Bestsellers
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Puerto Rico
- A National History
- By: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
- Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall69
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Performance65
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Story65
This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today.
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great book on the history there! kinda wokey but honest.
- By ryan on 01-11-25
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The Republic of Pirates
- Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
- By: Colin Woodard
- Narrated by: Lewis Grenville
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,336
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Performance7,327
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Story7,287
The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the world....
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Audible is better
- By CaptainRavick on 01-19-16
By: Colin Woodard
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Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
- An American History
- By: Ada Ferrer, Ada Ferrer - introduction
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
- Length: 23 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,148
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Performance999
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Story998
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present...
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US Bash Job
- By Derek & Amber Witt on 04-14-22
By: Ada Ferrer, and others
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War Against All Puerto Ricans
- Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
- By: Nelson A Denis
- Narrated by: Luis Vega
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall83
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Performance80
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Story80
The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely." In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged...
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Must Read
- By mamaholic on 03-27-26
By: Nelson A Denis
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Nuclear Folly
- A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall110
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Performance90
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Story90
Nearly 30 years after the end of the Cold War, today's leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War....
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A Must Read
- By Robert from Brookline on 08-22-21
By: Serhii Plokhy
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Pirate Hunters
- Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
- By: Robert Kurson
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,562
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Performance4,164
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Story4,155
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But...
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Pure Gold
- By Mel on 06-24-15
By: Robert Kurson
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Puerto Rico
- A National History
- By: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
- Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall69
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Performance65
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Story65
This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today.
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great book on the history there! kinda wokey but honest.
- By ryan on 01-11-25
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The Republic of Pirates
- Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
- By: Colin Woodard
- Narrated by: Lewis Grenville
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,336
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Performance7,327
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Story7,287
The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the world....
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Audible is better
- By CaptainRavick on 01-19-16
By: Colin Woodard
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Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
- An American History
- By: Ada Ferrer, Ada Ferrer - introduction
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
- Length: 23 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,148
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Performance999
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Story998
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present...
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US Bash Job
- By Derek & Amber Witt on 04-14-22
By: Ada Ferrer, and others
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War Against All Puerto Ricans
- Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
- By: Nelson A Denis
- Narrated by: Luis Vega
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall83
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Performance80
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Story80
The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely." In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged...
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Must Read
- By mamaholic on 03-27-26
By: Nelson A Denis
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Nuclear Folly
- A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall110
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Performance90
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Story90
Nearly 30 years after the end of the Cold War, today's leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War....
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A Must Read
- By Robert from Brookline on 08-22-21
By: Serhii Plokhy
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Pirate Hunters
- Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
- By: Robert Kurson
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,562
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Performance4,164
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Story4,155
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But...
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Pure Gold
- By Mel on 06-24-15
By: Robert Kurson
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The Black Jacobins
- Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
- By: C.L.R. James
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall547
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Performance457
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Story453
This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba....
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So you want a revolution?
- By Amazon Customer on 05-17-20
By: C.L.R. James
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Avengers of the New World
- The Story of the Haitian Revolution
- By: Laurent DuBois
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance91
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Story91
The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the 18th-century Atlantic world....
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Outstanding
- By Maria on 08-27-25
By: Laurent DuBois
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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- By: David Cordingly
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall364
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Performance322
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Story324
As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....
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Lacks Nuance
- By Joel Langenfeld on 07-02-15
By: David Cordingly
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The Brilliant Disaster
- JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba
- By: Jim Rasenberger
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall144
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Performance127
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Story126
A “balanced, engrossing account” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of the Bay of Pigs crisis drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering the vivid truth of five pivotal days in April 1961. At the heart of the Bay of Pigs crisis stood President John F. Kennedy, and journalist Jim...
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US Government Perspective
- By Kindle Customer on 05-25-11
By: Jim Rasenberger
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Empire of Blue Water
- Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
- By: Stephan Talty
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,245
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Performance993
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Story987
He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the...
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Morbid Terrorists?
- By Jack on 11-11-08
By: Stephan Talty
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Thirteen Days
- A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- By: Robert F. Kennedy
- Narrated by: Kurt Elftmann
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall293
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Performance245
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Story244
In October 1962, when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy....
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IF YOU LOVE HISTORY"""
- By Max & Lucy on 02-24-19
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A Small Place
- By: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Story8
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua—by the author of Annie John.
By: Jamaica Kincaid
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Aid State
- Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
- By: Jake Johnston
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance21
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Story21
In Aid State, Jake Johnston, researcher and writer at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, reveals how US and European capitalist goals re-enslaved Haiti under the guise of helping it....
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Informative
- By Garry Schettini on 01-15-26
By: Jake Johnston
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Monkey Morales
- The True Story of a Mythic Cuban Exile, Assassin, CIA Operative, FBI Informant, Smuggler, and Dad
- By: Sean Oliver, Ricardo Morales Jr.
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Monkey Morales blends James Bond, Rambo, and Scarface—a concoction of danger, politics, and family drama told in its entirety for the first time by authors Sean Oliver and Morales's son, Ricardo Morales, Jr.
By: Sean Oliver, and others
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The Great Resistance
- By: Carrie Gibson
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance0
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Story0
“[A] magisterial account . . . Gibson constructs a sweeping vision of resistance to slavery as a defining element of Western history that made “abstract concepts of freedom concrete.” Expansive and elegant, this is a marvel.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Among the...
By: Carrie Gibson
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Black Spartacus
- The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
- By: Sudhir Hazareesingh
- Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall65
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Performance46
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Story46
Winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize “Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time... An extraordinarily gripping read.” (David A. Bell, The Guardian) A new interpretation of...
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Liberator of Haiti and a lamp to the world
- By Mike on 11-08-20
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Rastafarian Children of Solomon
- The Legacy of the Kebra Nagast and the Path to Peace and Understanding
- By: Gerald Hausman
- Narrated by: Gerald Hausman
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance44
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Story44
Shares the spiritual wisdom of Rastafari through the stories, teachings, and traditions of practicing Rastas in Jamaica Includes the author’s interviews with bush doctors, healers, and Rastafarians gathered during his 15 years of living in Jamaica Reveals the old ways of the...
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Reader and Story not a good match
- By Charnissa Hastye on 03-08-19
By: Gerald Hausman
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The Abyss
- Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Max Hastings, John Hopkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall257
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Performance230
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Story228
Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history—the Cuban Missile Crisis—providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians, Cubans, Americans, and a terrified...
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Good book, but has some issues
- By Mike From Mesa on 11-10-22
By: Max Hastings
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And a Bottle of Rum
- A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
- By: Wayne Curtis
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall350
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Performance306
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Story302
And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of 10 cocktails....
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A nice intersection of history and rum
- By Garshom L. Arkoff on 05-10-23
By: Wayne Curtis
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Empire's Crossroads
- A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
- By: Carrie Gibson
- Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall124
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Performance110
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Story110
In Empire’s Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson traces the story of the coveted area from the northern rim of South America up to Cuba....
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Careless production mars storytelling
- By Brenda Thomas on 03-31-16
By: Carrie Gibson
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Waiting for Snow in Havana
- Confessions of a Cuban Boy
- By: Carlos Eire
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall290
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Performance252
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Story256
A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other - but with certain differences....
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Poorly chosen narrator
- By LS on 02-10-16
By: Carlos Eire
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Uncommon Grounds
- The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
- By: Mark Pendergrast
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance83
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Story85
Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....
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Décent overarching review of coffee history digressing into its American commercialization
- By seajaywood on 05-23-19
By: Mark Pendergrast
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Conquistador Voices
- The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants, Volume I
- By: Kevin H. Siepel
- Narrated by: Kevin H Siepel
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Performance63
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Story63
The Spanish Conquest: What really happened? If you like to use your drive time for education by audiobook, consider this audiobook for widening and deepening your view of an event you studied briefly in school - the Spanish conquest of the Americas....
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The Misleading Title is the Most Forgivable Part..
- By Tyler Sanders on 12-19-22
By: Kevin H. Siepel
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Fantasy Island
- Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
- By: Ed Morales
- Narrated by: Sean Duffy
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall126
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Performance110
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Story110
A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US. Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew...
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Gringo Narrattion
- By shakira julia on 02-08-21
By: Ed Morales
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The Day the World Ended
- The Mount Pelee Disaster: May 7, 1902
- By: Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance35
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Story35
In late April 1902, Mount Pelee, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8....
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Thrilling Account of a Sadly Preventable Disaster
- By Admiralu on 10-17-20
By: Gordon Thomas, and others
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The Eastern Stars
- How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Ed Sala
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance9
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Story8
In the town of San Pedro in the Dominican Republic, baseball is not just a way of life. It's the way of life. By the year 2008, 79 boys and men from San Pedro had gone on to play in the Major Leagues - that means one in six Dominican Republicans who have played in the Majors have come from one...
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Review
- By Dorothy on 10-26-23
By: Mark Kurlansky
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Blackbeard
- A Life from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was the most feared pirate of the Golden Age—a figure who struck terror into the hearts of sailors from the Caribbean to the Carolinas. Most biographies seem to start and stop with that statement, but there was much more to the life of Blackbeard than that.
By: Hourly History
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The Sugar King of Havana
- The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon
- By: John Paul Rathbone
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance61
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Story61
Fifty years after the Cuban revolution, the legendary wealth of the sugar magnate Julio Lobo remains emblematic of a certain way of life that came to an abrupt end when Fidel Castro marched into Havana. Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Lobo was for decades the most powerful force in the...
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VERY INFORMATIVE
- By Terry on 03-26-12
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The Golden Age of Piracy
- The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates
- By: David Head - Edited by
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
The twelve entries in The Golden Age of Piracy discuss why pirates thrived in the seas of the New World, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined.