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    Bedlam's Door: True Tales of Madness and Hope , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 409min
    Why would a Hungarian man run down a Manhattan street ranting "I'm king of the Puerto Ricans"? What made a physically healthy woman persuade surgeons to operate on her more than a dozen times? How could a man in a straitjacket commit suicide while in a strictly supervised, locked psychiatric ward? Though these and the other stories in this book sound like fiction, each is true. Former practicing psychiatrist Mark Rubinstein takes listeners deep into the world of mental illness. From the chaos of a psychiatric ER to the bowels of a maximum security prison, the stories range from bizarre to poignant and the people from noble to callous. Bedlam's Door depicts the challenges mental illness poses for patients, families, and health-care professionals and offers hope for the future. Like the case histories in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks, it shows that though every person's story is unique, we are all more alike than different and are linked by our shared human experience. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/073629/bk_acx0_073629_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pedagogy and the Struggle for Voice
    Pedagogy and the Struggle for Voice ab 109.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Issues of Language Power and Schooling for Puerto Ricans. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Schule & Lernen,
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    Defending Their Own in the Cold
    Defending Their Own in the Cold ab 27.99 € als epub eBook: The Cultural Turns of U. S. Puerto Ricans. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Sozialwissenschaften,
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    From Colonia to Community
    From Colonia to Community ab 106.99 € als gebundene Ausgabe: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City 1917-1948. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,
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    Mortality of Hispanic Populations
    Mortality of Hispanic Populations ab 107.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Mexicans Puerto Ricans and Cubans in the United States and in the Home Countries. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,
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    Power at the Roots
    Power at the Roots ab 92.99 € als epub eBook: Gentrification Community Gardens and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Sozialwissenschaften,
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    Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Literature in the United States
    Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Literature in the United States ab 96.99 € als gebundene Ausgabe: The Literature of Puerto Ricans Cuban Americans and Other Hispanic Writers. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,
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    Dogfight, A Love Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 754min
    What Jonathan Lethem did for Brooklyn, Matt Burgess does for Queens in this exuberant and brilliant debut novel about a young drug dealer having a very bad weekend. Alfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose—sorry, Tariq—is returning from a stretch in prison after an unsuccessful robbery, a burglary that Alfredo was supposed to be part of. So now everyone thinks Alfredo snitched on his brother, which may have something to do with the fact that Alfredo is now dating Tariq’s ex-girlfriend, Isabel, who is eight months pregnant. Tariq’s violent streak is probably #1 worry on Alfredo’s list. Also, he needs to steal a pit bull. For the homecoming dogfight. Burgess brings to life the rich and vivid milieu of his hometown native Queens in all its glorious variety. Here is the real New York, a place where Pakistanis, Puerto Ricans, Haitians, An ​glos, African Americans, and West Indians scrap and mingle and love. But the real star here is Burgess’s incredible ear for language—the voices of his characters leap off the page in riotous, spot-on dialogue. The outer boroughs have their own language, where a polite greeting is fraught with menace, and an insult can be the expression of the most tender love. With a story as intricately plotted as a Shakespearean comedy—or revenge tragedy, for that matter—and an electrically col ​loquial prose style, Dogfight, a Love Story establishes Matt Burgess as an exuberant new voice in contemporary literature. The great Queens novel has arrived. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ozzie Rodriguez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002411/bk_rand_002411_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Brooklyn Noir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 680min
    New York's punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with all new stories from a magnificent set of today’s best writers. Brooklyn Noir moves from Coney Island to Bedford-Stuyvesant to Bay Ridge to Red Hook to Bushwick to Sheepshead Bay to Park Slope and far deeper, into the heart of Brooklyn’s historical and criminal largesse, with all of its dark splendor. Each contributor presents a brand new story set in a distinct neighborhood. Brooklyn Noir mixes masters of the mystery genre with the best of New York’s literary fiction community - and, of course, leaves room for new blood. These brilliant and chilling stories see crime striking in communities of Russians, Jamaicans, Hasidic Jews, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Irish and many other ethnicities - in the most diverse urban location on the planet. Contributors include Pete Hamill, Nelson George, Sidney Offit, Arthur Nersesian, Pearl Abraham, Ellen Miller, Maggie Estep, Adam Mansbach, CJ Sullivan, Chris Niles, Norman Kelley, and many others. Akashic Books announces Brooklyn novelist Tim McLoughlin as the editor of the anthology (in addition to his contributing a story). McLoughlin's respect on any Brooklyn street predates the publication of his debut novel Heart of the Old Country (Akashic, 2001), a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program that was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "an inspired cross between Richard Price and Ross McDonald". For years, McLoughlin has worked in the Kings County Supreme Court in downtown Brooklyn. The complete list of narrators includes Michael Braun, Adam Chase, Karen Chilton, Paul L. Coffey, Jane Cramer, Kevin R. Free, Rob Granniss, Saskia Maarleveld, Erin Mallon, Jennifer O'Donnell, Pete Ohms, Prentice Onayemi, Tim Gerard Reynolds, and Chris Ruen. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Braun, Adam Chase, Karen Chilton, Paul L. Coffey, Jane Cramer, Kevin R. Free, Tim Gerard Reynolds. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014658/bk_adbl_014658_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero, Hörbuch, Digital, 344min
    Anyone who saw Roberto Clemente, as he played with a beautiful fury, will never forget him. He was a work of art in a game too often defined by statistics. During his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, he won four batting titles and led his team to championships in 1960 and 1971, getting a hit in all 14 World Series games in which he played. His career ended with 3,000 hits, the magical 3,000th coming in his final at-bat, and he and the immortal Lou Gehrig are the only players to have the five-year waiting period waived so they could be enshrined in the Hall of Fame immediately after their deaths. There is delightful baseball here, including thrilling accounts of the two World Series victories of Clemente's underdog Pittsburgh Pirates, but this is far more than just another baseball book. Roberto Clemente was that rare athlete who rose above sports to become a symbol of larger themes. Born near the canebrakes of rural Carolina, Puerto Rico, on August 18, 1934, at a time when there were no blacks or Puerto Ricans playing organized ball in the United States, Clemente went on to become the greatest Latino player in the major leagues. He was, in a sense, the Jackie Robinson of the Spanish-speaking world, a ballplayer of determination, grace, and dignity who paved the way and set the highest standard for waves of Latino players who followed in later generations and who now dominate the game. The Clemente that Maraniss evokes was an idiosyncratic character who, unlike so many modern athletes, insisted that his responsibilities extended beyond the playing field. In his final years, his motto was that if you have a chance to help others and fail to do so, you are wasting your time on this earth. Language: English. Narrator: David Maraniss. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000683/bk_sans_000683_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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