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Everyone’s Invited
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Wilmer Valderrama
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A love letter to America from the pen of actor, producer, immigrant, and activist Wilmer Valderrama.
In this timely memoir, Valderrama looks back on his journey from a tiny pueblo in Venezuela to the big city of Los Angeles—how he discovered his calling as an actor and later as a USO Global Ambassador, found work in Hollywood as an unproven Latino actor, and used his determination and success to build a new life for himself, his family, and many others.
Raised by two hard working parents as they navigated their family through a rapidly changing country and the rise of Venezuela's controversial former leader Hugo Chavez, Valderrama delves into his family's flight from their home and the challenges of emigrating to the United States.
After being cast in a school theatre production, Valderrama knew he had found his calling and began thinking of ways to help support his struggling family. He would attempt the impossible: find work in Hollywood as an unproven Latino actor. Following countless auditions and frequent criticisms of his accent, he created the personality that would eventually land him the role as Fez on That 70s Show.
It catapulted him to stardom.
Over the coming years, he would create the smash show, Yo Mamma, voice the lead character in Disney's Encanto, and eventually join the cast of NCIS. But it was through service to others and his first USO trip where Valderrama found his further calling—entertaining and encouraging U.S. troops around the world.
The saga of a determined soul, An American Story: Everyone's Invited is an exploration of America through the eyes of a young immigrant from Venezuela who had a dream to change the world, a talent for entertaining, and the resolve to build a new life, taking as many as possible with him on the journey.
"This is my way of showing my love, my gratitude to the country that changed my whole life."
The photo insert can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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Willing fight and transformation with ALS
- By Ron S on 12-20-24
By: Steve Gleason, and others
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For Such a Time as This
- On Being Jewish Today
- By: Elliot Cosgrove
- Narrated by: Elliot Cosgrove
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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For Jews today, the attack on Israel on October 7th has drawn a clear and irreversible demarcation in time. On that day, the Jewish community woke up to an unrecognizable new reality, witnessing the stark rise in antisemitism, the world’s oldest hatred, in its wake. But even in this dark hour, the Jewish community is experiencing something profound and beautiful: a deep, abiding connection to community, culture, and faith. Drawing on the rich trove of Jewish history and tradition, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove helps listeners make sense of this fraught time.
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Wise & heartfelt analysis of our times…and a way forward.
- By Henry L. Edwards, MAPP on 10-25-24
By: Elliot Cosgrove
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I Can't Save You
- A Memoir
- By: Anthony Chin-Quee
- Narrated by: Anthony Chin-Quee
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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At first glance, Anthony Chin-Quee looks like a traditional success story: a smart, ambitious kid who grew up to become a board-certified otolaryngologist—an ear, nose, and throat surgeon. Yet the truth is more complicated. As a self-described “not white, mostly Black, and questionably Asian man,” Chin-Quee knows that he doesn’t fit easily into any category. Growing up in a family with a background of depression, he struggled with relationships, feelings of inadequacy, and a fear of failure that made it difficult for him to forge lasting bonds with others.
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A great read by the author
- By A. Li on 04-10-23
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Return
- A Journey Back to Living Wild
- By: Lynx Vilden
- Narrated by: Lynx Vilden
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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In this stunning memoir, beloved internationally acclaimed earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for how we all can nurture the wild around and inside ourselves.
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Finding tribe
- By Jessica M Berry on 03-18-24
By: Lynx Vilden
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A Few Days Full of Trouble
- Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till
- By: Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr., Christopher Benson
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
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In 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was lynched. That remains an undisputed fact of the case that ignited a flame within the Civil Rights Movement that has yet to be extinguished. Yet the rest of the details surrounding the event remain distorted by time and too many tellings. What does justice mean in the resolution of a cold case spanning nearly seven decades?
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Different perspective
- By Anonymous User on 01-25-23
By: Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr., and others
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My Dream Time
- A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork
- By: Ashleigh Barty
- Narrated by: Miranda Tapsell
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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I’m only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that’s young to write a memoir. Who does that, right? But for me and my team it’s always been important to reflect on every part of the journey, especially the end. In that context, the timing is perfect to share my story, from the first time I picked up a racquet as a 5-year-old girl to the night I packed up my tennis bag after winning the 2022 Australian Open.
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Relentless
- By Bing Eastburn on 08-27-23
By: Ashleigh Barty
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Unraveling
- What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater
- By: Peggy Orenstein
- Narrated by: Peggy Orenstein
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. Some adopted puppies. Others stress-baked. Peggy Orenstein, a lifelong knitter, went just a little further. To keep herself engaged and cope with a series of seismic shifts in family life, she set out to make a garment from the ground up: learning to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, then knitting herself a sweater.
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Nailed it!
- By Miss Effie on 02-19-23
By: Peggy Orenstein
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How She Did It
- Stories, Advice, and Secrets to Success from Fifty Legendary Distance Runners
- By: Molly Huddle, Sara Slattery
- Narrated by: Molly Huddle, Sara Slattery, Gisela Chipe, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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The road from a high school track to an Olympic starting line is long and sometimes shadowy. Obstacles like chronic injuries, under-fueled nutrition, and coercive coaching can threaten to derail careers before they’ve even begun. Frustrated by seeing young talent burn out before reaching their potential, professional distance runner Molly Huddle and college coach Sara Slattery have teamed up with trailblazing running legends and sports medicine professionals to create an essential guide to reach your running potential.
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Buy the paper copy
- By Kara Abshire on 07-20-24
By: Molly Huddle, and others
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By All Means Available
- Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy
- By: Michael G. Vickers
- Narrated by: Michael G. Vickers
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
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In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA’s secret war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. After inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on the Soviets for their invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, Vickers transformed the covert campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghan resistance win their war. More than any other American, he was responsible for the outcome in Afghanistan that led to the end of the Cold War. In By All Means Available, Vickers recounts his remarkable career.
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Great listen, interesting information
- By Amazon Customer on 08-02-23
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A Gentleman and a Thief
- The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
- By: Dean Jobb
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Catch Me If You Can meets The Great Gatsby meets the hit Netflix series Lupin in this captivating true-crime caper. A skilled con artist and perhaps one of the most charming, audacious burglars in history, Arthur Barry slipped in and out of the bedrooms of New York’s wealthiest residents, even as his victims slept only inches away. He befriended luminaries such as the Prince of Wales and Harry Houdini and became a folk hero, touted in the press as “the greatest jewel thief who ever lived” and an “Aristocrat of Crime.”
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A great story told at a very leisurely pace
- By appreciative reader on 09-06-24
By: Dean Jobb
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Hidden Mountains
- Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong
- By: Michael Wejchert
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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In 2018, two couples set out on a climbing expedition to Alaska’s Hidden Mountains, one of the last wild ranges in North America. A rarity in modern climbing, the peaks were nearly unexplored and untouched, a place where few people had ever visited and granite spires still awaited first ascents. Inspired by generations of daring alpinists before them, the four climbers were now compelled to strike out into uncharted territory themselves.
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Disjointed Narrative and Confusing Storylines
- By Emily A. Brown on 08-16-24
By: Michael Wejchert
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Horse Barbie
- A Memoir
- By: Geena Rocero
- Narrated by: Geena Rocero
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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As a young femme in 1990s Manila, Geena Rocero heard, “Bakla, bakla!,” a taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the tiny universe of her eskinita. Eventually, she found her place in trans pageants, the Philippines’ informal national sport. When her competitors mocked her as a “horse Barbie” due to her statuesque physique, tumbling hair, long neck, and dark skin, she leaned into the epithet. By seventeen, she was the Philippines’ highest-earning trans pageant queen.
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Heart felt narration by author. Trail blazer woman!
- By T. Li on 03-25-25
By: Geena Rocero
the dream of a little boy achieving his dreams in the usa
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Inspired by your origin story
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Eye opening
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I Learned So Much!
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Immigrants story in America
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Truly he is such an inspiration!! Incredible human.
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Too close to home…
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Compassion
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Everyone Should Listen
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What a great story!
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