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    • 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
    • Release date: 08-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,249 ratings
    • 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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    • An American History
    • By: Ada Ferrer
    • Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Ada Ferrer - prologue
    • Length: 23 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 948 ratings
    • An epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 04-04-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,220 ratings
    • Henry Morgan challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades and brought it to its knees. This is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean....

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    • Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
    • By: Robert Kurson
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,498 ratings
    • Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister....

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    • Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
    • By: C.L.R. James
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 481 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Jamaica Kincaid
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 575 ratings
    • Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies....

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    • The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
    • By: David Cordingly
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 352 ratings
    • 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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    • A National History
    • By: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
    • Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today.

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    • A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • By: Robert F. Kennedy
    • Narrated by: Kurt Elftmann
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • 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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    • The Place of Sugar in Modern History
    • By: Sidney W. Mintz
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • 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....

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    • An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
    • By: T. J. English
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other than the Cuban mob....

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    • An FBI Agent's Insider Account of the Spy Who Evaded Detection for 17 Years
    • By: Peter J. Lapp, Kelly Kennedy - contributor
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • As a spy prepared to give away America’s biggest secrets after the 9/11 attacks, an FBI agent raced to catch her....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 08-20-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,326 ratings
    • Havana Nocturne takes listeners back to Cuba in the years when it was a veritable devil's playground for mob leaders Meyer Lansky and Charles "Lucky" Luciano....

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    • By: Richard Carleton Hacker
    • Narrated by: Peter Coates
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • First published in 1993, The Ultimate Cigar Book has become a classic in its field, and is generally credited with having helped launch the current cigar-smoking craze. Now we present an audio edition of the beloved fourth edition....

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    • Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
    • By: Jake Johnston
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 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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    • Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
    • By: Michael Dobbs
    • Narrated by: Bob Walter
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 877 ratings
    • In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict....

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    • The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
    • By: Sudhir Hazareesingh
    • Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
    • Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • A new interpretation of the life of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture....

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    • Power and the Production of History
    • By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
    • Narrated by: Shaun Scott
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history....

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    • Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: Max Hastings, John Hopkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
    • By: Wayne Curtis
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 326 ratings
    • 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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