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Adigun

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The Vegetarian

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Unabridged

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The Color of Our Sky

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The City of Brass

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The Kingdom of Copper

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Unabridged

11 hours 34 min

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by Alka Joshi ...

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Series series The Jaipur Trilogy
Unabridged

33 hours 44 min

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Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

by Min Jin Lee ...

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17 hours 49 min

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by James Clavell ...

Narrated by Ralph Lister ...

Series Audiobook 1.2 - The Asian Saga
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29 hours 16 min

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by Etaf Rum ...

Narrated by Ariana Delawari, Dahlia Salem, Susan Nezami ...

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10 hours 15 min

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Narrated by Ainsleigh Barber, Aoife Hinds, Ioanna Kimbook ...

Unabridged

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Kalyana

by Rajni Mala Khelawan ...

Narrated by Saara Chaudry ...

Unabridged

9 hours 54 min

Growing up in the Fiji Islands in the late 1960s, Kalyana Mani Seth is an impressionable, plump young girl suited to the meaning of her name: blissful, blessed, the auspicious one. Her mother educates Kalyana about her Indian heritage, vividly telling tales of mischievous Krishna and powerful Mother Kali, and recounting her grandparents’ migration to the tiny, British colony.While the island ... Read more

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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...

Narrated by Gary Tiedemann ...

Unabridged

8 hours 32 min

A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest black authors in the AmericasThe mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who has been championed by the likes of Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsberg, John Updike, and Salman Rushdie. In his masterpiece, the ... Read more

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The Woman Next Door

A Novel

by Yewande Omotoso ...

Narrated by Adjoa Andoh ...

Unabridged

8 hours 28 min

Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility and pruning both with a vim and zeal that belies the fact that they are over eighty.But one day an unforeseen event forces the women together. And gradually the bickering and sniping ... Read more

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The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

A Novel

by Laura Imai Messina ...

Narrated by Traci Kato-Kiriyama ...

Unabridged

5 hours 20 min

The international bestselling novel sold in 21 countries, about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected “wind” phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunamiWhen Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, ... Read more

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The Tattooist of Auschwitz

A Novel

by Heather Morris ...

Narrated by Richard Armitage ...

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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by Gabrielle Zevin ...

Narrated by Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi ...

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13 hours 52 min

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The Henna Artist

by Alka Joshi ...

Narrated by Sneha Mathan ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Jaipur Trilogy
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The Poppy War

A Novel

by R. F. Kuang ...

Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Poppy War
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19 hours 27 min

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On Beauty

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The Dragon Republic

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Series Audiobook 2 - The Poppy War
Unabridged

23 hours 46 min

Rin’s story continues in this acclaimed sequel to The Poppy War—an epic fantasy combining the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters.The war is over.The war has just begun.Three times throughout its history, Nikan has fought for its survival in the bloody Poppy Wars. Though the third battle has just ended, shaman and warrior Rin cannot forget the atrocity she ... Read more

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We Were the Lucky Ones

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The Namesake

by Jhumpa Lahiri ...

Narrated by Sarita Choudhury ...

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10 hours 9 min

The Namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in order for Ashoke to finish his engineering degree at MIT. Ashoke is forward-thinking, ready to enter into American culture if not fully at least with an open mind. His ... Read more

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