Bestsellers
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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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Overall1,164
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Performance1,011
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Story1,010
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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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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Overall8,343
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Performance7,331
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Story7,291
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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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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Overall85
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Performance82
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Story82
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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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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Overall548
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Performance458
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Story454
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. 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...
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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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Puerto Rico
- A National History
- By: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
- Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall72
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Performance68
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Story68
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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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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Overall4,563
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Performance4,165
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Story4,156
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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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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Overall1,164
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Performance1,011
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Story1,010
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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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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Overall8,343
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Performance7,331
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Story7,291
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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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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Overall85
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Performance82
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Story82
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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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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Overall548
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Performance458
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Story454
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. 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...
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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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Puerto Rico
- A National History
- By: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
- Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall72
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Performance68
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Story68
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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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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Overall4,563
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Performance4,165
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Story4,156
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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A Small Place
- By: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua—by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua...
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Authentic and Captivating…
- By Margo Fleming on 04-03-26
By: Jamaica Kincaid
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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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Overall351
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Performance307
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Story303
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, Wayne Curtis reveals that the homely spirit once distilled from the industrial waste of the exploding sugar trade has managed to...
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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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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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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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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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Overall259
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Performance232
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Story230
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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The Double Life of Fidel Castro
- My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo
- By: Juan Reinaldo Sanchez, Axel Gyldén, Catherine Spencer - translator
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall174
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Performance155
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Story153
In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service....
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Fidel's Bodyguard
- By chris on 04-15-17
By: Juan Reinaldo Sanchez, and others
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Back Channel to Cuba
- The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana
- By: Peter Kornbluh, William M. LeoGrande
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 20 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance31
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Story31
Since 1959, conflict and aggression have dominated the story of US-Cuban relations. From John F. Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Fidel Castro after the missile crisis, to Henry Kissinger's top-secret quest for normalization, to Barack Obama's promise of a "new approach", William M...
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Essential reading B4 your holiday inbCuba
- By Philip on 05-04-16
By: Peter Kornbluh, and others
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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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Overall1,247
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Performance994
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Story988
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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Guerra Contra Todos los Puertorriqueños
- Revolución y Terror en la Colonia Americana
- By: Nelson A Denis
- Narrated by: Gerardo Ortiz
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
"La poderosa e inédita historia de la revolución de 1950 en Puerto Rico y la larga historia de la intervención estadounidense en la isla, que el New York Times dice "no podría ser más oportuna." En 1950, después de cincuenta años de ocupación militar y gobierno colonial, el Partido...
By: Nelson A Denis
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Havana Nocturne
- How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution
- By: T. J. English
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,340
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Performance947
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Story957
In Havana Nocturne, T. J. English offers a riveting, multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution, and international conflict that interweaves the dual stories of the mob in Havana and the event that would overshadow it: the Cuban Revolution...
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Not for reactionaries
- By sunsolid on 02-17-09
By: T. J. English
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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
National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2003 A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other - but with certain differences. The neighbor's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater...
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Poorly chosen narrator
- By LS on 02-10-16
By: Carlos Eire
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Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica
- By: Matthew Parker
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall201
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Performance181
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Story179
Amid the lush beauty of Jamaica's northern coast lies the true story of Ian Fleming's iconic creation: James Bond....
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Ian Fleming lead a fascinating life.
- By Allen on 07-02-15
By: Matthew Parker
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The Eternal Forest
- A Memoir of the Cuban Diaspora
- By: Elena Sheppard
- Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
"[Narrator Frankie] Corzo's expressive style enhances [author Elena] Sheppard's moving story of loss and identity. " — AudioFile In the tradition of The Yellow House and Half Broke Horses, a memoir of the Cuban diaspora that follows one family’s exile from the island, through a lyrical...
By: Elena Sheppard
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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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Puerto Rico History: The Borinqueneers
- Puerto Rico’s 65th Infantry Regiment (History of Puerto Rico, Book 7)
- By: Alex Alicea, Jimmy Rivera
- Narrated by: Lene Cintron
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
The Borinqueneers: Puerto Rico’s 65th Infantry Regiment captures the remarkable and often overlooked history of Puerto Rican soldiers who served in the U.S. military.
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PR History
- By Stephanie on 04-15-26
By: Alex Alicea, and others
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Fidel Castro
- A Spoken Autobiography
- By: Fidel Castro, Ignacio Ramonet
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren, Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 26 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall387
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Performance313
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Story316
For decades, people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Ignacio Ramonet, the celebrated editor in chief of Le Monde diplomatique, has finally succeeded. For the first time, in a series of extensive and probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes...
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In His Own Words
- By Roy on 06-09-09
By: Fidel Castro, and others
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Freedom's Mirror
- Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
- By: Ada Ferrer
- Narrated by: Vivia Font
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
During the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba barely fifty miles distant, the events in Haiti helped usher in the...
By: Ada Ferrer
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Tacky's Revolt
- The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
- By: Vincent Brown
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance18
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Story18
In the second half of the 18th century, as European imperial conflicts extended the domain of capitalist agriculture, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled continuously to keep their restive slaves under the yoke. In this contentious...
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Thoroughly researched; alters traditional understanding of the national hero’s role.
- By L. Shine on 04-14-25
By: Vincent Brown
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Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba
- The Biography of a Cause
- By: Tom Gjelten
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall154
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Performance136
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Story135
In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862...
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Brilliantly written , amazing performance .
- By RRV on 10-29-17
By: Tom Gjelten
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This Is Cuba
- An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadow
- By: David Ariosto
- Narrated by: David Ariosto
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall93
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Performance86
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Story87
In This Is Cuba, David Ariosto looks at Cuba from the inside-out over the course of nine years, endeavoring to expose clues for what’s in store for the island as it undergoes its biggest change in more than half a century....
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You're really none the wiser
- By Buretto on 01-10-19
By: David Ariosto
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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. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under...
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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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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. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French...
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Outstanding
- By Maria on 08-27-25
By: Laurent DuBois
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Sweetness and Power
- The Place of Sugar in Modern History
- By: Sidney W. Mintz
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance51
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Story52
In this eye-opening study, Sidney W. Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar and reveals how...
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Dated but still worthwhile
- By LecteurErrant on 11-14-19
By: Sidney W. Mintz
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The Common Wind
- Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
- By: Julius S. Scott, Marcus Rediker - foreword
- Narrated by: Earl McLean
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Scott follows the spread of "rumors of emancipation" and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution....
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Excellent book, poor narration
- By Anonymous on 01-26-26
By: Julius S. Scott, and others