Legacy of the Indigenous Natives in South America and the Caribbean examines the culture and history of the indigenous groups and what happened when they came into contact with the Europeans. You will learn about the Arawak like never before.
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good content, terrible pronunciation by reader.
- De takajej en 11-04-19
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre When I Was Puerto Rican
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- MaryPat
- 09-14-19
Just SO good!
I’ve listened to more than seventy memoirs many narrated by the author, I’m a confirmed junkie of the genre!
Prior to this book Michele Obama held the #1 spot, now I think there’s a tie for first place. Ms Santiago is engaging, believable, honest and interesting. She is an excellent storyteller!
I have only one complaint about this book, it ended. I have already downloaded “Almost a Woman” and I’m starting it now!
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- Paulette Stout
- 03-13-24
A glimpse in my family past
Growing up in New York, the child of a first generation American born to Puerto Rican parents,we were too far removed from what her parents experienced back on the island. Thank you for this look into my heritage. A joy!
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- j.wilson
- 09-23-22
excellent novel
it was a great storyline of Esmeralda's life growing up. it took you through "when she was Peurto Rican"
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- Deborah De Jesus
- 04-25-19
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Esmeralda Santiago revives stories of her childhood, and enlivens the images through her tales. Her narration was exceptional.
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- Tamara Smith
- 03-01-21
Easy read, interesting insight.
This is written and performed almost as if for a youthful audience. An inspirational story but delivered in a matter-of-fact tone.
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- Lissy
- 10-26-23
Loved it!
I loved the vivid descriptions in the narration and how I could envision everything she was saying! I loved how she would sprinkle Spanish words that are so familiar to me and made me chuckle. I enjoyed this story so much!
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- Anonymous User
- 03-14-22
great realistic Puerto rican story
I loved this book it really reminded me of my roots. It brought me back to simple times
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- Marciano Galarza
- 01-16-23
Great Book
This book was awesome and reminded me of my childhood from when I used to visit PR and how I grew up in Brooklyn. Can’t wait to get the second book!
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- jennie brown
- 06-10-24
Puerto rico
I liked the memory's. I could relate with her journey. my family is Puerto Rican.
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- Ani
- 02-07-20
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
Truly a lovely read. This very detailed, beautifully read book gave me an insight into my mother, grandmother, and even my great grandmothers life from Puerto Rico as they settled into their new, assimilated life in NY in the 1950’s. I’m literally in tears, don’t want the book to end, and want to hear what happens next! Her children? Grandchildren? How and where are her brothers and sisters? Loved it!
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