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The sun sinks over the Rio Grande, the mountains around it glow orange, and the world slows down. The Mexican free-tailed bats inside the Jornada Cave are just starting to stretch and murmur. In this episode, we visit the nursery where all the baby bats stay together, and we accompany a new mother as she journeys into the sky with the rest of her crew for a night of hunting bugs via echolocation.

From the depths of struggle to the heights of triumph, Deserts to Mountaintops’ fourth volume, Out of the Ashes, gathers the voices of twenty women who refused to be defined by what tried to break them. These are stories of resilience, reclamation, and the fierce beauty that emerges when women choose to stand tall in the aftermath of life’s most destructive fires. Across cultures, seasons, and circumstances, each author offers a glimpse into her own journey of survival and renewal.

Deserts are far more than sand and heat. Across the globe, these vast, silent places hide strange facts, unexpected life, and ancient natural wonders. This audiobook shares unusual desert facts in a slow, peaceful rhythm, allowing your thoughts to soften and your breathing to settle.

In 2011, Jessica Buchanan found herself in the middle of a nightmare she could never have prepared for; she was a hostage in the desert, captured by Somali pirates, who held a 45 million dollar ransom demand on her head. Taken at gunpoint while on a routine field mission for her non-governmental organization, Jessica was forced to live in deplorable conditions, regularly tortured, and kept on a starvation diet for 93 days. On January 25, 2012, Jessica was successfully rescued by SEAL Team VI, upon order of President Obama, and finally brought home.

There comes a time in life when we find ourselves in the desert place of burning questions: Why? And why me? But even as we shake our fist heavenward, the heart whispers another question: Who? Who are you, God? Who are you to me? Against the backdrop of the Sonoran Desert, Lynne Hartke asks her own hard questions as cancer arrives like a thief with one goal: to take it all.