Asian Nonfiction

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    • A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
    • By: Yijie Zhuang
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Li
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • We meet one of twenty-four citizens of this ancient culture, from the midwife to the soldier, the priest to the performer, and the blacksmith to the tomb looter, and see what an average day in ancient China was really like....

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    • A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
    • By: Ji-li Jiang
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 678 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....

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    • War in the Far East Series, Book 1
    • By: Peter Harmsen
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Series: War in the Far East, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Storm Clouds over the Pacific begins the story long before Pearl Harbor, showing how the war can only be understood if ancient hatreds and long-standing geopolitics are taken into account....

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    • Collected Nonfiction
    • By: Arundhati Roy
    • Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
    • Length: 36 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment....

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    • By: Leslea Newman
    • Narrated by: James Yaegashi
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Every morning in the Japanese town of Shibuya, Professor Ueno awakens and is greeted by his loyal Akita dog, Hachiko....

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    • My Own Story
    • By: Jean Fritz
    • Narrated by: Jean Fritz
    • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • This heartwarming fictionalized autobiography tells the story of what it is like for a little girl to be growing up in an unfamiliar place....

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    • A North Korean Defector’s Story
    • By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
    • Narrated by: Josie Dunn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,512 ratings
    • An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....

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    • By: John Hersey
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 366 ratings
    • On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic....

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    • Young Listeners' Edition
    • By: Saroo Brierley
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • The young listeners' edition of the true story that inspired Lion, the major motion picture starring Dev Patel, David Wenham, Rooney Mara, and Nicole Kidman....

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    • By: Jonathan Harris
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The acclaimed author of Byzantium and the Crusades "offers a fresh take on this fabled but hidden civilization" across eleven centuries of history (Colin Wells)....

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    • By: Nico Medina, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Series: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Named Temujin at birth by his nomadic family in early Mongolia, the great Genghis Khan used his skill and cunning to create the Mongol Empire and conquer almost the entire continent of Asia. As ruler of the largest empire in human history, he was as respected as he was feared....

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    • By: Eric Lomax
    • Narrated by: Bill Paterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942....

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    • Who Was?
    • By: Dinah Brown, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
    • Series: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change....

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    • A Book About the People and Places of Japan
    • By: Sarah Heiman, Todd Ouren
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Series: Country Abcs
    • Length: 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • An alphabetical exploration of the people, geography, animals, plants, history, and culture of Japan....

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    • The British Empire and Commonwealth's Epic Struggle Against Imperial Japan, 1941–1945
    • By: Brian E. Walter
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The monumental struggle fought against Imperial Japan in the Asia/Pacific theater during World War II is primarily viewed as an American affair. While the United States did play a dominant role, the British and Commonwealth forces also made major contributions.

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    • By: Walter Simmons
    • Narrated by: Dana Fleming
    • Length: 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Vietnam is famous for Ha Long Bay, a unique bay that formed over millions of years. Its scenic isles draw tourists from around the world. It is one of several marvels in Vietnam.

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