Refugee Memoir

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    • Freedom from Our Addictions
    • By: Russell Brand
    • Narrated by: Russell Brand
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,670 ratings
    • A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food, and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery....

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    • A Novel
    • By: James McBride
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10,469 ratings
    • From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.

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    • 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....

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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 11 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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    • 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 154 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....

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    • 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 39 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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    • 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....

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    • 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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    • From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service
    • By: Leth Oun, Joe Samuel Starnes - contributor
    • Narrated by: Tim Lounibos
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • "I saw many killed. I almost starved. But I escaped to refugee camps in Thailand and eventually made it to the U.S." Thus begins Leth Oun's poignant and vivid memoir....

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    • My Extraordinary Story - from Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist
    • By: Dame Stephanie Shirley CH
    • Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In 1962, Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley created a software company when the concept of software barely existed. Freelance Programmers employed women to work on complex projects such as Concorde's black box recorder from the comfort of their own homes....

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    • By: Karen Lynch
    • Narrated by: Caitlin Greer
    • Series: Relentless, Book 2
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,015 ratings
    • To keep the people she loves safe, Sara left everything she knew behind. She soon learns this new world is nothing like her old one, and she struggles to make a place for herself....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 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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    • 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 100 ratings
    • With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life....

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    • A Story of War and What Comes After
    • By: Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 645 ratings
    • Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder....

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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 714 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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    • 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 172 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....

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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 523 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....

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    • By: Anh Do
    • Narrated by: Anh Do
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The laugh-out-loud, reach-for-your-hanky story of one of Australia's best-loved comedians. Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia....

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