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    • The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
    • By: Jonathan Blitzer
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Blitzer, André Santana
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate, by New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer.

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    • The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,490 ratings
    • Here is the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans....

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    • A True Story
    • By: Douglas Preston
    • Narrated by: Bill Mumy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,905 ratings
    • Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City....

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    • A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion
    • By: Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll
    • Narrated by: Mark Harmon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Noriega has eroded dangerously. Newly elected President George Bush has declared the strongman a drug trafficker and a rigger of elections.

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    • A Revolutionary Life
    • By: Jon Lee Anderson
    • Narrated by: Armando Durán
    • Length: 36 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,092 ratings
    • Anderson traces Che's life from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's government to his failed campaign....

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    • The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
    • By: William Carlsen
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
    • Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 621 ratings
    • In 1839 rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers....

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    • Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
    • By: Aviva Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in the United States....

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    • By: Sonia Nazario
    • Narrated by: Catherine Byers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 725 ratings
    • In this true story, journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States....

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war....

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    • The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 718 ratings
    • Winner of the National Book Award for history, The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women...

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Matthew Restall, Amara Solari
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations....

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    • A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
    • By: Carolyn Forché
    • Narrated by: Carolyn Forché
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 331 ratings
    • What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Maya Mythology, Aztec Mythology, Inca Mythology, and Central American Myths
    • By: Matt Clayton
    • Narrated by: Randy Whitlow
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • If you're looking for a captivating collection of Inca myths, then pay attention. This audiobook includes four captivating manuscripts....

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    • How a Band of Heroes Defied a Dictator and Helped Free a Nation
    • By: Kurt Muse, John Gilstrap
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Six Minutes to Freedom is the remarkable tale of Kurt Muse's arrest and harrowing months of imprisonment; his eyewitness accounts of torture; and the plight of his family as they fled for their lives. It is also the heart-pounding account of the only American civilian ever rescued by the elite Delta Force....

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    • The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants, Volume I
    • By: Kevin H. Siepel
    • Narrated by: Kevin H Siepel
    • Series: Conquistador Voices, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Matthew Parker
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, William Dufris
    • Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • The building of the Panama Canal was one of the greatest engineering feats in human history....

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    • Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal
    • By: Julie Greene
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The Canal Builders recounts how the Panama Canal emerged as a positive symbol of American power and became a critical early step towards 20th-century globalization....

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    • The Controversial History and Legacy of the Socialist Party’s Revolution, Civil War, and Politics in Nicaragua
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Daniel Houle
    • Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Whichever belief system was in play for the major industrial nations of Central and South America, a constant bombardment of foreign influence pushed the people of states such as Nicaragua, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and others toward overthrow....

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