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Grotesque

by Natsuo Kirino ...

Narrated by Allison Hiroto ...

Unabridged

18 hours 56 min

Life at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves and have-nots. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister exist in different spheres; the hopelessly awkward Kazue Satō floats around among them, trying to fit in. Years later, Yuriko and Kazue are dead—both have become prostitutes and both have been ... Read more

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Life at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves and have-nots. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister exist in different spheres; the hopelessly awkward Kazue Satō floats around among them, trying to fit in. Years later, Yuriko and Kazue are dead—both have become prostitutes and both have been
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Jasmine Toguchi Complete Collection, The

Books 1-4

by Debbi Michiko Florence ...

Narrated by Allison Hiroto ...

Series series Jasmine Toguchi
Unabridged

4 hours 52 min

Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen: The first in a new chapter book series featuring a spunky Japanese-American heroine!Eight-year-old Jasmine Toguchi is a flamingo fan, tree climber, and top-notch mess-maker!She's also tired of her big sister, Sophie, always getting to do things first. For once, Jasmine wishes SHE could do something before Sophie—something special, something different. The New Year ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen: The first in a new chapter book series featuring a spunky Japanese-American heroine!Eight-year-old Jasmine Toguchi is a flamingo fan, tree climber, and top-notch mess-maker!She's also tired of her big sister, Sophie, always getting to do things first. For once, Jasmine wishes SHE could do something before Sophie—something special, something different. The New Year
... Read more
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Nuclear Family

A Tragicomic Novel in Letters

by Susanna Fogel ...

Narrated by Gabra Zackman, Bailey Carr, Oliver Wyman, Dara Rosenberg, Michael David Axtell, Allison Hiroto, Scott Aiello, Ellen Archer, Lauren Fortgang, Jessica Almasy, Suzanne Toren, Jonathan Davis, Carol Monda, Richard Ferrone, Stephen Bel Davies, Dan Bittner, Lance Rubin, Josh Hurley, a full cast, L.J. Ganser ...

Unabridged

5 hours 28 min

From filmmaker and New Yorker contributor Susanna Fogel comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents. Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, we get to know the Fellers through their check-ins with Julie over the course of three decades: their thank-you notes, letters of condolence, family gossip, and good old-fashioned familial passive ... Read more

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From filmmaker and New Yorker contributor Susanna Fogel comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents. Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, we get to know the Fellers through their check-ins with Julie over the course of three decades: their thank-you notes, letters of condolence, family gossip, and good old-fashioned familial passive
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Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen

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by Debbi Michiko Florence ...

Narrated by Allison Hiroto ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Jasmine Toguchi
Unabridged

1 hour 14 min

The first in a new chapter book series featuring a spunky Japanese-American heroine!Eight-year-old Jasmine Toguchi is a flamingo fan, tree climber, and top-notch mess-maker!She's also tired of her big sister, Sophie, always getting to do things first. For once, Jasmine wishes SHE could do something before Sophie—something special, something different. The New Year approaches, and as the Toguchi ... Read more

$11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The first in a new chapter book series featuring a spunky Japanese-American heroine!Eight-year-old Jasmine Toguchi is a flamingo fan, tree climber, and top-notch mess-maker!She's also tired of her big sister, Sophie, always getting to do things first. For once, Jasmine wishes SHE could do something before Sophie—something special, something different. The New Year approaches, and as the Toguchi
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Murasaki

A Kunoichi Tale

by David Kudler ...

Narrated by Allison Hiroto ...

Series Audiobook 4.0 - Seasons of the Sword
Unabridged

6 hours 9 min

The thrilling conclusion to Seasons of the Sword!Can one girl survive?An easy mission promises to be Risuko’s lastKano Murasaki (called Risuko), Emi, and Toumi are accompanying a spoiled young noblewoman to her wedding. What should be a simple assignment—get the bride to the wedding, make sure she’s properly dressed—is anything but.Because someone wants the lady dead.And because Risuko and her ... Read more

$13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The thrilling conclusion to Seasons of the Sword!Can one girl survive?An easy mission promises to be Risuko’s lastKano Murasaki (called Risuko), Emi, and Toumi are accompanying a spoiled young noblewoman to her wedding. What should be a simple assignment—get the bride to the wedding, make sure she’s properly dressed—is anything but.Because someone wants the lady dead.And because Risuko and her
... Read more
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Swallows

by Natsuo Kirino ...

Narrated by Allison Hiroto ...

Unabridged

10 hours 8 min

The highly anticipated new novel. When a young single woman in Tokyo decides she’s ready to sell anything—even her womb—to escape the precarity of her life, an agency pairs her with a wealthy couple desperate to have a child. The match seems made in heaven. She even looks a little like the wife. But is anything ever that simple?Nothing has ever gone right for Riki. She left her boring hometown in ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The highly anticipated new novel. When a young single woman in Tokyo decides she’s ready to sell anything—even her womb—to escape the precarity of her life, an agency pairs her with a wealthy couple desperate to have a child. The match seems made in heaven. She even looks a little like the wife. But is anything ever that simple?Nothing has ever gone right for Riki. She left her boring hometown in
... Read more
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Kano

A Kunoichi Tale

by David Kudler ...

Narrated by Allison Hiroto ...

Series Audiobook 3.0 - Seasons of the Sword
Unabridged

6 hours 23 min

Can one girl save a nation?With Japan's future in the balance, Risuko may recover the Kano clan's honor — or she may destroy it foreverLord Takeda has sent Risuko, Emi, and Toumi on a mission to the capital. The road is dangerous. The destination is treacherous. Risuko — the girl who just likes to climb — must make a choice that will have repercussions not only for Risuko's life and those of her ... Read more

$13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Can one girl save a nation?With Japan's future in the balance, Risuko may recover the Kano clan's honor — or she may destroy it foreverLord Takeda has sent Risuko, Emi, and Toumi on a mission to the capital. The road is dangerous. The destination is treacherous. Risuko — the girl who just likes to climb — must make a choice that will have repercussions not only for Risuko's life and those of her
... Read more
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Girls of Paper and Fire

by Natasha Ngan ...

Narrated by Allison Hiroto ...

Unabridged

14 hours 23 min

Uncover a riveting story of palace intrigue set in a sumptuous Asian-inspired fantasy world in the breakout YA novel that Publisher's Weekly calls "elegant and adrenaline-soaked."*In this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her ... Read more

$31.99 USD

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Uncover a riveting story of palace intrigue set in a sumptuous Asian-inspired fantasy world in the breakout YA novel that Publisher's Weekly calls "elegant and adrenaline-soaked."*In this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her
... Read more

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When Can We Go Back to America?

Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII

by Susan H. Kamei ...

Narrated by Jennifer Ikeda, Allison Hiroto, Kurt Kanazawa, Andrew Kishino, Mizuo Peck ...

Unabridged

21 hours 43 min

Four starred reviews!A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Nonfiction of 2021In this “riveting and indispensable” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) narrative history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after their World War II incarceration, Susan H. Kamei weaves together the voices of over 130 individuals who lived through this tragic episode, most of them as young adults.It’s difficult to believe it ... Read more

$34.99 USD

Four starred reviews!A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Nonfiction of 2021In this “riveting and indispensable” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) narrative history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after their World War II incarceration, Susan H. Kamei weaves together the voices of over 130 individuals who lived through this tragic episode, most of them as young adults.It’s difficult to believe it
... Read more
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Girls of Storm and Shadow

by Natasha Ngan ...

Narrated by Allison Hiroto ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Girls of Paper and Fire
Unabridged

13 hours 54 min

In this mesmerizing sequel to the New York Times bestseller Girls of Paper and Fire, Lei and Wren have escaped the oppression of the Hidden Palace, but their freedom comes at a terrible cost.Lei, the naive country girl who became a royal courtesan, is now known as the Moonchosen, the commoner who managed to do what no one else could. But slaying the cruel monarch wasn't the culmination of her ... Read more

$31.99 USD

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In this mesmerizing sequel to the New York Times bestseller Girls of Paper and Fire, Lei and Wren have escaped the oppression of the Hidden Palace, but their freedom comes at a terrible cost.Lei, the naive country girl who became a royal courtesan, is now known as the Moonchosen, the commoner who managed to do what no one else could. But slaying the cruel monarch wasn't the culmination of her
... Read more

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The Other Side of Perfect

by Mariko Turk ...

Narrated by Allison Hiroto ...

Unabridged

9 hours 52 min

For fans of Sarah Dessen and Mary H.K. Choi, this lyrical and emotionally driven novel follows Alina, a young aspiring dancer who suffers a devastating injury and must face a world without ballet—as well as the darker side of her former dream.Alina Keeler was destined to dance, but then a terrifying fall shatters her leg—and her dreams of a professional ballet career along with it.After a summer ... Read more

$27.99 USD

For fans of Sarah Dessen and Mary H.K. Choi, this lyrical and emotionally driven novel follows Alina, a young aspiring dancer who suffers a devastating injury and must face a world without ballet—as well as the darker side of her former dream.Alina Keeler was destined to dance, but then a terrifying fall shatters her leg—and her dreams of a professional ballet career along with it.After a summer
... Read more
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Clark and Division

by Naomi Hirahara ...

Narrated by Allison Hiroto ...

Series series Japantown Mysteries
Unabridged

8 hours 56 min

Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where they have been detained by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans.The life in California the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled two thousand miles away in Chicago, where Aki’s older sister, ... Read more

$20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where they have been detained by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans.The life in California the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled two thousand miles away in Chicago, where Aki’s older sister,
... Read more

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