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Stories Set in San Juan
San Juan is a 500-year-old Spanish fortress town wrapped around cruise-ship piers, all blue cobblestones and colonial walls. Hurricanes and debt crises keep rewriting its fortunes, but the rum and salsa play on. The Rum Diary soaked here; demigods land in The Blood of Olympus. Open San Juan on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 4 books and 3 movies set in San Juan.
The Blood of Olympus
Nico had warned them. Going through the House of Hades would stir the demigods' worst memories. Their ghosts would become restless. Nico may actually become a ghost if he has to shadow-travel with Reyna and Coach Hedge…
The Rum Diary
Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper…
WWE New Year's Revolution 2005
New Year's Revolution (2005) was the first annual New Year's Revolution PPV. It took place on January 9 2005 at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan Puerto Rico. The main event was an Elimination Chamber match for the…
The Sparrow
In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet that will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly…
Falling Free
Leo Graf was an effective engineer. Safety regs weren't just the rule book he swore by; he'd helped write them. All that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was profoundly uneasy with the corporate…
When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir
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…
La ciudad perdida
A journey through the capital of Puerto Rico which documents and reflects on its transformation.
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