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Fiction Listens by Canadian Authors
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The Comeback
- Written by: Lily Chu
- Narrated by: Phillipa Soo
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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Ariadne Hui thrives on routine. So what if everything in her life is planned down to the minute: That’s the way she likes it. If she’s going to make partner in Toronto’s most prestigious law firm, she needs to stay focused at all times. But when she comes home after yet another soul-sucking day to find an unfamiliar, gorgeous man camped out in her living room, focus is the last thing on her mind. Especially when her roommate explains this is Choi Jihoon, her cousin freshly arrived from Seoul to mend a broken heart. He just needs a few weeks to rest and heal.
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the audio version of a page turner for me
- By AmazonCustomer on 2022-10-13
Written by: Lily Chu
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888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers
- A Novel
- Written by: Abraham Chang
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Young Wang has received plenty of wisdom from his beloved uncle: don’t take life too seriously, get out on the road when you can, and everyone gets just seven great loves in their life—so don’t blow it. This last one sticks with Young as he is an obsessive cataloger of his life: movies watched, favorite albums . . . all filtered through Chinese numerology and superstition. He finds meaning in almost everything, for which his two best friends endlessly tease him. But then, at the end of 1995, when Young is at New York University, he meets Erena.
Written by: Abraham Chang
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All of Us Strangers
- A Novel
- Written by: Taichi Yamada
- Narrated by: Geoff Sugiyama
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Screenwriter Harada is disconnected from the world. Lonely and jaded, he’s drifted apart from his son and is dismissive when approached with gestures of friendship, including from a lonely and mysterious tenant who lives in his mostly empty apartment building. One night, when Harada returns to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up, he meets a man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. And so begins Harada’s ordeal, thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they died many years earlier.
Written by: Taichi Yamada
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Scarborough
- Written by: Catherine Hernandez
- Narrated by: Catherine Hernandez
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them. The adults in their lives either rise to the occasion or fall by the wayside; together, they make up a troubled yet inspired community that refuses to be undone.
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Overrated
- By A B on 2019-09-19
Written by: Catherine Hernandez
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Crosshairs
- A Novel
- Written by: Catherine Hernandez
- Narrated by: Catherine Hernandez
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in a terrifyingly familiar near future, with massive floods leading to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called The Boots seizes the opportunity to round up communities of color, the disabled, and the LGBTQ+ into labor camps. In the shadows, a new hero emerges. After he loses his livelihood as a drag queen and the love of his life, Kay joins the resistance alongside Bahadur, a transmasculine refugee, and Firuzeh, a headstrong social worker.
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Not worth my time.
- By BC Angel on 2021-10-13
Written by: Catherine Hernandez
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Running in the Family
- Written by: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India", Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.
Written by: Michael Ondaatje
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The Comeback
- Written by: Lily Chu
- Narrated by: Phillipa Soo
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Original Recording
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Ariadne Hui thrives on routine. So what if everything in her life is planned down to the minute: That’s the way she likes it. If she’s going to make partner in Toronto’s most prestigious law firm, she needs to stay focused at all times. But when she comes home after yet another soul-sucking day to find an unfamiliar, gorgeous man camped out in her living room, focus is the last thing on her mind. Especially when her roommate explains this is Choi Jihoon, her cousin freshly arrived from Seoul to mend a broken heart. He just needs a few weeks to rest and heal.
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the audio version of a page turner for me
- By AmazonCustomer on 2022-10-13
Written by: Lily Chu
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888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers
- A Novel
- Written by: Abraham Chang
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Young Wang has received plenty of wisdom from his beloved uncle: don’t take life too seriously, get out on the road when you can, and everyone gets just seven great loves in their life—so don’t blow it. This last one sticks with Young as he is an obsessive cataloger of his life: movies watched, favorite albums . . . all filtered through Chinese numerology and superstition. He finds meaning in almost everything, for which his two best friends endlessly tease him. But then, at the end of 1995, when Young is at New York University, he meets Erena.
Written by: Abraham Chang
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All of Us Strangers
- A Novel
- Written by: Taichi Yamada
- Narrated by: Geoff Sugiyama
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Screenwriter Harada is disconnected from the world. Lonely and jaded, he’s drifted apart from his son and is dismissive when approached with gestures of friendship, including from a lonely and mysterious tenant who lives in his mostly empty apartment building. One night, when Harada returns to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up, he meets a man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. And so begins Harada’s ordeal, thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they died many years earlier.
Written by: Taichi Yamada
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Scarborough
- Written by: Catherine Hernandez
- Narrated by: Catherine Hernandez
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them. The adults in their lives either rise to the occasion or fall by the wayside; together, they make up a troubled yet inspired community that refuses to be undone.
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Overrated
- By A B on 2019-09-19
Written by: Catherine Hernandez
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Crosshairs
- A Novel
- Written by: Catherine Hernandez
- Narrated by: Catherine Hernandez
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Set in a terrifyingly familiar near future, with massive floods leading to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called The Boots seizes the opportunity to round up communities of color, the disabled, and the LGBTQ+ into labor camps. In the shadows, a new hero emerges. After he loses his livelihood as a drag queen and the love of his life, Kay joins the resistance alongside Bahadur, a transmasculine refugee, and Firuzeh, a headstrong social worker.
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Not worth my time.
- By BC Angel on 2021-10-13
Written by: Catherine Hernandez
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Running in the Family
- Written by: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India", Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.
Written by: Michael Ondaatje
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The Jade Peony
- Written by: Wayson Choy
- Narrated by: Sean Sonier, Sharon Lambert
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and '40s provides the setting for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid and intense reminiscences of the three younger children of an immigrant family. They each experience a very different childhood, depending on age and sex, as they encounter the complexities of birth and death, love and hate, kinship and otherness. Mingling with the realities of Canada and the horror of war are the magic, ghosts, paper uncles and family secrets of Poh-Poh, or Grandmother, who is the heart and pillar of the family.
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Great Canadian Novel
- By Elska on 2022-05-18
Written by: Wayson Choy
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In the Skin of a Lion
- Written by: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: Tom McCamus
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient.
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Excellent story, deadpan delivery
- By Brian Ashe on 2021-07-14
Written by: Michael Ondaatje
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Someone You Love Is Gone
- Written by: Gurjinder Basran
- Narrated by: Laara Sadiq
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Simran is unable to move on. Grappling with the growing estrangement of her sister and daughter as well as the disintegration of her marriage, she wonders how her life has come to this. As the life she has carefully constructed unravels, she is forced to confront one of her most painful childhood memories - her parents sending her younger brother away from home.
Written by: Gurjinder Basran
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Simple Recipes
- Written by: Madeleine Thien
- Narrated by: Madeleine Thien
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Longing, familiarity, and hope suffuse these stories as they mine the charged territory of relationships - subtly weaving in conflicts between generations and cultures. Madeleine Thien's characters in some way want to make amends, to understand the events that have shaped their lives. Compassionate and revealing, delicate and wise, these stories chart the uneven progress of love and lay bare the heartbreaking truths at the core of our closest bonds.
Written by: Madeleine Thien
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Floating City
- Written by: Kerri Sakamoto
- Narrated by: Miles Meili
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Frankie Hanesaka isn't afraid of a little hard work. An industrious boy, if haunted by the mysterious figures of his mother's past in Japan, he grows up in a floating house in the harbour of Port Alberni, BC. With all the Japanese bachelors passing through town to work in the logging camps and lumber mills, maybe he could build a hotel on the water, too. Make a few dollars. But then the war comes.
Written by: Kerri Sakamoto
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Vi
- Written by: Kim Thúy, Sheila Fischman - translator
- Narrated by: Kim Thúy
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The perfect complement to the exquisitely wrought novels Ru and Mãn, Canada Reads winner Kim Thúy returns with Vi, exploring the lives, loves and struggles of Vietnamese refugees as they reinvent themselves in new lands.
Written by: Kim Thúy, and others
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Mãn
- Written by: Kim Thúy
- Narrated by: Kim Thúy
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Mãn has three mothers: the one who gives birth to her in wartime, the nun who plucks her from a vegetable garden, and her beloved Maman, who becomes a spy to survive. Seeking security for her grown daughter, Maman finds Mãn a husband - a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal. Thrown into a new world, Mãn discovers her natural talent as a chef. Gracefully she practices her art, with food as her medium. She and her husband seem to drift along, respectfully and dutifully. But when she encounters a married chef in Paris, everything changes in the instant of a fleeting touch....
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Elegant
- By Emily50a on 2021-07-18
Written by: Kim Thúy
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A Fine Balance
- Written by: Rohinton Mistry
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers - a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village - will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.
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Could not be better!
- By DB@Canada on 2018-07-28
Written by: Rohinton Mistry
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The Headmaster's Wager
- Written by: Vincent Lam
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler, and an incorrigible womanizer. He is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials in order to maintain the elite status of the Chen Academy. But when his only son gets in trouble with the Vietnamese authorities, Percival faces the limits of his connections and wealth and is forced to send him away
Written by: Vincent Lam
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Tell It to the Trees
- Written by: Anita Rau Badami
- Narrated by: Gia Sandhu, Ana Sani, Anand Rajaram, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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One freezing winter morning a dead body is found in the backyard of the Dharma family’s house. It’s the body of Anu Krishnan. For Anu, a writer seeking a secluded retreat from the city, the Dharmas' "back-house" in the sleepy mountain town of Merrit's Point was the ideal spot to take a year off and begin writing.
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Tell it to the trees
- By irene on 2019-04-10
Written by: Anita Rau Badami
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The Hero's Walk
- A Novel
- Written by: Anita Rau Badami
- Narrated by: Laara Sadiq
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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After the release of Anita Rau Badami's critically acclaimed first novel, Tamarind Mem, it was evident a promising new talent had joined the Canadian literary community. Her dazzling literary follow-up is The Hero's Walk, a novel teeming with the author's trademark tumble of the haphazard beauty, wreckage and folly of ordinary lives.
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One of My Faves!
- By bookworm on 2019-06-22
Written by: Anita Rau Badami
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Translated from the Gibberish
- Seven Stories and One Half Truth
- Written by: Anosh Irani
- Narrated by: Anosh Irani
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In these stunning stories and one "half truth" (a semi-fictional meditation on the experience of being an immigrant) we meet a swimming instructor determined to reenact John Cheever's iconic short story "The Swimmer" in the pools of Mumbai; a famous Indian chef who breaks down on a New York talk show; a gangster's wife who believes a penguin at the Mumbai zoo is the reincarnation of her lost child; an illegal immigrant in Vancouver who plays a fateful game of cricket; and a kindly sweets-shop owner whose hope for a new life in Canada leads to a terrible choice.
Written by: Anosh Irani
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How to Pronounce Knife
- Stories
- Written by: Souvankham Thammavongsa
- Narrated by: James Tang, Kulap Vilaysack
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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A young man painting nails at the local salon. A woman plucking feathers at a chicken processing plant. A father who packs furniture to move into homes he'll never afford. A housewife learning English from daytime soap operas. In her stunning Giller Prize-winning debut book of fiction, Souvankham Thammavongsa focuses on characters struggling to make a living, illuminating their hopes, disappointments, love affairs, acts of defiance, and above all their pursuit of a place to make their own.
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So Disappointing
- By Len on 2020-11-22
Written by: Souvankham Thammavongsa
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The Light of Eternal Spring
- Written by: Angel Di Zhang
- Narrated by: Angel Di Zhang
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Amy Hilton, born Wu Aimee in the tiny Chinese village of Eternal Spring, has been living and working as a photographer in New York City for so long she’s started to dream in English. When in the fall of 1999 she receives a letter from her sister, written in her birth tongue of Manchu, she needs to take it to a Chinatown produce vendor to get it translated. And so it is this stranger who tells Amy that her mother has died of a broken heart.
Written by: Angel Di Zhang
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Jade City
- The Green Bone Saga, Book 1
- Written by: Fonda Lee
- Narrated by: Andrew Kishino
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In this World Fantasy Award-winning novel of magic and kungfu, four siblings battle rival clans for honor and power in an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. Jade is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. It has been mined, traded, stolen, and killed for - and for centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family have used it to enhance their magical abilities and defend the island from foreign invasion. Now, the war is over and a new generation of Kauls vies for control of Kekon's bustling capital city.
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Interesting take on modern fantasy, I'd recommend!
- By Chris Conrod on 2020-09-19
Written by: Fonda Lee
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Exo
- Written by: Fonda Lee
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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The fight for the future begins. It's been a century of peace since Earth became a colony of an alien race with far reaches into the galaxy. Some die-hard extremists still oppose their rule on Earth, but Donovan Reyes isn't one of them. His dad holds the prestigious position of Prime Liaison, and Donovan's high social standing along with his exocel (a remarkable alien technology fused to his body) guarantee him a bright future in the security forces. That is until a routine patrol goes awry and Donovan's abducted by the human revolutionary group Sapience.
Written by: Fonda Lee
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Cross Fire
- An Exo Novel
- Written by: Fonda Lee
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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Earth's century of peace as a colony of an alien race has been shattered. As the alien-run government navigates peace talks with the human terrorist group Sapience, Donovan tries to put his life back together and return to his duty as a member of the security forces. But a new order comes from the alien home planet: withdraw. Earth has proven too costly and unstable to maintain as a colony, so the aliens, along with a small selection of humans, begin to make plans to leave. Suddenly Earth becomes vulnerable to a takeover from other alien races....
Written by: Fonda Lee
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Are You Sara?
- A Novel
- Written by: S.C. Lalli
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio, Kristen Sieh
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Despite a scholarship, law student Saraswati “Sara” Bhaduri holds down two jobs in order to make her way through school, but it’s still a struggle. She’s had to do things to pay the bills that most people wouldn’t expect “a nice Indian girl” to do. Sara is working at the campus bar one seemingly ordinary Tuesday night when her boss demands that she deal with a drunk girl in the bathroom.
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Loved!
- By Bryanna Minickk on 2023-06-14
Written by: S.C. Lalli
Nonfiction Listens by Canadian Authors
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We Were Dreamers
- An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
- Written by: Simu Liu
- Narrated by: Simu Liu
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Marvel’s newest recruit shares his own inspiring and unexpected origin story, ranging from China to the bright lights of Hollywood. An immigrant who battled everything from parental expectations to cultural stereotypes, Simu Liu struggled to forge a path for himself, rising from the ashes of a failed accounting career (yes, you read that right) to become Shang-Chi.
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Simu, you were such a shit!
- By Glenn Funamoto on 2022-10-28
Written by: Simu Liu
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One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
- Essays
- Written by: Scaachi Koul
- Narrated by: Scaachi Koul
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi deploys her razor-sharp humour to share her fears, outrages, and mortifying experiences as an outsider growing up in Canada. Her subjects range from shaving her knuckles in grade school, to a shopping trip gone horribly awry, to dealing with Internet trolls, to feeling out of place at an Indian wedding (as an Indian woman), to parsing the trajectory of fears and anxieties that pressed upon her immigrant parents and bled down a generation.
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Funny and relatable
- By r on 2023-06-20
Written by: Scaachi Koul
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The Book of Awesome
- Written by: Neil Pasricha
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer, Erin Moon, Neil Hellegers, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on the award-winning 10-million-plus-hit blog 1000awesomethings.com, The Book of Awesome is an international best-selling high five for humanity and a big celebration of life's little moments. Sometimes it's easy to forget the things that make us smile. It’s tempting to feel that the world is falling apart. But awesome things are all around us, like: popping bubble wrap; wearing underwear just out of the dryer; fixing electronics by smacking them; and much more! The Book of Awesome reminds us that the best things in life are free (yes, your grandma was right).
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Truly Awesome!
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-02-27
Written by: Neil Pasricha
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Original Prin
- A Novel
- Written by: Randy Boyagoda
- Narrated by: Michael Hanrahan
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Following a cancer diagnosis, 40-year old Prin vows to become a better man and a better Catholic. He’s going to spend more time with his kids and his wife, care for his recently divorced and aging parents, and also expand his cutting-edge research into the symbolism of the seahorse in Canadian literature. But when his historic college in downtown Toronto faces a shutdown and he meets with the condominium developers ready to take it over - including a foul-mouthed young Chinese entrepreneur and Wende, his ex-girlfriend from graduate school - Prin hears the voice of God.
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An enjoyable listen
- By Kindle Customer on 2020-12-25
Written by: Randy Boyagoda
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The Flu Pandemic and You
- A Canadian Guide
- Written by: Vincent Lam, Dr. Colin Lee, Margaret Atwood - foreword
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Flu Pandemic and You develops a lucid framework to help people understand the current anxiety about influenza in the context of the risks we all face in our daily lives. This crucially important book, full of reasoned, knowledgeable advice, is an indispensable resource for fearful times.
Written by: Vincent Lam, and others
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Homes
- A Refugee Story
- Written by: Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Winnie Yeung
- Narrated by: Ali Momen
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria - just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was 10 years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and school, firebombs late at night. Homes tells of the strange juxtapositions of growing up in a war zone: horrific, unimaginable events punctuated by normalcy - soccer, cousins, video games, friends.
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Captivating story
- By Bonita Janzen on 2019-07-04
Written by: Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, and others
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We Were Dreamers
- An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
- Written by: Simu Liu
- Narrated by: Simu Liu
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Marvel’s newest recruit shares his own inspiring and unexpected origin story, ranging from China to the bright lights of Hollywood. An immigrant who battled everything from parental expectations to cultural stereotypes, Simu Liu struggled to forge a path for himself, rising from the ashes of a failed accounting career (yes, you read that right) to become Shang-Chi.
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Simu, you were such a shit!
- By Glenn Funamoto on 2022-10-28
Written by: Simu Liu
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One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
- Essays
- Written by: Scaachi Koul
- Narrated by: Scaachi Koul
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi deploys her razor-sharp humour to share her fears, outrages, and mortifying experiences as an outsider growing up in Canada. Her subjects range from shaving her knuckles in grade school, to a shopping trip gone horribly awry, to dealing with Internet trolls, to feeling out of place at an Indian wedding (as an Indian woman), to parsing the trajectory of fears and anxieties that pressed upon her immigrant parents and bled down a generation.
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Funny and relatable
- By r on 2023-06-20
Written by: Scaachi Koul
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The Book of Awesome
- Written by: Neil Pasricha
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer, Erin Moon, Neil Hellegers, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on the award-winning 10-million-plus-hit blog 1000awesomethings.com, The Book of Awesome is an international best-selling high five for humanity and a big celebration of life's little moments. Sometimes it's easy to forget the things that make us smile. It’s tempting to feel that the world is falling apart. But awesome things are all around us, like: popping bubble wrap; wearing underwear just out of the dryer; fixing electronics by smacking them; and much more! The Book of Awesome reminds us that the best things in life are free (yes, your grandma was right).
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Truly Awesome!
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-02-27
Written by: Neil Pasricha
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Original Prin
- A Novel
- Written by: Randy Boyagoda
- Narrated by: Michael Hanrahan
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Following a cancer diagnosis, 40-year old Prin vows to become a better man and a better Catholic. He’s going to spend more time with his kids and his wife, care for his recently divorced and aging parents, and also expand his cutting-edge research into the symbolism of the seahorse in Canadian literature. But when his historic college in downtown Toronto faces a shutdown and he meets with the condominium developers ready to take it over - including a foul-mouthed young Chinese entrepreneur and Wende, his ex-girlfriend from graduate school - Prin hears the voice of God.
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An enjoyable listen
- By Kindle Customer on 2020-12-25
Written by: Randy Boyagoda
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The Flu Pandemic and You
- A Canadian Guide
- Written by: Vincent Lam, Dr. Colin Lee, Margaret Atwood - foreword
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Flu Pandemic and You develops a lucid framework to help people understand the current anxiety about influenza in the context of the risks we all face in our daily lives. This crucially important book, full of reasoned, knowledgeable advice, is an indispensable resource for fearful times.
Written by: Vincent Lam, and others
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Homes
- A Refugee Story
- Written by: Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Winnie Yeung
- Narrated by: Ali Momen
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria - just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was 10 years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and school, firebombs late at night. Homes tells of the strange juxtapositions of growing up in a war zone: horrific, unimaginable events punctuated by normalcy - soccer, cousins, video games, friends.
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Captivating story
- By Bonita Janzen on 2019-07-04
Written by: Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, and others
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The Measure of My Powers
- A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris
- Written by: Jackie Kai Ellis
- Narrated by: Jackie Kai Ellis
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of one woman's journey to find herself. Armed with nothing but a love of food and the words of the 20th-century food writer M.F.K. Fisher, she travels from France to Italy, then the Congo, and back again. Along the way, she goes to pastry school in Paris, eats the most perfect apricots over the Tuscan hills, watches a family of gorillas grazing deep in the Congolese brush, has her heart broken one last time on a bridge in Lyon, and, ultimately, finds a path to life and joy.
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Inspiring!
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-07-10
Written by: Jackie Kai Ellis
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Chop Suey Nation
- Written by: Ann Hui
- Narrated by: Ann Hui
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included - her parents had run their own Chinese restaurant, The Legion Cafe, before she was born.
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Amazing to follow along
- By Arachnitech on 2021-11-04
Written by: Ann Hui
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You Are Awesome
- How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life
- Written by: Neil Pasricha
- Narrated by: Neil Pasricha
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Written in Pasricha’s trademark high-energy, takeaway-laden awesome style, this book is for everyone - including fresh grads walking into their first jobs, anyone processing a breakup, people whose industries or careers are quickly getting disrupted, parents wanting to help children be mentally tougher, children wanting to help parents be mentally tougher, and millennials looking for a flashlight to help illuminate the dark path of adulthood.
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Consistency is what you expect
- By Rob Mensinger on 2019-11-12
Written by: Neil Pasricha
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The Happiness Equation
- Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything
- Written by: Neil Pasricha
- Narrated by: Neil Pasricha
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In his new book The Happiness Equation, Pasricha illustrates how to want nothing and do anything in order to have everything. If that sounds like a contradiction in terms, you simply have yet to unlock the nine secrets to happiness. Each secret takes a piece out of the core of common sense, turns it on its head to present it in a completely new light, and then provides practical and specific guidelines for how to apply this new outlook to lead a fulfilling life.
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Literally just brags the whole time
- By Kayleigh on 2024-03-28
Written by: Neil Pasricha
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Canada Is Awesome
- A Little Book About a Big Country
- Written by: Neil Pasricha
- Narrated by: Neil Pasricha
- Length: 34 mins
- Unabridged
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A personal essay about what makes Canada awesome from Neil Pasricha, the international-bestselling author of The Book of Awesome, and the Audible Original, How to Get Back Up.
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High taxes guarantee nothing
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-03-02
Written by: Neil Pasricha
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How to Get Back Up
- A Memoir of Failure & Resilience
- Written by: Neil Pasricha
- Narrated by: Neil Pasricha
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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We all fail. We all fall. We all need to know how to get back up. Few know this better than New York Times best-selling author Neil Pasricha. Before selling over a million copies of his Book of Awesome series and touring the world to teach Fortune 500 CEOs, Ivy league deans, and members of the royal family how to unlock a positive mind-set, Pasricha’s life hit rock bottom. In this Audible Original, you'll hear for the first time Neil's very personal story of failure and resilience - and you'll learn how you, too, can find the strength to get back up.
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Not his best work- a long autobiography
- By TW on 2020-06-24
Written by: Neil Pasricha
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The Woo-Woo
- How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
- Written by: Lindsay Wong
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on antipsychotic meds.
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Unforgettable
- By Sierra Skye on 2018-11-28
Written by: Lindsay Wong
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Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.
- A Memoir
- Written by: Jenny Heijun Wills
- Narrated by: Diana Bang
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Delving into gender, class, racial, and ethnic complexities, as well as into the complex relationships between Korean women - sisters, mothers and daughters, grandmothers and grandchildren, aunts and nieces - Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. describes in visceral, lyrical prose the painful ripple effects that follow a child's removal from a family, and the rewards that can flow from both struggle and forgiveness.
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Adoption Story
- By Cindy on 2019-11-10
Written by: Jenny Heijun Wills
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Care Work
- Dreaming Disability Justice
- Written by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community.
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Connect with caring
- By Anna Br on 2022-02-02
Written by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Birds Art Life
- A Year of Observation
- Written by: Kyo Maclear
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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For Vladimir Nabokov, it was butterflies. For John Cage, it was mushrooms. For Sylvia Plath, it was bees. Each of these artists took time away from their work to become observers of natural phenomena. In 2012, Kyo Maclear met a local Toronto musician with an equally captivating side passion - he had recently lost his heart to birds. Curious about what prompted this young urban artist to suddenly embrace nature, Kyo decides to follow him for a year and find out.
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Birds Art Life and Introspection.
- By Susan Carpenter on 2018-09-13
Written by: Kyo Maclear
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Mistakes to Run With
- Written by: Yasuko Thanh
- Narrated by: Erin Moon
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Mistakes to Run With chronicles the turbulent life of Yasuko Thanh, from early childhood in the closest thing Victoria, BC, has to a slum, to teen years as a sex worker and, finally, to her emergence as an award-winning author. As a child, Thanh embraced evangelical religion, only to rebel against it and her rigid parents, cutting herself, smoking, and shoplifting. At 15, the honour-roll runaway develops a taste for drugs and alcohol. After a stint in jail at 16, feeling utterly abandoned by her family, school, and society, Thanh meets the man who would become her pimp....
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wanted to like it
- By Erin on 2019-06-14
Written by: Yasuko Thanh
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The Reality Bubble
- How Science Reveals the Hidden Truths that Shape Our World
- Written by: Ziya Tong
- Narrated by: Ziya Tong
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the X-rays that peer through skin, the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with artificial intelligence. And we are blind compared to the animals that can see in infrared, or ultraviolet, or in 360-degree vision. These animals live in the same world we do, but they see something quite different when they look around.
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this book was a bittersweet and very entertaining
- By Gypsymama on 2019-07-10
Written by: Ziya Tong
Five-Star Listener Reviews
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- A Novel
- Written by: Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom.
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Love the characters and gaming elements!
- By Katy on 2022-12-04
Love the characters and gaming elements!
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We Were Dreamers
- An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
- Written by: Simu Liu
- Narrated by: Simu Liu
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Marvel’s newest recruit shares his own inspiring and unexpected origin story, ranging from China to the bright lights of Hollywood. An immigrant who battled everything from parental expectations to cultural stereotypes, Simu Liu struggled to forge a path for himself, rising from the ashes of a failed accounting career (yes, you read that right) to become Shang-Chi.
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Simu, you were such a shit!
- By Glenn Funamoto on 2022-10-28
Amazing!
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Iron Widow
- Written by: Xiran Jay Zhao
- Narrated by: Rong Fu
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected - she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow.
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A wonderful surprise
- By AgileFoxen on 2021-11-08
This is sooo freaking good!!!
Amazing dystopian sci-fi with intense relationships and even more intense fight scenes.
This is like mixing Hunger Games with Tron and then adding entirely new bits to both.
GO READ THIS BOOK!!!
The audio made it easier to keep the characters sorted, and the pronunciations accurate.
The narration was delightful on this one.
Biographies & Memoirs
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Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember
- The Stroke That Changed My Life
- Written by: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year's Eve 2006. By that afternoon she saw the world - quite literally - upside down. By New Year's Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after hours in the ER, days in the hospital, and multiple questions and tests, she learned that she had had a stroke. For months Lee outsourced her memories to her notebook. It is from these memories that she has constructed this frank and compelling memoir.
Written by: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
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The Curse of the Turtle
- The True Story of Thailand’s “Backpacker Murders”
- Written by: Suzanne Buchanan
- Narrated by: Eileen Buckley
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Koh Tao, a small island in the Gulf of Thailand, surrounded by pristine beaches, swathed in sunshine, and a mecca for tourists, divers, and backpackers. But “Turtle Island” has its dark side. In 2014, Koh Tao was the site of the brutal double murders of two British backpackers, but theirs weren’t the only suspicious backpacker deaths.
Written by: Suzanne Buchanan
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Black Box
- The Memoir That Sparked Japan’s #MeToo Movement
- Written by: Shiori Ito, Allison Markin Powell - translator
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2015, an aspiring young journalist named Shiori Ito charged prominent reporter Noriyuki Yamaguchi with rape. After meeting up for drinks and networking, Ito remembers regaining consciousness in a hotel room while being assaulted. But when she went to the police, Ito was told that her case was a “black box”—untouchable and unprosecutable. Upon publication in 2017, Ito’s searing account foregrounded the #MeToo movement in Japan and became the center of an urgent cultural and legal shift around recognizing sexual assault and gender-based violence.
Written by: Shiori Ito, and others
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Tastes Like War
- A Memoir
- Written by: Grace M. Cho
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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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 15, her dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia. Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia.
Written by: Grace M. Cho
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All You Can Ever Know
- A Memoir
- Written by: Nicole Chung
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Nicole Chung was born premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up, she wondered if the story she'd been told was the whole truth.
Written by: Nicole Chung
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The Magical Language of Others
- A Memoir
- Written by: E. J. Koh
- Narrated by: E. J. Koh
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji’s parents return to Korea for work, leaving 15-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 her mother’s absence. Her mother writes letters over the years seeking forgiveness and love - letters Eun Ji cannot understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box.
Written by: E. J. Koh
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Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember
- The Stroke That Changed My Life
- Written by: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year's Eve 2006. By that afternoon she saw the world - quite literally - upside down. By New Year's Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after hours in the ER, days in the hospital, and multiple questions and tests, she learned that she had had a stroke. For months Lee outsourced her memories to her notebook. It is from these memories that she has constructed this frank and compelling memoir.
Written by: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
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The Curse of the Turtle
- The True Story of Thailand’s “Backpacker Murders”
- Written by: Suzanne Buchanan
- Narrated by: Eileen Buckley
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Koh Tao, a small island in the Gulf of Thailand, surrounded by pristine beaches, swathed in sunshine, and a mecca for tourists, divers, and backpackers. But “Turtle Island” has its dark side. In 2014, Koh Tao was the site of the brutal double murders of two British backpackers, but theirs weren’t the only suspicious backpacker deaths.
Written by: Suzanne Buchanan
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Black Box
- The Memoir That Sparked Japan’s #MeToo Movement
- Written by: Shiori Ito, Allison Markin Powell - translator
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2015, an aspiring young journalist named Shiori Ito charged prominent reporter Noriyuki Yamaguchi with rape. After meeting up for drinks and networking, Ito remembers regaining consciousness in a hotel room while being assaulted. But when she went to the police, Ito was told that her case was a “black box”—untouchable and unprosecutable. Upon publication in 2017, Ito’s searing account foregrounded the #MeToo movement in Japan and became the center of an urgent cultural and legal shift around recognizing sexual assault and gender-based violence.
Written by: Shiori Ito, and others
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Tastes Like War
- A Memoir
- Written by: Grace M. Cho
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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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 15, her dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia. Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia.
Written by: Grace M. Cho
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All You Can Ever Know
- A Memoir
- Written by: Nicole Chung
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Nicole Chung was born premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up, she wondered if the story she'd been told was the whole truth.
Written by: Nicole Chung
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The Magical Language of Others
- A Memoir
- Written by: E. J. Koh
- Narrated by: E. J. Koh
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji’s parents return to Korea for work, leaving 15-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 her mother’s absence. Her mother writes letters over the years seeking forgiveness and love - letters Eun Ji cannot understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box.
Written by: E. J. Koh
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Seeing Ghosts
- A Memoir
- Written by: Kat Chow
- Narrated by: Kat Chow
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Kat Chow has always been unusually fixated on death. She worried constantly about her parents dying---especially her mother. A vivacious and mischievous woman, Kat's mother made a morbid joke that would haunt her for years to come: when she died, she'd like to be stuffed and displayed in Kat's future apartment in order to always watch over her. After her mother dies unexpectedly from cancer, Kat, her sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief.
Written by: Kat Chow
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The Collected Schizophrenias
- Essays
- Written by: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Narrated by: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well.
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A Must Listen
- By Anonymous User on 2023-07-04
Written by: Esmé Weijun Wang
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The Porcelain Thief
- Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China
- Written by: Huan Hsu
- Narrated by: Huan Hsu
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather Liu's Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long trek that would splinter the family over thousands of miles. Many years and upheavals later, Hsu, raised in Salt Lake City and armed only with curiosity, moves to China to work in his uncle's semiconductor chip business.
Written by: Huan Hsu
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Stars Between the Sun and Moon
- One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
- Written by: Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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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 her family by illegally crossing the river to China to trade goods. She was caught and imprisoned twice.
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Amazing, heartbreaking
- By JilliV on 2023-10-30
Written by: Lucia Jang, and others
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The Song Poet
- A Memoir of My Father
- Written by: Kao Kalia Yang
- Narrated by: Kao Kalia Yang
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until one day a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good.
Written by: Kao Kalia Yang
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Minor Feelings
- An Asian American Reckoning
- Written by: Cathy Park Hong
- Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world.
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Major Feelings!!
- By Angela on 2021-04-20
Written by: Cathy Park Hong
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Beginner's Mind
- Words + Music | Vol. 13
- Written by: Yo-Yo Ma
- Narrated by: Yo-Yo Ma
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Original Recording
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Journey with musical virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma as the iconic performer and global phenomenon delves into the world of self-discovery and our deeply interwoven humanity. This is Beginner's Mind, Ma’s extraordinary addition to Audible’s Words + Music series, blending vivid personal memoir and breathtaking exclusive performances with indelible lessons gained over a lifetime pursuing meaning, connection, and shared purpose.
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Worthwhile
- By JB on 2022-01-07
Written by: Yo-Yo Ma
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A Living Remedy
- A Memoir
- Written by: Nicole Chung
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Nicole Chung couldn’t hightail it out of her overwhelmingly white Oregon hometown fast enough. As a scholarship student at a private university on the East Coast, no longer the only Korean she knew, she found community and a path to the life she'd long wanted. But the middle class world she begins to raise a family in–where there are big homes, college funds, nice vacations–looks very different from the middle class world she thought she grew up in, where paychecks have to stretch to the end of the week, health insurance is often lacking, and there are no safety nets.
Written by: Nicole Chung
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How to American
- An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
- Written by: Jimmy O. Yang, Mike Judge - foreword
- Narrated by: Jimmy O. Yang, Mike Judge
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Jimmy O. Yang is a stand-up comedian, film and TV actor and fan favorite as the character Jian Yang from the popular HBO series Silicon Valley. In How to American, he shares his story of growing up as a Chinese immigrant who pursued a Hollywood career against the wishes of his parents: Yang arrived in Los Angeles from Hong Kong at age 13, learned English by watching BET's Rap City for three hours a day, and worked as a strip club DJ while pursuing his comedy career.
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best book about Chinese immigrant.
- By liyoujia007 on 2018-04-11
Written by: Jimmy O. Yang, and others
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What My Bones Know
- A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
- Written by: Stephanie Foo
- Narrated by: Stephanie Foo
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.
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This book should come with a trigger warning
- By Martie on 2023-02-01
Written by: Stephanie Foo
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You're That Bitch
- & Other Cute Lessons About Being Unapologetically Yourself
- Written by: Bretman Rock
- Narrated by: Bretman Rock
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Hilarious and earnest, this collection of essays, how-tos, and more goes far beyond what we know of Bretman Rock from social media. Who is Bretman Rock Sacayanan behind the screen and how did he become the original superstar influencer and today’s beloved best friend of the internet?
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One of the best
- By Shubham and Stephanie on 2023-11-17
Written by: Bretman Rock
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Know My Name
- A Memoir
- Written by: Chanel Miller
- Narrated by: Chanel Miller
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral. Now, she reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power of words.
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It’s heavy, but brilliant.
- By Anonymous User on 2019-11-17
Written by: Chanel Miller
Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Beware of Chicken: A Xianxia Cultivation Novel
- Book 1
- Written by: Casualfarmer
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Jin Rou wanted to be a cultivator. A man powerful enough to defy the heavens. A master of martial arts. A lord of spiritual power. Unfortunately for him, he died, and now I’m stuck in his body. Arrogant Masters? Heavenly Tribulations? All that violence and bloodshed? Yeah, no thanks. I’m getting out of here. Farm life sounds pretty great. Tilling a field by hand is fun when you’ve got the strength of ten men—though maybe I shouldn’t have fed those Spirit Herbs to my pet rooster.
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Surprisingly boring
- By Roman on 2023-08-07
Written by: Casualfarmer
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Beware of Chicken 2: A Xianxia Cultivation Novel
- Book 2
- Written by: Casualfarmer
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
- Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Well, this year, after the Spring Planting season, I’m really gonna relax and put down roots. It’s the slow life for me. Sure, the talking animals and cultivators coming to live with me are a bit weird, but this year everything is gonna be basically normal. There definitely won’t be any Heavenly Tribulations, ancient formations, or cultivator issues to deal with . . .
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So much fun!
- By Chris on 2024-04-18
Written by: Casualfarmer
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The Empress of Salt and Fortune
- Singing Hills Cycle, Book 1
- Written by: Nghi Vo
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.
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A Tale of Unsung Voices
- By Anonymous User on 2021-01-25
Written by: Nghi Vo
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The Bone Shard Daughter
- Written by: Andrea Stewart
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Feodor Chin, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire's many islands. Lin is the emperor's daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden art of bone shard magic.
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Best read of 2023
- By Erin Sabourin on 2023-06-09
Written by: Andrea Stewart
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Silence
- Queen of the Dead, Book 1
- Written by: Michelle Sagara
- Narrated by: Alexandra Bailey
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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It began in the graveyard.... Ever since her boyfriend Nathan had died in a tragic accident, Emma had been coming to the graveyard at night. During the day she went through the motions at her prep school, in class, with her friends, but that’s all it was. For Emma, life had stopped with Nathan’s death. But tonight was different. Tonight Emma and her dog were not alone in the cemetery. There were two others there - Eric, who had just started at her school, and an ancient woman who looked as though she were made of rags.
Written by: Michelle Sagara
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The Tensorate Series
- 3 Novellas
- Written by: Neon Yang
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In the first book 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. In the second book in the Tensorate series, Sanao Mokoya has abandoned the life that once bound her. Broken by the loss of her young daughter, she now hunts deadly, sky-obscuring naga. And an investigation into atrocities committed at a classified research facility threatens to expose secrets that the Protectorate will do anything to keep hidden in the third volume.
Written by: Neon Yang
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Beware of Chicken: A Xianxia Cultivation Novel
- Book 1
- Written by: Casualfarmer
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Jin Rou wanted to be a cultivator. A man powerful enough to defy the heavens. A master of martial arts. A lord of spiritual power. Unfortunately for him, he died, and now I’m stuck in his body. Arrogant Masters? Heavenly Tribulations? All that violence and bloodshed? Yeah, no thanks. I’m getting out of here. Farm life sounds pretty great. Tilling a field by hand is fun when you’ve got the strength of ten men—though maybe I shouldn’t have fed those Spirit Herbs to my pet rooster.
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Surprisingly boring
- By Roman on 2023-08-07
Written by: Casualfarmer
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Beware of Chicken 2: A Xianxia Cultivation Novel
- Book 2
- Written by: Casualfarmer
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
- Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Well, this year, after the Spring Planting season, I’m really gonna relax and put down roots. It’s the slow life for me. Sure, the talking animals and cultivators coming to live with me are a bit weird, but this year everything is gonna be basically normal. There definitely won’t be any Heavenly Tribulations, ancient formations, or cultivator issues to deal with . . .
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So much fun!
- By Chris on 2024-04-18
Written by: Casualfarmer
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The Empress of Salt and Fortune
- Singing Hills Cycle, Book 1
- Written by: Nghi Vo
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.
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A Tale of Unsung Voices
- By Anonymous User on 2021-01-25
Written by: Nghi Vo
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The Bone Shard Daughter
- Written by: Andrea Stewart
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Feodor Chin, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire's many islands. Lin is the emperor's daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden art of bone shard magic.
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Best read of 2023
- By Erin Sabourin on 2023-06-09
Written by: Andrea Stewart
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Silence
- Queen of the Dead, Book 1
- Written by: Michelle Sagara
- Narrated by: Alexandra Bailey
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
It began in the graveyard.... Ever since her boyfriend Nathan had died in a tragic accident, Emma had been coming to the graveyard at night. During the day she went through the motions at her prep school, in class, with her friends, but that’s all it was. For Emma, life had stopped with Nathan’s death. But tonight was different. Tonight Emma and her dog were not alone in the cemetery. There were two others there - Eric, who had just started at her school, and an ancient woman who looked as though she were made of rags.
Written by: Michelle Sagara
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The Tensorate Series
- 3 Novellas
- Written by: Neon Yang
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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In the first book 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. In the second book in the Tensorate series, Sanao Mokoya has abandoned the life that once bound her. Broken by the loss of her young daughter, she now hunts deadly, sky-obscuring naga. And an investigation into atrocities committed at a classified research facility threatens to expose secrets that the Protectorate will do anything to keep hidden in the third volume.
Written by: Neon Yang
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A Thousand Li: The First Step: A Cultivation Novel
- A Thousand Li, Book 1
- Written by: Tao Wong
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Long Wu Ying never expected to join a Sect or become a real cultivator. His days were spent studying, planting rice on the family farm and spending time with his friends. Fate, however, has different plans for Wu Ying and when the army arrives at his village, he and many other members of the village are conscripted. Given the opportunity to join the Verdant Green Waters Sect, Wu Ying must decide between his pedestrian, common life and the exciting, blood soaked life of a cultivator. Join Wu Ying as he takes his first step on his Thousand Li journey to become an immortal cultivator.
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Great start to the series!
- By Francis Leblanc on 2024-04-25
Written by: Tao Wong
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A Thousand Li: The First Stop
- Thousand Li, Book 2
- Written by: Tao Wong
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Best-selling author Tao Wong presents the second novel in the Thousand Li series.
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Such Awful People
- By Dan Wood on 2023-11-17
Written by: Tao Wong
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Home Run
- Smuggler's Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, Book 3
- Written by: Nathan Lowell
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In this final volume of the Smuggler's Tales, Natalya and Zoya wind up on a mission of mercy back into Toe-Hold space to find out why one of Usoko Mining company's smelters has gone dark. They find an expanding cloud of debris, a crippled ship, and a fleet of mining barges that can't leave the system.
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Engaging plot and narration
- By Jessalyn on 2022-10-23
Written by: Nathan Lowell
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The Armies of Those I Love
- Written by: Ken Liu
- Narrated by: Auliʻi Cravalho
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Original Recording
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For Franny, the end of everything is just the beginning of her adventure. The world as we know it is no more. Cities are mobile. Electricity is rare. Reading is a relic of the past. After an explosive encounter with a mysterious stranger, Franny, a 14-year-old orphan girl, embarks on an epic quest to find the mysterious pilots who steer the cities, hoping that if she finds them, she will get answers about her family's past - and the world's future.
Written by: Ken Liu
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Forge of Destiny: Volume 3
- Destiny Cycle, Book 3
- Written by: Yrsillar
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Advancement has come quickly to Ling Qi. With help from strong allies and connections, her foe has been defeated. The enemies of the alliance she has helped to build have surrendered. Her talent no longer goes unnoticed in the Celestial Empire, casting new eyes on her path. Those like her are accounted for; a title of nobility is within her reach...a prize with implications that will stretch over her now long life.
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so good
- By Sandra Craddock on 2023-09-07
Written by: Yrsillar
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Reincarnated as the Last of My Kind: Volume 3
- Written by: Kiri Komori
- Narrated by: Cassandra Morris, Graham Halstead, Avi Roque
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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What it means to be the last of my kind: My nature as Spherit Folk is becoming more difficult to hide. I’m faced with a shocking truth: Only one race can produce a Holy Woman who can save the world, and I’m the last remaining descendant of that race! With the human war raging on and traffic to my family’s inn cut off during these tremulous times, I must set off to the Mythical Continent to discover my destiny!
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Such a great listen
- By Sarah on 2023-09-11
Written by: Kiri Komori
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Reset! The Imprisoned Princess Dreams of Another Chance! Volume 2
- Written by: Kei Misawa
- Narrated by: Sura Siu
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Grail Academy’s final year is about to begin when Annabel receives an invitation to attend the crown confirmation ceremony of Prince Daniel, the man she was engaged to and who’d destroyed her kingdom during her past life. Also invited is Princess Karina of Nigren, the cause of Annabel’s imprisonment and Ed’s death. But the Karina Annabel meets this time around couldn’t be more different - she’s bubbly and sweet! But just as Annabel comes to believe she and Karina can actually be friends, the other princess changes for the worse.
Written by: Kei Misawa
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The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories
- A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators
- Written by: Yu Chen - editor, Regina Kanyu Wang - editor
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure that the world can bloom. Written, edited, and translated by a female and nonbinary team, these stories have never before been published in English and represent both the richly complicated past and the vivid future of Chinese science fiction and fantasy.
Written by: Yu Chen - editor, and others
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A Magic Steeped in Poison
- The Book of Tea, Book 1
- Written by: Judy I. Lin
- Narrated by: Carolyn Kang
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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For Ning, the only thing worse than losing her mother is knowing that it's her own fault. She was the one who unknowingly brewed the poison tea that killed her - the poison tea that now threatens to also take her sister, Shu. When Ning hears of a competition to find the kingdom's greatest shennong-shi - masters of the ancient and magical art of tea-making - she travels to the imperial city to compete. The winner will receive a favor from the princess, which may be Ning's only chance to save her sister's life.
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Truly Excellent and Evocative
- By Mehdi Rifai on 2022-06-11
Written by: Judy I. Lin
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The Ones We’re Meant to Find
- Written by: Joan He
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Cee awoke on an abandoned island three years ago. With no idea of how she was marooned, she only has a rickety house, an old android, and a single memory: She has a sister, and Cee needs to find her. STEM prodigy Kasey wants escape from the science and home she once trusted. The Metropolis - Earth's last unpolluted place - is meant to be sanctuary for those committed to planetary protection, but it's populated by people willing to do anything for refuge. Now, she'll have to decide if she's ready to use science to help humanity, even though it failed the people who mattered most.
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Thank you for your hard work
- By Anonymous User on 2021-09-09
Written by: Joan He
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These Violent Delights
- These Violent Delights Series, Book 1
- Written by: Chloe Gong
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery. A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is 18-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang - a network of criminals far above the law. Their only rivals in power are the White Flowers, who have fought the Scarlets for generations. And behind every move is their heir, Roma Montagov, Juliette's first love, and first betrayal.
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Story is 🔥🔥 But the Narrator Didn’t Do It For Me
- By Dani Verayo on 2021-07-05
Written by: Chloe Gong
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The Bone Witch
- The Bone Witch, Book 1
- Written by: Rin Chupeco
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she's a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community. But Tea finds solace and guidance with an older, wiser bone witch, who takes Tea and her brother to another land for training.
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hard to follow but still interesting
- By Marie-Eve C. on 2021-10-20
Written by: Rin Chupeco
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The Girl from Everywhere
- Written by: Heidi Heilig
- Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Nix's life began in Honolulu in 1868. Since then she has traveled to mythic Scandinavia, a land from the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, modern-day New York City, and many more places both real and imagined. As long as he has a map, Nix's father can sail his ship, the Temptation, to any place, any time. But now he's uncovered the one map he's always sought - 1868 Honolulu, before Nix's mother died in childbirth. Nix's life - her entire existence - is at stake.
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Outside my comfort zone
- By Amanda on 2020-08-06
Written by: Heidi Heilig
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Adventures on Brad Books 4-6
- A LitRPG Fantasy Series (Adventures on Brad Omnibus, Book 2)
- Written by: Tao Wong
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Daniel Chai only ever wanted to be an Adventurer. Born with a Gift of Healing that steals his memories and past experiences as its fuel source, Daniel must weigh his heart's desire with his gift as he attempts to clear his first ever dungeon. Along the way, he'll meet true friends like the Catkin Asin and the Northerner Omrak as he learns what it truly takes to be a professional Adventurer in Brad.
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Great 2nd Trilogy
- By Darling Darkling on 2022-08-05
Written by: Tao Wong
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Six Crimson Cranes
- Six Crimson Cranes, Book 1
- Written by: Elizabeth Lim
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Shiori'anma, the only princess of Kiata, has a secret. Forbidden magic runs through her veins. Normally she conceals it well, but on the morning of her betrothal ceremony, Shiori loses control. At first, her mistake seems like a stroke of luck, forestalling the wedding she never wanted. But it also catches the attention of Raikama, her stepmother.
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Gives Studio Ghibli vibes
- By Dolly on 2024-02-28
Written by: Elizabeth Lim
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
- Written by: Axie Oh
- Narrated by: Rosa Escoda
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Deadly storms have ravaged Mina’s homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curses them with death and despair. In an attempt to appease him, each year a beautiful maiden is thrown into the sea to serve as the Sea God’s bride, in the hopes that one day the “true bride” will be chosen and end the suffering.
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Excellent across the board!
- By Anonymous User on 2022-04-18
Written by: Axie Oh
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Violet Made of Thorns
- Written by: Gina Chen
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Violet is a prophet and a liar, influencing the royal court with her cleverly phrased—and not always true—divinations. Honesty is for suckers, like the oh-so-not charming Prince Cyrus, who plans to strip Violet of her official role once he’s crowned at the end of the summer—unless Violet does something about it. But when the king asks her to falsely prophesy Cyrus's love story for an upcoming ball, Violet awakens a dreaded curse, one that will end in either damnation or salvation for the kingdom—all depending on the prince’s choice of future bride.
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Amazing read!
- By Amélie on 2022-12-02
Written by: Gina Chen
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An Arrow to the Moon
- Written by: Emily X.R. Pan
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Shawn K. Jain, David Shih
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He’s sick of being haunted by his family’s past mistakes. The only things keeping him from running away are his little brother, a supernatural wind, and the bewitching girl at his new high school. Luna Chang dreads the future. Graduation looms ahead, and her parents’ expectations are stifling. When she begins to break the rules, she finds her life upended by the strange new boy in her class, the arrival of unearthly fireflies, and an ominous crack spreading across the town of Fairbridge.
Written by: Emily X.R. Pan
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Song of Silver, Flame Like Night
- Song of Silver, Flame Like Night, Book 1
- Written by: Amélie Wen Zhao
- Narrated by: Annie Q
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Lan spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the Elantian colonizers. Her days are consumed by the search for knowledge about the strange mark—an untranslatable Hin character—burned into her arm by her mother in her last act before she died. Zen is a practitioner—one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom. He’s never seen anything like Lan’s mark, but he knows that if there are answers, they lie deep in the pine forests and misty mountains of the Last Kingdom, with an order of practitioning masters planning to overthrow the Elantian regime.
Written by: Amélie Wen Zhao
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Strike the Zither
- Kingdom of Three, Book 1
- Written by: Joan He
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The year is 414 of the Xin Dynasty, and chaos abounds. A puppet empress is on the throne. The realm has fractured into three factions and three warlordesses hoping to claim the continent for themselves. But Zephyr knows it's no contest. Orphaned at a young age, Zephyr took control of her fate by becoming the best strategist of the land and serving under Xin Ren, a warlordess whose loyalty to the empress is double-edged—while Ren's honor draws Zephyr to her cause, it also jeopardizes their survival in a war where one must betray or be betrayed.
Written by: Joan He
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She Is a Haunting
- Written by: Trang Thanh Tran
- Narrated by: Emi Ray
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She’s always lied to fit in, so if she’s straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough, she can get out with the college money he promised. But the house has other plans. Night after night, Jade wakes up paralyzed. The walls exude a thrumming sound while bugs leave their legs and feelers in places they don’t belong. She finds curious traces of her ancestors in the gardens they once tended.
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Enjoyable
- By Anonymous User on 2023-07-17
Written by: Trang Thanh Tran
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These Infinite Threads
- This Woven Kingdom, Book 2
- Written by: Tahereh Mafi
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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With the heat of a kiss, the walls between Alizeh, the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom, and Kamran, the crown prince of the Ardunian empire, have crumbled. And so have both of their lives. Alizeh, the heir to the Jinn throne, is destined to free her people from the half-lives they’ve been forced to live under human rule. When Kamran, the heir to the human throne, falls in love with her, he’s forced to question everything he’s been taught about Jinn.
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What a wonderful adventure!
- By Debbie S on 2023-07-14
Written by: Tahereh Mafi
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Flux
- A Novel
- Written by: Jinwoo Chong
- Narrated by: David Lee Huynh
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Four days before Christmas, eight-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, twenty-eight-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his big-media employer, and forty-eight-year-old Blue, a key witness in a criminal trial against an infamous now-defunct tech startup, struggles to reconnect with his family. So begins Jinwoo Chong's dazzling time-bending debut that blends elements of neo-noir and speculative fiction as the lives of Bo, Brandon, and Blue begin to intersect, uncovering a network of secrets and an experimental technology that threatens to upend life itself.
Written by: Jinwoo Chong
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The Bone Shard War
- Written by: Andrea Stewart
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Feodor Chin, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 19 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Lin Sukai has won her first victory as Emperor, but the future of the Phoenix Empire hangs in the balance—and Lin is dangerously short of allies. As her own governors plot treason, the Shardless Few renew hostilities. Worse still, Lin discovers her old nemesis Nisong has joined forces with the rogue Alanga, Ragan. Both seek her death. Yet hopes lies in history. Legend tells of seven mythic swords, forged in centuries past. If Lin can find them before her enemies, she may yet be able to turn the tide. If she fails, the Sukai dynasty—and the entire empire—will fall.
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My new instant buy author
- By Erin Sabourin on 2023-07-28
Written by: Andrea Stewart
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Fervor
- Written by: Alma Katsu
- Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama, Louis Ozawa
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko's husband's enlistment as an air force pilot in the Pacific months prior, Meiko and Aiko were taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internment camps in the Midwest. It didn’t matter that Aiko was American-born: They were Japanese, and therefore considered a threat by the American government.
Written by: Alma Katsu
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Counterfeit
- A Novel
- Written by: Kirstin Chen
- Narrated by: Catherine Ho
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home—she’s built the perfect life. But beneath this façade, Ava’s world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn’t been used in years, and her toddler’s tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava’s enigmatic college roommate from Mainland China, who abruptly dropped out under mysterious circumstances.
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Disappointing and Anticlimactic
- By Anonymous User on 2022-06-15
Written by: Kirstin Chen
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The Family Chao
- Written by: Lan Samantha Chang
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao Restaurant’s delicious Americanized Chinese food for 35 years, happy to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. But when brash, charismatic, and tyrannical patriarch Leo Chao is found dead - presumed murdered - his sons discover that they’ve drawn the exacting gaze of the entire town.
Written by: Lan Samantha Chang
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Now You See Us
- A Novel
- Written by: Balli Kaur Jaswal
- Narrated by: Angela Lin
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
An explosive news story shatters Singapore’s famous tranquility—and sends a chill down the spine of every domestic worker. Flordeliza Martinez, a Filipina maid, has been arrested for murdering her female employer. The three women don’t know the accused well, but she could be any of them; every worker knows stories of women who were scapegoated or even executed for crimes they didn’t commit. Shocked into action, Donita, Corazon, and Angel will use their considerable moxie and insight to piece together the mystery of what really happened.
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So so good!
- By Naomi on 2023-07-20
Written by: Balli Kaur Jaswal
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
- Written by: Jesse Q. Sutanto
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Vera Wong is a lonely little lady of a certain age who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing—a dead man in the middle of her shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive. After calling the cops like any good citizen, she swipes the flash drive. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could.
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Jesse Suntanto gives us yet another LOL-worthy hit
- By Shamim on 2023-03-21
Written by: Jesse Q. Sutanto
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IQ
- Written by: Joe Ide
- Narrated by: Sullivan Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch. They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence.
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pretty good
- By Genevieve Paquette on 2021-03-22
Written by: Joe Ide
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The Fervor
- Written by: Alma Katsu
- Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama, Louis Ozawa
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko's husband's enlistment as an air force pilot in the Pacific months prior, Meiko and Aiko were taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internment camps in the Midwest. It didn’t matter that Aiko was American-born: They were Japanese, and therefore considered a threat by the American government.
Written by: Alma Katsu
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Counterfeit
- A Novel
- Written by: Kirstin Chen
- Narrated by: Catherine Ho
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home—she’s built the perfect life. But beneath this façade, Ava’s world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn’t been used in years, and her toddler’s tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava’s enigmatic college roommate from Mainland China, who abruptly dropped out under mysterious circumstances.
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Disappointing and Anticlimactic
- By Anonymous User on 2022-06-15
Written by: Kirstin Chen
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The Family Chao
- Written by: Lan Samantha Chang
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao Restaurant’s delicious Americanized Chinese food for 35 years, happy to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. But when brash, charismatic, and tyrannical patriarch Leo Chao is found dead - presumed murdered - his sons discover that they’ve drawn the exacting gaze of the entire town.
Written by: Lan Samantha Chang
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Now You See Us
- A Novel
- Written by: Balli Kaur Jaswal
- Narrated by: Angela Lin
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
An explosive news story shatters Singapore’s famous tranquility—and sends a chill down the spine of every domestic worker. Flordeliza Martinez, a Filipina maid, has been arrested for murdering her female employer. The three women don’t know the accused well, but she could be any of them; every worker knows stories of women who were scapegoated or even executed for crimes they didn’t commit. Shocked into action, Donita, Corazon, and Angel will use their considerable moxie and insight to piece together the mystery of what really happened.
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So so good!
- By Naomi on 2023-07-20
Written by: Balli Kaur Jaswal
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
- Written by: Jesse Q. Sutanto
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Vera Wong is a lonely little lady of a certain age who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing—a dead man in the middle of her shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive. After calling the cops like any good citizen, she swipes the flash drive. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could.
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Jesse Suntanto gives us yet another LOL-worthy hit
- By Shamim on 2023-03-21
Written by: Jesse Q. Sutanto
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IQ
- Written by: Joe Ide
- Narrated by: Sullivan Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch. They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence.
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pretty good
- By Genevieve Paquette on 2021-03-22
Written by: Joe Ide
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Your Driver Is Waiting
- A Novel
- Written by: Priya Guns
- Narrated by: Priya Guns
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Damani is tired. Her father just died on the job at a fast-food joint, and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in a basement, caring for her mom and driving for an app that is constantly cutting her take. The city is roiling in protests—everybody's in solidarity with somebody—but while she keeps hearing that they’re fighting for change on behalf of people like her, she literally can’t afford to pay attention. Then she gives a ride to Jolene (five stars, obviously).
Written by: Priya Guns
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The Laughter
- A Novel
- Written by: Sonora Jha
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove, Deepti Gupta
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Dr. Oliver Harding, a tenured professor of English, is long settled into the routines of a divorced, aging academic. But his quiet, staid life is upended by his new colleague, Ruhaba Khan, a dynamic Pakistani Muslim law professor. Ruhaba unexpectedly ignites Oliver’s long-dormant passions, a secret desire that quickly tips toward obsession after her teenaged nephew, Adil Alam, arrives from France to stay with her. Oliver becomes a mentor to Adil, using his friendship with the boy to draw closer to his aunt.
Written by: Sonora Jha
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Liar, Dreamer, Thief
- Written by: Maria Dong
- Narrated by: Hannah Choi
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a stalker. Her obsession with her co-worker, Kurt, is just one of many coping mechanisms—like her constant shape and number rituals, or the way scenes from her favorite children’s book bleed into her vision whenever she feels anxious. But when Katrina finds a cryptic message from Kurt implying he’s aware of her surveillance, her tenuous hold on a normal life crumbles. Driven by compulsion, she makes a midnight visit to the Cayatoga Bridge—just in time to witness Kurt’s suicide.
Written by: Maria Dong
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Age of Vice
- A Novel
- Written by: Deepti Kapoor
- Narrated by: Vidish Athavale
- Length: 19 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It’s a rich man’s car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who can’t explain the strange series of events that led to this crime, or foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold.
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Amazing story
- By Amazon Customer on 2024-02-26
Written by: Deepti Kapoor
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City Under One Roof
- Written by: Iris Yamashita
- Narrated by: Aspen Vincent, Shannon Tyo, Anna Caputo
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore of the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska, Cara Kennedy is on the case. A detective from Anchorage, she has her own motives for investigating the possible murder in this isolated place, which can be accessed only by a tunnel. After a blizzard causes the tunnel to close indefinitely, Cara is stuck among the odd and suspicious residents of the town—all 205 of whom live in the same high-rise building and are as icy as the weather.
Written by: Iris Yamashita
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Happiness Falls (Good Morning America Book Club)
- A Novel
- Written by: Angie Kim
- Narrated by: Shannon Tyo, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Thomas Pruyn, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything—which is why she isn’t initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don’t return from a walk in a nearby park. They must have lost their phone. Or stopped for an errand somewhere. But by the time Mia’s brother runs through the front door bloody and alone, it becomes clear that the father in this tight-knit family is missing and the only witness is Eugene, who has the rare genetic condition Angelman syndrome and cannot speak.
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Thought provoking and heartwarming
- By Kirstie Ballance on 2024-01-04
Written by: Angie Kim
Romance
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Lunar Love
- Written by: Lauren Kung Jessen
- Narrated by: Raechel Wong
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Olivia Huang Christenson is excited-slash-terrified to be taking over her grandmother’s matchmaking business. But when she learns that a new dating app has made her Pó Po’s traditional Chinese zodiac approach all about “animal attraction,” her emotions skew more toward furious-slash-outraged. Especially when L.A.’s most-eligible bachelor Bennett O’Brien is behind the app that could destroy her family’s legacy....
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Perfect valentines read
- By J Hunt on 2023-02-13
Written by: Lauren Kung Jessen
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Leveled Up Love
- A Gamelit Romantic Comedy
- Written by: Tao Wong, A.G. Marshall
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Life was good for Zack Moore until his trustee managed to con him into signing up for DaEvo. Now, the buggy app has taken over his life, forcing him to leave his condo, interact with people in the real world, and eat healthy to gain any gaming time. Problem is, Zack has the biggest tournament of his life coming up. The Star Fury tournament is Zack and his team’s chance of going pro and making a name for themselves.
Written by: Tao Wong, and others
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The Inn on Sweetbriar Lane
- Includes a Bonus Novella
- Written by: Jeannie Chin
- Narrated by: Katy Tang, Zachary Webber
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
June Wu always has it all together - only now, she’s in over her head. Her family’s inn desperately needs guests, her mother’s medical debts are piling up, and the surly, if sexy, stranger next door is driving away the customers she has left! When he asks for June’s help, though, she can’t say no. After all, his new bar could be just what the upcoming Pumpkin Festival needs to bring in more tourists. But with the fierce attraction between them, will working together be playing with fire?
Written by: Jeannie Chin
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A Pho Love Story
- Written by: Loan Le
- Narrated by: Ryan Do, Vyvy Nguyen
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
If Bao Nguyen had to describe himself, he’d say he was a rock. Steady and strong, but not particularly interesting. His grades are average, his social status unremarkable. He works at his parents’ pho restaurant, and even there, he is his parents’ fifth favorite employee. Not ideal. If Linh Mai had to describe herself, she’d say she was a firecracker. The only problem? Her parents rely on her in ways they’re not willing to admit, including working practically full-time at her family’s pho restaurant.
Written by: Loan Le
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Emergency Contact
- Written by: Mary H. K. Choi
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski, Jacques Roy
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn't actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it's 79 miles and a zillion light-years away from everything she can't wait to leave behind.
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Amazing
- By Jamie @ Books and Ladders on 2022-09-20
Written by: Mary H. K. Choi
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This Place Is Still Beautiful
- Written by: XiXi Tian
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Cindy Kay
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The Flanagan sisters are as different as they come. Seventeen-year-old Annalie is bubbly, sweet, and self-conscious, whereas nineteen-year-old Margaret is sharp and assertive. Margaret looks just like their mother, while Annalie passes for white and looks like the father who abandoned them years ago, leaving their Chinese immigrant mama to raise the girls alone in their small, predominantly white Midwestern town.
Written by: XiXi Tian
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Lunar Love
- Written by: Lauren Kung Jessen
- Narrated by: Raechel Wong
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Olivia Huang Christenson is excited-slash-terrified to be taking over her grandmother’s matchmaking business. But when she learns that a new dating app has made her Pó Po’s traditional Chinese zodiac approach all about “animal attraction,” her emotions skew more toward furious-slash-outraged. Especially when L.A.’s most-eligible bachelor Bennett O’Brien is behind the app that could destroy her family’s legacy....
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Perfect valentines read
- By J Hunt on 2023-02-13
Written by: Lauren Kung Jessen
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Leveled Up Love
- A Gamelit Romantic Comedy
- Written by: Tao Wong, A.G. Marshall
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Life was good for Zack Moore until his trustee managed to con him into signing up for DaEvo. Now, the buggy app has taken over his life, forcing him to leave his condo, interact with people in the real world, and eat healthy to gain any gaming time. Problem is, Zack has the biggest tournament of his life coming up. The Star Fury tournament is Zack and his team’s chance of going pro and making a name for themselves.
Written by: Tao Wong, and others
-
The Inn on Sweetbriar Lane
- Includes a Bonus Novella
- Written by: Jeannie Chin
- Narrated by: Katy Tang, Zachary Webber
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
June Wu always has it all together - only now, she’s in over her head. Her family’s inn desperately needs guests, her mother’s medical debts are piling up, and the surly, if sexy, stranger next door is driving away the customers she has left! When he asks for June’s help, though, she can’t say no. After all, his new bar could be just what the upcoming Pumpkin Festival needs to bring in more tourists. But with the fierce attraction between them, will working together be playing with fire?
Written by: Jeannie Chin
-
A Pho Love Story
- Written by: Loan Le
- Narrated by: Ryan Do, Vyvy Nguyen
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
If Bao Nguyen had to describe himself, he’d say he was a rock. Steady and strong, but not particularly interesting. His grades are average, his social status unremarkable. He works at his parents’ pho restaurant, and even there, he is his parents’ fifth favorite employee. Not ideal. If Linh Mai had to describe herself, she’d say she was a firecracker. The only problem? Her parents rely on her in ways they’re not willing to admit, including working practically full-time at her family’s pho restaurant.
Written by: Loan Le
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Emergency Contact
- Written by: Mary H. K. Choi
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski, Jacques Roy
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn't actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it's 79 miles and a zillion light-years away from everything she can't wait to leave behind.
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Amazing
- By Jamie @ Books and Ladders on 2022-09-20
Written by: Mary H. K. Choi
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This Place Is Still Beautiful
- Written by: XiXi Tian
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Cindy Kay
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
The Flanagan sisters are as different as they come. Seventeen-year-old Annalie is bubbly, sweet, and self-conscious, whereas nineteen-year-old Margaret is sharp and assertive. Margaret looks just like their mother, while Annalie passes for white and looks like the father who abandoned them years ago, leaving their Chinese immigrant mama to raise the girls alone in their small, predominantly white Midwestern town.
Written by: XiXi Tian
Fiction
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Fiona and Jane
- Written by: Jean Chen Ho
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Best friends since second grade, Fiona Lin and Jane Shen explore the lonely freeways and seedy bars of Los Angeles together through their teenage years, surviving unfulfilling romantic encounters, and carrying with them the scars of their families' tumultuous pasts. Fiona was always destined to leave, her effortless beauty burnished by fierce ambition—qualities that Jane admired and feared in equal measure. When Fiona moves to New York and cares for a sick friend through a breakup with an opportunistic boyfriend, Jane remains in California.
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Friendship, Identity, Acceptance, Forgiveness
- By Mae L. on 2022-01-18
Written by: Jean Chen Ho
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Earthlings
- A Novel
- Written by: Sayaka Murata
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth.
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NOT what you expect
- By Anonymous User on 2022-07-21
Written by: Sayaka Murata
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The Night Tiger
- A Novel
- Written by: Yangsze Choo
- Narrated by: Yangsze Choo
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dance hall girl to help pay off her mother’s Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for. Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master’s dying wish: that Ren find the man’s finger, lost years ago in an accident, and bury it with his body. Ren has 49 days to do so, or his master’s soul will wander the earth forever.
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A Very Satisfying Story and Beautiful Narration
- By Karen W. Lam on 2019-06-18
Written by: Yangsze Choo
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Four Treasures of the Sky
- A Novel
- Written by: Jenny Tinghui Zhang
- Narrated by: Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Katharine Chin
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and forced across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains, we follow Daiyu on a desperate quest to outrun the tragedy that chases her.
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A sad part of history beautifully written
- By Dawn on 2024-01-11
Written by: Jenny Tinghui Zhang
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The Shape of Family
- A Novel
- Written by: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio, Vikas Adam
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The Olanders embody a modern family in a globalized world. Jaya, the cultured daughter of an Indian diplomat and Keith, an ambitious banker from middle-class Philadelphia, meet in a London pub in 1988 and make a life together in suburban California. Their strong marriage is built on shared beliefs and love for their two children: headstrong teenager Karina and young son Prem, the light of their home.
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Missed Opportunity!
- By ARH on 2019-12-18
Written by: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
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Offerings
- Written by: Michael ByungJu Kim
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
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 father so loved - the stakes are personal. Raised in the US and Harvard Business School - educated, Dae Joon is a jangnam, a firstborn son, bound by tradition to follow in the footsteps of his forebears.
Written by: Michael ByungJu Kim
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Fiona and Jane
- Written by: Jean Chen Ho
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Best friends since second grade, Fiona Lin and Jane Shen explore the lonely freeways and seedy bars of Los Angeles together through their teenage years, surviving unfulfilling romantic encounters, and carrying with them the scars of their families' tumultuous pasts. Fiona was always destined to leave, her effortless beauty burnished by fierce ambition—qualities that Jane admired and feared in equal measure. When Fiona moves to New York and cares for a sick friend through a breakup with an opportunistic boyfriend, Jane remains in California.
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Friendship, Identity, Acceptance, Forgiveness
- By Mae L. on 2022-01-18
Written by: Jean Chen Ho
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Earthlings
- A Novel
- Written by: Sayaka Murata
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth.
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NOT what you expect
- By Anonymous User on 2022-07-21
Written by: Sayaka Murata
-
The Night Tiger
- A Novel
- Written by: Yangsze Choo
- Narrated by: Yangsze Choo
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dance hall girl to help pay off her mother’s Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for. Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master’s dying wish: that Ren find the man’s finger, lost years ago in an accident, and bury it with his body. Ren has 49 days to do so, or his master’s soul will wander the earth forever.
-
-
A Very Satisfying Story and Beautiful Narration
- By Karen W. Lam on 2019-06-18
Written by: Yangsze Choo
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Four Treasures of the Sky
- A Novel
- Written by: Jenny Tinghui Zhang
- Narrated by: Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Katharine Chin
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and forced across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains, we follow Daiyu on a desperate quest to outrun the tragedy that chases her.
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A sad part of history beautifully written
- By Dawn on 2024-01-11
Written by: Jenny Tinghui Zhang
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The Shape of Family
- A Novel
- Written by: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio, Vikas Adam
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Olanders embody a modern family in a globalized world. Jaya, the cultured daughter of an Indian diplomat and Keith, an ambitious banker from middle-class Philadelphia, meet in a London pub in 1988 and make a life together in suburban California. Their strong marriage is built on shared beliefs and love for their two children: headstrong teenager Karina and young son Prem, the light of their home.
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Missed Opportunity!
- By ARH on 2019-12-18
Written by: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
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Offerings
- Written by: Michael ByungJu Kim
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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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 father so loved - the stakes are personal. Raised in the US and Harvard Business School - educated, Dae Joon is a jangnam, a firstborn son, bound by tradition to follow in the footsteps of his forebears.
Written by: Michael ByungJu Kim
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The Mermaid from Jeju
- Written by: Sumi Hahn
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay, Raymond J. Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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In the aftermath of World War II, Goh Junja is a girl just coming into her own. She is the latest successful deep-sea diver in her family. She urges her mother to allow her to make their annual trip to Mt. Halla, where they trade sea delicacies for pork. A sea-village girl, Junja has never been to the mountains, where it smells like mushrooms and earth, and it is there she falls in love with mountain-boy Yang Suwol. But when Junja returns one day later, it is just in time to see her mother take her last breath, beaten by the waves during a dive she was taking in Junja's place.
Written by: Sumi Hahn
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White Ivy
- A Novel
- Written by: Susie Yang
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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Raised outside of Boston, Ivy’s immigrant grandmother relies on Ivy’s mild appearance for cover as she teaches her granddaughter how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops. Thieving allows Ivy to accumulate the trappings of a suburban teen - and, most importantly, to attract the attention of Gideon Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy political family. But when Ivy’s mother discovers her trespasses, punishment is swift and Ivy is sent to China, and her dream instantly evaporates.
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Not worth the read
- By sus on 2021-01-21
Written by: Susie Yang
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Swimming Back to Trout River
- Written by: Linda Rui Feng
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village, 10-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: Her father promises to return home and collect her by her 12th birthday. But Junie’s growing determination to stay put in the idyllic countryside with her beloved grandparents threatens to derail her family’s shared future.
Written by: Linda Rui Feng
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The Three-Body Problem
- Written by: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.
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Very interesting read
- By Chris Conrod on 2020-09-14
Written by: Cixin Liu
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A Tale for the Time Being
- Written by: Ruth Ozeki
- Narrated by: Ruth Ozeki
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
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In Tokyo, 16-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace—and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox - possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami.
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all-timer
- By Ailsa on 2018-12-03
Written by: Ruth Ozeki
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
- Written by: Ken Liu
- Narrated by: Corey Brill, Joy Osmanski
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
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With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. This mesmerizing collection features all of Ken's award-winning and award-finalist stories.
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fantastic read
- By Anonymous User on 2023-05-11
Written by: Ken Liu
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A Little Life
- A Novel
- Written by: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 32 hrs and 51 mins
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A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma.
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Beautifully written
- By kaitlyn on 2023-03-09
Written by: Hanya Yanagihara
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Pachinko
- Written by: Min Jin Lee
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant - and that her lover is married - she refuses to be bought.
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Great story, mismatched narration
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-08-02
Written by: Min Jin Lee
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Dance Dance Dance
- A Novel
- Written by: Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum - translator
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls, plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic, and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.
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Surprisingly One Dimensional
- By M. Raike on 2022-01-23
Written by: Haruki Murakami, and others
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The Conjoined
- A Novel
- Written by: Jen Sookfong Lee
- Narrated by: Sabryn Rock
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother's belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement she makes a shocking discovery - two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother's chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with the family in 1988: Casey and Jamie Cheng - troubled, beautiful, and wild teenage sisters from Vancouver's Chinatown.
Written by: Jen Sookfong Lee
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Crazy Rich Asians
- Written by: Kevin Kwan
- Narrated by: Lynn Chen
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she hopes to marry. But Nick has failed to give his girlfriend a few key details. One, that his childhood home looks like a palace; two, that he grew up riding in more private planes than cars; and three, that he just happens to be the country’s most eligible bachelor.
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Meh
- By Am on 2017-12-12
Written by: Kevin Kwan
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The End of East
- Written by: Jen Sookfong Lee
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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From Knopf Canada's New Face of Fiction program - launching grounds for Yann Martel's Life of Pi and Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees - comes this powerfully evocative novel. At age 18, Seid Quan is the first in the Chan family to emigrate from China to Vancover in 1913. Paving the way for a wife and son, he is profoundly lonely, even as he joins the Chinatown community. Weaving in and out of the past and the present, The End of East pieces together the spellbinding tale of Seid Quan's family.
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Review
- By Anonymous User on 2018-03-18
Written by: Jen Sookfong Lee
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Secret Daughter
- Written by: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Debut novelist Shilpi Somaya Gowda pens this compelling tale about two families, worlds apart, linked by one Indian child. After giving birth to a girl for a second time, impoverished Kavita must give her up to an orphanage. The baby, named Asha, is adopted by an American doctor and raised in California. But once grown, Asha decides to return to India.
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Multi-layered and rich
- By D. Uchman on 2018-01-03
Written by: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
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Little Fires Everywhere
- Written by: Celeste Ng
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads to the colors of the houses to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter, Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons.
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Just drags on and on
- By Morgan Vincent on 2018-03-03
Written by: Celeste Ng
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Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains
- Written by: Yasuko Thanh
- Narrated by: Tony Phan
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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How can you stand up to tyranny when your own identity is in turmoil? Vietnam is a haunted country, and Dr. Nguyen Georges-Minh is a haunted man. In 1908, the French rule Saigon, but uneasily; dissent whispers through the corridors of the city. Each day, more Vietnamese rebels are paraded through the streets towards the gleaming blade of the guillotine, now a permanent fixture in the main square and a gruesome warning to those who would attempt to challenge colonial rule.
Written by: Yasuko Thanh
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Convenience Store Woman
- Written by: Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori - translator
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Tokyo resident Keiko Furukara has never fit in - neither in her family, nor in school - but when at the age of 18 she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of national convenience store chain Smile Mart, she realizes instantly that she has found her purpose in life. Delighted to be able to exist in a place where the rules of social interaction are crystal clear (many are laid out line-by-line in the store's manual), Keiko does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and mode of speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a "normal" person excellently, more or less.
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Get this audiobook
- By Jen on 2022-08-26
Written by: Sayaka Murata, and others
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No-No Boy
- Written by: John Okada, Ruth Ozeki
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1956, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys". Yamada answered "no" twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. Unwilling to pledge himself to the country that interned him and his family, Ichiro earns two years in prison and the hostility of his family and community when he returns home to Seattle.
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Incredible view into postwar Japanese American experience
- By Catherine on 2023-09-03
Written by: John Okada, and others
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The Incendiaries
- A Novel
- Written by: R. O. Kwon
- Narrated by: Keong Sim
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is drawn into a secretive cult founded by a charismatic former student with an enigmatic past.
Written by: R. O. Kwon
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Trust Exercise
- A Novel
- Written by: Susan Choi
- Narrated by: Adina Verson, Jennifer Lim, Suehyla El-Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Pulitzer finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending audiobook about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacher.
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Very disappointing
- By Peter G on 2019-04-16
Written by: Susan Choi
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Exhalation
- Stories
- Written by: Ted Chiang
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world. They are Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic, revelatory. Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
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Delightful collection of thought-provoking stories
- By Hmmmm on 2020-02-03
Written by: Ted Chiang
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The Foreign Student
- A Novel
- Written by: Susan Choi
- Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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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 not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is haunted by some dark episode in her past. Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together....
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We are destined to repeat ourselves
- By Roberta W on 2021-09-05
Written by: Susan Choi
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Sharks in the Time of Saviors
- Written by: Kawai Strong Washburn
- Narrated by: Jolene Kim, Kaleo Griffith, G. K. Bowes, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends. Nainoa’s family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from ancient Hawaiian gods - a belief that appears validated after he exhibits puzzling new abilities.
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Beautiful story
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-09-19
Written by: Kawai Strong Washburn
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If I Had Your Face
- A Novel
- Written by: Frances Cha
- Narrated by: Frances Cha, Sue Jean Kim, Ruthie Ann Miles, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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If I Had Your Face is a riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, South Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-pop mania. Together, their stories tell a gripping tale at once unfamiliar and unmistakably universal, in which their tentative friendships may turn out to be the thing that ultimately saves them.
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Beautiful Debut Novel About Young Korean Women
- By Ursa on 2020-06-15
Written by: Frances Cha
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How Much of These Hills Is Gold
- A Novel
- Written by: C Pam Zhang
- Narrated by: Catherine Ho, Joel de la Fuente
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their Western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and glimpses of a different kind of future.
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Unforgettable
- By Melanie Persaud on 2021-01-23
Written by: C Pam Zhang
Historical Fiction, Literature & Short Stories
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Em
- Written by: Kim Thúy
- Narrated by: Eve Landry, Kim Thúy
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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Em, c’est le fifil qui relie les ouvriers des plantations de caoutchouc et les femmes des salons de manucure aux orphelins de l’opération Babylift, qui a évacué des enfants de Saigon en 1975. Em, c’est celle qui aime.
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un chef d'oeuvre
- By Marie-Claire Raymond on 2021-02-20
Written by: Kim Thúy
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Chef
- Written by: Jaspreet Singh
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Kirpal Singh is riding the slow train to Kashmir. With India passing by his window, he reflects on his destination, which is also his past: a military camp to which he has not returned for 14 years. Kirpal, called Kip, is shy and not yet 20 when he arrives for the first time at General Kumar’s camp, nestled in the shadow of the Siachen Glacier. At 20,000 feet, the glacier makes a forbidding battlefield; its crevasses claimed the body of Kip’s father. Kip becomes an apprentice under the camp’s chef, Kishen, a fiery mentor....
Written by: Jaspreet Singh
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The Mountains Sing
- Written by: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
- Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North.
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A tremendous tale of true generational hardship
- By Ryan on 2021-04-10
Written by: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
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Fifty Words for Rain
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- Written by: Asha Lemmie
- Narrated by: Robin Eller, Siho Ellsmore, Katharine Lee McEwan, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life, despite her natural intellect and curiosity.
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Bad narration. Quite irritating voices. Depressing story.
- By mkane on 2022-04-02
Written by: Asha Lemmie
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The Gangster We Are All Looking For
- Written by: lê thi diem thúy
- Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1978 six refugees—a girl, her father, and four “uncles”—are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child’s imagination, the world of itchy dresses and run-down apartments is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects and waits for her mother to join her. But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited.
Written by: lê thi diem thúy
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Central Places
- A Novel
- Written by: Delia Cai
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Audrey Zhou left Hickory Grove, the tiny central Illinois town where she grew up, as soon as high school ended, and she never looked back. She moved to New York City and became the person she always wanted to be, complete with a high-paying, high-pressure job and a seemingly faultless fiancé. But if she and Manhattan-bred Ben are to build a life together, in the dream home his parents will surely pay for, Audrey can no longer hide him, or the person she’s become, from those she left behind.
Written by: Delia Cai
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Em
- Written by: Kim Thúy
- Narrated by: Eve Landry, Kim Thúy
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Em, c’est le fifil qui relie les ouvriers des plantations de caoutchouc et les femmes des salons de manucure aux orphelins de l’opération Babylift, qui a évacué des enfants de Saigon en 1975. Em, c’est celle qui aime.
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un chef d'oeuvre
- By Marie-Claire Raymond on 2021-02-20
Written by: Kim Thúy
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Chef
- Written by: Jaspreet Singh
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Kirpal Singh is riding the slow train to Kashmir. With India passing by his window, he reflects on his destination, which is also his past: a military camp to which he has not returned for 14 years. Kirpal, called Kip, is shy and not yet 20 when he arrives for the first time at General Kumar’s camp, nestled in the shadow of the Siachen Glacier. At 20,000 feet, the glacier makes a forbidding battlefield; its crevasses claimed the body of Kip’s father. Kip becomes an apprentice under the camp’s chef, Kishen, a fiery mentor....
Written by: Jaspreet Singh
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The Mountains Sing
- Written by: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
- Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North.
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A tremendous tale of true generational hardship
- By Ryan on 2021-04-10
Written by: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
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Fifty Words for Rain
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- Written by: Asha Lemmie
- Narrated by: Robin Eller, Siho Ellsmore, Katharine Lee McEwan, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life, despite her natural intellect and curiosity.
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Bad narration. Quite irritating voices. Depressing story.
- By mkane on 2022-04-02
Written by: Asha Lemmie
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The Gangster We Are All Looking For
- Written by: lê thi diem thúy
- Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1978 six refugees—a girl, her father, and four “uncles”—are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child’s imagination, the world of itchy dresses and run-down apartments is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects and waits for her mother to join her. But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited.
Written by: lê thi diem thúy
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Central Places
- A Novel
- Written by: Delia Cai
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Audrey Zhou left Hickory Grove, the tiny central Illinois town where she grew up, as soon as high school ended, and she never looked back. She moved to New York City and became the person she always wanted to be, complete with a high-paying, high-pressure job and a seemingly faultless fiancé. But if she and Manhattan-bred Ben are to build a life together, in the dream home his parents will surely pay for, Audrey can no longer hide him, or the person she’s become, from those she left behind.
Written by: Delia Cai
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Dust Child
- Written by: Que Mai Phan Nguyen
- Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
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From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a propulsive and moving tale of wartime love, family, and loss, as an American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Việt Nam War that will reverberate throughout each other’s lives.
Written by: Que Mai Phan Nguyen
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The Book of Salt
- Written by: Monique Truong
- Narrated by: J. Paul Boehmer
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In Paris, 1934, Bính has accompanied his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to the train station for their departure to America. His own destination is unclear: will he go with "the Steins", stay in France, or return to his native Vietnam? Bính has fled his homeland in disgrace, leaving behind his malevolent charlatan of a father and his self-sacrificing mother. For five years, he has been the live-in cook at the famous apartment at 27 rue de Fleurus.
Written by: Monique Truong
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- A Novel
- Written by: Ocean Vuong
- Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late 20s, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born - a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam - and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation.
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Enigmatic and perplexing, in a good way!
- By Anonymous User on 2019-06-21
Written by: Ocean Vuong
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Love in the Big City
- A Novel
- Written by: Sang Young Park, Anton Hur - translator
- Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men.
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Gorgeous interiority novel
- By Fraser Simons on 2022-06-30
Written by: Sang Young Park, and others
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Rouge Street
- Three Novellas
- Written by: Shuang Xuetao, Jeremy Tiang
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Already compared to Hemingway and Murakami, Shuang Xuetao is one of the most highly celebrated young Chinese writers—his English-language debut collects three dazzling novellas of Northeast China, mixing realism, mysticism, and noir. An enterprising inventor dreams of escaping his drab surroundings in a flying machine. A criminal, trapped beneath a frozen lake, transforms into a giant fish. A strange girl pledges to ignite a field of sorghum stalks.
Written by: Shuang Xuetao, and others
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Sansei and Sensibility
- Stories
- Written by: Karen Tei Yamashita
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In these buoyant and inventive stories, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance - familial, cultural, emotional, artistic - really means. In a California of the '60s and '70s, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives' freezers, tape-record high school locker-room chatter, or collect a community's gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants.
Written by: Karen Tei Yamashita
Kids & Teen
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Barakah Beats
- Written by: Maleeha Siddiqui
- Narrated by: Salena Qureshi
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Twelve-year-old Nimra Sharif has spent her whole life in Islamic school, but now it's time to go to "real school". Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has Jenna, her best friend who already goes to the public school, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder around the other kids. Desperate to fit in and get back in Jenna's good graces, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to join the school's popular eighth-grade boy band.
Written by: Maleeha Siddiqui
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The Not-So-Uniform Life of Holly-Mei
- Written by: Christina Matula
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Packed with humor and heart, this debut middle grade series follows a girl finding her place in a brand-new world of private school and frenemies when her family moves to Hong Kong.
Written by: Christina Matula
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Lumberjanes: The Good Egg
- Written by: Mariko Tamaki
- Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Audiobook three shines the spotlight on Ripley, the smallest, youngest, most animal-loving member of the cabin. When Ripley comes across an abandoned egg, she’s determined to take care of it until the parent comes back. Unfortunately, her plan is quickly foiled by egg poachers, who steal the egg for their own collection.
Written by: Mariko Tamaki
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The Agency 1: A Spy in the House
- Written by: Y. S. Lee
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In Victorian England, orphan Mary Quinn lives on the edge. Sentenced as a thief at the age of 12, she’s rescued from the gallows by a woman posing as a prison warden. In her new home, Miss Scrimshaw’s Academy for Girls, Mary acquires a singular education, fine manners, and a surprising opportunity. The school is a cover for the Agency — an elite, top secret corps of female investigators with a reputation for results — and at 17, Mary’s about to join their ranks.
Written by: Y. S. Lee
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The Agency 2: The Body at the Tower
- Written by: Y. S. Lee
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Now nearly a full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit operating out of Miss Scrimshaw’s Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn is back for another action-packed adventure. Disguised as a poor apprentice builder and a boy, she must brave the grimy underbelly of Victorian London - as well as childhood memories of fear, hunger, and constant want - to unmask the identity of a murderer.
Written by: Y. S. Lee
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Unicorn Power!
- Lumberjanes, Book 1
- Written by: Mariko Tamaki
- Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Welcome to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types. The five scouts of Roanoke cabin - Jo, April, Molly, Mal, and Ripley - love their summers at camp. They get to hang out with their best friends, earn Lumberjane scout badges, annoy their no-nonsense counselor Jen...and go on supernatural adventures. That last one? A pretty normal occurrence at Miss Qiunzella's, where the woods contain endless mysteries.
Written by: Mariko Tamaki
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Barakah Beats
- Written by: Maleeha Siddiqui
- Narrated by: Salena Qureshi
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Twelve-year-old Nimra Sharif has spent her whole life in Islamic school, but now it's time to go to "real school". Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has Jenna, her best friend who already goes to the public school, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder around the other kids. Desperate to fit in and get back in Jenna's good graces, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to join the school's popular eighth-grade boy band.
Written by: Maleeha Siddiqui
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The Not-So-Uniform Life of Holly-Mei
- Written by: Christina Matula
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Packed with humor and heart, this debut middle grade series follows a girl finding her place in a brand-new world of private school and frenemies when her family moves to Hong Kong.
Written by: Christina Matula
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Lumberjanes: The Good Egg
- Written by: Mariko Tamaki
- Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Audiobook three shines the spotlight on Ripley, the smallest, youngest, most animal-loving member of the cabin. When Ripley comes across an abandoned egg, she’s determined to take care of it until the parent comes back. Unfortunately, her plan is quickly foiled by egg poachers, who steal the egg for their own collection.
Written by: Mariko Tamaki
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The Agency 1: A Spy in the House
- Written by: Y. S. Lee
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In Victorian England, orphan Mary Quinn lives on the edge. Sentenced as a thief at the age of 12, she’s rescued from the gallows by a woman posing as a prison warden. In her new home, Miss Scrimshaw’s Academy for Girls, Mary acquires a singular education, fine manners, and a surprising opportunity. The school is a cover for the Agency — an elite, top secret corps of female investigators with a reputation for results — and at 17, Mary’s about to join their ranks.
Written by: Y. S. Lee
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The Agency 2: The Body at the Tower
- Written by: Y. S. Lee
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Story
Now nearly a full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit operating out of Miss Scrimshaw’s Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn is back for another action-packed adventure. Disguised as a poor apprentice builder and a boy, she must brave the grimy underbelly of Victorian London - as well as childhood memories of fear, hunger, and constant want - to unmask the identity of a murderer.
Written by: Y. S. Lee
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Unicorn Power!
- Lumberjanes, Book 1
- Written by: Mariko Tamaki
- Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Welcome to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types. The five scouts of Roanoke cabin - Jo, April, Molly, Mal, and Ripley - love their summers at camp. They get to hang out with their best friends, earn Lumberjane scout badges, annoy their no-nonsense counselor Jen...and go on supernatural adventures. That last one? A pretty normal occurrence at Miss Qiunzella's, where the woods contain endless mysteries.
Written by: Mariko Tamaki
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The Moon Is Up
- Lumberjanes, Book 2
- Written by: Mariko Tamaki
- Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Welcome to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types. The five scouts of Roanoke cabin - Jo, April, Molly, Mal, and Ripley - love their summers at camp. They get to hang out with their best friends, earn Lumberjane scout badges, annoy their no-nonsense counselor Jen...and go on supernatural adventures. That last one? A pretty normal occurrence at Miss Qiunzella's, where the woods contain endless mysteries. As the camp gears up for the big Galaxy Wars competition, Jo and the gang get some help from an unexpected visitor - a Moon Pirate!
Written by: Mariko Tamaki
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Adventures on Brad, Books 1 - 3
- A LitRPG Boxset
- Written by: Tao Wong
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Daniel Chai only ever wanted to be an Adventurer. Born with a gift of healing that steals his memories and past experiences as its fuel source, Daniel must weigh his heart's desire with his gift as he attempts to clear his first ever dungeon. This bundle includes audiobooks one to three in the series.
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Great story
- By Darling Darkling on 2022-08-01
Written by: Tao Wong
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
- Written by: Grace Lin
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer.
Written by: Grace Lin
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Room to Dream
- Front Desk, Book 3
- Written by: Kelly Yang
- Narrated by: Sunny Lu
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family - to China! A total dream come true! Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life.
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Good story
- By MomDoc on 2021-12-12
Written by: Kelly Yang
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Peter Lee's Notes from the Field
- Written by: Angela Ahn, Julie Kwon - illustrator
- Narrated by: Tony Kim
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Eleven year-old Peter Lee has one goal in life: to become a paleontologist. Okay, maybe two: to get his genius kid sister, L.B., to leave him alone. But his summer falls apart when his real-life dinosaur expedition turns out to be a bust, and he watches his dreams go up in a cloud of asthma-inducing dust.
Written by: Angela Ahn, and others
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The Secret Battle of Evan Pao
- Written by: Wendy Wan-Long Shang
- Narrated by: Dylan J. Locke
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A fresh start. That's all Evan Pao wants as he, along with his mother and sister, flee from California to Haddington, Virginia, hoping to keep his father's notoriety a secret. But Haddington is a Southern town steeped in tradition, and moving to a town immersed in the past has its own price. Although Evan quickly makes friends, one boy, Brady Griggs, seems determined to make sure that as a Chinese American, Evan feels that he does not belong.
Written by: Wendy Wan-Long Shang
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The Tryout
- Written by: Christina Soontornvat
- Narrated by: Grace Li, Vaneh Assadourian, Marcha Kia, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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As one of the only Asian American kids in her small Texas town, Christina just wants to fit in. Luckily, her best friend, Megan, who is Iranian American, can totally relate. The two girls have always been inseparable and relish creating elaborate fantasy worlds together. But middle school is a reality-check, and suddenly popularity is way more important than playing pretend. When cheerleading tryouts are announced, Christina and Megan literally jump at the chance to join the squad. But does fitting in actually equal belonging?
Written by: Christina Soontornvat
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Key Player
- Written by: Kelly Yang
- Narrated by: Sunny Lu
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The Women’s World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy—especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too—or fall short of the grade she needs to earn a spot at journalism camp. But as always, Mia Tang is ready with a plan: she’ll track down the two women’s teams, interview them, and write an A-grade article for P.E. instead!
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Very good book
- By Anonymous User on 2023-11-26
Written by: Kelly Yang
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Freedom Swimmer
- Written by: Wai Chim
- Narrated by: Telly Leung
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward" and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party reeducation program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals. They're not used to hard labor and village life. But despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li.
Written by: Wai Chim
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The Downstairs Girl
- Written by: Stacey Lee
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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By day, 17-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss Sweetie". When her column becomes wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society's ills, but she's not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender.
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Not that interesting
- By Esme on 2021-09-08
Written by: Stacey Lee
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Shine
- Written by: Jessica Jung
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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What would you give for a chance to live your dreams? For seventeen-year-old Korean American Rachel Kim, the answer is almost everything. Six years ago, she was recruited by DB Entertainment—one of Seoul’s largest K-pop labels, known for churning out some of the world’s most popular stars. The rules are simple: Train 24/7. Be perfect. Don’t date. Easy, right? Not so much. As the dark scandals of an industry bent on controlling and commodifying beautiful girls begin to bubble up, Rachel wonders if she’s strong enough to be a winner, or if she’ll end up crushed.
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K-drama worthy content
- By Shara on 2022-01-02
Written by: Jessica Jung
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The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling
- Written by: Wai Chim
- Narrated by: Christina Ho
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Anna Chiu has her hands full. When she's not looking after her brother and sister or helping out at her father's restaurant, she's taking care of her mother, whose debilitating mental illness keeps her in bed most days. Her father's new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome distraction and even though she knows that things aren't right at home, she's starting to feel like she could be a normal teen. But when her mother finally gets out of bed, things go from bad to worse.
Written by: Wai Chim
'Where do any of us come from in this cold country?
Oh Canada, whether you admitted it or not, we come from you we come from you. From the same soil, the slugs and slime and bogs and twigs and roots.'
Oh Canada, whether you admitted it or not, we come from you we come from you. From the same soil, the slugs and slime and bogs and twigs and roots.'
—Joy Kogawa, author of Obasan.
Personal Development
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Saving Time
- Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
- Written by: Jenny Odell
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from the “attention economy” to spend time in quiet contemplation. But what if you don’t have time to spend? In order to answer this seemingly simple question, Odell took a deep dive into the fundamental structure of our society and found that the clock we live by was built for profit, not people.
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Narration is solid enough, but this book feels cobbled together
- By Anonymous User on 2023-05-27
Written by: Jenny Odell
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Good Arguments
- How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard
- Written by: Bo Seo
- Narrated by: Bo Seo
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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When Bo Seo was 8 years old, he and his family migrated from Korea to Australia. At the time, he did not speak English, and, unsurprisingly, struggled at school. But, then, in fifth grade, something happened to change his life: he discovered competitive debate. Immediately, he was hooked. It turned out, perhaps counterintuitively, that debating was the perfect activity for someone shy and unsure of himself. It became a way for Bo not only to find his voice, but to excel socially and academically. And he’s not the only one.
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Good lesson on how to listen
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-01-26
Written by: Bo Seo
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How to Be a Bawse
- A Guide to Conquering Life
- Written by: Lilly Singh
- Narrated by: Lilly Singh
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Story
Lilly Singh isn’t just a superstar. She’s Superwoman—which is also the name of her wildly popular YouTube channel. Funny, smart, and insightful, the actress and comedian covers topics ranging from relationships to career choices to everyday annoyances. It’s no wonder she’s garnered more than a billion views. But Lilly didn’t get to the top by being lucky—she had to work for it. Hard.
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so amazingly awesome and truly an inspiring book!!
- By Anonymous User on 2017-10-14
Written by: Lilly Singh
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
- Written by: Marie Kondo
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever.
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Worst book ever made me clean for 5 days straight
- By claudia crespo on 2018-09-20
Written by: Marie Kondo
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Marie Kondo's Kurashi at Home
- How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
- Written by: Marie Kondo
- Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by the Japanese concept of kurashi, or “way of life,” Kurashi at Home invites you to visualize your best life from the moment you wake up until the end of each day. By applying Marie Kondo's time-tested query—“Does it spark joy?”—to your mindset and behaviors, you are invited to take an even more holistic and personal approach to curating your environment by imagining what your life could look like full of connection and free from any limitations.
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Loved it!
- By Anonymous User on 2023-10-01
Written by: Marie Kondo
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Unlock It
- The Master Key to Wealth, Success, and Significance
- Written by: Dan Lok
- Narrated by: Dan Lok
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Story
In Unlock It, you'll find the strategies and methods Dan used personally to go from being a poor immigrant boy with $150, 000 debt to becoming a global social phenomenon and the leader of the largest virtual closing organization in the world. If you are struggling financially, you'll learn how to develop skills not taught in schools that will increase your income and financial confidence.
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A great summerize to new you
- By Moji on 2021-12-24
Written by: Dan Lok
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Saving Time
- Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
- Written by: Jenny Odell
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from the “attention economy” to spend time in quiet contemplation. But what if you don’t have time to spend? In order to answer this seemingly simple question, Odell took a deep dive into the fundamental structure of our society and found that the clock we live by was built for profit, not people.
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Narration is solid enough, but this book feels cobbled together
- By Anonymous User on 2023-05-27
Written by: Jenny Odell
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Good Arguments
- How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard
- Written by: Bo Seo
- Narrated by: Bo Seo
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
When Bo Seo was 8 years old, he and his family migrated from Korea to Australia. At the time, he did not speak English, and, unsurprisingly, struggled at school. But, then, in fifth grade, something happened to change his life: he discovered competitive debate. Immediately, he was hooked. It turned out, perhaps counterintuitively, that debating was the perfect activity for someone shy and unsure of himself. It became a way for Bo not only to find his voice, but to excel socially and academically. And he’s not the only one.
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Good lesson on how to listen
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-01-26
Written by: Bo Seo
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How to Be a Bawse
- A Guide to Conquering Life
- Written by: Lilly Singh
- Narrated by: Lilly Singh
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Lilly Singh isn’t just a superstar. She’s Superwoman—which is also the name of her wildly popular YouTube channel. Funny, smart, and insightful, the actress and comedian covers topics ranging from relationships to career choices to everyday annoyances. It’s no wonder she’s garnered more than a billion views. But Lilly didn’t get to the top by being lucky—she had to work for it. Hard.
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so amazingly awesome and truly an inspiring book!!
- By Anonymous User on 2017-10-14
Written by: Lilly Singh
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
- Written by: Marie Kondo
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever.
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Worst book ever made me clean for 5 days straight
- By claudia crespo on 2018-09-20
Written by: Marie Kondo
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Marie Kondo's Kurashi at Home
- How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
- Written by: Marie Kondo
- Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Inspired by the Japanese concept of kurashi, or “way of life,” Kurashi at Home invites you to visualize your best life from the moment you wake up until the end of each day. By applying Marie Kondo's time-tested query—“Does it spark joy?”—to your mindset and behaviors, you are invited to take an even more holistic and personal approach to curating your environment by imagining what your life could look like full of connection and free from any limitations.
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Loved it!
- By Anonymous User on 2023-10-01
Written by: Marie Kondo
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Unlock It
- The Master Key to Wealth, Success, and Significance
- Written by: Dan Lok
- Narrated by: Dan Lok
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In Unlock It, you'll find the strategies and methods Dan used personally to go from being a poor immigrant boy with $150, 000 debt to becoming a global social phenomenon and the leader of the largest virtual closing organization in the world. If you are struggling financially, you'll learn how to develop skills not taught in schools that will increase your income and financial confidence.
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A great summerize to new you
- By Moji on 2021-12-24
Written by: Dan Lok
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Happy Go Money
- Spend Smart, Save Right and Enjoy Life
- Written by: Melissa Leong
- Narrated by: Melissa Leong
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Everything tells us that what will make us happy can be bought, whether it’s the latest gadgets, renovated kitchens, or luxury goods. But research has shown that having more money in the bank and more stuff around the house doesn’t necessarily correlate with being a happier person. With Happy Go Money, financial expert Melissa Leong cuts through the noise to show you how to get the most delight for your dollar.
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I wanted to like this but...
- By Jess D. on 2021-11-15
Written by: Melissa Leong
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Goodbye, Things
- The New Japanese Minimalism
- Written by: Fumio Sasaki, Eriko Sugita - translator
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo - he's just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided to change his life by saying goodbye to everything he didn't absolutely need. The effects were remarkable: Sasaki gained true freedom, new focus, and a real sense of gratitude for everything around him.
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A Regular Guys Experience
- By PBJ on 2018-06-13
Written by: Fumio Sasaki, and others
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Spark Joy
- An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
- Written by: Marie Kondo
- Narrated by: Sumalee Montano
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Japanese decluttering guru Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up has revolutionized homes - and lives - across the world. Now, Kondo presents an illustrated guide to her acclaimed KonMari Method, with step-by-step folding illustrations for everything from shirts to socks, plus drawings of perfectly organized drawers and closets. She also provides advice on frequently asked questions, such as whether to keep “necessary” items that may not bring you joy.
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Nothing too special.
- By Anonymous User on 2019-02-13
Written by: Marie Kondo
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The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down
- How to Be Calm and Mindful in a Fast-Paced World
- Written by: Haemin Sunim, Haemin Sunim - translation, Chi-Young Kim - translation
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this best-selling mindfulness guide - it has sold more than three million copies in Korea, where it was a number-one best-seller for 41 weeks and received multiple best book of the year awards - Haemin Sunim (which means "spontaneous wisdom"), a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the overwhelming demands of everyday life.
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Brilliant
- By Kindle Customer on 2018-05-22
Written by: Haemin Sunim, and others
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Happy Money
- The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money
- Written by: Ken Honda
- Narrated by: Louis Ozawa Changchien
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Become Zen with your money and alleviate your anxieties about finances and earning potential. Ken Honda - Japan’s number-one best-selling personal-development guru - will help you heal your relationship with money and discover the lifestyle that will truly make you happy.
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Happy Money Changed My Life
- By Stefan Oskar Neff on 2019-06-07
Written by: Ken Honda
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Joy at Work
- Organizing Your Professional Life
- Written by: Marie Kondo, Scott Sonenshein
- Narrated by: Brittany Ishibashi, Dan Woren
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn't felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and unnecessary tasks? These are the modern-day hazards of working, and they can slowly drain the joy from work, limit our chances of career progress, and undermine our well-being. There is another way. In Joy at Work, best-selling author and Netflix star Marie Kondo and Rice University business professor Scott Sonenshein offer stories, studies, and strategies to help you eliminate clutter and make space for work that really matters.
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Some Great Tips
- By Reader Reviews on 2020-04-25
Written by: Marie Kondo, and others
Nonfiction
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The Obesity Code
- Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss
- Written by: Jason Fung
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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We are in the midst of an obesity epidemic, but despite being inundated with diet advice we are only getting fatter. We count calories and exercise regularly, yet still the pounds won't budge. Why? In this highly enjoyable and provocative book, Dr Jason Fung sets out a groundbreaking new theory: that obesity is caused by our hormones, rather than a lack of self-control. He reveals that overproduction of insulin in the body is the root cause of obesity and obesity-related illnesses including type 2 diabetes
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FANTASTIC BOOK AND AUDIBLE READER
- By Nano on 2019-06-08
Written by: Jason Fung
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Life in the Fasting Lane
- How to Make Intermittent Fasting a Lifestyle—and Reap the Benefits of Weight Loss and Better Health
- Written by: Dr. Jason Fung, Eve Mayer, Megan Ramos
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii, Courtney Patterson, Piper Goodeve
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In recent years, intermittent fasting - restricting calorie intake for a set number of hours or days - has become an increasingly popular diet strategy. While some in the medical community initially dismissed the idea as a dangerous fad, recent research not only validates the safety of fasting for weight loss but also offers compelling evidence of wide-ranging health benefits, from reversal of diabetes and other metabolic disorders to enhanced cognitive function and increased longevity.
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Not as good as The Obesity Code but still worth reading
- By william pocock on 2020-04-11
Written by: Dr. Jason Fung, and others
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Influence
- 47 Forbidden Psychological Tactics You Can Use to Motivate, Influence and Persuade Your Prospect
- Written by: Dan Lok
- Narrated by: Dan Lok
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Imagine knowing how the human mind works, having the power to influence and motivate people at will to buy your products and services. What would that be worth to you? As you listen to this audiobook, you will experience first-hand and quickly discover highly controversial persuasion secrets that will boggle your mind, and the mind of any prospect you target. I'll reveal 47 ways you can use psychological tactics to induce people to pull out their credit cards and buy from you.
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Keep an open mind
- By Anonymous User on 2023-01-03
Written by: Dan Lok
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Aloha Betrayed
- Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
- Written by: Noenoe K. Silva
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1897, as a White oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the US Senate. This event was unknown to many contemporary Hawaiians until Noenoe K. Silva rediscovered the petition in the process of researching this book. With few exceptions, histories of Hawai'i have been based exclusively on English-language sources.
Written by: Noenoe K. Silva
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The Making of Asian America
- A History
- Written by: Erika Lee
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In the past 50 years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day.
Written by: Erika Lee
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Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
- Written by: Lili‘uokalani
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the United States. Published shortly after these momentous events, her book Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule. Liliuokalani covers from her birth in 1838 through the reigns of her forebears to her own turbulent time as Queen of the Hawaiian Islands.
Written by: Lili‘uokalani
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The Obesity Code
- Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss
- Written by: Jason Fung
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
We are in the midst of an obesity epidemic, but despite being inundated with diet advice we are only getting fatter. We count calories and exercise regularly, yet still the pounds won't budge. Why? In this highly enjoyable and provocative book, Dr Jason Fung sets out a groundbreaking new theory: that obesity is caused by our hormones, rather than a lack of self-control. He reveals that overproduction of insulin in the body is the root cause of obesity and obesity-related illnesses including type 2 diabetes
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FANTASTIC BOOK AND AUDIBLE READER
- By Nano on 2019-06-08
Written by: Jason Fung
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Life in the Fasting Lane
- How to Make Intermittent Fasting a Lifestyle—and Reap the Benefits of Weight Loss and Better Health
- Written by: Dr. Jason Fung, Eve Mayer, Megan Ramos
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii, Courtney Patterson, Piper Goodeve
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
In recent years, intermittent fasting - restricting calorie intake for a set number of hours or days - has become an increasingly popular diet strategy. While some in the medical community initially dismissed the idea as a dangerous fad, recent research not only validates the safety of fasting for weight loss but also offers compelling evidence of wide-ranging health benefits, from reversal of diabetes and other metabolic disorders to enhanced cognitive function and increased longevity.
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Not as good as The Obesity Code but still worth reading
- By william pocock on 2020-04-11
Written by: Dr. Jason Fung, and others
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Influence
- 47 Forbidden Psychological Tactics You Can Use to Motivate, Influence and Persuade Your Prospect
- Written by: Dan Lok
- Narrated by: Dan Lok
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Imagine knowing how the human mind works, having the power to influence and motivate people at will to buy your products and services. What would that be worth to you? As you listen to this audiobook, you will experience first-hand and quickly discover highly controversial persuasion secrets that will boggle your mind, and the mind of any prospect you target. I'll reveal 47 ways you can use psychological tactics to induce people to pull out their credit cards and buy from you.
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Keep an open mind
- By Anonymous User on 2023-01-03
Written by: Dan Lok
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Aloha Betrayed
- Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
- Written by: Noenoe K. Silva
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In 1897, as a White oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the US Senate. This event was unknown to many contemporary Hawaiians until Noenoe K. Silva rediscovered the petition in the process of researching this book. With few exceptions, histories of Hawai'i have been based exclusively on English-language sources.
Written by: Noenoe K. Silva
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The Making of Asian America
- A History
- Written by: Erika Lee
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In the past 50 years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day.
Written by: Erika Lee
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Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
- Written by: Lili‘uokalani
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the United States. Published shortly after these momentous events, her book Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule. Liliuokalani covers from her birth in 1838 through the reigns of her forebears to her own turbulent time as Queen of the Hawaiian Islands.
Written by: Lili‘uokalani
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Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict
- The Wheat Fields Still Whisper
- Written by: Mallika Kaur
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Punjab was the arena of one of the first major armed conflicts of postcolonial India. During its deadliest decade, as many as 250,000 people were killed. This audiobook makes an urgent intervention in the history of the conflict, which to date has been characterized by a fixation on sensational violence - or ignored altogether. Mallika Kaur unearths the stories of three people who found themselves at the center of Punjab’s human rights movement.
Written by: Mallika Kaur
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
- Written by: Amy Chua
- Narrated by: Amy Chua
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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At once provocative and laugh-out-loud funny, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ignited a global parenting debate with its story of one mother’s journey in strict parenting. Amy Chua argues that Western parenting tries to respect and nurture children’s individuality, while Chinese parents typically believe that arming children with skills, strong work habits, and inner confidence prepares them best for the future.
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It’s interesting but it will make you mad.
- By Anonymous User on 2022-09-01
Written by: Amy Chua
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The Sense of Wonder
- Written by: Matthew Salesses
- Narrated by: Jee Young Han, Tommy Kang
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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An Asian American basketball star walks into a gym. No one recognizes him, but everyone stares anyway. It is the start of a joke but what is the punchline? When Won Lee, the first Asian American in the NBA, stuns the world in a seven-game winning streak, the global media audience dubs it “The Wonder”—much to Won’s chagrin. Meanwhile, Won struggles to get attention from his coach, his peers, his fans, and most importantly, his hero, Powerball!, who also happens to be Won’s teammate and the captain.
Written by: Matthew Salesses
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One Jump at a Time
- My Story
- Written by: Nathan Chen
- Narrated by: Nathan Chen, Eunice Wong
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In this exhilarating memoir, three-time World Champion and Olympic gold-medalist Nathan Chen tells the story of his remarkable journey to success, reflecting on his life as a Chinese American figure skater and the joys and challenges he has experienced—including the tremendous sacrifices he and his family made, and the physical and emotional pain he endured.
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Inspiring
- By thushari johnson on 2022-11-29
Written by: Nathan Chen
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India: A Million Mutinies Now
- Written by: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than 50 years ago. He explores how they have been steered by the innumerable frictions present in Indian society - the contradictions and compromises of religious faith, the whim and chaos of random political forces.
Written by: V. S. Naipaul
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Trick Mirror
- Reflections on Self-Delusion
- Written by: Jia Tolentino
- Narrated by: Jia Tolentino
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity.
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Reflection on the book
- By Rov on 2021-02-08
Written by: Jia Tolentino
Only from Audible
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
- A Novel
- Written by: Cho Nam-Joo, Jamie Chang - translator
- Narrated by: Kathleen Choe
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A 30-something-year-old “millennial everywoman”, she has recently left her white-collar desk job - in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time - as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women - alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her.
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Fantastic and different. Worth the read.
- By Fraser Simons on 2021-06-01
Written by: Cho Nam-Joo, and others
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Weird Menace
- Written by: Ed Park
- Narrated by: Eric Yves Garcia, Hillary Huber
- Length: 34 mins
- Original Recording
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Barbara Lee Handbook (pronounced “Hanbok”), whom fans will know as Barbie Moran, the ‘80s bombshell and star of the cult sci-fi film Weird Menace, sits down with Director Toner Low to discuss the making of the classic film - set on a distant planet, featuring mutant attackers, cyber ladies of the 34th century, and no shortage of warring spaceships - for the Blu-ray edition, in this absurdly funny and poignant meditation on art, legacy, and our ambivalence about the life choices that define us.
Written by: Ed Park
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1Q84
- Written by: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin - translator, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
- Length: 46 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....
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Soft porn pretentiousness
- By Madeleine on 2019-03-08
Written by: Haruki Murakami, and others
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Jasmine
- Written by: Bharati Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Farah Bala
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world.
Written by: Bharati Mukherjee
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Thousand Pieces of Gold
- Written by: Ruthanne Lum McCunn
- Narrated by: Emily Zeller
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.
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Thousand Pieces of Gold
- By Sharron padden on 2020-10-31
Written by: Ruthanne Lum McCunn
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The Sympathizer
- A Novel
- Written by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrated by: Francois Chau
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2016. It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.
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A great book for anyone who enjoys a slower pace
- By Louis Savoy on 2018-08-03
Written by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
- A Novel
- Written by: Cho Nam-Joo, Jamie Chang - translator
- Narrated by: Kathleen Choe
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A 30-something-year-old “millennial everywoman”, she has recently left her white-collar desk job - in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time - as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women - alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her.
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Fantastic and different. Worth the read.
- By Fraser Simons on 2021-06-01
Written by: Cho Nam-Joo, and others
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Weird Menace
- Written by: Ed Park
- Narrated by: Eric Yves Garcia, Hillary Huber
- Length: 34 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Barbara Lee Handbook (pronounced “Hanbok”), whom fans will know as Barbie Moran, the ‘80s bombshell and star of the cult sci-fi film Weird Menace, sits down with Director Toner Low to discuss the making of the classic film - set on a distant planet, featuring mutant attackers, cyber ladies of the 34th century, and no shortage of warring spaceships - for the Blu-ray edition, in this absurdly funny and poignant meditation on art, legacy, and our ambivalence about the life choices that define us.
Written by: Ed Park
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1Q84
- Written by: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin - translator, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
- Length: 46 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....
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Soft porn pretentiousness
- By Madeleine on 2019-03-08
Written by: Haruki Murakami, and others
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Jasmine
- Written by: Bharati Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Farah Bala
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world.
Written by: Bharati Mukherjee
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Thousand Pieces of Gold
- Written by: Ruthanne Lum McCunn
- Narrated by: Emily Zeller
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.
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Thousand Pieces of Gold
- By Sharron padden on 2020-10-31
Written by: Ruthanne Lum McCunn
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The Sympathizer
- A Novel
- Written by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrated by: Francois Chau
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2016. It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.
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A great book for anyone who enjoys a slower pace
- By Louis Savoy on 2018-08-03
Written by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
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The Water Beetles
- Written by: Michael Kaan
- Narrated by: Richard Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The Leung family leads a life of secluded luxury in Hong Kong. But in December 1941, the Empire of Japan invades the colony. The family is quickly dragged into a spiral of violence, repression, and starvation. To survive, they entomb themselves and their friends in the Leung mansion. But this is only a temporary reprieve, and the Leungs are forced to send their children away. The youngest boy, Chung-Man, escapes with some of his siblings, and together they travel deep into the countryside to avoid the Japanese invaders.
Written by: Michael Kaan
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Three Wishes in Bardo
- Written by: Feng Chi-Shun
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Three Wishes in Bardo draws an intimate picture of twentieth-century Hong Kong while telling the story of a typical Hong Kong bright boy and his devoted mother. It is also a story of scientific labor and discovery, where single-mindedness, integrity, talent, and skill rise from the mire of academic sharp-practice and envy. Different strands of the plot weave together to form a climactic ending where all characters’ lives resolve into fulfillment with a touch of humor and true catharsis created from genuine surprise.
Written by: Feng Chi-Shun
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House of Many Gods
- A Novel
- Written by: Kiana Davenport
- Narrated by: Jolene Kim
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Progressing from the 1960s to the turbulent present, the novel begins on the island of O’ahu and centers on Ana, abandoned by her mother as a child. Raised by her extended family on the “lawless” Wai’anae coast, west of Honolulu, Ana, against all odds, becomes a physician. While tending victims of Hurricane ‘Iniki on the neighboring island of Kaua’i, she meets Nikolai, a Russian filmmaker with a violent and tragic past, who can confront reality only through his unique prism of lies. Yet he is dedicated to recording the ecological horrors in his motherland.
Written by: Kiana Davenport
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We Gon' Be Alright
- Notes on Race and Resegregation
- Written by: Jeff Chang
- Narrated by: Jeff Chang
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang (Can't Stop Won't Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. Through deep reporting with key activists and thinkers, passionately personal writing, and distinguished cultural criticism, We Gon' Be Alright links #BlackLivesMatter to #OscarsSoWhite, Ferguson to Washington, DC, and more.
Written by: Jeff Chang
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The Woman Warrior
- Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
- Written by: Maxine Hong Kingston
- Narrated by: Ming-Na
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed author Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior broke new ground when it was first published 35 years ago, weaving autobiography, history, folklore, and fantasy in to a candid and revelatory story about the daughter of Chinese immigrants in mid-20th century California.
Written by: Maxine Hong Kingston
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
- A Memoir
- Written by: T Kira Madden
- Narrated by: T Kira Madden
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cultlike privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight.
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A great story about what it means to be family
- By S. Watson on 2020-02-03
Written by: T Kira Madden