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Get the Summary of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Be Useful in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.
Arnold's stratospheric success...
2) Royal Edge
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The year is 1971. Blocks away from Princeton University and just days after his graduation, a young Michael meets Ella, an elderly woman living alone and in need of a housemate. Michael cannot refuse her offer of free lodging, since he hopes to stay in town and ride out the Vietnam War draft-a war that has already taken his friend's life.
As their friendship grows, Michael learns of Ella's remarkable past as a Russian countess: Ella is a descendent...
3) Take Me Home
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Take Me Home is a collection of short stories based on the author's experiences as a sports-loving boy growing up in Indiana in the 60s and as a practicing attorney in Florida. Each story presents vivid local colors and memorable characters. Many present-life passages are to be navigated and moral questions are to be pondered. Take Me Home is a light but worthwhile read that you will want to pass along to your family and recommend to your friends....
4) Unbreakable
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Eighteen years ago, I stood in the passage of my home staring down the barrel of a gun while my children lay asleep meters away. One loud bang and the bullet slammed into my chest, paralyzing me instantly. My whole life as I knew it was changed forever. As if that wasn't enough, I survived breast cancer and a deadly tumour when the doctors said my chances were slim.
I am the preacher's daughter that was thrown out of home at the tender age of 17...
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This book was written at the request of a great teacher in order to support spiritual practitioners of various paths better integrate their spiritual experiences, vijñāna, with an understanding of how and why they happen: jñāna. This is not intended solely as a spiritual memoir. The author shares her personal experiences as an authentic example of a person's journey of self-inquiry, self-knowledge and self-actualization.
Her use of Sanskrit and...
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En Escoria de la tierra, biografía colectiva de la agonía de Francia, Arthur Koestler deja testimonio de la metamorfosis de un Estado democrático en una maquinaria totalitaria. Rescatar su atónita mirada ante la fragilidad del orden liberal es hoy tan pertinente como antes.
En el verano de 1939, el escritor húngaro busca en el sur de Francia un remanso de paz en la convulsa Europa. Aún no tiene 35 años y su denso y azaroso itinerario vital...
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La escritura de Carolina Acosta-Alzuru es un regalo siempre. Académica de serios quilates, nos ha brindado, a lo largo de los últimos veinte años, ricos acercamientos a la experiencia de la televisión y, en especial, de la telenovela como espacio dramático representativo. Es difícil acercarse a lo popular desde la academia: ella logra construir un lenguaje abierto y con lazos a la investigación, el conocimiento, posible para todos.
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Inconceivable, not pronounced with a lithp "in-con-theeve-able" as in The Princess Bride (nor does it have to do with the immaculate conception), but a story of a man who dared to dream an impossible dream and experience a power beyond his own to see that dream fulfilled. A poignant story of one man's determination, struggles, and triumphs in following God's vision and purpose for his life. It's one of courage in uprooting his family and moving to...
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Delve into the riveting memoir of an attorney who navigated the transformative world of litigation law in private practice. Journey back to an era when senior partners donned wing collars and were addressed as clerks by their surnames, and when solicitors weren't confined to specialisations.
Experience the spectrum of clients he represented, from navigating harrowing cases at police stations – covering everything from murders to activists challenging...
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When Hard Lilies Cry describes my 26 years journey battling two cancers and preventing two more.Diagnosed with breast cancer. How do you deal with that? How do you wait for weeks not knowing whether you will live or die? How do you inform your children and raise them while going through treatment? How to cope with your family during chemo and radiotherapy? Can you accept the alteration of your figure after mastectomy? Will your husband leave you?...
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As a Professor Emeritus of a major university, Norman set out to write his memoirs until he was introduced to a volunteer experience that set him on a course of activism for the next 20 years.
That activism would take him to the United Kingdom where he would engage in an historic African Asian Solidarity Conference, aimed at securing the rights of Ethnic and Religious minorities in the forthcoming European Union.
Alex Norman, having taken an...
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Life Blood, written by a renowned leukaemia physician, tells unforgettable stories of his leukaemia patients' battles to be cured but also uniquely describes the stresses that doctors face when looking after extremely ill young people during an extraordinary time in their lives.
In reflecting on his long and illustrious career, Professor Marks' memoir offers frank descriptions of his own medical family, some personal experiences of ill-health and...
13) An Ordinary Man
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While German bombs were falling on London people didn't worry too much when hearing Hitler's doodlebugs, the dreaded V1 flying bomb. But when the noise stopped then they were worried because they knew that the rocket was about to drop – on them!David, hanging in a basket inside an air raid shelter, was oblivious to all of this for he was just a baby.Growing up in West London he spoke with a cockney accent even though he wasn't a true cockney. He...
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What did you want to be when you grew up? For a long time, I wanted to be a walking talking real life superhero. For over eight years, I pursued that vision of myself in trying to become a Police Officer. With each attempt at selection, and with each letter of decline, I grew hungrier and more determined to make it. It's answering the highest calling in serving my community, I said during my interview. The selflessness, the sacrifice, the unfathomable...
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How does one move forward to a big and open world with many possibilities? Mary was always determined to broaden her horizons from her life in a tiny village in Guam. Mary is entrusted with a religious upbringing, and this is how she made connections to her world. You will see how the glimpses of a village girl made an abrupt and meaningful change to womanhood which gifted her a new perspective in life. Her simplicity of life took her to many milestones...
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Synopsis for Vivian Lee's:
The Invisible Girl On Ames Street
This engaging memoir is about Vivian, an impoverished young girl who lived in a small apartment on Ames Street in Saginaw, Michigan in the early 1960's. As the readers follow her many adventures, daily challenges, spiritual hopes, and fantastic dreams, they soon realize that Vivian's story is even more relevant now than it was in that era.
From the first chapter when readers begin...
17) Arguing With God
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My vacation turned into a prophetic spiritual journey. My friend worked for a secret service, while abusing drugs himself. They set him up to bust drug dealers. God warned him to give his life to Him. A wild and twisted spiritual journey occurred and my friend had to make a decision to give his life to Christ. Which he did before he died.
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An Insignificant Boy' is a moving, poetic, evocative tale of a lost boyhood -beautiful, funny, dark, and strange. But ultimately, it is uplifting and full of hope. A secretive father is haunted by the atomic bomb. An ageing mother dreams of escape. Born into the Space Age of Bowie, astronauts, and future visions, Clix is an isolated, imaginative child, growing up in a house full of ghosts - plus a terrible secret. A boy who, aged eight, builds a radio...
19) Tumulto
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"Tumulto" es un libro de memorias y a la vez una mirada a los movimientos políticos y sociales que sacudieron el mundo en los años sesenta y setenta. Desde una perspectiva voluntariamente ambigua, Enzensberger combina con sutileza el relato de su experiencia en la Unión Soviética (a través de dos viajes casi iniciáticos) o de su estancia en Cuba durante los primeros años de la revolución castrista, con sus vivencias privadas. No son unas memorias...
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This particular book reflects the first-hand account of Suren H. Oganessian's arrest, incarceration, and escape from the Soviet Union's gulag system during portions of the 1930s and 1940s. His reflections during those harrowing times were handwritten in private journals from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s, which was when Hairenik published his writings in a serialized format. Oganessian's work caught the attention of historians, academics, and...
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