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    • A Memoir
    • By: Hua Hsu
    • Narrated by: Hua Hsu
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 487 ratings
    • New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu shares a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art.

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    • Ordinary Lives in North Korea
    • By: Barbara Demick
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,108 ratings
    • Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years - a chaotic period that saw the unchallenged rise to power of Kim Jong-il....

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    • Revised Edition
    • By: R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 263 ratings
    • A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan....

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    • By: Amy Chua
    • Narrated by: Amy Chua
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,623 ratings
    • 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....

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    • An Asian American Reckoning
    • By: Cathy Park Hong
    • Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,193 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
    • By: Michael J. Seth
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to be visited by Westerners, and its borders have remained largely unchanged since it was unified in the seventh century. Though it is one of the world's oldest and most ethnically homogeneous states, Korea was not born in a vacuum....

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    • Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
    • By: Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick....

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    • A Hmong Family Memoir
    • By: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Narrated by: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States....

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    • Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
    • By: Julia Lee
    • Narrated by: Julia Lee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Biting the Hand is author Julia Lee's passionate, no-holds-barred memoir about the Asian American experience in a nation defined by racial stratification....

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    • Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
    • By: Craig Steven Wilder
    • Narrated by: Corey Allen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy....

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    • Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family
    • By: OiYan A. Poon
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A mother and race scholar seeks to answer her daughter’s many questions about race and racism with an earnest exploration into race relations and affirmative action from the perspectives of Asian Americans....

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    • The Impossible Country
    • By: Daniel Tudor
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

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    • The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund
    • By: Anita Raghavan
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • Just as WASPs, Irish-Catholics, and Our Crowd Jews once made the ascent from immigrants to powerbrokers, it is now the Indian-American's turn....

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    • The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory
    • By: Julie Checkoway
    • Narrated by: Alex Chadwick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance....

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    • A History
    • By: Erika Lee
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans
    • By: Jenny Wang
    • Narrated by: Jenny Wang
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Strengthen your sense of well-being and embrace empowering new approaches with this invaluable investigation into mental health in the Asian American community.

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    • Healing Trauma and Embracing Asian American Identity
    • By: Soo Jin Lee, Linda Yoon
    • Narrated by: Jeena Yi, Catherine Ho, Will Dao
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Coauthors Soo Jin Lee and Linda Yoon are professional therapists who witnessed firsthand how mental health issues often went unaddressed not only in their own immigrant families, but in Asian and Asian American communities....

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    • From Village to City in a Changing China
    • By: Leslie T. Chang
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 421 ratings
    • i>Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society....

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    • By: Jay Caspian Kang
    • Narrated by: Intae Kim
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • The Loneliest Americans is the unforgettable story of Kang and his family as they move from a housing project in Cambridge to an idyllic college town in the South and eventually to the West Coast....

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