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OverDrive Audiobooks April 2018
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"I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray." -- Gish Jen
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April is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
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World and Town : a Novel
by Gish Jen
Two years after burying her husband and best friend, 68-year-old Hattie Kong moves to a small New England town where she is joined by a Cambodian family and reunited with an ex-lover before tackling challenges in the form of fundamentalist Christians and struggling family farms. By the award-winning author of The Love Wife.
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane : a Novel
by Lisa See
Explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.
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The Housekeeper and the Professor : a Novel
by Yōko Ogawa
A relationship blossoms between a brilliant math professor suffering from short-term memory problems following a traumatic head injury and the young housekeeper, the mother of a ten-year-old son, hired to care for him.
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Little Fires Everywhere : a Novel
by Celeste Ng
Fighting an ugly custody battle with an artistic tenant who has little regard for the strict rules of their progressive Cleveland suburb, a straitlaced family woman who is seeking to adopt a baby becomes obsessed with exposing the tenant's past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both of their families.
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Six Suspects
by Vikas Swarup
When Vivek "Vicky" Rai, the son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, is killed at a party celebrating his acquittal on a murder charge, the police investigate six suspects attending the party who had guns in their possession.
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Casey Stengel : Baseball's Greatest Character
by Martin Appel
A biography of the only baseball player in history to play for all the New York Teams describes how he went on to revolutionize the role of manager and won 10 pennants and seven World Series with the Yankees.
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The Kid : the Immortal Life of Ted Williams
by Ben Bradlee
This biography of the baseball legend describes how his 1941 .406 batting average hasn't been topped since and discusses how he served as a Marine pilot in WWII and Korea and spent most of his life hiding his Mexican heritage.
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Moneyball
by Michael Lewis
Explains how Billie Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, put into play a new kind of thinking and ball playing--a compilation of statistics, locker room knowledge and players rethinking what they know about playing baseball--demonstrating how success can be obtained without spending enormous sums of money.
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You Know Me Al
by Ring Lardner
Jack Keefe is a talented, brash, and conceited young bush-league pitcher. Impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn from his mistakes might just be his undoing. Told through a series of letters written from Keefe to his friend, Al, this baseball classic maintains a balance between the funny and the moving, the pathetic and the glorious.
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NPR Driveway Moments : Baseball
by Neal Conan
Stories from the National Public Radio archives honor America’s national pastime. Stories so compelling you’ll stay in your car to hear them through — even if you’re sitting in your own driveway. Peabody-winning Talk of the Nation host Neal Conan presents tales about the big leagues and the little, the fans in the stands, the players, the history, and the lore.
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