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How I Became a North Korean

By: Krys Lee

Narrated by: Janet Song, Ewan Chung & Raymond J. Lee

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Yongju is an accomplished student from one of North Korea's most prominent families. Jangmi has had to fend for herself since childhood, most recently by smuggling goods across the border. Danny is a Chinese-American teenager of North Korean descent whose quirks and precocious intelligence have long marked him as an outcast in his California... Read more

Stars Between the Sun and Moon

By: Lucia Jang & Susan McClelland

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household - her parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rations. Nightly, she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. It was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine. Jang married an abusive man who sold their baby. She left him and went home to help... Read more

The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity

By: Amy Alznauer

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A mango...is just one thing. But if I chop it in two, then chop the half in two, and keep on chopping, I get more and more bits, on and on, endlessly, to an infinity I could never ever reach. In 1887 in India, a boy named Ramanujan is born with a passion for numbers. He sees numbers in the squares of light pricking his thatched roof and in the... Read more

Japan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

By: Paul Norbury

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Japanese people have always seen themselves as a nation uniquely apart. Their exquisite art forms and elegant culture, military prowess and technological precision, have long been the envy of friend and foe alike. Today, even as Japan adapts to a rapidly changing world, its traditional culture and consensus-based philosophy have proved... Read more

The Woman Who Climbed Trees

By: Smriti Ravindra

Narrated by: Deepa Samuel

Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“A stunning chronicle of an Indian woman’s coming-of-age... This is electrifying.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review“Is this a ghost story?” Meena asked the barber’s wife who told the tale. “I don’t want to hear scary stories one night before I marry.” “Not all ghost stories are scary,” said the barber’s wife, laughing at Meena. “Besides, we... Read more

Bully of Asia

By: Steven W. Mosher

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The signs are everywhere. China unilaterally claims the entire South China Sea as sovereign territory, then builds artificial islands to bolster its claim. It suddenly activates an air-defense identification zone over the East China Sea, and it threatens to down any aircraft that does not report its position. It builds roads into Indian... Read more

Offerings

By: Michael ByungJu Kim

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

With the rapidly cascading Asian Financial Crisis threatening to go global and Korea in imminent meltdown, investment banker Dae Joon finds himself back in his native Seoul as part of an international team brought in to rescue the country from sovereign default. For Dae Joon—also known by his American name of Shane, after the cowboy movie his... Read more

The First Samurai

By: Karl Friday

Narrated by: Matt Miller

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Was samurai warrior Taira Masakado a quixotic megalomaniac or a hero swept up by events beyond his control? Did he really declare himself to be the ""New Emperor""? Did he suffer divine retribution for his ego and ambition? Filled with insurrections, tribal uprisings, pirate disturbances, and natural disasters, this action-packed account of... Read more

The Little Red Guard

By: Wenguang Huang

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1973, when Wenguang Huang was eight, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she appealed to her family to promise to bury her after she'd died. This was in Xi'an, a city in central China, at a time when a national ban on all traditional Chinese practices, including burials, was strictly enforced. But his... Read more

Tastes Like War

By: Grace M. Cho

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details—language, cultural references, memories, and food. When Grace was fifteen, her dynamic mother... Read more

This Is One Way to Dance

By: Sejal Shah

Narrated by: Priya Ayyar

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful meditation on identity and belonging, Sejal Shah explores the tension of being both invisible and hyper-visible in a country that struggles with race. The daughter of immigrants from Indian and Kenya, Shah wrestles with her experiences growing up in—and returning to—western New York, an area of stark racial and socioeconomic... Read more

The Last Overland

By: Alex Bescoby

Narrated by: Alex Bescoby

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"In 1955, a young TV producer named David Attenborough was approached by six recent graduates from Oxford and Cambridge universities determined to drive the entire length of Eurasia, as it was then known, from London to Singapore. Many tried this before, but none succeeded. Sensing this time might be different, Attenborough gave The Oxford and... Read more

A Life of Service

By: Christina Soontornvat

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Given Tammy Duckworth’s personal heroism as an Army veteran, her stunning recovery from injuries sustained in the line of duty, and her subsequent career as an influential US senator, it’s easy to see why Joe Biden earmarked her as a possible running mate during his Democratic presidential campaign. Senator Duckworth has logged a long list of... Read more

Tanzania - Culture Smart!

By: Quintin Winks

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't pack anxiety in your suitcase! By reading Culture Smart! Tanzania before you go, will ease your travel, help you to make friends and avoid confusion. Culture Smart! Tanzania will help you to understand local manners, customs and laws. Culture Smart! Tanzania goes the extra mile to help you brush up on your cultural small talk and will make... Read more

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom

By: Rabia Chaudry

Narrated by: Rabia Chaudry

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!”
—Valerie Bertinelli

From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes... Read more

Dust Child

By: Que Mai Phan Nguyen

Narrated by: Quyen Ngo

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga about family secrets, hidden trauma, and the overriding power of forgiveness, set during the war and in present-day Việt Nam. 
 
In 1969, sisters Trang and Quỳnh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village and become... Read more

Victory City

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Sid Sagar

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year • “Victory City is... Read more

Blood Knowledge

By: Tao Wong

Narrated by: Joe Hemple

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Information is power, or at least it's the currency Dram deals in in Eternal Night. When the information broker is given a new puzzle relating to the latest upcoming game update, he goes all in. What Dram doesn't know is how far and to what extent the developers have seeded the game. Or what it'll cost him to learn the truth. Good thing it's all... Read more

Sona Sharma, Very Best Big Sister?

By: Chitra Soundar

Narrated by: Mayuri Bhandari

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Sona Sharma's house is full of three generations of people who joke often and argue sometimes. Relatives come over unannounced, the phone rings frequently, and friends drop by all the time. Then one day, Amma tells Sona that she is going to have a baby. Is that good? Sona isn’t so sure. She doesn’t want to share her room or her things with a new... Read more

The Court Dancer

By: Kyung-Sook Shin

Narrated by: Rosa Escoda

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

When a novice French diplomat arrives in Korea for an audience with the Emperor, he is enraptured by the Joseon Dynasty's magnificent culture. But all fades away when he sees Yi Jin perform the delicate traditional Dance of the Spring Oriole. Although well aware that women of the court belong to the palace, the young diplomat confesses his love... Read more

Another Appalachia

By: Neema Avashia

Narrated by: Jeed Saddy

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When Neema Avashia tells people where she's from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving "There are Indian people in West Virginia?" A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class, gender and sexuality continue to inform the way she moves... Read more

Red Oblivion

By: Leslie Shimotakahara

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When Jill Lau receives an early morning phone call that her elderly father has fallen gravely ill, she and her sister, Celeste, catch the first flight from Toronto to Hong Kong. The man they find languishing in the hospital is a barely recognizable shadow of his old indomitable self. According to his housekeeper, a couple of mysterious... Read more

Mangoes, Mischief, and Tales of Friendship

By: Chitra Soundar

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Being a wise and just ruler is no easy task. That’s what Prince Veera discovers when he and his best friend, Suku, are given the opportunity to preside over the court of his father, King Bheema. Some of the subjects’ complaints are easily addressed, but others are much more challenging. How should they handle the case of the greedy merchant who... Read more

Descendant of the Crane

By: Joan He

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Princess Hesina of Yan has always been eager to shirk the responsibilities of the crown, but when her beloved father is murdered, she's thrust into power, suddenly the queen of an unstable kingdom. Determined to find her father's killer, Hesina does something desperate: she enlists the aid of a soothsayer—a treasonous act, punishable by... Read more