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The Turkish Lover

A Memoir

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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Enthralled admirers of Esmeralda Santiago's memoirs of her childhood have yearned to read more. Now, in The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally breaks out of the monumental struggle with her powerful mother, only to elope into the spell of an exotic love affair. At the heart of the story is Esmeralda's relationship with "the Turk," a passion that gradually becomes a prison out of which she must emerge to become herself. The expansive humanity, earthy humor, and psychological courage that made Esmeralda's first two books so successful are on full display again in The Turkish Lover.

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Da Capo Press

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ISBN 10

0786738332

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9780786738335

Almost a Woman

A Memoir

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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Almost a Woman

A Memoir

By: Esmeralda Santiago

Following the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author’s emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santiago delivers the tale of her young adulthood, where she continually strives to find a balance between becoming American and staying Puerto Rican. While translating for her mother Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York’s prestigious Performing Arts High School in the afternoons, and dancing salsa all night, she begins to defy her mother’s protective rules, only to find that independence brings new dangers and dilemmas.

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433

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Da Capo Press

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ISBN 10

0306821117

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9780306821110

When I Was Puerto Rican

A Memoir

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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When I Was Puerto Rican

A Memoir

By: Esmeralda Santiago

One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually a new identity. In the first of her three acclaimed memoirs, Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous journey from the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years, to translating for her mother at the welfare office, and to high honors at Harvard.

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252

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Da Capo Press

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0786736860

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9780786736867

América's Dream

A Novel

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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América's Dream

A Novel

By: Esmeralda Santiago

América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on 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 fourteen-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with América. So when América is offered the chance to work as alive-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester County, New York, she takes it as a sign that a door to escape has been opened. Yet even as América revels in the comparative luxury of her new life, daring to care about a man other than Correa, she is faced with dramatic proof that no matter what she does, she can't get away from her past.

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338

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Harper Collins

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0061846945

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9780061846946

Las Mamis

Favorite Latino Authors Remember Their Mothers

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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Las Mamis

Favorite Latino Authors Remember Their Mothers

By: Esmeralda Santiago

A marvelous new anthology from the editors of Las Christmas in which our most admired Latino authors share memories of their mothers. The women lovingly portrayed in Las Mamis represent a cross section of Latino life and culture. They come from rich families in the big cities of Latin America, from rural immigrant families, and from the worlds in between-and they share an extraordinary inner strength, often maintained against incredible odds. Pressed by conflicting cultural expectations, circumstance, and religion, they have managed the challenges of motherhood, leaving enduring legacies for their children. Now, in these vivid, poignant, and sometimes hilarious reminiscences-all of them infused with distinct sabor latino-Las Mamis celebrates the universality of family love and the special bond between mothers and children. Contributors include: Esmeralda Santiago, Piri Thomas, Marjorie Agosin, Junot Diaz, Alba Ambert, Liz Balmaseda, Mandalit del Barco, Gioconda Belli, Maria Escandon, Dagoberto Gilb, Francisco Goldman, Jaime Manrique, Gustavo Perez-Firmat, Ilan Stavans From the Trade Paperback edition.

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210

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Vintage

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0307486958

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9780307486950

Las Madres

A novel

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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Las Madres

A novel

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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 They refer to themselves as “las Madres,” a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ties.Their story begins in Puerto Rico in 1975 when fifteen-year-old Luz, the tallest girl in her dance academy and the only Black one in a sea of petite, light-skinned, delicate swans, is seriously injured in a car accident. Tragically, her brilliant, multilingual scientist parents are both killed in the crash. Now orphaned, Luz navigates the pressures of adolescence and copes with the aftershock of a brain injury, when two new friends enter her life, Ada and Shirley. Luz’s days are consumed with aches and pains, and her memory of the accident is wiped clean, but she suffers spells that send her mind to times and places she can’t share with others. In 2017, in the Bronx, Luz’s adult daughter, Marysol, wishes she better understood her. But how can she when her mother barely remembers her own life? To help, Ada and Shirley’s daughter, Graciela, suggests a vacation in Puerto Rico for the extended group, as an opportunity for Luz to unearth long-buried memories and for Marysol to learn more about her mother’s early life. But despite all their careful planning, two hurricanes, back-to-back, disrupt their homecoming, and a secret is revealed that blows their lives wide open. In a voice that sings with warmth, humor, friendship, and pride, celebrated author Esmeralda Santiago unspools a story of women’s sexuality, shame, disability, and love within a community rocked by disaster.

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Random House

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0345803892

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9780345803894

Almost a Woman

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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Almost a Woman

By: Esmeralda Santiago

Moving beyond the poignant childhood story she told in When I Was Puerto Rican, Esmeralda Santiago--author of America's Dream and one of the country's leading Latina voices--recalls her extraordinary journey into womanhood.

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Addison-Wesley Longman

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0201483920

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9780201483925

The Turkish Lover

A Memoir

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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A Memoir

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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Da Capo Press

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0786738332

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Conquistadora

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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Conquistadora

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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 Leon. And in handsome twin brothers Ramon and Inocente—both in love with Ana—she finds a way to get there. Marrying Ramon at the age of eighteen, she travels across the ocean to Hacienda los Gemelos, a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited. But soon the Civil War erupts in the United States, and Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the hacienda’s slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold alongside her own in this epic novel of love, discovery and adventure.

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Vintage

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030738859X

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9780307388599

Las Madres

A novel

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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Las Madres

A novel

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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Las Christmas

Favorite Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories

By: Esmeralda Santiago,Joie Davidow

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Las Christmas

Favorite Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories

By: Esmeralda Santiago,Joie Davidow

Twenty-five celebrated Latino writers delight and move us with their recollections of Christmas in this splendid holiday extravaganza. From Julia Alvarez's tale of how Santicló delivered a beloved uncle from political oppression to Junot Díaz's story of his own uneasy assimilation on his first Christmas in America, to Sandra Cisneros's poignant memories of her late father's holiday dinners, Las Christmas gives us true stories from writers of many traditions--memories of Christmas and Hanukkah that vividly capture the pride and pain, joy and heartbreak, that so often accompany the holidays in the Americas. Richly illustrated and embellished with songs and poems, along with recipes for an unforgettable Christmas dinner--from traditional sweet tamales to Puerto Rican asopao (stew) and coquito (coconut eggnog)--this is an enduring treasury of Latino writing to read again and again. A heartwarming holiday gift.

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Vintage

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0307426556

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9780307426550

América's Dream

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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América's Dream

By: Esmeralda Santiago

America Gonzalez is a Puerto Rican maid. Her mother is an alcoholic, her married boyfriend beats her, and their 14-year-old daughter would rather be anywhere than with her mother. When she takes a new job for an American family, she fights the nagging feeling that she can't escape her past.

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Virago Press

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1860491367

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9781860491368

America's Dream

Novel, A

By: Esmeralda Santiago

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America's Dream

Novel, A

By: Esmeralda Santiago

America 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 her. So when America is offered the chance to work as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester County, New York, she takes it as a sign that a door to escape has been opened. Yet even as America revels in the comparative luxury of her new life, daring to care about a man other than Correa, she is faced with dramatic proof that no matter what she does, she can't get away from her past.

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Rayo

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0060508841

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9780060508845

Little Steven Needs Our Help

By: Esmeralda Leal

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Little Steven Needs Our Help

By: Esmeralda Leal

Welcome to Forest Hill. Here, you will meet a group of wonderful neighbors, and you will feel the sense of adventure when you get to know everyone at Forest Hill. Here at Forest Hill, everyone is eager to help each other. A new family has arrived at Forest Hill. They are not just an ordinary family. This family has a child with special needs. They will soon find out just how wonderful all the new neighbors are. So come along and learn with everyone at Forest Hill that there is truly something that we can all do to aid families with special needs children. We can all work together and be of some help. Who knows, maybe you can be that someone who can make a difference in someone's life.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1641148349

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9781641148344

Book's by Esmeralda Santiago

The Turkish Lover

The Turkish Lover

Almost a Woman

Almost a Woman

When I Was Puerto Rican

When I Was Puerto Rican

América's Dream

América's Dream

Las Mamis

Las Mamis

Las Madres

Las Madres

Almost a Woman

Almost a Woman

The Turkish Lover

The Turkish Lover

Conquistadora

Conquistadora

Las Madres

Las Madres

Las Christmas

Las Christmas

América's Dream

América's Dream

America's Dream

America's Dream

Little Steven Needs Our Help

Little Steven Needs Our Help

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