Immigrant Memoirs

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    • By: Grace Talusan
    • Narrated by: Grace Talusan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Born in the Philippines, young Grace Talusan moves with her family to a New England suburb in the 1970s. At school, she confronts racism as one of the few kids with a brown face. At home, the confusion is worse, with abuse and trauma....

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    • By: Konstantin Kisin, Peter Lloyd
    • Narrated by: Konstantin Kisin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 337 ratings
    • Funny, provocative and unswervingly perceptive, An Immigrant's Love letter to the West interrogates the developing sense of self-loathing the Western sphere has adopted and offers an alternative perspective....

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    • How We Turn Fear into Pride, Power, and Real Change
    • By: Cristina Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Cristina Jiménez
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-25
    • Language: English
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    • MacArthur “Genius” Cristina Jiménez writes and narrates her inspiring story from undocumented newcomer to leader in a powerful immigrant youth movement.

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    • Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
    • By: Jose Antonio Vargas
    • Narrated by: Jose Antonio Vargas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 821 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “[T]he most famous undocumented immigrant in America”, tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms....

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    • Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America
    • By: John Loughery
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Acclaimed biographer John Loughery tells the story of John Hughes, son of Ireland, friend of William Seward and James Buchanan, founder of St. John's College, builder of Saint Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, pioneer of parochial school education, and American diplomat....

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    • Chronicles of an All-American Combo
    • By: Jo Koy
    • Narrated by: Jo Koy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,870 ratings
    • A stunning, hilarious memoir displaying Koy’s “wide-ranging comedic talent and abundant wells of perseverance”, Mixed Plate illuminates the burning drive and unique humor that make Jo Koy one of today’s most successful comedians....

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    • By: Nuala O'Faolain
    • Narrated by: Terry Donnelly
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-07
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Nuala O'Faolain branches into new territory with her biography of the infamous Irish-American prostitute and thief Chicago May....

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    • How One Determined Vietnamese Orphan Carved Out a Place for Himself in America
    • By: Bruce Carlin
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Undeterred is a moving ride through the life of one determined Vietnamese orphan boy named Long who, despite the bigotry and hate he faces, carves ...

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    • Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA
    • By: Jesse Katz
    • Narrated by: Jesse Katz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Baby-faced teen Giovanni Macedo is desperate to find belonging in one of LA's most predatory gangs, the Columbia Lil Cycos—so desperate that he agrees to kill an undocumented Mexican street vendor. The vendor, Francisco Clemente, had been refusing to give in to the gang's shakedown demands.

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    • A Memoir
    • By: André Aciman
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • André Aciman, the author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.

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    • An Autobiography
    • By: Colin Powell
    • Narrated by: Colin Powell
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 669 ratings
    • Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets....

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    • The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
    • By: Lisa See
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 330 ratings
    • Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family....

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    • Kiwis, Kilts, and an Adventure Down Under
    • By: Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish, Peter Jackson - foreword
    • Narrated by: Graham McTavish, Sam Heughan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • In this follow-up to Clanlands Sam & Graham document their journey across New Zealand, a country Graham calls home and that Sam has longed to visit since learning it was a popular destination for Scottish immigrants to settle back in the 19th century....

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    • An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
    • By: Jimmy O. Yang, Mike Judge - foreword
    • Narrated by: Jimmy O. Yang, Mike Judge
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,383 ratings
    • Jimmy O. Yang is a stand-up comedian, film and TV actor and fan favorite as the character Jian Yang from the popular HBO series Silicon Valley....

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    • The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America
    • By: Daniel Schulman
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 22 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came the Lehman brothers, who would open a general store in Montgomery, Alabama....

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    • So long, Yugoslavia
    • By: Kolya S
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-25
    • Language: English
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    • Yugoslavia, the first and original European Union, was happily breezing along when the dark cloud of democracy came and suffocated it in its deadly...

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    • And Other Lies That Raised Us
    • By: Prachi Gupta
    • Narrated by: Prachi Gupta
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • Family defined the cultural identity of Prachi and her brother, Yush, connecting them to a larger Indian American community amid white suburbia.

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Susan Lieu
    • Narrated by: Susan Lieu
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family’s past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan’s family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts....

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    • The Immigrant Artist at Work
    • By: Edwidge Danticat
    • Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
    • Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile....

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