Immigrant Memoirs

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    • A 6000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
    • By: Noé Álvarez
    • Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noe Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother. A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At 19, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement....

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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
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    • 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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    • Tough Deals, Steep Bargains, and Revolution in the Skies
    • By: Frank Lorenzo
    • Narrated by: Asa Siegel
    • Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • Flying for Peanuts explains how the son of Spanish immigrants put himself through Columbia College by driving a Coca-Cola truck and then grew the fledgling advisory into ownership of Texas International Airlines.

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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 326 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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    • 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 315 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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    • 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 45 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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    • 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 3,347 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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    • 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 1,838 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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    • 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 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • 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 195 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 Superhero Origin Story
    • By: Simu Liu
    • Narrated by: Simu Liu
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,288 ratings
    • The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural stereotypes and his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime....

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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 652 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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    • 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 34 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 Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America
    • By: Mark Bailey
    • Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, Alan Smyth
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In the spirit of David McCullough's Brave Companions, this anthology of popular American history presents the stories of nine incredible Irish immigrants as written by nine contemporary Irish-Americans....

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    • The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company
    • By: Alice Driver
    • Narrated by: Lori Felipe-Barkin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, Life and Death of the American Worker is an explosive exposé of the toxic labor practices at the largest meatpacking company in America and the immigrant workers who had the courage to fight back.

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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 809 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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    • A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy
    • By: Ali Velshi
    • Narrated by: Ali Velshi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • A captivating family history that illustrates how small actions can have an outsized political impact....

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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 29 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • Prachi Gupta’s family embodied the American Dream. But their belonging was predicated on a powerful myth: that Asian Americans have perfected the alchemy of middle-class life, raising tight-knit, ambitious families that are immune to hardship....

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