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Bestsellers
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Stay True
- A Memoir
- By: Hua Hsu
- Narrated by: Hua Hsu
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else....
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At the end, this book is about friendships
- By rosalinda lam on 10-31-22
By: Hua Hsu
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Minor Feelings
- An Asian American Reckoning
- 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....
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Essential
- By Realness on 03-04-20
By: Cathy Park Hong
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
- 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....
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The Subtitle Should Be "Diary of a Mad Housewife"
- By California mom on 07-24-12
By: Amy Chua
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Permission to Come Home
- Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans
- By: Jenny Wang
- Narrated by: Jenny Wang
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Permission to Come Home confronts the stigma Asian Americans face in caring for their mental health. Weaving her personal narrative as a Taiwanese American and insights as a clinician with evidenced-based tools, Dr. Jenny T. Wang offers listeners permission to embrace self-care....
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Get this if u have cptsd from racial trauma
- By MaMi on 12-04-23
By: Jenny Wang
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Ebony and Ivy
- Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
- By: Craig Steven Wilder
- Narrated by: Corey Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Detailed chronicle of ed & Slavery's entwinement
- By Scott on 07-23-16
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North Korea Confidential
- Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
- By: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms....
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Interesting portrait of North Korea marred by awful pronunciation
- By Amazon Customer on 08-03-21
By: Daniel Tudor, and others
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Stay True
- A Memoir
- By: Hua Hsu
- Narrated by: Hua Hsu
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else....
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At the end, this book is about friendships
- By rosalinda lam on 10-31-22
By: Hua Hsu
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Minor Feelings
- An Asian American Reckoning
- By: Cathy Park Hong
- Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
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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Essential
- By Realness on 03-04-20
By: Cathy Park Hong
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
- 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....
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The Subtitle Should Be "Diary of a Mad Housewife"
- By California mom on 07-24-12
By: Amy Chua
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Permission to Come Home
- Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans
- By: Jenny Wang
- Narrated by: Jenny Wang
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Permission to Come Home confronts the stigma Asian Americans face in caring for their mental health. Weaving her personal narrative as a Taiwanese American and insights as a clinician with evidenced-based tools, Dr. Jenny T. Wang offers listeners permission to embrace self-care....
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Get this if u have cptsd from racial trauma
- By MaMi on 12-04-23
By: Jenny Wang
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Ebony and Ivy
- Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
- By: Craig Steven Wilder
- Narrated by: Corey Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Detailed chronicle of ed & Slavery's entwinement
- By Scott on 07-23-16
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North Korea Confidential
- Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
- By: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms....
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Interesting portrait of North Korea marred by awful pronunciation
- By Amazon Customer on 08-03-21
By: Daniel Tudor, and others
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The Snakehead
- An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Abridged
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The Snakehead offers an intimate tour of life on the mean streets of Chinatown, a vivid blueprint of organized crime in an age of globalization and a exploration of how illegal immigration affects us all....
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A Busman's Holiday
- By Amazon Customer on 02-24-20
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Where I Belong
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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exellent
- By jeri on 04-21-24
By: Soo Jin Lee, and others
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The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration
- By: Frank Abe, Floyd Cheung - editor introduction
- Narrated by: Frank Abe, Keone Young, Ren Hanami, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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This anthology presents the collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US government expelled resident aliens and its own citizens from their homes and imprisoned 125,000 of them in American concentration camps....
By: Frank Abe, and others
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Asian American Histories of the United States
- Revisioning History
- By: Catherine Ceniza Choy
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US history....
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Strong, Well-Researched and Engaging
- By Cami Jones on 02-24-24
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Somewhere Sisters
- A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
- By: Erika Hayasaki
- Narrated by: VyVy Nguyen
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, each knowing little about the other’s existence, until they were reunited as teenagers, against all odds....
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Not anticipated
- By Bajagringa on 12-22-23
By: Erika Hayasaki
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Biting the Hand
- Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
- By: Julia Lee
- Narrated by: Julia Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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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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The best book I didn't know I needed to read!
- By Amazon Customer on 05-02-23
By: Julia Lee
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Asian American Is Not a Color
- Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family
- By: OiYan A. Poon
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
By: OiYan A. Poon
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The Three-Year Swim Club
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Great story but the Hawaiian words get slaughtered
- By Arabella on 01-26-16
By: Julie Checkoway
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The Loneliest Americans
- By: Jay Caspian Kang
- Narrated by: Intae Kim
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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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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interesting read, not my own personal story
- By TexasisAwesome on 01-24-22
By: Jay Caspian Kang
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The Color of Success
- Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
- By: Ellen D. Wu
- Narrated by: Emily Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"....
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The narrator needs to research pronunciation
- By KDE on 04-23-19
By: Ellen D. Wu
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Passport to Shame
- From Asian Immigrant to American Addict
- By: Sam Louie MA LMHC
- Narrated by: David Lee Huynh
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A psychotherapist's candid memoir of addiction and recovery explores the intersection of Asian culture, mental health, and assimilating into American culture as an ethnic minority....
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The Lucky Ones
- One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America
- By: Mae M. Ngai
- Narrated by: Angela Lin
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Mae Ngai's portrayal of the Tapes as the first of a brand-new social type - middle-class Chinese Americans, with touring cars, hunting dogs, and society weddings to broadcast it - will astonish....
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not the panoramic epic I expected
- By Frank on 03-18-11
By: Mae M. Ngai
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Be the Refuge
- Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists
- By: Chenxing Han
- Narrated by: Jennifer Aquino
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawn from in-depth interviews with a pan-ethnic, pan-Buddhist group, Be the Refuge is the first book to center young Asian-American Buddhists' own voices....
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A must read.
- By Amazon Customer on 08-07-21
By: Chenxing Han
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One Long Listening
- A Memoir of Grief, Friendship, and Spiritual Care
- By: Chenxing Han
- Narrated by: Chenxing Han
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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For fans of The Wild Edge of Sorrow and Crying in H-Mart—a profound and searching memoir of life, loss, grief, and renewal from one of American Buddhism’s most vital new voices....
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A Beautiful Mantra
- By Clifton L Cannon on 12-25-23
By: Chenxing Han
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The Lost Tribe of Coney Island
- Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century
- By: Claire Prentice
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Coney Island, summer 1905: a new attraction opened at Luna Park. Within weeks it would be the talk of the nation....
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A neat piece of history
- By Private Party on 11-13-17
By: Claire Prentice
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America for Americans
- A History of Xenophobia in the United States
- By: Erika Lee
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impact....
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Essential to Understanding America
- By Edward Chin-Lyn on 11-09-20
By: Erika Lee
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The Visibility Mindset
- How Asian American Leaders Create Opportunities and Push Past Barriers
- By: Bernice Chao, Jessalin Lam
- Narrated by: Jennifer Aquino
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Find your voice, own your story, and elevate your professional life. In The Visibility Mindset: How Asian American Leaders Create Opportunities and Push Past Barriers, a team of dedicated creative professionals and educators delivers an incisive treatment....
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Encouraging people
- By Zuk on 04-25-24
By: Bernice Chao, and others
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The Billionaire's Apprentice
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Utterly ridiculous performance
- By Alex on 07-25-13
By: Anita Raghavan
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Unfinished Business
- Breaking Down the Great Wall Between Adult Child and Immigrant Parents
- By: Amy C. Yip
- Narrated by: Amy C. Yip, Greg Mueller
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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If you've ever yearned for your parents' approval, felt the weight of their high expectations, or experienced the burden of unspoken obligations to care for them as they age, you're not alone....
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Insightful, healing, and inspiring!
- By Amazon Customer on 03-11-24
By: Amy C. Yip
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Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe
- Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps
- By: Eric L. Muller
- Narrated by: Frank Clem
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Eric L. Muller brings to vivid life the stories of three lawyers tasked to provide legal counsel to interned Japanese Americans in America during World War II, illuminating a shameful episode of American history through imaginative narrative deeply grounded in archival evidence....
By: Eric L. Muller
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The White Devil's Daughters
- The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
- By: Julia Flynn Siler
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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During the first hundred years of Chinese immigration - from 1848 to 1943 - San Francisco was home to a shockingly extensive underground slave trade in Asian women, who were exploited as prostitutes and indentured servants....
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Well researched
- By Qats reads on 08-05-19
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The Fortunes
- By: Peter Ho Davies
- Narrated by: James Chen
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel....
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The threads throughout the stories.
- By Perkbrooke on 11-14-16
By: Peter Ho Davies
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The Future Is Asian
- Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century
- By: Parag Khanna
- Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 19th century, the world was Europeanized. In the 20th century, it was Americanized. Now, in the 21st century, the world is being Asianized....
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Bigoted, jingoistic, ethnocentric
- By SEAN on 03-08-19
By: Parag Khanna
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Water Tossing Boulders
- How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South
- By: Adrienne Berard
- Narrated by: Moe Egan
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and considered by the school to be “colored”; the school was for whites....
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Over a third of the book was just about the lawyer
- By Crysta M on 05-05-21
By: Adrienne Berard