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The Magical Language of Others

By: E. J. Koh

Narrated by: E. J. Koh

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A tale of deep bonds to family, place, language―of hard-won selfhood told by a singular, incandescent voice.After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji’s parents return to Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in the family’s new California home. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself in a world made strange in... Read more

While I Was Away

By: Waka T. Brown

Narrated by: Chieko Hidaka

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of New York Public Library's & Bank Street's Best Books of the Year!The Farewell meets Erin Entrada Kelly's Blackbird Fly in this empowering middle grade memoir from debut author Waka T. Brown, who takes readers on a journey to 1980s Japan, where she was sent as a child to reconnect to her family’s roots.When twelve-year-old Waka’s... Read more

The Last Story of Mina Lee

By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim

Narrated by: Greta Jung

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Riveting and unconventional, The Last Story of Mina Lee traces the far-reaching consequences of secrets in the lives of a Korean immigrant mother and her daughter

Margot Lee's mother is ignoring her calls. Margot can’t understand why, until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown, LA,... Read more

The Tiger Flu

By: Larissa Lai

Narrated by: Lisa Truong & Grace Lynn Kung

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award Nominated for The Otherwise Award and The Sunburst Award “Blending the surreal and the entirely possible, The Tiger Flu is majestically compelling. A must-read.” – Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai – her first in sixteen years – a community of... Read more

How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?

By: Doretta Lau

Narrated by: Andrea Bang & Yuta Takenaka

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An updated and whimsical new take on what it means to be Canadian. Featuring the Journey Prize-shortlisted story, “How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?” When asked in an interview about the Shanghai Sharks, the team that shaped his formative sporting years, Chinese basketball star Yao Ming responded, “how does a single blade... Read more

Anna K Away

By: Jenny Lee

Narrated by: Jenna Ushkowitz

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrator Jenna Ushkowitz is an award-winning actress, singer, producer, and podcast host best known for her role as Tina Cohen-Chang on Glee.

The sequel to Anna K, set over the course of the next summer, as the characters come to terms with Vronsky’s tragic death

How the mighty have fallen. Anna K, once the golden girl of Greenwich, CT, and New... Read more

A House Is a Body

By: Shruti Swamy

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"This collection will change the way all stories—short and long—are told, written, and consumed." —KIESE LAYMON, author of Heavy



In two-time O. Henry-prize winner Swamy's debut collection of stories, dreams collide with reality, modernity collides with antiquity, myth with true identity, and women grapple with desire, with ego, with motherhood... Read more

The Groom Will Keep His Name

By: Matt Ortile

Narrated by: Matt Ortile

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A riotous collection of "witty and captivating" essays by a gay Filipino immigrant in America who is learning that everything is about sex (Bitch Magazine) -- and sex is about power.
When Matt Ortile moved from Manila to Las Vegas, the locals couldn't pronounce his name. Harassed as a kid for his brown skin, accent, and femininity, he believed he... Read more

Kiyo's Story

By: Kiyo Sato

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Kiyo's father arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the land of opportunity after leaving Japan. He, his wife, and their nine American-born children labored in the fields together, building a successful farm. Yet at the outbreak of World War II, Kiyo's family was ordered to Poston Internment Camp. This memoir tells the story of... Read more

Untitled Music Bio

By: Anonymous

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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We Could Be Heroes

By: Mike Chen

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood

The super hero book you need to read right now!

"An enjoyable, exciting, and action-packed read… at its core, just fun.” –Associated Press

An extraordinary and emotional adventure about unlikely friends and the power of choosing who you want to be.

Jamie woke up in an empty... Read more

The Last Exiles

By: Ann Shin

Narrated by: June Angela

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE TRILLIUM AWARD

An unforgettable saga inspired by true events, The Last Exiles is a searing portrait of a young couple in North Korea and their fight for love and freedom

Jin and Suja meet and fall in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She is a young journalist from a prominent family, while he is from a small village of... Read more

x + y

By: Eugenia Cheng

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant mathematician examines the complexity of gender and society and forges a path out of inequality.
Why are men in charge? After years in the male-dominated field of mathematics and in the female-dominated field of art, Eugenia Cheng has heard the question many times. In x + y, Cheng argues that her mathematical specialty -- category... Read more

Yolk

By: Mary H. K. Choi

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Sneaks up on you with its insight and poignancy.” —Entertainment Weekly

From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they’ll go to save one of their lives—even if it means swapping identities.

Jayne and June Baek are nothing alike. June’s three years older, a... Read more

We Belong

By: Cookie Hiponia

Narrated by: Cookie Hiponia

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinarily beautiful novel-in-verse, this important debut weaves a dramatic immigrant story together with Pilipino mythology to create something wholly new.

Stella and Luna know that their mama, Elsie, came from the Philippines when she was a child, but they don't know much else. So one night they ask her to tell them her story. As they... Read more

Take Back the Tray

By: Joshna Maharaj

Narrated by: Joshna Maharaj

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A beloved chef takes on institutional food and sparks a revolution with this manifesto, memoir from the trenches, and blueprint for reclaiming control from corporations and brutal bottom lines. “With hard-won insights and deep commitment, Joshna Maharaj takes us on a mouthwatering tour of what our collective food future might be.” ― Raj... Read more

The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be

By: Joanna Gaines

Narrated by: Emmie Kay Gaines & Joanna Gaines

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In the #1?New York Times?bestseller,?The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be, Joanna Gaines celebrates how creativity and acceptance can come together to make for a bright and beautiful adventure. The book, illustrated by Julianna Swaney, follows a group of children as they each build their very own hot-air balloons. As the kids work together,... Read more

The Cost of Survival

By: Tao Wong

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

What cost survival in a post-apocalyptic world?

How much will you sacrifice to survive in a world turned game? When friends and family fall to monsters and aliens everyday, will you choose safety over freedom?

These are the questions the survivors in the Yukon must ask themselves. New alien masters arrive, offering safety from ever stronger... Read more

Redeemer of the Dead

By: Tao Wong

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When all is lost, what makes you go on?

His life a wasteland post-System integration, John Lee struggles to deal with the weight of a world irrevocably changed.

Given great power by chance, his Levels a by-product of a rage that he finds unable to quench, John struggles to find the balance between a hatred for the System that destroyed his world... Read more

Life in the North

By: Tao Wong

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

John wanted a vacation. He got an apocalypse.

When John sets out for a weekend camping trip in the Yukon, he never could have imagined the world would be plunged into chaos by the System–a mystical energy wave that destroys electronics and grants game-like powers to humanity. Suddenly, animals are evolving, monsters are spawning, and John finds... Read more

A History of Scars

By: Laura Lee

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From a writer whose work has been called “breathtaking and dazzling” by Roxane Gay, this moving, illuminating, and multifaceted memoir explores, in a series of essays, the emotional scars we carry when dealing with mental and physical illnesses—reminiscent of The Collected Schizophrenias and An Unquiet Mind.

In this stunning debut, Laura Lee... Read more

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

By: Nghi Vo

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover—a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty—and discover how truth can survive becoming history.



Nghi Vo... Read more

Like Spilled Water

By: Jennie Liu

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Na has grown up in the shadow of her younger brother, Bao-bao, her
parents’ cherished son. When they were younger, Na’s parents went to
work in the city, bringing Bao-bao along and devoting all their savings to
his education, while Na was left behind in the countryside.

But when Bao-bao dies suddenly, Na realizes how little she knew him. Did
he... Read more

The Favored Son

By: Tao Wong

Narrated by: Travis Baldree

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Winter is a time of reflection and cultivation for the Verdant Green Waters Sect. For Wu Ying, this peaceful interlude is interrupted by a new assignment that pits him against the mortal world’s conventions of class and privilege. A short story in the world of A Thousand Li by Tao Wong. Read more