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Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

A Memoir

by Curtis Chin ...

**This poignant memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit.“Vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt” —Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers**Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big ... Read more

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**This poignant memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit.“Vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt” —Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers**Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big
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Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

A Memoir

by Curtis Chin ...

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8 hours 12 min

**This poignant memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit.“Vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt” —Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers**Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big ... Read more

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**This poignant memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit.“Vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt” —Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers**Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big
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Black-Owned

The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore

by Char Adams ...

Narrated by Shayna Small ...

Unabridged

7 hours 29 min

Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.In Black-Owned, Char Adams celebrates the living history of Black bookstores. Packed with stories of activism, espionage ... Read more

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Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.In Black-Owned, Char Adams celebrates the living history of Black bookstores. Packed with stories of activism, espionage
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Bibliophobia

A Memoir

by Sarah Chihaya ...

Narrated by Traci Kato-Kiriyama ...

Unabridged

6 hours 52 min

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • “A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life.”—Hua Hsu, author of Stay True“Stirring and sparkling.”—The Washington PostBooks can seduce you. They can, Sarah Chihaya believes, annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books understands this kind of unsettling literary ... Read more

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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • “A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life.”—Hua Hsu, author of Stay True“Stirring and sparkling.”—The Washington PostBooks can seduce you. They can, Sarah Chihaya believes, annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books understands this kind of unsettling literary
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Minor Black Figures

A Novel

by Brandon Taylor ...

Narrated by Andre Santana ...

Unabridged

13 hours 47 min

**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR!From “literary superstar” (The Boston Globe) and Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor, his “most accomplished novel” (The New York Times): the story of a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity**New York simmers with heat and unrest as Wyeth, a painter, finds himself at an impasse in his own work.After attending a dubious show ... Read more

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**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR!From “literary superstar” (The Boston Globe) and Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor, his “most accomplished novel” (The New York Times): the story of a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity**New York simmers with heat and unrest as Wyeth, a painter, finds himself at an impasse in his own work.After attending a dubious show
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Black-Owned

The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore

by Char Adams ...

****ABA Indies Choice Book Awards Winner****Black Caucus American Library Association Nonfiction Award Winner****L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist****A November LibraryReads Pick**Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from ... Read more

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****ABA Indies Choice Book Awards Winner****Black Caucus American Library Association Nonfiction Award Winner****L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist****A November LibraryReads Pick**Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from
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Pink Slime

A Novel

by Fernanda Trías ...

Narrated by Frankie Corzo ...

Unabridged

6 hours 25 min

Longlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature • Named a BEST BOOK of the Year by NPR, Esquire**,** Publishers Weekly**, and** ScreenRant **• “The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windswept world will haunt you.” —**EsquireA hair-raising, poetic work of literary horror and climate fiction about a woman and the people who depend... ... Read more

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Longlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature • Named a BEST BOOK of the Year by NPR, Esquire**,** Publishers Weekly**, and** ScreenRant **• “The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windswept world will haunt you.” —**EsquireA hair-raising, poetic work of literary horror and climate fiction about a woman and the people who depend...
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Splinters

Another Kind of Love Story

by Leslie Jamison ...

Narrated by Leslie Jamison ...

Unabridged

8 hours 32 min

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the “piercing, intimate” story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, ... Read more

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the “piercing, intimate” story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true,
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Two Women Living Together

The Bestselling Korean Memoir

by Kim Hana, Hwang Sunwoo ...

Narrated by Sofia Jin, Jessica Lee ...

Unabridged

5 hours 27 min

Read by Sofia Jin and Jessica Lee"Lee and Jin’s beautifully matched narration makes the evolving partnership feel immediate, sincere, and deeply personal. A gentle listening experience celebrating friendship, shared lives, and connection." -Audiofile Magazine, Earphones Award WinnerThe big-hearted, bestselling South Korean memoir co-written by two best friends flouting gender norms and societal ... Read more

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Read by Sofia Jin and Jessica Lee"Lee and Jin’s beautifully matched narration makes the evolving partnership feel immediate, sincere, and deeply personal. A gentle listening experience celebrating friendship, shared lives, and connection." -Audiofile Magazine, Earphones Award WinnerThe big-hearted, bestselling South Korean memoir co-written by two best friends flouting gender norms and societal
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Alligator Tears

A Memoir in Essays

by Edgar Gomez ...

Narrated by Edgar Gomez ...

Unabridged

6 hours 25 min

**A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual“Relatable, funny and deeply heartfelt, this memoir is one not to miss.”—Today**“Edgar Gomez is a young writer of deep talent and enormous grace.” —James McBride, New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven & ... Read more

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**A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual“Relatable, funny and deeply heartfelt, this memoir is one not to miss.”—Today**“Edgar Gomez is a young writer of deep talent and enormous grace.” —James McBride, New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven &
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Next of Kin

A Memoir

by Gabrielle Hamilton ...

Narrated by Gabrielle Hamilton ...

Unabridged

7 hours 24 min

In her long-awaited new memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller and James Beard Award winner Blood, Bones & Butter tells the “raw and darkly humorous” (People) story of her family's unexpected dissolution.“Hamilton’s voice is as singular and rollicking as ever in Next of Kin, but it feels rare and special to have it applied to the kind of complicated family history that so many of us ... Read more

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In her long-awaited new memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller and James Beard Award winner Blood, Bones & Butter tells the “raw and darkly humorous” (People) story of her family's unexpected dissolution.“Hamilton’s voice is as singular and rollicking as ever in Next of Kin, but it feels rare and special to have it applied to the kind of complicated family history that so many of us
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Family Meal

A Novel

by Bryan Washington ...

Narrated by Bryan Washington, André Santana, Jake Choi ...

Unabridged

8 hours 27 min

**"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters—and readers—an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."—The Washington PostAn irresistible, intimate novel about how those know us longest—even when they hurt us most ... Read more

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**"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters—and readers—an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."—The Washington PostAn irresistible, intimate novel about how those know us longest—even when they hurt us most
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