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  • WHAT THE MAINE COULD NOT SINK

    by Alberto S. B. ...
    In 1898, the battleship USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, igniting the Spanish-American War and reshaping the destinies of two families forever. What the Maine Could Not Sink traces six generations of a family born from that moment of fire and chaos.Thomas Stout and Ernie Brown, two Buffalo Soldiers of the storied 9th Cavalry Regiment, survived the disaster that claimed so many. Their courage ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El Paso del Norte

    by Alberto S. B. ...
    El Paso del Norte: History You Didn't Know traces the shared story of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez — from the region's earliest inhabitants and the Camino Real, through Prohibition-era border life, presidential visits, industrial growth, and the culture that shaped this binational community. Told with historical depth and unflinching honesty, this bilingual companion volume uncovers the events ... Read more

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    Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

    The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island.**"A pointed, relentless chronicle of a despicable part of past American foreign policy." -**Kirkus ReviewsIn 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman - Biography of a Billionaire Fugitive

    by James Bush ...
    The U.S. Treasury Department called Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman "the world's most powerful drug trafficker."Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has appeared on Forbes list of the world's richest people, with an estimated fortune of $1 billion.While, El Chapo has a $7 million dollar bounty on his head after a prison escape in 2001, he's received a number of accolades. His story is compelling ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Amexica

    War Along the Borderline

    by Ed Vulliamy ...
    The harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the US-Mexico border as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch."Vulliamy, with a mix of irony and pathos, writes like a latter-day Graham Greene. . . . Like all good travel writing, Amexica is vivid, colorful, and exotic, filled with stirring vignettes and larger-than-life characters." — The New York Times Book Review"Extraordinary. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Crossing

    El Paso, the Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story

    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A Southwest Book of the Year “Top Pick”“American history did not begin in the Northeast. It began in the Southwest,’ Parker asserts, in this sweeping history.” —The New YorkerA revelatory work of Southwest history that recenters the American origin story two-thousand miles west of Plymouth Rock, in El Paso, Texas—heart of Indigenous power and resistance, locus ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • El Paso

    Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory

    by Jazmine Ulloa ...
    From New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America's most famous border town.El Paso has been called the “Ellis Island” of America’s southern border, a mountain pass cum border town cum bifurcated metropolis where past meets future, and disadvantage meets opportunity, or so the promise goes.El Paso is an ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Havana

    A Subtropical Delirium

    "Reaches back 500 years to track the city's evolving history . . . political, social, musical, culinary." — New York Times , "Summer's Best Travel Books"New York Times–bestselling and award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic ... Read more

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  • Adventure Guide to Havana Cuba

    We travel to grow our Adventure Guides show you how. Experience the places you visit more directly, freshly, intensely than you would otherwise sometimes best done on foot, in a canoe, or through cultural adventures like art courses, cooking classes, learning the language, meeting the people, joining in the festivals and celebrations. This can make your trip life-changing, unforgettable. All of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Havana

    by Holiday FM ...
    This is the official Holiday FM Guide to Havana. This handy bitesize guide gives you everything you might want for the ideal trip to the big city. Background information about the history of the City will hopefully give you a better understanding of its origins and make your visit more enjoyable. Get local information about the must see sightseeing places to visit to help make your trip amazing ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • La Paz Bolivia & Beyond

    This guide is based on our much larger (530-page) guide to Bolivia. Here we zero in on La Paz, the capital, and all of the nearby attractions. La Paz is not a big city on the world scale, but it is certainly one of the more interesting ones. Built in a bowl created by the Choqueyapu River, the upper parts of the city stand 1,645 ft/500 m above the lower sections. Unlike any other city in the world ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Latino History And Culture

    You’re no idiot, of course. You know there are more people from Latin America living in the United States than ever before. And you’re aware that Latinos come from several countries, including Cuba, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.But you don’t have to south of the border to explore the rich Latino heritage. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Latino History and Culture offers an exhaustive ... Read more

    $8.99 USD