
Soldiers and Kings
Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
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WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
A TIME 10 Best Nonfiction Book of 2024 • An NPR Book We Love 2024 • A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 • A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024
“A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion...[it] will shock you, move you, and leave you changed.”
—Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Evicted and Poverty, by America
“An enlightening, frightening, unforgettable read.”
—Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of The House on Mango Street
An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist with unprecedented access
Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet the real lives and work of smugglers—or coyotes, or guides, as they are often known by the migrants who hire their services—are only ever reported on from a distance, using tired tropes and stereotypes, often depicted as boogie men and violent warlords. In an effort to better understand this essential yet extralegal billion dollar global industry, internationally recognized anthropologist and expert Jason De León embedded with a group of smugglers moving migrants across Mexico over the course of seven years.
The result of this unique and extraordinary access is SOLDIERS AND KINGS: the first ever in-depth, character-driven look at human smuggling. It is a heart-wrenching and intimate narrative that revolves around the life and death of one coyote who falls in love and tries to leave smuggling behind. In a powerful, original voice, De León expertly chronicles the lives of low-level foot soldiers breaking into the smuggling game, and morally conflicted gang leaders who oversee rag-tag crews of guides and informants along the migrant trail. SOLDIERS AND KINGS is not only a ground-breaking up-close glimpse of a difficult-to-access world, it is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.
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May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste its authentic cuisine.
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- De David S. en 04-17-25
De: Yang Shuang-Zi, y otros
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The Hidden Globe
- How Wealth Hacks the World
- De: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
- Narrado por: Patrick Harrison
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens’ rights. Beneath, above, and tucked inside their borders, however, another universe has been engineered into existence. It consists of thousands of extraterritorial zones that operate largely autonomously, and increasingly for the benefit of the wealthiest individuals and corporations. Atossa Abrahamian traces the rise of this hidden globe to thirteenth-century Switzerland, where poor cantons marketed their only commodity.
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- De catriona en 12-27-24
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No Right to an Honest Living
- The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
- De: Jacqueline Jones
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 17 h y 11 m
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Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation’s hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, the city was far from a beacon of equality. In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small—a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive. Highlighting the everyday struggles of ordinary Black workers, this book shows how injustice in the workplace prevented Boston—and the United States—from securing true equality for all.
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Too much repititive detail, to the point that I ended up disliking the book would not recommend to my friends.
- De Beth Ann en 11-13-24
De: Jacqueline Jones
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Private Revolutions
- Four Women Face China's New Social Order
- De: Yuan Yang
- Narrado por: Crystal Yu, Gabby Wong, Kae Alexander, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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While serving as the deputy Beijing bureau chief of the Financial Times, Chinese-British journalist Yuan Yang began to notice common threads in the lives of her Chinese peers—women born during China’s turn toward capitalism in the 1980s and 1990s, who, despite the country's enormous economic gains during their lifetimes, were coming up against deeply entrenched barriers as they sought to achieve financial stability. This transporting and indelible book traces the journey of four such women as they try to make better lives for themselves and their families in the new Chinese economy.
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Insightful window
- De Shauna en 04-07-25
De: Yuan Yang
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There's Always This Year
- On Basketball and Ascension
- De: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrado por: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling.
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Love and Basketball
- De Mónica en 08-23-24
De: Hanif Abdurraqib
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Wilmington's Lie
- The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
- De: David Zucchino
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included black aldermen, police officers, and magistrates. There were successful black-owned businesses and an African American newspaper, The Record. But across the state - and the South - white supremacist Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by former slaves and their progeny.
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HOW TO GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW RACISM HAS BEEN USED AS A TOOL BY WEALTHY
- De Linzay en 06-19-20
De: David Zucchino
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
- De: Jonathan Blitzer
- Narrado por: Jonathan Blitzer, André Santana
- Duración: 18 h y 14 m
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Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes. For years, the majority came from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but many more have begun their journey much farther away. Some flee persecution, others crime or hunger. They may have already been deported, but the United States remains their only hope for safety and prosperity. They will take their chances.
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How America Created its Own Border Problem
- De Amazon Customer en 04-19-24
De: Jonathan Blitzer
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Rivermouth
- A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
- De: Alejandra Oliva
- Narrado por: Angela Juarez
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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In this powerful and deeply felt polemic memoir, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a chronological document of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border, and of the people she has encountered along the way. Tracing her family's long and fluid relationship to the border, each generation born on opposite sides of the Rio Grande, and having worked on asylum cases since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of the American immigration system.
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Loved the book not the reader
- De JSW en 11-22-23
De: Alejandra Oliva
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The Rediscovery of America
- Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
- De: Ned Blackhawk
- Narrado por: Jason Grasl
- Duración: 17 h y 18 m
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The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.
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Interesting book marred by poor reading
- De Nathaniel Sterling en 03-04-24
De: Ned Blackhawk
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Cold Crematorium
- Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
- De: József Debreczeni, Paul Olchváry - translator, Jonathan Freedland
- Narrado por: Laurence Dobiesz
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go “left,” his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the “lucky” ones, he was sent to the “right,” which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labor in a series of camps, ending in the “Cold Crematorium”—the so-called hospital of the forced labor camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work awaited execution.
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Learned so much more about the Holocaust
- De Jerseygirl en 02-03-24
De: József Debreczeni, y otros
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Invisible Rulers
- The People Who Turn Lies into Reality
- De: Renee DiResta
- Narrado por: Anna Caputo
- Duración: 15 h
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Renée DiResta’s powerful, original investigation into the way power and influence have been profoundly transformed reveals how a virtual rumor mill of niche propagandists increasingly shapes public opinion. While propagandists position themselves as trustworthy Davids, their reach, influence, and economics make them classic Goliaths—invisible rulers who create bespoke realities to revolutionize politics, culture, and society. Their work is driven by a simple maxim: if you make it trend, you make it true.
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the more things change...
- De Gina S. en 07-01-24
De: Renee DiResta
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The Return of Great Powers
- Russia, China, and the Next World War
- De: Jim Sciutto
- Narrado por: Jim Sciutto
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called “The End of History.” Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on CNN’s air as the Ukraine war began, that we are living in a “1939 moment.” History never ended—it barely paused—and the global order as we have known it is now gone. Great powers are reinvigorated and determined to assert dominance on the world stage. And as it escalates, this new order will affect everyone across the globe.
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Disappointing
- De Douglas Peifer en 03-14-24
De: Jim Sciutto
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
- Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
- De: Nathan Thrall
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos—the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad’s fate. It is every parent’s worst nightmare, but for Abed it is compounded by the maze of physical, emotional, and bureaucratic obstacles he must navigate because he is Palestinian.
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We Must Look Deeper into this Struggle
- De Amazon Customer en 10-22-23
De: Nathan Thrall
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All That She Carried
- The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
- De: Tiya Miles
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of slavery.
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An Astonishing Feat of Scholarship, Imagination and Empathy
- De Cin en 06-30-21
De: Tiya Miles
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Defectors
- The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America
- De: Paola Ramos
- Narrado por: Victoria Villarreal
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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An award-winning journalist's exploration of how race, identity and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this group can shape American politics.
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Regretting what I taught my kids
- De Anonymous User en 10-17-24
De: Paola Ramos
Gritty and raw
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Astonishing and moving
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Non-fiction that readslike a novel
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Vivid characters with tragic backstories.
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Humanizes our neighbors to the south when it would be easy to just listen to myopic and over simplified news bites!
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Outstanding
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Good, a little self indulgent
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The knowledge gained. WOW!
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Important Work on Human Smugglers
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You must read this book!
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