Audiobooks by Deborah Rodriguez

Margarita Wednesdays: Making a New Life by the Mexican Sea

In answer to the question of what happened following her New York Times bestseller Kabul Beauty School, Deborah Rodriquez is back with a new memoir. Irreverent, insightful, and blatantly honest, Deborah takes us along on her inspiring journey of self-discovery and renewal after she is forced to flee Afghanistan in 2007. She first lands in California, where she feels like a misfit teetering on the brink of sanity. Where was that fearless redhead who stared danger in the face back in Kabul? After being advised to commune with glowworms and sit in contemplation for a year, Rodriguez finally packs her life and her cat into her Mini Cooper and moves to a seaside town in Mexico. Despite having no plan, no friends, and no Spanish, a determined Rodriguez soon finds herself swept up in a world where the music never stops and a new life can begin. Her adventures and misadventures among the expats and locals help lead the way to new love, new family, and a new sense of herself. In the magic of Mexico, she finds the hairdresser within and builds the life she never knew was possible—a life on her own terms. “Following her forced evacuation from Afghanistan in 2007, Rodriguez found herself unmoored and without a life plan…Following a cruise to Mexico, she purchased a small house in the Mexican resort city of Mazatlán and began rebuilding her life…Fans of Rodriguez’s brash and honest tone will thoroughly enjoy this next installment in her remarkable story.”—Publishers Weekly

Deborah Rodriguez (Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator)

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A Cup of Friendship

From the author of the "bighearted . . . inspiring" (Vogue) memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life: the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Afghanistan, and the men and women who meet there - thrown together by circumstance, bonded by secrets, and united in an extraordinary friendship. After hard luck and some bad choices, Sunny has finally found a place to call home - it just happens to be in the middle of a war zone. The thirty-eight-year-old Americans pride and joy is the Kabul Coffee House, where she brings hospitality to the expatriates, misfits, missionaries, and mercenaries who stroll through its doors. Shes especially grateful that the busy days allow her to forget Tommy, the love of her life, who left her in pursuit of money and adventure. Working alongside Sunny is the maternal Halajan, who vividly recalls the days before the Taliban and now must hide a modern romance from her ultratraditional son - who, unbeknownst to her, is facing his own religious doubts. Into the café come Isabel, a British journalist on the trail of a risky story; Jack, who left his family back home in Michigan to earn "danger pay" as a consultant; and Candace, a wealthy and well-connected American whose desire to help threatens to cloud her judgment. When Yazmina, a young Afghan from a remote village, is kidnapped and left on a city street pregnant and alone, Sunny welcomes her into the café and gives her a home - but Yazmina hides a secret that could put all their lives in jeopardy. As this group of men and women discover that theres more to one another than meets the eye, theyll form an unlikely friendship that will change not only their own lives but the lives of an entire country. Brimming with Deborah Rodriguezs remarkable gift for depicting the nuances of life in Kabul, and filled with vibrant characters that readers will truly care about, A Cup of Friendship is the best kind of fiction - full of heart yet smart and thought-provoking.From the Hardcover edition.

Deborah Rodriguez (Author), Mozhan Marno (Narrator)

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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes behind the Veil

When Deborah Rodriguez bravely opened the Kabul Beauty School, she empowered Afghan women with a new sense of autonomy. This book tells the stories of her students, including the wife who pursues her training despite her Taliban husband's beatings, who learn the lessons of perms, friendship, and freedom.

Deborah Rodriguez, Kristin Ohlson (Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator)

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