On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
A Novel
By Ocean Vuong
Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“A rare poignant visceral reading experience, tackling themes of war, immigration, identity, sexuality, violence, and carving out your place in the world. More poetic than narrative. Deeply Affecting! Absolutely Brilliant! Stunning!”
Zinna, A Great Good Place for Books
The Leader You Want to Be
Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self--Every Day
By Amy Jen Su
Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
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 »
America Is in the Heart
By Carlos Bulosan
Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes
A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine Castillo
Poet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer, and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911–1956)...
Read more »Block Seventeen
By Kimiko Guthrie
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Akiko “Jane” Thompson, a half-Japanese, half-Caucasian woman in her midthirties, is attempting to forge a quietly happy life in the Bay Area with her fiancé, Shiro. But after a bizarre car accident, things begin to unravel. An intruder ransacks their apartment but takes nothing, leaving behind only cryptic traces of his or her presence. Shiro,...
Read more »Exhalation
Stories
By Ted Chiang
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon & Ted Chiang
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Exhalation
“WOW. My first experience with Ted Chiang absolutely blew me out of the water. Each story left me with wide eyes and a racing mind, running to my husband to read a passage so we could both be knocked over with wonder. Exhalation filled me with so many questions about our collective past, present, and future, I’ll be coming back to this book again and again trying to find the answers.”
Kasey Kane, Country Bookshelf
Front Desk
By Kelly Yang
Narrated by: Sunny Lu
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Winner of the Asian / Pacific American Award for Children's Literature!
* "Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Mia Tang has a lot of secrets.
Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the... Read more »
Blood Heir
Blood Heir: Book #1
By Amélie Wen Zhao
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 13 hours 56 minutes
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 »
Patron Saints of Nothing
By Randy Ribay
Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo
Length: 9 hours 1 minutes
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
"Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing." --Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT
"A singular voice in the world of literature." --Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down
A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the... Read more »
The Bride Test
By Helen Hoang
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 10 hours
The Bride Test
“This follow-up to The Kiss Quotient is an incredibly diverse and fun story about Khai, Michael’s cousin from the previous novel. He is Vietnamese-American, autistic, and believes himself to be incapable of the emotions that matter. I would recommend this to those who enjoyed The Rosie Effect and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Hoang is making important waves, one sweet, sexy romance novel at a time.”
Stephanie Csaszar, Books Around the Corner
Descendant of the Crane
By Joan He
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
A determined and vulnerable young heroine struggling to do right in a world brimming with deception must rule over an unstable kingdom and find her father's killer.
Read more »The Food Lab
Better Home Cooking Through Science
By J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 21 hours 22 minutes
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 »
99 Ways to Die
Taipei Night Market: Book #3
By Ed Lin
Narrated by: Ewan Chung
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
The third funny, food-forward mystery by Ed Lin set in and around Taipei's bustling night market Jing-nan has known Peggy Lee, a bullying frenemy who runs her family's huge corporation, since high school. Peggy's father has been kidnapped, and the ransom the kidnappers are demanding is not money but IP: a high-tech memory chip that they want to... Read more »
The Satapur Moonstone
Perveen Mistry Mysteries: Book #2
By Sujata Massey
Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
Length: 12 hours 1 minutes
India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the... Read more »
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
To All the Boys I've Loved Before: Book #1
By Jenny Han
Narrated by: Ali Ahn
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
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 »
Always and Forever, Lara Jean
To All the Boys I've Loved Before: Book #3
By Jenny Han
Narrated by: Ali Ahn
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
LARA JEAN IS HAVING THE BEST SENIOR YEAR. And there’s still so much to look forward to: a class trip to New York City, prom with her boyfriend Peter, Beach Week after graduation, and her dad’s wedding to Ms. Rothschild. Then she’ll be off to college with Peter, at a school close enough for her to come home and bake chocolate chip cookies on the... Read more »
P.S. I Still Love You
To All the Boys I've Loved Before: Book #2
By Jenny Han
Narrated by: Ali Ahn
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Given the way love turned her heart in the New York Times bestselling To All The Boys I've Loved Before, which School Library Journal called a "lovely, lighthearted romance," it's no surprise that Laura Jean still has letters to write. Lara Jean didn't expect to really fall for Peter. She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they... Read more »
Rent a Boyfriend
By Gloria Chao
Narrated by: Feodor Chin & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
A YALSA 2022 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Selection!
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before meets The Farewell in this “entertaining and nuanced” (Kirkus Reviews) romantic comedy about a college student who hires a fake boyfriend to appease her traditional Taiwanese parents, to disastrous results, from the acclaimed author of American... Read more »
Of Princes and Promises
Rosetta Academy
By Sandhya Menon
Narrated by: Vikas Adam & Carlotta Brentan
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
From the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi comes the second installment in a brand-new series set an elite boarding school that’s a contemporary spin on fairy tales, this one a delightful, romantic twist on The Frog Prince.
Caterina LaValle is determined to show she’s still the queen of St. Rosetta’s Academy. Sure, her... Read more »
Yolk
By Mary H. K. Choi
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes
“Sneaks up on you with its insight and poignancy.” —Entertainment Weekly
From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they’ll go to save one of their lives—even if it means swapping identities.
Jayne and June Baek are nothing alike. June’s three years older, a... Read more »
A Pho Love Story
By Loan Le
Narrated by: Ryan Do & Vyvy Nguyen
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
“Will leave readers swooning.” —PopSugar
When Dimple Met Rishi meets Ugly Delicious in this funny, smart romantic comedy, in which two Vietnamese American teens fall in love and must navigate their newfound relationship amid their families’ age-old feud about their competing, neighboring restaurants.
If Bao Nguyen had to describe himself, he’d... Read more »