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From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
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Michaela DePrince was known as girl no. 27 at the orphanage where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a "devil child" for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. But it was at the orphanage that Michaela would find a picture of a beautiful ballerina en pointe that would help change the course of her life.
At the age of four, Michaela was adopted by an American family who encouraged her love of dancing and enrolled her in classes. She went on to study at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre and now dances for the Dutch National Ballet. In this engaging, moving, and unforgettable memoir, Michaela shares her dramatic journey from an orphan in West Africa to becoming one of ballet's most exciting rising stars.
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This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism. Sandra was just 10 years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. She had watched as rebels gunned down her mother and six-year-old sister in a refugee camp.
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Sandra's voice is mesmorizing!
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De: Sandra Uwiringiyimana, y otros
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No Biking in the House Without a Helmet
- De: Melissa Fay Greene
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, "among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev, who, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, gave birth to 69 children in eighteenth-century Russia."
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Great story of family changes
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In the Country We Love
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- Narrado por: Diane Guerrero
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Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just 14 years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school. Born in the US, Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the support system of her family.
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Moves very slowly
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De: Diane Guerrero, y otros
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Find Me Unafraid
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- Narrado por: Korey Jackson, Mandy Siegfried, P.J. Ochlan (foreword)
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Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. With a foreword by Nicholas Kristof.
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A difficult and rewarding listen
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De: Kennedy Odede, y otros
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Instant Mom
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Some families are created in different ways but are still, in every way, a family. Writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding Nia Vardalos firmly believed she was supposed to be a mom, but Mother Nature and modern medicine had put her in a headlock. So she made a choice that shocked friends, family, and even herself: with only 14 hours' notice, she adopted a preschooler.
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Honesty of the experience
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De: Nia Vardalos
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Everything You Ever Wanted
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- Narrado por: Jillian Lauren
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In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in her best-selling memoir, Some Girls. In her 30s, Jillian's most radical act is learning the steadying power of love when she and her rock star husband adopt an Ethiopian child with special needs.
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It takes a village
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De: Jillian Lauren
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads
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- Narrado por: Robin Miles
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Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries, searching for safety—perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive.
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- De Laura en 01-16-19
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Courage to Soar
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In Courage to Soar, the official autobiography from four-time Olympic gold-winning and record-setting American gymnast Simone Biles, Simone shares how her faith, family, passion, and perseverance against tremendous odds made her one of the top athletes and record-breaking gymnasts in the world - and how you too can overcome challenges in your life. In this audiobook, Simone shares the details of her inspiring personal story - one filled with the kinds of daily acts of courage that led her, and can lead you, to even the most unlikely of dreams.
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A little thin
- De Rachel2450 en 11-24-16
De: Simone Biles
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Apocalypse Child
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For the first 13 years of her life, Flor Edwards grew up in the Children of God. The group's nomadic existence was based on the belief that, as God's chosen people, they would be saved in the impending apocalypse that would envelop the rest of the world in 1993. Flor would be 13 years old. The group's charismatic leader, Father David, kept the family on the move, from Los Angeles to Bangkok to Chicago, where they would eventually disband, leaving Flor to make sense of the foreign world of mainstream society around her.
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A truly unique background and story
- De Asaph en 04-13-18
De: Flor Edwards
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Around the Way Girl
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With a sensibility that recalls her beloved screen characters, including Yvette, Queenie, Shug, and the iconic Cookie from Empire, yet is all Taraji, the screen actress writes of her families - the one she was born into and the one she created. She shares stories of her father, a Vietnam vet who was bowed but never broken by life's challenges, and of her mother, who survived violence both in the home and on DC's volatile streets. Here, too, she opens up about her experiences as a single mother.
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Around My way, Your Way & Every Woman's way
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One Amazing Thing
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Winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry and an American Book Award for her short stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores themes of women, immigration, and her vibrant Indian culture to great effect. Divakaruni expands on these ideas in One Amazing Thing, a project long in the making and full of electric prose.
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An ok way to kill some time
- De R.Reader en 11-07-12
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The Star Side of Bird Hill
- De: Naomi Jackson
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Two sisters, ages 10 and 16, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados, after their mother can no longer care for them. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live, for the summer of 1989, with their grandmother, Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah. Dionne spends the summer in search of love, testing her grandmother's limits, and wanting to go home. Phaedra explores Bird Hill, where her family has lived for generations.
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My absolute favorite book of all time
- De Eme en 07-16-15
De: Naomi Jackson
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A Little Bit Wicked
- Life, Love, and Faith in Stages
- De: Kristin Chenoweth
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In this frank and funny memoir, the Tony Award-winning star of stage and screen shares her journey from small-town Oklahoma to big-time Broadway, vamping on what it takes to stand firmly on a foundation of family and faith while wearing a hot pair of Jimmy Choo platform sling-backs.
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Salt of the Earth + Sparkles
- De Holly en 10-01-09
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Why I Hate Green Beans
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- De: Lincee Ray
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If there is one thing Lincee Ray has learned over the years, it's that the majority of women on the planet struggle with insecurities. Our skinny jeans mock us. Our just-trying-to-help mothers are just driving us crazy. Our social media feeds taunt us with everyone else's picture-perfect lives. It's enough to send you on a gummy-bear bender while binge-watching Friends reruns and not showering for a week. Lincee knows. She's been there. Right there, in fact. Gummy bears and all.
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Perfect in every way!
- De Anonymous User en 10-19-22
De: Lincee Ray
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Waverly Lyons has been caught in the middle of her parents’ divorce for as long as she can remember. This summer, the battle rages over who she’ll spend her vacation with, and when Waverly’s options are shot down, it’s bye-bye Fairbanks, Alaska, and hello Holden, Florida, to stay with her aunt. Coming from the tundra of the north, the beach culture isn’t exactly Waverly’s forte. The sun may just be her mortal enemy, and her vibe is decidedly not chill. To top it off? Her ability to swim is nonexistent.
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De: Kate Marchant
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- Vicky
- 05-16-19
Dreams Carried on the Harmattan Winds
Taking Flight is the story of a War Child and a Magical Ballerina who inspire each other across an ocean, and then one day the war child becomes a magical ballerina. It sounds almost surreal. And, it is. Michaela DePrince was born in Sierra Leone, but was taken to an orphanage by her uncle when her parents died. Her Father had been shot by the rebels, and her mother starved afterwards.
This memoir shares Michaela’s story of how she survived the horrors of the war at four years of age. One day outside the orphanage, the strong Harmattan winds blew a magazine against the gate. On the cover she saw a ‘magical ballerina’ and guessed that she was dancing. She decided then that one day she wanted to be a dancer like that woman. Years later she would learn that magazine was 20 years old when she found it in 1999, and she would meet Magali Messac, that dancer.
But, in the interim her life began a course of change that would set her on the road to her dreams. She was adopted with her best friend by a couple who had two sons already die from hemophilia, and the third would later die as a young adult. When their new mother took them to the hotel the day she adopted them in Africa, she gave them everything she had brought for them. But, seeing Michaela was still waiting to find something, her Mother asked her what she would like. Since she was unable to make her understand her words, Michaela pulled out the magazine photo. Her Mother had no tutu or shoes with her, but promised her that, “Home, in America, you will dance.”
What follows is the beautiful story of adoptive parents who nourish her spirit as well as her body and heart. She becomes a professional classical ballerina and an inspiration to many others. I highly recommend this short book. I read it in the Audible format narrated excellently by Allyson Johnson. This was my stop in Sierra Leone on my Journey Around the World in 80 Books for 2019. My next stop will be Liberia, but I think Michaela’s journey from the war-ravaged Kenema District, to the United Nations Refugee Camp in Conakry Guinea, to the United States… her journey will remain with me.
Amazingly, UNICEF estimates that there are 320,000 orphans in Sierra Leone out of a population of approximately 6 million. Many more died during the conflict. Very few escaped. Michaela was blessed, and as her Mother told her…
“With blessings come a responsibility to share.”
“Nothing lasts forever. There will come a day when these girls will no longer be a part of your life and you'll no longer care about what they once said about you.”
“I first met you there, on the other side of the ocean in Africa.”
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- Fiona Kalu Lenze
- 07-16-18
Incredible!!
I have never cried reading a memoir the way I cried reading this book. In just 4 hours, I was done reading and I couldn't help but feel inspired and also saddened by the pain Michaela and her sisters endured during the Sierra Leone civil war.
I highly recommend this book. You won't put it down. I promise.
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- Elizabeth Trudell
- 08-05-21
Book to read
Wonderful book. And the DePrince family are awesome. Adopting children from war torn countries. Must read
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- Katherine Murphy
- 09-29-22
A very inspiring story
I already knew a little of Michaela DePrince's story before I listened to this audio book, but learning more about her life (as an orphan in Africa, being adopted to the US, and becoming a ballet dancer) was so inspiring and touching! I highly recommend this book for dancers and non-dancers alike.
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- Corrina
- 04-02-16
Inspiring story of perseverance
This story makes me appreciate this dancer even more and the hard work it took for her to succeed.
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- Susu
- 10-10-24
Inspiring
The story of Michaela’s success & particularly of her parent’s constant love, support, & encouragement was very touching.
I wished the narrator was a young black woman, to make it more personal.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-12-25
Loved it!
Had to read for school, didn’t think I would like it… Turns out I loved it!!!
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-18-21
Mia is the real star of this story
I find this such an overall inspiring book. Mia holds a special place in my heart as I’m moved by her kindness of heart and spirit even at a tender age. So much love! Michaela is inspiring and I absolutely love her story.
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- Billye Kay
- 07-20-21
Dance of Hope
Taking Flight by Michaela De Prince is a very inspiring book that far exceeded my expectations. I was aware of the author's ballet career and I enjoyed watching her performances. I took more notice of her when she and her sister did their adorable and funny Chase mobile app TV commercial. I chose this book because I wanted to learn more about her career and her family. The story brought me through the full spectrum of emotions and I really couldn't wait for the next opportunity to hear what would happen next. The narration performance by Allyson Johnson is very good. Initially, I thought that casting Allyson Johnson to read this material was an odd choice. Later, I realized that Allyson Johnson was a good choice to narrate this because of her pronunciation skills, inflection, and vocal variety. The narration enhanced my understanding and overall experience of the story. I understand that Michaela DePrince is busy in her career, but I think that this material would be presented best if it were read by the author herself. I would highly recommend this book. This is an important story that needs to be heard by as many people as possible.
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- Bianca LaJoyce Spencer
- 03-09-20
Riveting and beautiful!!!
This is the best memoir I've ever read! What a life she's lived! I feel like the universe is giving back to her all the things she had taken away. I'm thrilled to have listened to this book. The performance was spot on. I loved that the reader knew how to say the ballet words correctly in French. All the accents were so great! I enjoyed it so so much!
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