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Books narrated by Shuko Akune

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    Tea

    by Velina Hasu Houston ...
    Narrated by Shuko Akune, June Angela, Diana Tanaka, Lily Mariye, Takayo Fischer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 12 min

    Velina Hasu Houston’s Tea uses history and poetic writing to weave a dramaabout Japanese “war brides” living in Kansas.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Shuko Akune, June Angela, Takayo Fischer, Lily Mariye and Diana Tanaka. ... Read more

    $6.95 USD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    OYAKOSHINJU

    DEATHBOND

    by Sachi Oyama ...
    Narrated by Shuko Akune, Jusak Bernhard, Peter Jacobs, Randy Tanizawa, Robert Ito, Robin Goodrin Nordli, Shari Tanizawa, Takayo Fischer, Yuji Okumoto ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 24 min

    A young divorcee named Keiko moves from Hiroshima to America to start a new life with her ambitious husband. But when he takes a mistress and leaves her, Keiko takes drastic and irreversible actions to preserve her dignity and that of her children.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording featuring: Shuko Akune, Jusak Bernhard, Takayo Fischer, Robert Ito, Peter Jacobs, Robin Goodrin Nordli, Yuji ... Read more

    $6.95 USD

  • Tea

    by Velina Hasu Houston ...
    Series series N/A
    It’s 1968. Himiko Hamilton struggles in a graceless marriage in a country that is not her own. Having come from Japan at the end of World War II and landed in a small Kansas town because of her marriage to an American soldier, she is at odds with the culture that she left behind and the one in which she is trying to survive.In the midst of this turmoil is her beautiful mixed race teenage daughter ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    American Dreams

    by Velina Hasu Houston ...
    Narrated by Mary Bond Davis, Yvonne Farrow, Bonnie Oda Homsey, Carl Lumbly, Charlie Robinson, Don Reed, Patricia Thompson, Peter Jacobs, Vonetta McGee ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 46 min

    After World War II, an African-American war vet brings home his Japanese bride. The family must learn to be tolerant of their new family member, while dealing with prejudice in the outside world.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Mary Bond Davis, Yvonne Farrow, Bonnie Oda Homsey, Peter A. Jacobs, Carl Lumbly, Vonetta McGee, Don Reed, Charlie Robinson and Patricia Thompson ... Read more

    $6.95 USD

  • Tea

    by Velina Hasu Houston ...
    Series series N/A
    It’s 1968. Himiko Hamilton struggles in a graceless marriage in a country that is not her own. Having come from Japan at the end of World War II and landed in a small Kansas town because of her marriage to an American soldier, she is at odds with the culture that she left behind and the one in which she is trying to survive.In the midst of this turmoil is her beautiful mixed race teenage daughter ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    by Tomihiko Morimi ...
    Translated by Emily Balistrieri ...
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    $11.99 USD

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  • The Sound of Water

    Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets

    Series series Shambhala Centaur Editions
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    $9.99 USD

  • Out

    by Natsuo Kirino ...
    Translated by Stephen B. Snyder ...
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    Asahi Kagami—a rather outgoing guy with a tendency to try to help anyone in need—happens to be neighbors and classmates with a girl named Fuyuka Himuro. At school, she’s been nicknamed “The Ice Queen” by her classmates, and for good reason: she prefers to keep everyone at arm’s length and seldom talks to others.Neither Fuyuka nor Asahi have had a chance to interact with each other yet, but Asahi’s ... Read more

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  • The Archer

    by Shruti Swamy ...
    “Set in 1970s Bombay, the novel explores art, ambition, gender roles and class with the same shimmering prose of Swamy’s first book, the story collection A House Is a Body.”**—**San Francisco Chronicle“[A] sublime, boundary-pushing exploration of sexuality, creativity, and love.”—NPRIn this transfixing novel, a young woman comes of age in 1960s- and 1970s-era Bombay, a vanished world that is ... ... Read more

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