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Farewell to Manzanar

By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

The powerful true story of life in a Japanese American internment camp.During World War II the community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees. One of the first families to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were... Read more

Blue

By: Steve Aoki & Daniel Paisner

Narrated by: Greg Chun & Steve Aoki

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes sections recorded by Steve Aoki while on tour.

The music. The mix. His life.

"Sometimes I think my whole life can be seen through shades of blue..." — Steve Aoki

Blue is the remarkable story of Steve Aoki, the superstar DJ/producer who started his career as a vegan straightedge hardcore music kid hellbent on defying his... Read more

Night in the American Village

By: Akemi Johnson

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautifully written examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the US bases in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed thereAt the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of US military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for... Read more

The Body Papers

By: Grace Talusan

Narrated by: Grace Talusan

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in the Philippines, young Grace Talusan moves with her family to a New England suburb in the 1970s. At school, she confronts racism as one of the few kids with a brown face. At home, the confusion is worse: her grandfather's nightly visits to her room leave her hurt and terrified, and she learns to build a protective wall of silence that... Read more

Hexarchate Stories

By: Yoon Ha Lee

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Brian Nishii

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential short story collection set in the universe of Ninefox Gambit.An ex-Kel art thief has to save the world from a galaxy-shattering prototype weapon … A general outnumbered eight-to-one must outsmart his opponent … A renegade returns from seclusion to bury an old comrade …From the incredible imagination of Hugo– and Arthur C.... Read more

America Is in the Heart

By: Carlos Bulosan

Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine CastilloPoet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer, and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911–1956)... Read more

Ayesha at Last

By: Uzma Jalaluddin

Narrated by: Roshni Shukla

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

As seen on The Today Show! One of the best summer romance picks!

One of Publishers Weekly Best Romance Books of 2019!

A modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice for a new generation of love.

Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives... Read more

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come

By: Jessica Pan

Narrated by: Jessica Pan

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Writer Jessica Pan intends to find out. With the help of various extrovert mentors, Jessica sets up a series of personal challenges (talk to... Read more

The Foreign Student

By: Susan Choi

Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Highly acclaimed by critics, The Foreign Student is the story of a young Korean man, scarred by war, and the deeply troubled daughter of a wealthy Southern American family. In 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly, and on the subject of his earlier life in Korea he will... Read more

The Satapur Moonstone

By: Sujata Massey

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the... Read more

There's Something About Sweetie

By: Sandhya Menon

Narrated by: Vikas Adam & Soneela Nankani

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!

“Adorable, joyous.” —BuzzFeed

“I’m head-over-heels for this charming, funny, romantic, life-affirming book.” —Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Leah on the Offbeat

The irresistible companion novel to the New York Times bestseller When Dimple Met... Read more

A Place to Belong

By: Cynthia Kadohata

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Five starred reviews!

“Another gift from Kadohata to her readers.” —Booklist (starred review)

A Japanese American family, reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese imprisonment camps, gives up their American citizenship to move back to Hiroshima, unaware of the devastation wreaked by the atomic bomb in this piercing and all too relevant... Read more

Beeline

By: Shalini Shankar

Narrated by: Farah Merani

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An anthropologist uses spelling bees as a lens to examine the unique and diverse traits of Generation Z--and why they are destined for success

At first glance, Generation Z (youth born after 1997) seems to be made up of anxious overachievers, hounded by Tiger Moms and constantly tracked on social media. One would think that competitors in the... Read more

We Are the Gardeners

By: Joanna Gaines

Narrated by: Crew, Duke, Drake, Ella, and Emmie Kay Gaines &...

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Teach children that the greatest rewards come from patience, hard work, and learning from mistakes!In the #1 New York Times bestseller We Are the Gardeners, Joanna Gaines and the kids chronicle the adventures of starting their own family garden. From their failed endeavors, obstacles to overcome (bunnies that eat everything), and all of the... Read more

Good Talk

By: Mira Jacob

Narrated by: Mira Jacob, Kivlighan de Montebello & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.

“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”—Celeste Ng

“How brown is too brown?”
“Can Indians be racist?”
“What does... Read more

Under Red Skies

By: Karoline Kan

Narrated by: Allison Hiroto

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply personal and shocking look at how China is coming to terms with its conflicted past as it emerges into a modern, cutting-edge superpower.

Through the stories of three generations of women in her family, Karoline Kan, a former New York Times reporter based in Beijing, reveals how they navigated their way in a country beset by poverty... Read more

Bangkok Wakes to Rain

By: Pitchaya Sudbanthad

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"Recreates the experience of living in Thailand's aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles." —Ron Charles, Washington Post

"Important, ambitious, and accomplished." —Mohsin Hamid, New York Times bestselling author of Exit West

A missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the... Read more

Brown White Black

By: Nishta J. Mehra

Narrated by: Nishta J. Mehra

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Intimate and honest essays on motherhood, marriage, love, and acceptance.

Brown White Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white; her adopted child, Shiv, who is black; and their experiences dealing with America's rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Her clear-eyed and incisive writing on her family's daily... Read more

Front Desk

By: Kelly Yang

Narrated by: Sunny Lu

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Asian / Pacific American Award for Children's Literature!

* "Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Mia Tang has a lot of secrets.

Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the... Read more

99 Ways to Die

By: Ed Lin

Narrated by: Ewan Chung

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The third funny, food-forward mystery by Ed Lin set in and around Taipei's bustling night market Jing-nan has known Peggy Lee, a bullying frenemy who runs her family's huge corporation, since high school. Peggy's father has been kidnapped, and the ransom the kidnappers are demanding is not money but IP: a high-tech memory chip that they want to... Read more

The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

By: Eugenia Cheng

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world

In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of contemporary life. Cheng is a mathematician, so she... Read more

The Tensorate Series

By: Neon Yang

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The Black Tides of Heaven: In Book 1 of the Tensorate series, a rebellion threatens the power of the Protectorate. Akeha, one of the twin children of the Protector, leaves the Tensorate behind and falls in with the rebels. But every step Akeha takes towards the Machinists is a step away from Mokoya. Can Akeha find peace without shattering the... Read more

What We Were Promised

By: Lucy Tan

Narrated by: Jennifer Lim

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises.

After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a luxurious serviced apartment in Shanghai, Wei, Lina,... Read more

Revenant Gun

By: Yoon Ha Lee

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The stunning conclusion to the mind-bending seriesShuos Jedao is awake … and nothing is as he remembers. He’s a teenager, a cadet—a nobody—in the body of an old man; a general in command of an elite force. And he’s the most feared, and reviled, man in the galaxy. Jedao carries orders from Hexarch Nirai Kujen to reconquer the fractured pieces of... Read more