API Authors

The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

By: Gail Tsukiyama

Narrated by: Stephen Park

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Gail Tsukiyama's The Street of a Thousand Blossoms is a powerfully moving masterpiece about tradition and change, loss and renewal, and love and family from a glorious storyteller at the height of her powers.

It is Tokyo in 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms, two orphaned brothers dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. The older... Read more

A Long Stay in a Distant Land

By: Chieh Chieng

Narrated by: James Yaegashi

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In this funny and inventive novel, the Lums are a death-stalked Chinese American family living in Orange County, California. Ever since Grandpa Melvin was inspired to join the US Army after watching a Popeye movie and—as family lore has it—unleashed a “relentless rain of steel death” upon the Nazis, Lum after Lum has been doomed to an untimely... Read more

The Golden Mountain

By: Irene Kai

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A journey back in time, The Golden Mountain is the gripping story of four generations of Chinese women who live and die under the restrictions of their culture—except for one, the author. Her story tells of growing up in Hong Kong and of her transition to New York City, where she struggled to meld the American dream with her ethnic background.... Read more

Born Confused

By: Tanuja Desai Hidier

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Dimple Lala doesn't know what to think. Her parents are from India, and she's spent her whole life resisting their traditions. Then suddenly she gets to high school and everything Indian is trendy. Now things are more complicated than ever. At seventeen, she's still recovering from a year-old break up and her best friend isn't around the way she... Read more

Games without Rules

By: Tamim Ansary

Narrated by: Tamim Ansary

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan—a tribal universe of village republics... Read more

Death Money

By: Henry Chang

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

His Fifth Precinct cases have taken him to West Coast Chinatowns and back, and along the way NYPD detective Jack Yu has processed a dozen dead bodies, been beaten by Triad thugs, been mauled by a pit bull, and been shot twice.He's also killed two men.He is en route to an appointment with the department shrink when an Asian body turns up in the... Read more

Silver Like Dust

By: Kimi Cunningham Grant

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The poignant story of a Japanese American woman's journey through one of the most shameful chapters in American history.Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to her husband tell the same story for the hundredth time, Kimi Grant's grandmother, Obaachan, was a missing link to Kimi's Japanese heritage,... Read more

In the Shadow of the Banyan

By: Vaddey Ratner

Narrated by: Greta Lee

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful celebration of the power of hope, this New York Times bestselling novel tells the story of a girl who comes of age during the Cambodian genocide.

You are about to read an extraordinary story, a PEN Hemingway Award finalist “rich with history, mythology, folklore, language and emotion.” It will take you to the very depths of despair... Read more

In Order to Live

By: Yeonmi Park

Narrated by: Eji Kim

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” - Yeonmi Park

"One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring." - The Bookseller

“Park's remarkable and inspiring story shines a light on a country whose inhabitants live in misery beyond comprehension.... Read more

Girl in Translation

By: Jean Kwok

Narrated by: Grayce Wey

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Searching for Sylvie Lee, the iconic, New York Times-bestselling debut novel that introduced an important Chinese-American voice with an inspiring story of an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. 

When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a... Read more

A Tale for the Time Being

By: Ruth Ozeki

Narrated by: Ruth Ozeki

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, unforgettable, and long-awaited novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki

“A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before... Read more

China Rich Girlfriend

By: Kevin Kwan

Narrated by: Lydia Look

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather.

     On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas... Read more

When the Emperor Was Divine

By: Julie Otsuka

Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Julie Otsuka’s commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination—both physical and emotional—of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point... Read more

The Third Son

By: Julie Wu

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1943 as air-raid sirens blare in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, eight-year-old Saburo is in no hurry to go home to the abuse he suffers at the hands of his parents and older brother. In the peach forests of Taoyuan, he encounters Yoshiko, whose loving family is like a glimpse of paradise for him. Their brief meeting is a memory he cherishes from... Read more

Song of the Exile

By: Kiana Davenport

Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis

Length: 16 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This beautiful and haunting novel bares the soul of a Hawaiian-American family during World War II. As you share in the Meahuna family's misfortunes and triumphs, a sense of intense intimacy evolves. Cristine McMurdo-Wallis lets you savor the family members' remarkable, heartwrenching stories as they are revealed piece by piece in language rich... Read more

The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness

By: Kyung-sook Shin

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

The highly anticipated release of the most personal novel by Kyung-sook Shin, who first burst onto the literary scene with the New York Times bestseller Please Look after MomHomesick and alone, a teenage girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school,... Read more

Before We Visit the Goddess

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan, Priya Ayyar & Vikas Adam

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spies about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another—a masterful, brilliant tale of a family both united and torn apart by ambition and loveThe daughter of a... Read more

Penance

By: Kanae Minato

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling Japanese psychological thriller and Edgar Award finalist about four women, forever connected by one horrible day in their childhood -- fifteen years later, someone wants to make sure they never forget.

When they were girls, Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko were tricked into leaving their friend Emily with a mysterious stranger. Then the... Read more

A Free Life

By: Ha Jin

Narrated by: Jaeson Ma

Length: 21 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet the Wu family—father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao. They are arranging to fully sever ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, and to begin a new, free life in the United States. At first, their future seems well-assured. But after the fallout from Tiananmen, Nan's disillusionment turns him toward... Read more

Beyond Infinity

By: Eugenia Cheng

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

How one powerful concept reveals the biggest (and smallest) mathematical truths

How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions occur to young children and our greatest minds. And they are all the same question: What is infinity? In Beyond Infinity, Eugenia Cheng takes us on a... Read more

The Magnolia Story

By: Chip Gaines & Joanna Gaines

Narrated by: Chip Gaines & Joanna Gaines

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

An exclusive look at America's first family of renovation! Taking you behind the scenes, Chip and Joanna Gaines share the story of how they met, the ups and downs of being an entrepreneurial couple, and how they built a life they love.The Magnolia Story is the first book from dynamic husband-and-wife team Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars of HGTV’s... Read more

The Borrowed

By: Chan Ho-Kei

Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan

Length: 18 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A deductive powerhouse, detective Kwan Chun-dok becomes a legend in the Hong Kong Police Force, nicknamed “the Eye of Heaven” by his awe-struck colleagues. Divided into six sections told in reverse chronological order—each of which covers an important case in Kwan’s career and takes place at a pivotal moment in Hong Kong history—The Borrowed... Read more

Lotus

By: Lijia Zhang

Narrated by: Angela Lin

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the secret life of the author’s grandmother, Lotus follows a young woman torn between past traditions and modern desires as she carves out a life for herself in China’s “City of Sins.”Reserved, at times defiant, Lotus is different from the other streetwalkers. Her striking eyes glow under Shenzhen’s neon lights, capturing the... Read more

A World of Three Zeros

By: Muhammad Yunus

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet

Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social... Read more