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47 Ronin
- By: John Allyn, Stephen Turnbull - foreword
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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For those looking for the real story behind the fictionalized movie account of the 47 Ronin story, this is the definitive, fascinating account of this unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master, and faced certain death as a result. It led to one of the bloodiest episodes in Japanese history, and in the process, created a new set of heroes in Japan.
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Legend rooted in history
- By Jeremy J on 22-10-2019
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47 Ronin
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 22-11-2013
- Language: English
- This is the definitive, fascinating account of this unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master....
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Hiroshima Diary
- The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
- By: Michihiko Hachiya MD
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. Dr. Hachiya's compelling diary was originally published by the UNC Press in 1955, with the help of Dr. Warner Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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A precious poignant "peace" of history.
- By Helen H on 23-09-2018
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Hiroshima Diary
- The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 26-11-2014
- Language: English
- The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city....
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Samurai Rising
- The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
- By: Pamela S. Turner
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale may sound like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family - and lost. His father was killed, his mother captured, and his surviving half-brother banished. Yoshitsune was sent away to live in a monastery. Skinny, small, and unskilled in the warrior arts, he nevertheless escaped and learned the ways of the samurai.
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Samurai Rising
- The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 17-08-2016
- Language: English
- Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. This epic warrior tale may sound like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai Japanese history....
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Red Scarf Girl
- A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
- By: Ji-li Jiang
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution. Soon school is suspended and students are getting caught up in the fervor of Mao’s extreme politics. When Ji-li’s family is accused of capitalist crimes, all of her beautiful dreams burst like soap bubbles. Because Ji-li’s grandfather was a landlord, her family is harassed and humiliated. Their home is searched, and they live in constant fear. Nonetheless, Ji-li remains loyal to her beloved Chairman Mao....
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One to binge!
- By Anonymous User on 13-02-2023
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Red Scarf Girl
- A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 26-02-2013
- Language: English
- Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....
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The Pillow Book
- By: Sei Shōnagon
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the closing years of the 10th century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthrals with its lively gossip, witty observations and subtle impressions. Lady Shōnagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shōnagon so eloquently relates.
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A superb time capsule
- By L. White on 23-12-2023
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The Pillow Book
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 19-03-2022
- Language: English
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the closing years of the 10th century....
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A Snake Lies Waiting
- Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. 3
- By: Jin Yong, Anna Holmwood, Gigi Chang
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
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China: 1200 AD. Guo Jing has confronted Apothecary Huang, his sweetheart Lotus' father, on Peach Blossom Island, and bested the villainous Gallant Ouyang in three trials to win her hand in marriage. But now, along with his sworn brother, Zhou Botong of the Quanzhen Sect, and his shifu, Count Seven Hong, chief of the Beggar Clan, he has walked into a trap. Tricked by Huang into boarding an unseaworthy barge, they will surely drown unless Lotus - who has overheard her father's plans - can find a way to save them.
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Cracking story and very well read!
- By Timothy Fairweather on 03-12-2023
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A Snake Lies Waiting
- Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. 3
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Series: Legends of the Condor Heroes, Book 3
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2020
- Language: English
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China: 1200 AD. Guo Jing has confronted Apothecary Huang, his sweetheart Lotus' father, on Peach Blossom Island, and bested the villainous Gallant Ouyang in three trials to win her hand in marriage....
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The Day the Sea Split
- Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 01-10-2024
- Language: English
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Hyun Mi travels with her family to witness a miracle of nature—a land pass between islands!
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The Terrible Kites of Len Yo
- By: Helena Claire Pitman
- Narrated by: Tyler Thompson
- Length: 6 mins
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Two ancient Chinese rulers govern their kingdoms in very different ways. When Jen Fu attacks with brute force, Wu Ti fights back with cleverness. The battle is about to begin!
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The Terrible Kites of Len Yo
- Narrated by: Tyler Thompson
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 01-10-2024
- Language: English
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Two ancient Chinese rulers govern their kingdoms in very different ways. When Jen Fu attacks with brute force, Wu Ti fights back with cleverness. The battle is about to begin!
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The Swords of Silence
- The Swords of Fire Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Shaun Curry
- Narrated by: Thomas McGairl
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Where once new ideas and beliefs were accepted, now the country's military dictator, the Shogun, is shutting his country down to any outside influences. Father Joaquim Martinez, who left Portugal to make Hizen Province, Japan, his home, has been quietly tending to the lives of his villagers, but everything is about to be thrown into turmoil, as the Shogun has outlawed Martinez's beliefs. Those who won't recant or accept banishment, face a death sentence.
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The Swords of Silence
- The Swords of Fire Trilogy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Thomas McGairl
- Series: The Swords of Fire Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-10-2019
- Language: English
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Where once new ideas and beliefs were accepted, now the country's military dictator, the Shogun, is shutting his country down to any outside influences. Father Joaquim Martinez, who left Portugal to make Hizen Province, Japan, his home, has been quietly tending to the lives....
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Wheels for the Dragon
- By: Joan Strauss
- Narrated by: Colin Draun
- Length: 11 mins
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Pu Yi, a spoiled but lonely child emperor, learns to ride a bicycle with the help of his tutor, hoping it will impress his aloof father.
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Wheels for the Dragon
- Narrated by: Colin Draun
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 04-09-2024
- Language: English
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Pu Yi, a spoiled but lonely child emperor, learns to ride a bicycle with the help of his tutor, hoping it will impress his aloof father.
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The Real Story of Stone Soup
- By: Ying Chang Compestine
- Narrated by: A. C. Fellner
- Length: 13 mins
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A stingy fisherman always makes his three young helpers do all his work. One day, he scolds the “lazy boys” for forgetting to provide lunch. “Don’t worry,” they say. “We can make stone soup.” The boys dig a hole and fill it with water and “flavored” stones. They trick the fisherman into making bowls and chopsticks and fetching salt and sesame oil. While he’s busy, they stir in bird eggs, add wild vegetables, and slip fish into the soup. By the time the old man returns, they have a feast fit for a king.
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The Real Story of Stone Soup
- Narrated by: A. C. Fellner
- Length: 13 mins
- Release date: 22-01-2019
- Language: English
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A stingy fisherman always makes his three young helpers do all his work. One day, he scolds the “lazy boys” for forgetting to provide lunch. “Don’t worry,” they say. “We can make stone soup.” The boys dig a hole and fill it with water and “flavored” stones....
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On the Horizon
- Memories of World War II
- By: Lois Lowry
- Narrated by: Lois Lowry
- Length: 38 mins
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From two-time Newbery Medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima.
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On the Horizon
- Memories of World War II
- Narrated by: Lois Lowry
- Length: 38 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2020
- Language: English
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From two-time Newbery Medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima....
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The Crystal Ribbon
- By: Celeste Lim
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Wonder, mysticism, heartache, and joy are the stones that set the path to one girl's journey as her destiny unfolds. In the village of Huanan in medieval China, the deity that rules is the Great Huli Jing. Though 12-year-old Li Jing's name is a different character entirely from the Huli Jing, the sound is close enough to provide constant teasing - but maybe is also a source of greater destiny and power. Jing's life isn't easy....
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The Crystal Ribbon
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-02-2017
- Language: English
- Wonder, mysticism, heartache, and joy are the stones that set the path to one girl's journey as her destiny unfolds....
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The English Governess at the Siamese Court
- By: Anna Hariette Leonowens
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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The English Governess at the Siamese Court, written in 1870, vividly recounts the experiences of one Anna Harriette Leonowens as governess for the sixty-plus children of King Mongkut of Siam, and translator and scribe for the King himself. Bright, young, and energetic, Leonowens was well-suited to her role and her writings convey a heartfelt interest in the lives, legends, and languages of Siam's rich and poor.
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The English Governess at the Siamese Court
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-11-2005
- Language: English
- This is the Victorian memoir that inspired Broadway's The King and I....
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India's Most Fearless 2: More Military Stories of Unimaginable Courage and Sacrifice
- By: Shiv Aroor, Rahul Singh
- Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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First-hand reports of the most riveting anti-terror encounters in the wake of the 2016 surgical strikes, the men who hunted terrorists in a magical Kashmir forest where day turns to night, a pair of young Navy men who gave their all to save their entire submarine crew, the Air Force commando who wouldn't sleep until he had avenged his buddies, the tax babu who found his soul in a terrifying Special Forces assault on Pakistani terrorists, and many more. Their own stories, in their own words. Or of those who were with them in their final moments.
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India's Most Fearless 2: More Military Stories of Unimaginable Courage and Sacrifice
- Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-11-2019
- Language: English
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The highly anticipated sequel to India's Most Fearless brings you 14 more stories of astonishing fearlessness, and gets you closer than ever before to the personal bravery that Indian military men display in the line of duty....
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Risuko
- By: David Kudler
- Narrated by: Julia Kudler
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Though Japan has been devastated by a century of civil war, Risuko just wants to climb trees. Growing up far from the battlefields and court intrigues, the fatherless girl finds herself pulled into a plot that may reunite Japan - or may destroy it. She is torn from her home and what is left of her family, but finds new friends at a school that may not be what it seems. Magical but historical, Risuko follows her along the first dangerous steps to discovering who she truly is.
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Risuko
- Narrated by: Julia Kudler
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2017
- Language: English
- Though Japan has been devastated by a century of civil war, Risuko just wants to climb trees....
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Silk & Service: A Polite Assassin
- Seasons of the Sword Prequel, Kunoichi Companion Tales, Book 2
- By: David Kudler
- Narrated by: David Kudler
- Length: 14 mins
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Not all assassins wear black. Some come wearing silk. A young Takeda warrior meets a servant who is much more than she seems. And teaches him what a warrior truly can be. This is the second of six Kunoichi Companion Tales, prequel stories to David Kudler's historical novel Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale.
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Silk & Service: A Polite Assassin
- Seasons of the Sword Prequel, Kunoichi Companion Tales, Book 2
- Narrated by: David Kudler
- Series: Kunoichi Companion Tales, Book 2, Seasons of the Sword, Book 0.2
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 11-08-2017
- Language: English
- A young Takeda warrior meets a servant who is much more than she seems. And teaches him what a warrior truly can be....
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White Robes: An Interesting Army
- Kunoichi Companion Tales, Book 1
- By: David Kudler
- Narrated by: Maura Vaughn
- Length: 14 mins
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Lady Mochizuki Chiyome is mired in grief. Recently widowed by Japan's endless civil war, she has become tired of mourning, tired of wearing the white robes that are the traditional Japanese garb of grief. On the road, she encounters two young women who open her eyes to a whole new purpose in life -- and a new way to end Japan's century of bloodshed.
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White Robes: An Interesting Army
- Kunoichi Companion Tales, Book 1
- Narrated by: Maura Vaughn
- Series: Kunoichi Companion Tales, Book 1, Seasons of the Sword, Book 0.1
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 17-05-2017
- Language: English
- One of history's most amazing armies is born, and its soldiers wear silk robes....
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Brushstrokes in Time
- By: Sylvia Vetta
- Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Brushstrokes in Time, written by Sylvia Vetta, is a memoir of fictional Chinese artist, Little Winter, written for her American daughter. It takes the story of Communist China beyond the death of Mao and for the first time in fiction shows the birth of the radical art movement, The Stars, in 1979. Her haunting love story connects us to this time of hope for freedom of expression in China, and to a man frustrated by "being kept in small shoes".
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Brushstrokes in Time
- Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2017
- Language: English
- Brushstrokes in Time, written by Sylvia Vetta, is a memoir of fictional Chinese artist....
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Judy the Big Hearted Heroine
- By: Gwyn Charlett
- Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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In this incredible true story, Judy, the heroine of the book narrates her own version of her life. Her amazing life started precariously as a young pup living rough on the streets of Shanghai where any food and comfort was in short supply. She had the great good fortune to be rescued from the streets by a young Chinese girl called Lee Ming and a few days later a chance meeting with some British sailors visiting her dog pound changed her life for ever.
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Judy the Big Hearted Heroine
- Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2014
- Language: English
- In this incredible true story, Judy, the heroine of the book narrates her own version of her life....
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