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When Your Back's Against the Wall
- Fame, Football, and Lessons Learned Through a Lifetime of Adversity
- By: Michael Oher, Don Yaeger - contributor
- Narrated by: Cary Hite, Michael Oher
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Millions of people became part of Michael Oher’s story when they watched a version of him on the big screen; read his memoir, I Beat the Odds; or cheered him on from the stands. After speaking to so many of them over the years, Oher knows that more than anything, people want to believe great things can happen, even when the situation looks bleak. His story of overcoming the toughest of odds serves as their hope.
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I’m grateful for Michael Oher.
- By Sharon Loew on 06-09-24
- When Your Back's Against the Wall
- Fame, Football, and Lessons Learned Through a Lifetime of Adversity
- By: Michael Oher, Don Yaeger - contributor
- Narrated by: Cary Hite, Michael Oher
Authenticity
Reviewed: 11-23-23
As someone who also greatly impacted by a concussion, I identified with the recovery process. As someone who was also able to exit poverty, I identified with some of those facets too.
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Being Dead Is No Excuse
- The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral
- By: Gayden Metcalfe, Charlotte Hays
- Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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As author Gayden Metcalfe asserts, people in the Delta have a strong sense of community, and being dead is no impediment to belonging to it. Down south, they don't forget you when you've up and died - they may even like you better and visit you more often! But just as there is an appropriate way to live your life in the South, there is an equally essentially tasteful way of departing it - and the funeral is the final social event of your existence, so it must be handled flawlessly. Metcalfe portrays this slice of American culture.
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Great Book, wrong reader
- By Moving Target on 12-17-23
- Being Dead Is No Excuse
- The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral
- By: Gayden Metcalfe, Charlotte Hays
- Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
Not suited for audio reading
Reviewed: 05-21-22
Being read a cookbook by someone with a fake sounding southern accent was not enjoyable
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