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Get the Summary of Jennette McCurdy's “I'm Glad My Mom Died” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So, she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself...
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#1 I was born in Japan between two worlds. I was Korean on my father's side and Japanese on my mother's side. I was raised in a poor Korean family in Mizonokuchi, a neighborhood south of Tokyo. I dreamed of becoming the prime minister of Japan.
#2 My mother, Miyoko, was a woman of strong character. She had an oval face that was beautiful in its way. My father, on the...
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Get the Summary of Greg Steinmetz's American Rascal in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: American Rascal shows Gould's complex, quirky character. He was at once praised for his brilliance by Rockefeller and Vanderbilt and condemned for forever destroying American business values by Mark Twain. He lived a colorful life, trading jokes with Thomas Edison, figuring Thomas Nast's best sketches,...
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#1 I am blessed among men. I was encouraged by my daughter, Maggie, and my wife, Ellen, while writing this book.
#2 My father, Malachy McCourt, was born in Toome, County Antrim. He grew up wild, in trouble with the English, or the Irish, or both. He fought with the Old IRA and for some desperate act he wound up a fugitive with a price on his head. When I was a child,...
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Get the Summary of Eddie Jaku's The Happiest Man on Earth in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Eddie was beaten by SS thugs, arrested, and sent to a concentration camp with thousands...
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#1 When Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn't know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan, but he was ready. He had written in his journal to both Nathan and Savannah, his ten-year-old son, a letter they weren't meant to see unless the worst happened.
#2 In late 2009, intelligence agencies had been tracking a Taliban leader named...
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Book Preview: #1 iSight Partners, a private intelligence firm, had a team that specialized in software vulnerability research. In 2014, they discovered a secret security flaw in Microsoft Office that allowed hackers to break out of the confines of the software application and begin to execute their own code on a target computer.
#2 iSight's Ukrainian staff found the email, and Hultquist,...
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Get the Summary of L. David Marquet's Turn the Ship Around! in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Marquet acted like any other captain until, one day, he unknowingly gave an impossible order, and his crew tried to follow it anyway. When he asked why the order wasn't challenged, the answer was "Because you told me to." Marquet realized he was leading in a culture of followers, and they...
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Get the Summary of Stanley Tucci's Taste in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Taste is a reflection on the intersection of food and life, filled with anecdotes about his growing up in Westchester, New York, preparing for and shooting the foodie films Big Night and Julie & Julia, falling in love over dinner, and teaming up with his wife to create meals for a multitude of children. Each morsel...
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Book Preview: #1 The last day, Elizabeth Packard woke up in a handsome maple bed, body covered by a snow-white counterpane. She was surrounded by her six children, who were the sun, moon, and stars of her life.
#2 Theophilus had always tried to control Elizabeth, and she had always resisted him. But he had never before gone through her things at night, and she was shocked by his behavior.
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#1 The women in my brain are afraid. I am writing this book because I love them, and because I know the world would be better with more women on the stage. But the women in my brain are afraid.
#2 An actress's life is a metaphor for the difficulties women face in the world.
#3 I am writing this book because I am afraid, and because I know the world would be better...
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#1 Trump had a habit of blaming his lawyers for any problems that arose, even when they had tried to explain to him that he was likely to be subpoenaed. He wanted his lawyers to fix things, not bring him problems.
#2 Trump's legal team, led by Jay Sekulow, recommended that the president cooperate with the Mueller investigation. The president insisted that he was not...
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#1 I was committed to the insane ward at Blackwell's Island, where I spent ten days and nights. I took on the role of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and I felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that followed.
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#1 The roles and behaviors I saw around me were comfortably and predictably reinforced by the images I saw on television.
#2 I remember being inspired by the women in fairy tales and myths, on television, in books, and in the pages of Life magazine. I was always looking for guidance from courageous women.
#3 I grew up reading books about girls who were brave and independent,...
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#1 Wisconsin is a garden state, and the scenery along the highway from Madison to the north is picturesque. However, as you travel further north, the landscape changes, and you begin to feel as if you have entered a different, and far less hospitable, world.
#2 The town of Plainfield, Illinois, was named after Elijah Waterman, one of its founding fathers. It was a small,...
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#1 Paul Simon's first love was baseball, and he was obsessed with the sport from a young age. He loved listening to the radio with his father, and when he found out that some players on the cards were close to his own height, he was hopeful that he could play professional ball.
#2 Paul's love of music was born in 1954, when he accidentally heard a new group, the Crows,...
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#1 Pearl Jam played at Red Rocks, a sacred place for rock bands, in the early nineties. In 2017, they were not overly enthusiastic about returning to Colorado. Pearl Jam's second drummer, Matt Chamberlain, once likened playing with the band to boxing with Mike Tyson. The band members carried out a metal folding chair and placed it next to the others in a semicircle near...
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Get the Summary of Eric Metaxas' Is Atheism Dead? in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Original book introduction: Is Atheism Dead? is a highly entertaining, impressively wide-ranging, and decidedly provocative answer to that famous 1966 TIME cover that itself provocatively asked "Is God Dead?" In a voice that is by turns witty, muscular, and poetic, Metaxas echoes C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton in cheerfully and...
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#1 The Doctor, a French man, was conscripted and sent to help the French with the war effort. However, he was more than just a kindly man willing to sign what he must to protect his fellow Frenchmen. He was a part of the underground resistance.
#2 The trail was followed by the Jewish community itself. They did not begrudge anyone their secrecy, but if there was a way...
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Book Preview: #1 I was 14 when I visited my aunt's house in Wisconsin. I was playing with Jay, her son, and his friends, when I learned how to wakeboard. I was warned not to come over anymore, as Jay did not want to play with me anymore.
#2 I was not an academic, and I loved sports, drums, and getting the hell out of my house. My parents were strict, and I had to be perfect. I was...
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