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In a memoir where heroism meets humor, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter with laughter and fierce love.
Starting in 1975, Vietnam’s “boat people”—desperate families seeking freedom—fled the Communist government and violence in their country any way they could, usually by boat across the South China Sea. Vicky Nguyen and her family were among them. Attacked at sea by pirates before reaching a refugee camp in Malaysia, Vicky’s family survived on rations and waited months until they were sponsored to go to America.
But deciding to leave and start a new life in a new country is half the story…figuring out how to be American is the other. Boat Baby is Vicky’s memoir of growing up in America with unconventional Vietnamese parents who didn’t always know how to bridge the cultural gaps. It’s a childhood filled with misadventures and misunderstandings, from almost stabbing the neighborhood racist with a butter knife to getting caught stealing Cosmo in the hope of learning Do You Really Think You Know Everything About Sex?
Vicky’s parents approached life with the attitude, “Why not us?” In the face of prejudice, they taught her to be gritty and resilient, skills Vicky used as she combatted stereotyping throughout her career, fending off the question “Aren’t you Connie Chung?” to become a leading Asian American journalist on television. She delivers a uniquely transparent account of her life, revealing how she negotiated her salary in a competitive industry, the challenges of starting a family, and the struggle to be a dutiful daughter.
Funny, nostalgic, and poignant, Boat Baby is a testament to the messy glue that bonds a family. In the tradition of We Are Dreamers by Simu Liu and Dear Girls by Ali Wong, Vicky Nguyen offers an optimistic story full of heart that illuminates the promise of what America can be.
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- Narrado por: Kristen Kish
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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Accidentally on Purpose dives into Kristen Kish’s childhood as a Korean adoptee in the Midwest, finding purpose in kitchens, and becoming the season 10 winner of—and now host—of Top Chef all the while navigating life in the spotlight, coming out in her adult years, and all the life lessons in between.
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Enjoyable listen for fans…
- De NMwritergal en 04-23-25
De: Kristen Kish
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Kuleana
- A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai'i
- De: Sara Kehaulani Goo
- Narrado por: Sara Kehaulani Goo
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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From an early age, Sara Kehaulani Goo was enchanted by her family’s land in Hawai‘i. The vast area on the rugged shores of Maui’s east side—given by King Kamehameha III in 1848—extends from mountain to sea, encompassing ninety acres of lush, undeveloped rainforest jungle along the rocky coastline and a massive sixteenth-century temple with a mysterious past. When a property tax bill arrives with a 500 percent increase, Sara and her family members are forced to make a decision about the property: fight to keep the land or sell to the next offshore millionaire.
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The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club
- Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons in 16 Recipes
- De: Sepideh Gholian
- Narrado por: Ashraf Shirazi
- Duración: 3 h y 25 m
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How do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets with a broken mop? The secret is in a tres leches cake. In Iran’s prisons, women endure horrors: they are beaten, interrogated, and humiliated in a thousand ways. Even a whisper to a fellow inmate can be punished. Yet—in spite of anything and everything—they resist: they bake. They console each other, cry together, dance together. The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club is a call to stand up for Woman, Life, Freedom by a woman still fighting for a free Iran.
De: Sepideh Gholian
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Home of the Happy
- A Murder on the Cajun Prairie
- De: Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
- Narrado por: Christine Lakin
- Duración: 13 h y 10 m
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A compelling blend of true crime and memoir tracing the author’s investigation into the kidnapping and murder of her great-grandfather in 1980s Louisiana and the reverberations on her family and community throughout the decades
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wow! what an interesting story
- De M.C. McGraw en 05-16-25
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The Boat People
- De: Sharon Bala
- Narrado por: Athena Karkanis
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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By the winner of The Journey Prize, and inspired by a real incident, The Boat People is a gripping and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach Canada - only to face the threat of deportation and accusations of terrorism in their new land.
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A moving story, enhanced greatly by a terrific narration
- De Neil D. en 08-07-18
De: Sharon Bala
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We All Want to Change the World
- My Journey Through Social Justice Movements from the 1960s to Today
- De: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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For many, it can feel like change takes too long, and it might seem that we have not moved very far. But political activist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar believes that public protest is a vital part of affecting change, even if that change doesn’t come “right now.” In We All Want to Change the World, he examines the activism of people of all ages, ethnicities, and socio-economic backgrounds that helped change America, documenting events from the Free Speech Movement through the movement for civil rights, the fight for women’s and LGBTQ rights, and, of course, the protests against the Vietnam War.
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Thank you Kareem
- De Christoph Berry en 06-04-25
De: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, y otros
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The 10
- A Memoir of Family and the Open Road
- De: E.A. Hanks
- Narrado por: E.A. Hanks
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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From Vanity Fair and The New York Times contributor comes a beautifully written, deeply felt memoir recounting the solo cross-country journey she made along the Ten across the American southwest: a mission to uncover both what harrowing violence may or may not have happened to her late mother, but also, to look within and discover who she herself is—where her mother ends and she begins.
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Wanted to like it ... halfway through and need a break
- De Anonymous User en 04-14-25
De: E.A. Hanks
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Dirty Kitchen
- A Memoir of Food and Family
- De: Jill Damatac
- Narrado por: Jill Damatac
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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Interweaving forgotten colonial history and long-buried indigenous traditions, Dafilmmaker Jill Damatac takes us through her time in America, cooking her way through Filipino recipes in her kitchen as she searches for a sense of self and renewed possibility. With emotional intelligence, clarity, and grace, Dirty Kitchen explores fractured memories to ask questions of identity, colonialism, immigration, belonging, and to find ways in which the ritual, tradition, and comfort of food, can answer them.
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Maraming Salamat
- De Anonymous User en 05-24-25
De: Jill Damatac
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Notes to John
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Julianne Moore
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a rough few years.” She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne. For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions focused on alcoholism, adoption, depression, anxiety, guilt, and the heartbreaking complexities of her relationship with her daughter, Quintana. The subjects evolved to include her work, which she was finding difficult to maintain for sustained periods.
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This autobiography discusses notes from therapy regarding Joan’s daughter’s addiction. Very insightful!
- De Laura Borealis en 04-24-25
De: Joan Didion
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To Save and to Destroy
- Writing as an Other
- De: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrado por: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would soon move to San Jose, California, where the author grew up, attending UC-Berkeley in the aftermath of the shocking murder of Vincent Chin, which shaped the political sensibilities of a new generation of Asian Americans. The essays here, delivered originally as the prestigious Norton Lectures, proffer a new answer to a classic literary question: What does the outsider mean to literary writing?
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Free
- My Search for Meaning
- De: Amanda Knox
- Narrado por: Amanda Knox
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit—and became a notorious tabloid story in the process. Though she was exonerated, it’s taken more than a decade for her to reclaim her identity and truly feel free. Free recounts how Knox survived incarceration, the mistakes she made and misadventures she had reintegrating into society, and culminates in the as-yet-untold story of her return to Italy and the extraordinary relationship she went on to build with the man who sent her to prison.
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Amanda walks her talk.
- De Nikki Lee en 04-09-25
De: Amanda Knox
Up and positive
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I like that the author read her own book.
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Why Not Thinking can change your life
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Anyone who thinks that military action in other parts of the world doesn’t affect us… think again.
Thank you Vicky for sharing a part of yourself with the rest of us!
Inspiring & uplifting.
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This is such a wonderful story about a brave family.
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Loved this book
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Enjoyed Every Word
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This was amazing!
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Comical, Hope, Love, Inspiring
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Great insights and inspiring
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