
Wild Ride
A Memoir of I.V. Drips and Rocket Ships
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The youngest American to ever orbit the earth—cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux—shows us all that when we face our fears with hope and faith, extraordinary things can happen.
“A potent reminder to all of us that nothing on earth—or in the heavens, for that matter—can keep us from becoming commanders of our own destiny.”—Marlo Thomas, actor, author, and national outreach director for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD
In this boldly optimistic debut memoir, Hayley Arceneaux details how she overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to grab hold of a life greater than she’d ever imagined. With her signature upbeat messaging, Arceneaux recounts her odyssey, from her cancer diagnosis at age ten and the yearlong treatment that inspired her goal of working with pediatric cancer patients, to living through her father’s terminal cancer diagnosis, to getting her lifelong dream job at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as a physician assistant. She was sure she’d finally attained the life she wanted, and then the amazing and unimaginable happened: She was invited to go to space as a St. Jude ambassador.
Throughout the book, Arceneaux encourages listeners to fight for the life they want, saying, You have to hold on, because you don’t know what great thing can come and change your life. Take the chance and you will feel, and learn, and grow, and become even more you. Following your dreams can take you to dreams you didn’t know you had.
Arceneaux’s uplifting story is the inspiration we all need today. She offers wisdom and lessons in courage to anyone fighting against the odds. And through it all, she reveals how resilience and faith can help us grab hold of the life we’ve always wanted and live it to the fullest.
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- The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
- De: Richard Hurowitz
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 14 h y 29 m
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Less than a century ago, the Second World War took the lives of more than fifty million people; more than six million of them were systematically exterminated through crimes of such enormity that a new name to describe the horror was coined: the Holocaust. Yet amid such darkness, there were glimmers of light—courageous individuals who risked everything to save those hunted by the Nazis.
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Must read! Outstanding and compelling! Couldn’t stop until the end.
- De Integrity personified en 03-03-23
De: Richard Hurowitz
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Gideon's Promise
- A Public Defender Movement to Transform Criminal Justice
- De: Jonathan Rapping
- Narrado por: Frank Gerard
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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Combining wisdom drawn from over a dozen years as a public defender and cutting-edge research in the fields of organizational and cultural psychology, Jonathan Rapping proposes a radical cultural shift to a “fiercely client-based ethos” driven by values-based recruitment training, awakening defenders to their role in upholding an unjust status quo, and a renewed pride in the essential role of moral lawyering in a democratic society.
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A professional ethic for public defenders
- De Amazon Customer en 03-23-24
De: Jonathan Rapping
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The Escape Artist
- The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
- De: Jonathan Freedland
- Narrado por: Jonathan Freedland
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became one of the very first Jews to escape from Auschwitz and make his way to freedom—among only a tiny handful who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world—and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them. Against all odds, Vrba and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers, and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the first full account of Auschwitz the world had ever seen.
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- De Matt en 11-10-22
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The Oxford Inklings
- Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle
- De: Colin Duriez
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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The Oxford Inklings tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings - the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Meeting in pubs or Lewis' college rooms, they included an influential array of literary figures. They were, claimed poet and novelist John Wain, bent on 'the task of redirecting the whole current of contemporary art and life'. Tolkien and Lewis expert Colin Duriez unpacks the Inklings' origins, relationships, and the nature of their collaboration.
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Great insights into the Inklings
- De Michael W Plunket en 08-12-24
De: Colin Duriez
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Inheritance
- A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
- De: Dani Shapiro
- Narrado por: Dani Shapiro
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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Inheritance is an audiobook about secrets - secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman's urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that has been scrupulously hidden from her for more than 50 years, years she had spent writing brilliantly, and compulsively, on themes of identity and family history.
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Author makes too much out of too little...
- De River Holmes-miller en 01-16-19
De: Dani Shapiro
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The Last Season
- De: Eric Blehm
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada - mountains as perilous as they are beautiful. Eric Blehm's masterful work is a gripping detective story interwoven with the riveting biography of a complicated, original, and wholly fascinating man.
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Well Written Character Study of an NPS Ranger
- De Kathy in CA en 06-23-16
De: Eric Blehm
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Professional Troublemaker
- The Fear-Fighter Manual
- De: Luvvie Ajayi Jones
- Narrado por: Luvvie Ajayi Jones
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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Luvvie Ajayi Jones is known for her trademark wit, warmth, and perpetual truth-telling. But even she's been challenged by the enemy of progress known as fear. She was once afraid to call herself a writer, and nearly skipped out on doing a TED talk that changed her life because of imposter syndrome. As she shares in Professional Troublemaker, she's not alone.
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I’m missing something
- De Cheval Violet en 04-22-21
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Hidden Valley Road
- Inside the Mind of an American Family
- De: Robert Kolker
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their 12 children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins—aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the 10 Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic.
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A story you've never heard before
- De Kelley Cox en 04-19-20
De: Robert Kolker
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Quitter
- A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
- De: Erica C. Barnett
- Narrado por: Jean Ann Douglass
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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A startlingly frank memoir, Quitter documents one woman's struggles with alcoholism and recovery, with essential new insights into addiction and treatment.
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Long Drunkaloug But Well Defined
- De Danielle T en 11-16-20
De: Erica C. Barnett
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Chasing Hope
- A Reporter's Life
- De: Nicholas D. Kristof
- Narrado por: Nicholas D. Kristof
- Duración: 17 h
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Since 1984, Nicholas Kristof has worked almost continuously for The New York Times as a reporter, foreign correspondent, bureau chief, and now columnist, becoming one of the foremost reporters of his generation. Here, he recounts his event-filled path from a small-town farm in Oregon to every corner of the world. This is a candid memoir of vulnerability and courage, humility and purpose, mistakes and learning—a singular tale of the trials, tribulations, and hope to be found in a life dedicated to the pursuit of truth.
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Ink Runs In My Veins
- De Lori Breit en 04-01-25
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Spearhead
- An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
- De: Adam Makos
- Narrado por: Johnathan McClain
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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From the author of the international best seller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner’s journey into the heart of the Third Reich, where he will meet destiny in an iconic armor duel - and forge an enduring bond with his enemy.
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Excellent
- De Msgr. John R. McGrath en 03-11-19
De: Adam Makos
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A Quantum Life
- My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
- De: Hakeem Oluseyi, Joshua Horwitz
- Narrado por: Hakeem Oluseyi
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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Navigating poverty, violence, and instability, a young James Plummer had two guiding stars - a genius IQ and a love of science. But a bookish nerd is a soft target, and James faced years of bullying and abuse. As he struggled to survive his childhood in some of the country’s toughest urban neighborhoods in New Orleans, Houston, and LA, and later in the equally poor backwoods of Mississippi, he adopted the persona of “gangsta nerd” - dealing weed in juke joints while winning state science fairs with computer programs that model Einstein’s theory of relativity.
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Just WOW
- De Anonymous User en 07-16-21
De: Hakeem Oluseyi, y otros
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All That She Carried
- The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
- De: Tiya Miles
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of slavery.
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An Astonishing Feat of Scholarship, Imagination and Empathy
- De Cin en 06-30-21
De: Tiya Miles
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Beyond
- The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
- De: Stephen Walker
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour - 10 times faster than a rifle bullet - Yuri Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows, he sees the Earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing, he has become a world celebrity - the first human to leave the planet. Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary.
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A remarkable story on many levels
- De Dipam en 03-22-22
De: Stephen Walker
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How To
- Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
- De: Randall Munroe
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
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Bad Ideas So BAD They Are NEARLY Irresistable! 🤓
- De C. White en 09-03-19
De: Randall Munroe
Although I followed the mission closely, this was a great insight into Hayley's life, and I didn't want it to end.
Excellent book
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Incredibly Inspiring!
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This story is a lighthearted read with positive undertones. She does a good job narrating her story.
Nice Story
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Awesome story
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Heartwarming
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Awesome story!
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Inspiring book!
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Love Love LOVED it!!!!!!!
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I’ve lost many friends to cancer. So I love to hear success stories. I’ve always been fascinated by space and her experience is truly a “Wild Ride.”
So Inspiring!
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Lovely memoir
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