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A Memoir
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Rafael Agustin
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A funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin (Jane the Virgin) accidentally discovered he was undocumented and how that revelation turned everything he thought he knew about himself and his family upside down.
Growing up, Rafa’s parents didn't want him to feel different because, as his mom told him: "Dreams should not have borders." But when he tried to get his driver's license during his junior year of high school, his parents were forced to reveal his immigration status. Suddenly, the kid who modeled his entire high school career after American TV shows had no idea what to do—there was no episode of Saved by the Bell where Zack gets deported! While his parents were relieved to no longer live a lie in front of their son, Rafa found himself completely unraveling in the face of his uncertain future.
Illegally Yours is a heartwarming, comical look at how this struggling Ecuadorian immigrant family bonded together to navigate Rafa's school life, his parents' work lives, and their shared secret life as undocumented Americans, determined to make the best of their always turbulent and sometimes dangerous American existence. From using the Ricky Martin/Jennifer Lopez “Latin Explosion” to his social advantage in the ‘90s to how his parents—doctors in their home country of Ecuador—were reduced to working menial jobs in the US, the family's secret became their struggle, and their struggle became their hustle. An alternatingly hilarious and touching exploration of belonging and identity, Illegally Yours revolves around one very simple question: What does it mean to be American?
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Reseñas de la Crítica
"Funny is where the heart is. But this book is more than just funny—it’s candid, discerning, and truthful in the most specific and humane ways about what it means to be an immigrant, undocumented or not, in America. A writer of immense heart, Rafael Agustín pierces through these pages."—Jose Antonio Vargas, founder of Define American and best-selling author of Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
“You cannot change someone’s mind before first changing their heart. Rafael Agustin's Illegally Yours does that with one of the most divisive issues in America today: immigration.”—Alyssa Milano
Featured Article: Latino Stories in Biographies & Memoirs
In modern America, the interchangeable use of the words "Hispanic" and "Latino" blends two identities that are inherently unique in their own right. While Hispanic refers to those who speak Spanish, Latino generally denotes geography, referring to people of Latin American descent. This collection seeks to embody a few Latino narratives from authors descended from Latin America. Press play on these inspiring listens.
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Kathy Izard was a graphic designer, wife, mother of four daughters, and volunteer at Charlotte’s Urban Ministry Center when an unlikely meeting with formerly homeless author Denver Moore changed the course of her life. Inspired by Denver’s challenge to do more than serve in this soup kitchen, Kathy quit her job to take on what seemed like an unimaginable task in her second half of life - to build housing for Charlotte’s homeless.
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Fabulous book!
- De Andrew Mathes en 08-14-19
De: Kathy Izard
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Eat, Poop, Die
- How Animals Make Our World
- De: Joe Roman PhD
- Narrado por: Claire Christie
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains—eating, pooping, and dying along the way—are its heart and arteries, pumping nitrogen and phosphorus from deep-sea gorges up to mountain peaks, from the Arctic to the Caribbean. Without this conveyor belt of crucial, life-sustaining nutrients, the world would look very different.
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Excellent!
- De Lee en 07-20-24
De: Joe Roman PhD
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The Traveler's Summit
- De: Andy Andrews
- Narrado por: Andy Andrews
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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This is humanity’s last chance. Centuries of greed, pride, and hate have sent humankind hurtling toward disaster, far from our original purpose. There is only one solution that can reset the compass and right the ship, and that answer is only two words. With time running out, it’s up to David Ponder and a cast of history’s best and brightest minds to uncover this solution before it is too late. The catch? They are allowed only five tries to solve the ominous challenge.
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AMAZING!! BEST BOOK SO FAR!
- De Amazon Customer en 08-16-18
De: Andy Andrews
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The Power of Neurodiversity
- Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain
- De: Thomas Armstrong PhD
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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From ADHD and dyslexia to autism, the number of diagnosis categories listed by the American Psychiatric Association has tripled in the last fifty years. With so many affected, it is time to revisit our perceptions of people with disabilities. Psychologist and educator Thomas Armstrong illuminates a new understanding of neuropsychological disorders. He argues that if they are a part of the natural diversity of the human brain, they cannot simply be defined as illnesses. Armstrong explores the evolutionary advantages, special skills, and other positive dimensions of these conditions.
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A Step in the Right Direction
- De Rowan Mendoza en 11-03-21
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McMillions
- De: James Lee Hernandez, Brian Lazarte
- Narrado por: Brian Lazarte, James Lee Hernandez
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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In March of 2001, Federal prosecutor Mark Devereaux cold-called Rob Holm, the head of security for McDonald's Corporation. Without explanation, Devereaux asked that Holm and several other McDonald's senior executives plan a visit to the Jacksonville, Florida, FBI, and tell no one about their intended destination. It wasn't up for discussion. Upon their arrival, Devereaux watched them closely, looking at body language, checking for tells. To him, they were all potential suspects.
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Loved the juicy bonus material to the series!!
- De Anonymous User en 01-24-25
De: James Lee Hernandez, y otros
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Once Upon a Farm
- De: Rory Feek
- Narrado por: Rory Feek
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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Now raising their four-year-old daughter, Indiana, alone, after Joey’s passing, Rory Feek digs deeper into the soil of his life and the unusual choices he and his wife, Joey, made together and the ones he’s making now to lead his family into the future. When Feek and his older daughters moved into a run-down farmhouse almost 20 years ago, he had no idea of the almost fairy-tale love story that was going to unfold on that small piece of Tennessee land. He takes listeners on his incredible journey from heartbreak to hope and, ultimately, the kind of healing that comes only through faith.
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Touching
- De Kristin en 06-20-18
De: Rory Feek
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A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs
- A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival
- De: Gulchehra Hoja
- Narrado por: Sarah Suzuk
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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In February 2018, twenty-four members of Gulchehra Hoja's family disappeared overnight. Her crime – and thus that of her family – was her award-winning investigations on the plight of her people, the Uyghurs, whose existence and culture is being systematically destroyed by the Chinese government. A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs is Gulchehra’s stunning memoir, taking us into the everyday world of life under Chinese rule in East Turkestan (more formally as the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China), from her idyllic childhood to its modern nightmare.
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Beautiful
- De Genniphur en 08-14-23
De: Gulchehra Hoja
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Little Things
- Why You Really Should Sweat the Small Stuff
- De: Andy Andrews
- Narrado por: Andy Andrews
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
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The Little Things embodies Andy Andrews' own approach to life and work, detailing for the first time some of the exclusive material that he uses to teach and coach some of the most successful corporations, teams, and individuals around the world. In his unique humorous style, Andy shows how people succeed by actually going against the modern adage "don't sweat the small stuff". By contrast, Andy proves that it is in concentrating on the smaller things that we add value and margin.
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A homerun for Andy!!
- De JustDisGuy en 03-11-17
De: Andy Andrews
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Altamont
- The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
- De: Joel Selvin
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones' infamous Altamont concert in San Francisco, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s.
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I was there...
- De Marcheta en 08-29-16
De: Joel Selvin
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Crow Planet
- Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
- De: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
- Narrado por: Christine Williams
- Duración: 5 h y 31 m
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There are more crows now than ever. Their abundance is both an indicator of ecological imbalance and a generous opportunity to connect with the animal world. Crow Planet reminds us that we do not need to head to faraway places to encounter "nature". Rather, even in the suburbs and cities where we live we are surrounded by wild life such as crows, and through observing them we can enhance our appreciation of the world's natural order.
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Thought this would be better
- De K Dod en 09-08-20
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Marrow
- A Love Story
- De: Elizabeth Lesser
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Lesser, Sally Field
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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A mesmerizing and courageous memoir: the story of two sisters uncovering the depth of their love through the life-and-death experience of a bone marrow transplant. Throughout her life Elizabeth Lesser has sought understanding about what it means to be true to yourself and, at the same time, truly connected to the ones you love. But when her sister, Maggie, needs a bone marrow transplant to save her life, and Lesser learns that she is the perfect match, she faces a far more immediate and complex question about what it really means to love.
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“ Love came first “
- De marie en 03-26-18
De: Elizabeth Lesser
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Cowpuppy
- An Unexpected Friendship and a Scientist’s Journey into the Secret World of Cows
- De: Gregory Berns
- Narrado por: Derek Dysart
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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When Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his wife decided to venture into sustainable farming in rural Georgia, they knew that cows were a key part of a successful operation. But that was where his knowledge of cattle ended. As Berns and his small herd of three miniature zebus acclimated to each other and Berns received a crash course in being a cattleman, he turned his powers of scientific observation and innovation on his new charges. Cowpuppy offers a deeper understanding of these complex creatures and what we humans can learn from them.
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The warmth of the story. Quality of narration delivery. Depth of scientific detail and historical background.
- De Wanted... and Wiley en 09-18-24
De: Gregory Berns
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Poland 1939
- The Outbreak of World War II
- De: Roger Moorhouse
- Narrado por: Roger Moorhouse
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Poland, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler's soldiers invaded, followed later that month by Stalin's Red Army. The conflict that followed saw the debut of many of the features that would come to define the later war-blitzkrieg, the targeting of civilians, ethnic cleansing, and indiscriminate aerial bombing-yet it is routinely overlooked by historians.
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Always Overlooked
- De C. G. Telcontar en 05-27-21
De: Roger Moorhouse
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Normal Family
- On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
- De: Chrysta Bilton
- Narrado por: Chrysta Bilton
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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What is a “normal family,” and how do you go about making one? Chrysta Bilton’s magnetic, larger-than-life mother, Debra, yearned to have a child, but as a single gay woman in 1980s California, she had few options. Until one day, while getting her hair done in a Beverly Hills salon, she met a man and instantly knew he was the one she’d been looking for. Beautiful, athletic, artistic, and from a well-to-do family, Jeffrey Harrison appeared to be Debra’s ideal sperm donor.
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Absorbing, literary memoir, best of the genre
- De Sue Kasdon en 07-20-22
De: Chrysta Bilton
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Tough Titties
- On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst
- De: Laura Belgray
- Narrado por: Laura Belgray
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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Tough Titties is one big permission slip to be a dork, a sometimes-unspiritual slacker, a late bloomer and, ultimately, 100% yourself. It’ll also have you snort-laughing in public and tapping whoever’s nearby to say, “Lemme read you one more part!” Which is annoying, but tough titties.
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Plum! jinx!
- De Emily en 07-19-23
De: Laura Belgray
What a journey!
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Funny, compelling and authentic
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Leaves me wanting to be a better person.
The sky is the limit
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Ncg
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Beautifully Written!!
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Absolutely loved this book!
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I have to say that I laughed out loud at the Vicks VapoRub story since I recently became close with an Ecuadoran family and was named Godmother to a 9&10 year old. Just before I heard your story one of them was feeling sick, but told me everything should be alright because her mom just rubbed her with VapoRub. At least the tradition continues across generations and continents and is still happening in Queens.
Thank you for telling your story.
I love this story sooooooo much!
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Excellently Written and Read!!
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experience through their own words. Gave you a whole new appreciation for what the author went through, trying to dodge a system that he was trying to integrate. A very good read, or I should say listen. I recommend it.
Interesting perspective
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An Inspiration
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