Immigrant Memoirs

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    • By: Konstantin Kisin, Peter Lloyd
    • Narrated by: Konstantin Kisin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 14-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 676 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: Hua Hsu
    • Narrated by: Hua Hsu
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Stay True is the moving, Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age memoir of music, outsiders and the relationships that make us....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Susan Lieu
    • Narrated by: Susan Lieu
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • By: Grace Talusan
    • Narrated by: Grace Talusan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 30-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • From Immigrant Boy to English Man
    • By: George Alagiah
    • Narrated by: George Alagiah, Prasanna Puwanarajah
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 23-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • When George Alagiah was dropped off at a Hampshire boarding school as a child back in 1967, he was confronted with an extreme version of the private struggle faced by all immigrants - the battle to leave the past behind and fit into a new culture....

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    • An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
    • By: Simu Liu
    • Narrated by: Simu Liu
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 216 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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    • A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy
    • By: Ali Velshi
    • Narrated by: Ali Velshi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A captivating family history that illustrates how small actions can have an outsized political impact....

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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: 22-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 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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    • 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: 13-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend
    • By: Joshua M. Greene
    • Narrated by: Michael Orenstein
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 22-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Unstoppable is the ultimate immigrant story and an epic David-and-Goliath adventure....

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    • What Immigrants Never Tell You
    • By: Dina Nayeri
    • Narrated by: Dlna Nayeri
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question few in the West give much thought to, and yet to be a refugee - or an immigrant - is to grapple with your place in the world, attempting to reconcile the life you have known with the unfamiliar....

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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: 14-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • By: Teresa Schapansky
    • Narrated by: Tom Johnsen
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-19
    • Language: English
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    • He signed up to sail on SS Rajputana as soon as he'd heard it was bound for Canada. By the time the ship reached port in Esquimalt, British Columbia, in November of 1939, his decision had already been made....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Charlotte Gill
    • Narrated by: Seema Doad
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
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    • An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household....

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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: 29-10-24
    • 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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    • Seeing the American Dream Through an Immigrant's Eyes
    • By: Ali Master
    • Narrated by: Ali Master
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • It’s easy to talk about freedom. But unless someone has lived in a world that suffocates freedom, it’s difficult to appreciate the liberty found in America....

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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: 03-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Immigrant Artist at Work
    • By: Edwidge Danticat
    • Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
    • Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile....

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    • An Immigrant's Journey from Ireland to America
    • By: Michael J. Dowling, Charles Kenney
    • Narrated by: John Keating
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The moving story of an Irish immigrant's life from a poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to becoming a captain of industry, After the Roof Caved In is a powerful, poignant look at how hard work and education enabled one young man to change his life and circumstances completely....

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