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Empire of Blue Water
Empire of Blue Water
Written by Stephan Talty
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307236616
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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
Written by Stephan Talty


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $14.95

A May 2007 Book Sense Pick

“Talty’s vigorous history of seventeenth-century pirates of the Caribbean will sate even fickle Jack Sparrow fans. . . . A pleasure to read from bow to stern.”
—Entertainment Weekly

The passion and violence of the age of exploration and empire come to vivid life in this story... Read more >
The Boys from Dolores
The Boys from Dolores
Written by Patrick Symmes
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375422836
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The Boys from Dolores
Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile
Written by Patrick Symmes


Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $26.95

From the author of Chasing Che, the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. The Boys from Dolores illuminates the elite island society from which Fidel Castro and his brother Raul emerged.
The Colegio de Dolores was a Jesuit boarding school in Santiago... Read more >
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The Boys from Dolores
The Boys from Dolores
Written by Patrick Symmes
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780375425189
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The Boys from Dolores
Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile
Written by Patrick Symmes


Format: eBook, 300 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $15.95

From the author of Chasing Che, the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. The Boys from Dolores illuminates the elite island society from which Fidel Castro and his brother Raul emerged.
The Colegio de Dolores was a Jesuit boarding school in Santiago... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.
Empire of Blue Water
Empire of Blue Water
Written by Stephan Talty
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307236609
Our Price: $24.95
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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
Written by Stephan Talty


Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $24.95

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 next three decades... Read more >
Empire of Blue Water
Empire of Blue Water
Written by Stephan Talty, Read by John H. Mayer
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780739341650
Our Price: $29.95
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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
Written by Stephan Talty
Read by John H. Mayer


Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $29.95

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 next three decades... Read more >
Empire of Blue Water
Empire of Blue Water
Written by Stephan Talty, Read by John H. Mayer
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739341667
Our Price: $17.50

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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
Written by Stephan Talty
Read by John H. Mayer


Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $17.50

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 next three decades... Read more >
Empire of Blue Water
Empire of Blue Water
Written by Stephan Talty, Read by John H. Mayer
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9781415935958
Our Price: $22.50

For more information about downloading this audiobook
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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
Written by Stephan Talty
Read by John H. Mayer


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $22.50

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 next three decades... Read more >
Empire of Blue Water
Empire of Blue Water
Written by Stephan Talty
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307382757
Our Price: $14.95
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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
Written by Stephan Talty


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $14.95

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 next three decades... Read more >
El mañana
El mañana
Written by Mirta Ojito
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307277152
Our Price: $14.95
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El mañana
Memorias de un éxodo cubano
Written by Mirta Ojito


Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95

En esta memoria sobre una niña, dos culturas y una lucha por la libertad, la periodista Mirta Ojito, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, vuelve al evento en su adolescencia que cambió su vida para siempre: el éxodo en el 1980 de más de 125.000 cubanos, mejor conocido como el puente marítimo del... Read more >
Cuba Diaries
Cuba Diaries
Written by Isadora Tattlin
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780767914840
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Cuba Diaries
An American Housewife in Havana
Written by Isadora Tattlin


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $13.95

Isadora Tattlin was accustomed to relocating often for her husband’s work. But when he accepted a post in Cuba in the early 1990s, she resolved to keep a detailed diary of her time there, recording her daily experiences as a wife, mother, and foreigner in a land of contraband. The result... Read more >
The Middle Passage
The Middle Passage
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375708343
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The Middle Passage

Written by V.S. Naipaul


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $14.95

In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism and... Read more >
Operacion Pedro Pan
Operacion Pedro Pan
Written by Yvonne Conde
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780609811153
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Operacion Pedro Pan

Written by Yvonne Conde


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2001
Price: $15.00

Poco después de establecer su dictadura en 1959, y el caos social que resultó de la misma, corrieron rumores que Fidel Castro decretaría que la potestad de todos los niños cubanos sería asumida por el estado. El terror ocasionado por esta posibilidad impulsó a miles de padres desesperados a enviar a... Read more >
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