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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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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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Great for adoptive families
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Narrator detracts from story
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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
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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
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Around My way, Your Way & Every Woman's way
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An ok way to kill some time
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My absolute favorite book of all time
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Salt of the Earth + Sparkles
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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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- 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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- Marshy
- 09-17-24
Loved it
I wish I knew of her sooner . I was crying . Such an inspiring story and I’m glad that she was able to write a memoir at such a young age . It’s a must read for sure
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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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- Stella Hatcher
- 09-20-21
Great read
One of the most enjoyable books I have ever read. So glad for parents that desire to give children a chance for a happy future.
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- Angel
- 02-16-20
Absolutely Breathtaking
It was a beautifully awakening book. It really made an impression on me. I would absolutely recommend it to anyone.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-21-23
So interesting
Life works in wonderful ways! So much sadness and horror for Michaela but ended beautifully. I hope her uncle knew how wonderful she always was!
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- Hgeorge
- 01-03-19
Compelling Story
I hope to hear an even longer autobiography as I haven’t nearly had enough of this well-written and compelling, provocative story.
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