Browsing: Central America

He refused to face his past…so it came crashing into his present.LA Times investigative reporter Jesse McMillan scores the biggest…

Carolyn Forché was 27 when a stranger appeared on her doorstep. In this National Book Award finalist, she recounts how that meeting set in motion a journey through El Salvador as the country hurtled towards civil war. “Astonishing, powerful, so important” (Margaret Atwood).

Sometimes life is a dream you don’t want to wake up from . . .The night Alison Lockhart walks in…

A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the…

“I began to daydream about the jungle….” On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde…

During his career as a pirate captain, Bartholomew Roberts gained wealth and notoriety across the Caribbean. The infamous Black Bart’s exploits come to life in this fascinating history of lawlessness at sea.

The National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and…

Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin…