Another great book by Steven Torres. Just like the first book, it is very hard to put down after you start reading. He keeps you guessing throughout the book and keeps you in suspense to the very end. Very entertaining!!!!

Sheriff Luis Gonzalo of the small town of Angustias, Puerto Rico (pop. 9000) spends most of his time dealing with drunken brawls and domestic disputes. Elena Maldonado calls Luis asking for a lift home from the hospital for her and her newborn son, which he agrees to do though he worries about the twosome. Everyone in town knows that her husband is a drunk and a wife beater but Elena insists she can handle the situation.

He sends one of his officers to check on her, but the deputy finds Elena stabbed to death on her kitchen floor, her husband sitting on the couch and covered in blood holding the murder weapon. The sheriff thinks he has an open and shut case but then he discovers that Elena was cheating on her husband and planned to divorce him. Somebody tries to enter the Maldonado house that is being guarded by a police officer forcing the sheriff to place the perpetrator on the suspect list. By the time he is finished with the case, he has so many suspects that he has to hold some of them in the local church and the deputy mayor's office.

This is a first class police procedural but readers should be warned there is a lot of police brutality contained in this novel. The protagonist is an intelligent man who loves to solve puzzles and as the pieces of the conundrum come together he starts making the right connections. DEATH IN PRECINCT PUERTO RICO is a must read for fans who like a dark and gritty police thriller.

Harriet Klausner

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Harriet Klausner

Conozco el trabajo del Dr. Fernando Picó y sinceramente pienso que este sería tremendo regalo, no sólo para Zoé Laboy, sino para aquellos que de repente piensan que el problema de las cárceles se sustituirá con la sustitución de un solo individuo cuando su magnitud trasciende los límites de nuestra propia estructura social.

Me desempeno como maestra academica del Programa Educativo de la Administracion de Correccion. Me consta la labor que realiza el historiador y sacerdote jesuita, Fernando Pico, mediante su Programa de Confinados Universitarios. Con el tiempo tuve la oportunidad de leer el libro El Dia Menospensado : Historia De Los Presidiarios En Puerto Rico 1793-1993. Cabe senalar que este libro es un documento de caracter historico que recoge la historia de los confinados en Puerto Rico desde el periodo de la colonia espanola, el cambio de soberania (de la colonia de Espana al status actual de Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico). Considero que debe formar parte de quienes mantienen bibliotecas de historia de Puerto Rico y de los estudiosos de derechos civiles y justicia criminal en Puerto Rico. Por mi parte concluyo como lo hace Pico en su dedicatoria: Esto es pa' to' el mundo, porque el dia menos pensado cualquiera puede caer preso.

This is an incredible book for anyone interested in the abolition of slavery.

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara has written an excellent book to understand the process that led to the abolition of slavery in the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean, taking into account the latest developments in Cuban, Puertorrican, and Spanish history. This is an important new viewpoint: to understand the nineteenth-century history of Cuba and Puerto Rico it's necessary to have a fine understanding of Spain's colonial policy and the socio-economic links that these two colonies established with the metropolis. I consider this book a major break through, a very important book for any person interested in the history of the Caribbean, Latin America and/or Spain.

I really liked both books that I had to read. I really got into them quickly, because they were detailed very well and over all written very good.

Felita is the main character and she is a hispanic girl living in NYC. She is nine years old and she loves to hang out with her friends. Her family is moving and they move to an all white German and Irish section of town. They get discriminated all the time and even her brother gets beaten up, so they decide to go back to their original neighborhood. It explains how she works through her problems with the help of her family. In the second book (Going Home), Felita is now 11 years old and her family is going to Puerto Rico. That is where they come from. She is allowed to stay there the whole summer with ther uncle and she discovers the pains and pleasures of being there.

I would recommend these books for anyone willing to learn about the life of someone of a different culture. They are great for all reading ages and you even learn a little spanish.

This book is so great,what the authour wrote about Felita just like what had real happened to himself.And I like the author that add in the scenes about the Felita and Vinny had been loved each other, and when Felita went to P.R that the fights with the the people born in P.R. This is a really good book.

An extremely well-written and well-illustrated book with especially helpful and detailed text on habitat, behavior, and locales. On a recent trip to Puerto Rico for birding, we found this book to be extraordinarily helpful. Since we have come home to the Continental USA, it continues to be rich reading.

As a professional Puerto Rican biologist and bird watcher I found this book to be the best field guide of birds occuring at Puerto Rico. It covers as well, introduced, migratory, and endemic or native species with a full description of each bird characteristics and accompanying color plates that match the birds color patterns up to the last feather. It is a must have to any bird enthusiast living or visiting the Island, as well as for students or professional biologists.

I am a Spanish teacher at the elementary school level and have read this book to children from 5 to 9 years of age and they all adore the ridiculous Juan Bobo. Unlike any other books I've read to them, kids will look for Juan Bobo books in the library and ask to borrow mine. We call each other "silly vaca" like Juan calls the cow that he thinks has turned to stone but which is immobile because Juan has tied his legs together. He was just doing as he was told, tying up the cow before he milks it.

I always enjoy reading different versions of fairy and folk-tales. This a fun Puerto Rican version of the Lazy Jack stories. Actually, I like the ending better than in Lazy Jack. It bothered me that some poor girl would be stuck marrying a fool like Lazy Jack simply because he made her laugh. That could make for a very looooong, trying marriage! But a useful reward, that seems quite appropriate. Anyway, the illustrations are cheery and charming. A nice addition to a folktale collection!

Lewis was able to go inside a family that trusted him enough to show just how difficult life can be. This book makes you think and shows you just how grinding poverty can eat away at ones soul. It also manages to show the vibrancy this family has. you are able to see the world from different members attempts at making a better life. It tells vividly how the streets of New York which hold so much promise ultimately cause most members of this family so much pain. This is a must read not only for latinos but for everyone. This book is more about the endurance of a soul as it is about ethnicity.

La Vida is an anthropological study that tells the story, in their own words, of an extended Puerto Rican family in San Juan and in New York. What a lively and colorful culture! If you want to get a sense of life among Puerto Ricans in the 1960s who exist low on the economic scale, this book will tell you everything you could possibly want to know about their individual lives from their perspective. The perspective is important because it can change the way the reader views a person until she hears that character's own voice. Every day I looked forward to "living" with this family.

Language excerpts a special role in culture as well as in people's identity. Those of us who have been obligated to learn another language have also experience the importance that language plays on culture by the way that we were accepted in society during the learning stages. Also by the continuing way that we are treated no matter how highly educated we can be. This book examines the relation of language, nationalism and state, using the examples of Quebec and Puerto Rico. This is an excellent work that I really recommend. This book is not only for those interested in the Quebec or Puerto Rico situation but those who are in general interested in the relation within language, elite's and state. I personally congratulate Mr. Barreto for condensing so much information in a small book. This is something that not all book writers have the skill to do.

Professor Barreto takes a decidedly different turn in regards to his analyzation of nationalism in Quebec and Puerto Rico. His novel perspective provides extremely enlightening insight to the role that 'elites' and 'intelligentia' play in the development of nationalistic tendencies.

This book is a must.Two thumbs up!The author demostrate with scholar accuracy the colonial reality of the people of Puerto Rico.

A book that should be read by those who are interested in understanding Puerto Rico's present-day colonial reality.