API Authors
Listen to audiobooks by authors of Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent.
Sigh, Gone
By: Phuc Tran
Narrated by: Phuc Tran
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
"Tran's story is an American immigration story, and so much more. His delivery is crisp and engaging, and maintains just the slightest element of whimsy...If you're a fan of memoirs and a fan of literature, this is a must- listen." -- AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by the author.
For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong,... Read more
The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity
By: Amy Alznauer
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A mango...is just one thing. But if I chop it in two, then chop the half in two, and keep on chopping, I get more and more bits, on and on, endlessly, to an infinity I could never ever reach. In 1887 in India, a boy named Ramanujan is born with a passion for numbers. He sees numbers in the squares of light pricking his thatched roof and in the... Read more
View audiobookDeceit and Other Possibilities
By: Vanessa Hua
Narrated by: David Shih & Cindy Kay
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In her powerful collection, first published in 2016 and now featuring new stories, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families navigating a new America. Tied to their ancestral and adopted homelands in ways unimaginable in generations past, these memorable characters straddle both worlds but belong to none.
From a Hong Kong movie idol fleeing a... Read more
The Magical Language of Others
By: E. J. Koh
Narrated by: E. J. Koh
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A tale of deep bonds to family, place, language―of hard-won selfhood told by a singular, incandescent voice.After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji’s parents return to Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in the family’s new California home. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself in a world made strange in... Read more
View audiobookHas China Won?
By: Kishore Mahbubani
Narrated by: Aaron Abano
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable?
China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each other warily across the Pacific; they communicate poorly; there seems little natural empathy. A massive... Read more
Deceiving the Sky
By: Bill Gertz
Narrated by: Claton Butcher
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing that began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promise that trade and engagement with China would result in a peaceful, democratic state. Forty years later, the hope of producing a benign People's Republic of China utterly failed. The Communist... Read more
View audiobookBrown Girl Ghosted
By: Mintie Das
Narrated by: Kosha Patel
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
We Were Liars meets Riverdale with a supernatural twist in this timely #metoo thriller about mean girls, murder, and race in a quiet Midwestern suburb.
Violet Choudhury may be part of the popular clique at school, but as one of a handful of brown girls in a small Illinois town, all she really wants to do is blend in and disappear. Unfortunately... Read more
Foundations
By: Ruth Chou Simons & Troy Simons
Narrated by: Ruth Chou Simons & Troy Simons
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Christian Book Award - Finalist 2021!!
Families are shaped one day at a time through the Word of God
You want your children to become Christ followers, obedient to His commands, and fruitful in their faith, but where do you begin? Though there isn’t a formula or prescription for raising godly kids, what you desire for your family begins with... Read more
Once Upon a Sunset
By: Tif Marcelo
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of The Key to Happily Ever After—“a true gem filled with heart, laughs, and a cast of delightful characters” (Nina Bocci, USA TODAY bestselling author)—returns with a heartwarming and charming novel about a woman who travels to the Philippines to reconnect with her long-lost family…and manages to find herself along the way.
Diana... Read more
The Tale of Genji, Volume 1
By: Murasaki Shikibu
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 35 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Murasaki Shikibu, born into the middle ranks of the aristocracy during the Heian period (794–1185 CE), wrote The Tale of Genji―widely considered the world’s first novel―during the early years of the eleventh century. Expansive, compelling, and sophisticated in its representation of ethical concerns and aesthetic ideals, Murasaki’s tale came to... Read more
View audiobookThe Ninja Daughter
By: Tori Eldridge
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
An action-packed thriller about a Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja with family issues who fights the Los Angeles Ukrainian mob, sex traffickers, and her own family to save two desperate women and an innocent child.After her sister is raped and murdered, Lily Wong dedicates her life and ninja skills to the protection of women. But her mission... Read more
View audiobookFirst, They Erased Our Name
By: Habiburahman
Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
“I am three years old and will have to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my own country, an outlaw in the world. I am three years old, and I don’t yet know that I am stateless.”Habiburahman was born in 1979 and raised in a small village in western Burma. When he was three years old, the country’s military leader... Read more
View audiobookThe Majesties
By: Tiffany Tsao
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In this “bold and dramatic portrayal of characters on the cusp of an impossible choice” (Publishers Weekly), two sisters from a wealthy Chinese-Indonesian family grapple with secrets and betrayal after one of them poisons their entire family.
Gwendolyn and Estella have always been as close as sisters can be. Growing up in a wealthy, eminent, and... Read more
Always and Forever, Lara Jean
By: Jenny Han
Narrated by: Ali Ahn
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a Netflix original movie starring Lana Condor and Noah Centineo and the inspiration behind the Netflix spin-off series XO, Kitty, now streaming!Lara Jean’s letter-writing days aren’t over in this follow-up to the bestselling To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and P.S. I Still Love You.Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever... Read more
View audiobookP.S. I Still Love You
By: Jenny Han
Narrated by: Ali Ahn
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a Netflix original movie starring Lana Condor and Noah Centineo and the inspiration behind the Netflix spin-off series XO, Kitty, now streaming!In this highly anticipated sequel to the “lovely, lighthearted” (School Library Journal) New York Times bestselling To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Lara Jean still has letters to write and even... Read more
View audiobookLittle Gods
By: Meng Jin
Narrated by: Karen Huie, Francois Chau & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
“Expands the future of the immigrant novel.” – Gish Jen, New York Times Book Review
“Spectacular and emotionally polyphonic…That Jin has managed to craft such an intimate, emotionally complex story is an awesome achievement. That she managed to do it in her debut novel, doubly so.” – Omar El Akkad, BookPage (starred review) On the night of... Read more
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
By: Jenny Han
Narrated by: Ali Ahn
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
To All the Boys I've Loved Before is now a major motion picture streaming on Netflix! What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them.all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren't love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she's written.... Read more
View audiobookAmerica for Americans
By: Erika Lee
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist)
The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an... Read more
Blood Heir
By: Amélie Wen Zhao
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 13 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The first book in an epic new series about a princess hiding a dark secret and the con man she must trust to clear her name for her father's murder.
In the Cyrilian Empire, Affinites are reviled. Their varied gifts to control the world around them are unnatural—dangerous. And Anastacya Mikhailov, the crown princess, has a terrifying secret.... Read more
Good Economics for Hard Times
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
Narrated by: James Lurie
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.
Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what... Read more
The Good Immigrant
By: Nikesh Shukla & Chimene Suleyman
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these "electric" essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of modern America (The Washington Post). From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of white supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by... Read more
View audiobookThe Leader You Want to Be
By: Amy Jen Su
Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
You can be the leader you want to be--today and every day. Do you find yourself wishing you had more hours in the day? Do you want to do more, yet feel you just can't add another thing to your plate without being overwhelmed by stress or compromising your health, relationships, and integrity? No doubt, as a leader, there are some days when you... Read more
View audiobookThe Food Lab
By: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 21 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Ever wondered how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-rare from edge to edge when you cut into it? How to make homemade mac 'n' cheese that is as satisfyingly gooey and velvety-smooth as the blue box stuff, but far tastier? How to roast a succulent, moist turkey (forget about brining!)—and use a... Read more
View audiobookThe Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography
By: M. K. Gandhi
Narrated by: Sagar Arya
Length: 20 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
To mark the 150th anniversary of Gandhi's birth, DK presents the audiobook of The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography, narrated by Sagar Arya.
Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety and adulation that when asked to write an... Read more
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