Refugee Memoir

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    • An Unnatural History of Family and Place
    • By: Terry Tempest Williams
    • Narrated by: Terry Tempest Williams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology....

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    • Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream
    • By: Tiffanie Drayton
    • Narrated by: Tiffanie Drayton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic opportunities, one woman must come to terms with the ways in which systematic racism and resultant trauma keep the American Dream inaccessible to Black people.

    Regular price: $18.00

    • Life and Near Death in an Ecuadorian Animal Refuge
    • By: Tony James Slater
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • That Bear Ate My Pants! is the hilarious tale of one man's quest to better himself. Whether losing a machete fight with a tree, picking dead tarantulas out of a tank of live ones, or sewing the head back onto a partially decapitated crocodile, Tony's misadventures are ridiculous....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Dot Jackson
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,056 ratings
    • Early one morning in 1929, Mary Seneca Steele spontaneously packs a suitcase, gathers up her son and daughter, and drives away in her abusive and dissolute husband’s brand-new Auburn Phaeton automobile, leaving her privileged life in Charleston behind....

    Regular price: $16.07

    • One of the World’s Known Lost Boys of Sudan
    • By: Nathaniel Chol Nyok, Johnny Isakson - foreword
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In 1987, Nathaniel Nyok fled a bloody scene and a burning village in Sudan. At eight, he had just capitulated to an orphan-like life with a new title, A Lost Boy of Sudan, living in a refugee camp. As he battled the loss of home, he chose a road that eventually brought him to America....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 52 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....

    Regular price: $20.24

    • The League for Spiritual Discovery, the 1960s Cultural Revolution, and 23 Years on the Run
    • By: Rosemary Woodruff Leary
    • Narrated by: Kristy Gill
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A memoir by one of the original female psychedelic pioneers of the 1960s....

    Regular price: $16.49

    • The Boy Who Lost Everything...and the Horses Who Saved Him
    • By: Abdul Musa Adam, Ros Wynne-Jones - forward
    • Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Abdul is just seven years old when his parents are killed before his eyes. As a brutal war sweeps Sudan, Abdul and his three-year-old brother are forced to flee. Their gruelling journey across the Sahara to a refugee camp in Chad is fraught with danger....

    Regular price: $15.99

    • A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America
    • By: Mohammed Al Samawi
    • Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • A young man’s moving story of war, friendship, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from a brutal civil war in Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West....

    Regular price: $24.29

    • A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
    • By: Rebecca Brenner Graham
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Dear Miss Perkins adds new dimension to an already extraordinary life story—the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, the longest-serving Labor Secretary, and an architect of the New Deal.

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    • By: Arthur C. Clarke
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • "Refugee" was first published in the July 1955 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction....

    Regular price: $6.95

    • A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
    • By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
    • Narrated by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life....

    Regular price: $29.95

    • One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
    • By: Melissa Fleming
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • Doaa Al Zamel was once an average Syrian girl growing up in a crowded house in a bustling city near the Jordanian border. But in 2011 her life was upended....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation
    • By: Francois Furstenberg
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions....

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    • By: Kati Marton
    • Narrated by: Alex Allwine, Kati Marton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 719 ratings
    • The “captivating” (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful—and elusive—woman in the world....

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    • A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan
    • By: Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller
    • Narrated by: Lameece Issaq
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 524 ratings
    • An emotional and sweeping memoir of love and survival, The Broken Circle tells the story of a committed and desperate family uprooted and divided by the violent, changing landscape of Afghanistan in the early 1980s....

    Regular price: $20.00

    • A Collective Refugee Memoir
    • By: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Narrated by: Kao Kalia Yang, Kurt Kwan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Somewhere in the Unknown World is a themed collection of stories of refugees from around the world who have converged on Minneapolis, collected and told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet....

    Regular price: $14.99

    • Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
    • By: Helen Thorpe
    • Narrated by: Kate Handford
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • The Newcomers follows and reflects on the lives of 22 immigrant teenagers throughout the course of their 2015-2016 school year at Denver's South High School....

    Regular price: $17.64

    • 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 ...

    Regular price: $3.99