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Bestiary

A Novel

by K-Ming Chang ...

Narrated by Catherine Ho, Nancy Wu, Ren Hanami ...

Unabridged

9 hours

**NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family’s queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets.“Gorgeous and gorgeously grotesque . . . Every line of this sensuous, magical-realist marvel is utterly alive.”—O: The Oprah Magazine**FINALIST FOR THE ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family’s queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets.“Gorgeous and gorgeously grotesque . . . Every line of this sensuous, magical-realist marvel is utterly alive.”—O: The Oprah Magazine**FINALIST FOR THE
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Hiroshima, 8:15

The Lost Memoir

by Kiyoshi Tanimoto ...

Narrated by Fred Sanders, Ren Hanami, Brian Nishii ...

Unabridged

6 hours 58 min

**A newly discovered firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath from one of the survivors—bringing unprecedented immediacy to our understanding of this world-changing event.“A stunning historical discovery and a heartrending testimony.” —Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of American Prometheus**At approximately 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945, Kiyoshi Tanimoto was ... Read more

$18.00 USD

**A newly discovered firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath from one of the survivors—bringing unprecedented immediacy to our understanding of this world-changing event.“A stunning historical discovery and a heartrending testimony.” —Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of American Prometheus**At approximately 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945, Kiyoshi Tanimoto was
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A Boy Named Isamu

A Story of Isamu Noguchi

by James Yang ...

Narrated by Ren Hanami ...

Unabridged

5 min

Awarded an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Picture Book Honor, this stunning audiobook brings to life the imagination of Japanese American artist, Isamu Noguchi.If you are Isamu, stones are the most special of all.How can they be so heavy?Would they float if they had no weight?Winner of the Theordor Seuss Geisel Award in 2020 for Stop! Bot!, James Yang imagines a day in the boyhood of ... Read more

$5.99 USD

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Awarded an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Picture Book Honor, this stunning audiobook brings to life the imagination of Japanese American artist, Isamu Noguchi.If you are Isamu, stones are the most special of all.How can they be so heavy?Would they float if they had no weight?Winner of the Theordor Seuss Geisel Award in 2020 for Stop! Bot!, James Yang imagines a day in the boyhood of
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My Tokyo Summer

by Abby Denson ...

Narrated by Eileen Stevens, Alison Hiroto, Ren Hanami, Jodie Harris, Khristine Hvam, Michael Crouch, Cenophia Mitchell, Josh Hurley, Brian Nishii, Erin Lin ...

Unabridged

1 hour 26 min

A charming and vibrant true story about an unforgettable summer in Japan!Abby lives in the United States and loves comics, zines, and punk music. Yuuko lives in Japan and loves manga, American movies, and creating art. When Yuuko visits New York City and sees a comic that Abby made, she writes a letter to Abby and they become pen pals. Later, Abby takes the opportunity to enroll in a summer ... Read more

$24.99 USD

A charming and vibrant true story about an unforgettable summer in Japan!Abby lives in the United States and loves comics, zines, and punk music. Yuuko lives in Japan and loves manga, American movies, and creating art. When Yuuko visits New York City and sees a comic that Abby made, she writes a letter to Abby and they become pen pals. Later, Abby takes the opportunity to enroll in a summer
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The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration

Narrated by Frank Abe, Keone Young, Ren Hanami, Traci Kato-Kiriyama, Greg Watanabe ...

Unabridged

9 hours 3 min

**"An indispensable, important anthology, edited with heart and sharp insight. This should be on the bookshelf of every American who loves the Constitution, and who is willing to fight to defend it." *—*Rachel Maddow“An essential volume” —Hua Hsu, The New YorkerThe collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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**"An indispensable, important anthology, edited with heart and sharp insight. This should be on the bookshelf of every American who loves the Constitution, and who is willing to fight to defend it." *—*Rachel Maddow“An essential volume” —Hua Hsu, The New YorkerThe collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US
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Mockingbird Summer

A Novel

by Lynda Rutledge ...

Narrated by Ren Hanami ...

Unabridged

10 hours 23 min

A powerful and emotional coming-of-age novel set amid the turmoil and profound changes of the 1960s by the bestselling author of West with Giraffes.In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It’s also where two girls are going to shake things up.This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran’s childhood, and ... Read more

$42.99 USD

A powerful and emotional coming-of-age novel set amid the turmoil and profound changes of the 1960s by the bestselling author of West with Giraffes.In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It’s also where two girls are going to shake things up.This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran’s childhood, and
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Inheritors

by Asako Serizawa ...

Narrated by Feodor Chin, Ren Hanami, Catherine Ho, Greta Jung, Akie Kotabe, Nancy Wu ...

Unabridged

9 hours 2 min

**"This splendid story collection is a sword through the heart."--Ben FountainFrom the O. Henry Prize-winning author comes a heartbreakingly beautiful and brutal exploration of lives fragmented by the Pacific side of World War II.**Spanning more than 150 years, and set in multiple locations in colonial and postcolonial Asia and the United States, Inheritors paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of its ... Read more

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**"This splendid story collection is a sword through the heart."--Ben FountainFrom the O. Henry Prize-winning author comes a heartbreakingly beautiful and brutal exploration of lives fragmented by the Pacific side of World War II.**Spanning more than 150 years, and set in multiple locations in colonial and postcolonial Asia and the United States, Inheritors paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of its
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Poland 1939

The Outbreak of World War II

by Roger Moorhouse ...

Narrated by Roger Moorhouse ...

Unabridged

12 hours 38 min

**A gripping history of the Nazi invasion of Poland, the true onset of World War II“Exemplary...About as good as military history can be.” —Timothy Snyder, New York Times**For Americans, World War II began in December 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Europe, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler’s soldiers invaded Poland, followed later that month by Stalin’s Red Army. The ... Read more

$31.99 USD

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**A gripping history of the Nazi invasion of Poland, the true onset of World War II“Exemplary...About as good as military history can be.” —Timothy Snyder, New York Times**For Americans, World War II began in December 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Europe, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler’s soldiers invaded Poland, followed later that month by Stalin’s Red Army. The
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Advance Britannia

The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945

by Alan Allport ...

Narrated by Ric Jerrom ...

Unabridged

30 hours 55 min

**The author of *Britain at Bay—*which The Wall Street Journal said may be “the single best examination of British politics, society, and strategy [from 1938 to 1941] that has ever been written”—picks up his sweeping social history in 1942, when what was once a regional war has become an intricate, globe-spanning conflict, with profound consequences for the British Empire and for a British people ... Read more

$36.00 USD

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**The author of *Britain at Bay—*which The Wall Street Journal said may be “the single best examination of British politics, society, and strategy [from 1938 to 1941] that has ever been written”—picks up his sweeping social history in 1942, when what was once a regional war has become an intricate, globe-spanning conflict, with profound consequences for the British Empire and for a British people
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What We Knew

Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany

by Eric A. Johnson, Karl-Heinz Reuband ...

Narrated by BJ Harrison ...

Unabridged

17 hours 36 min

An American historian and a German sociologist seek answers from those who lived through Nazi Germany: how did the country stand by while one of the biggest genocides in history took place?**“A very important book.” —**Financial TimesThe horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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An American historian and a German sociologist seek answers from those who lived through Nazi Germany: how did the country stand by while one of the biggest genocides in history took place?**“A very important book.” —**Financial TimesThe horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of
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Citizenship

Notes on an American Myth

by Daisy Hernández ...

Narrated by Daisy Hernández ...

Unabridged

8 hours 18 min

A provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?“[A] fascinating, urgently needed new book.”—Chicago Tribune**“How did ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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A provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?“[A] fascinating, urgently needed new book.”—Chicago Tribune**“How did ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non
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The Crown's Silence

The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas

by Brooke N. Newman ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

14 hours 25 min

For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family’s centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy—from Elizabeth I to the present—and the monarchy’s culpability in the racial injustice that gave birth to the United States.Narrated by Allyson Johnson.For centuries, Britain has told itself and the world ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family’s centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy—from Elizabeth I to the present—and the monarchy’s culpability in the racial injustice that gave birth to the United States.Narrated by Allyson Johnson.For centuries, Britain has told itself and the world
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