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OverDrive Audiobooks May 2020
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"Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage." -- Ha Jin
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May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
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The Boat Rocker
by Ha Jin
Rendered famous for his explosive anti-Communist exposT, a fiercely principled Chinese expatriate reporter endures an excruciating assignment investigating his own ex-wife, an unscrupulous novelist who has become a pawn of the Chinese government. Reading-group guide available. By the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting.
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Exhalation : Stories
by Ted Chiang
A long-awaited latest collection by the Arrival-inspiring author of "The Story of Your Life" explores revelatory ideas and second chances in such tales as, "In the Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," "Exhalation" and "The Lifecycle of Software Objects."
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The Bride Test
by Helen Hoang
"When his difficulties with processing emotions complicate the search for his bride, a Vietnamese-American on the autism spectrum is pursued by a hopelessly smitten girl from the Ho Chi Min City slums."
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A Gesture Life
by Chang-rae Lee
Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth living in suburban New York, seems on the surface to be living a quiet and harmonious life, but actually he remains tormented by his wartime love for a Korean Comfort Woman.
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Girl in Translation
by Jean Kwok
Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly Chang begins a secret double life as an exceptional schoolgirl during the day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by a first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty.
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month
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Scratched : A Memoir of Perfectionism
by Elizabeth Tallent
The acclaimed author of Museum Pieces explores her ferocious need for perfection that caused a 22-year gap in writing after initially publishing five literary novels between the ages of 27 and 37.
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Brain on Fire : My Month of Madness
by Susannah Cahalan
An account of the author's struggle with a rare brain-attacking autoimmune disease traces how she woke up in a hospital room with no memory of baffling psychotic symptoms, describing the last-minute intervention by a doctor who identified the source of her illness.
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Brother & Sister : A Memoir
by Diane Keaton
The Academy Award-winning film star and best-selling author of Then Again presents a memoir of her complicated relationship with a beloved younger brother, who transitioned from a close sibling into a troubled and reclusive alcoholic.
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