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Who Owns the Ice House?
- Eight Life Lessons from an Unlikely Entrepreneur
- By: Gary G. Schoeniger, Clifton L. Taulbert
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson, Michael Beck
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 151
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 126
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Story5 out of 5 stars 127
Drawing on the entrepreneurial life lessons Taulbert learned from his uncle Cleve, Who Owns the Ice House? chronicles Taulbert’s journey from life in the Mississippi Delta at the height of legal segregation to being recognized by Time magazine as "one of our nation’s most outstanding emerging entrepreneurs". Who Owns the Ice House? reaches into the past to remind us of the timeless and universal principles that can empower anyone to succeed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book!
- By lead_By_Faith on 08-25-19
- Who Owns the Ice House?
- Eight Life Lessons from an Unlikely Entrepreneur
- By: Gary G. Schoeniger, Clifton L. Taulbert
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson, Michael Beck
This book needs taught in every High School
Reviewed: 08-31-19
This book, placed in the hands of a young person experiencing multi-generational poverty, or just plain looking for direction period, has the power to change lives, both in rural and urban communities. It successfully packs some powerful lessons in personable, easily digestible form, without ever feeling like a dry business book or a fluffy self-help tome. It's maximum beneficial content at minimum runtime at a time when many books on entrepreneurship are light on actionable content but long in the tooth on page count (or in the case of Audible, runtime)
The story of Uncle Cleve is a lesson that fulfillment and success is possible even in the harshest of circumstances and environments, regardless of where you come from, what you look like, where you live, how much money you have in your pocket, etc. As poverty continues to increase all across rural America, this book provides anyone who might listen a way out. This book needs taught in every High School in America.
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A Head Full of Ghosts
- By: Paul Tremblay
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6,383
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,777
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,760
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when 14-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Page turner
- By E.C. on 07-31-15
- A Head Full of Ghosts
- By: Paul Tremblay
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
Incredibly disturbing.
Reviewed: 09-29-15
Grabbed this after Stephen King tweeted that it scared the hell out of him. The narrator is great, except when she does voices of the male characters, which comes across as a small girl imitating the voice of grown men...but that might be the point. Starts off as a typical possession yarn, but then subverts every expectation you have as to what will happen next. Incredibly unsettling storytelling that flips the usual tropes on their ear.
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The Chris Farley Show
- A Biography in Three Acts
- By: Tom Farley, Tanner Colby
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer, L. J. Ganser, Mark Boyett
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,394
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,126
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,113
The New York Times best-selling biography of an American comedy legend. After three years of sobriety, Chris Farley's life was at its creative peak until a string of professional disappointments chased him back to drugs and alcohol. He fought hard against them, but it was a fight he would lose in December 1997. Farley's fans immediately drew parallels between his death and that of his idol, John Belushi. Without looking deeper, however, many failed to see that Farley was much more than just another Hollywood drug overdose. In this officially authorized oral history, Farley's friends and family remember his work and life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredibly sad....
- By Marie B on 04-12-15
- The Chris Farley Show
- A Biography in Three Acts
- By: Tom Farley, Tanner Colby
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer, L. J. Ganser, Mark Boyett
A heartbreaking farewell to a genius...
Reviewed: 07-30-15
This is a really well done presentation of an incredibly well written, heartbreaking book. I was 17 in 1997, and as an SNL junkie since grade school, Chris Farley and Phil Hartman were both heroes of mine. This is a funny, moving, and at times devastating first hand account of Farley's meteoric rise and untimely death, told by his family and friends (both famous and not). It would be hard to imagine a more comprehensive look back at the man and what made him who he was, both the good and the bad.
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