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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 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 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 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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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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#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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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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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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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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#1 In front of millions of people at home, Devin Nunes, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, met with special counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller had spent more than $30 million on the investigation, and still, no evidence of collusion was found.
#2 On March 22, 2017, Nunes went to the White House to inform Trump about what he'd seen. He'd seen evidence...
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#1 The author spent years in the military and as an Army Ranger, and he never thought he would be able to re-create the brotherhood he had while in the military outside of the military. But he was able to do so with new people who shared his values and had the same experiences.
#2 The most satisfying type of war story is when one of these dickless terrorists suicide-bombs...
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#1 I was excited to live in Germany, but I was disappointed with my apartment. It was small, dark, and charmless. I was determined to learn how to communicate with the Germans so that I could do some proper marketing.
#2 I began to explore my new surroundings in Germany. I bought chickens, beans, apples, lightbulbs, an extension cord, olive oil, vinegar, and a rubber...
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#1 I had flown to Canada to start a new life, but after I packed up my life in the UK, I felt like I was always moving on, never feeling like my feet were firmly on the ground. I wanted to be free of the nagging fear of pitching my ideas and the voice of self-doubt.
#2 I had gone looking for wilderness, and now it had found me in the desert of southern California. The...
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#1 I have friends who are CEOs of corporations and volunteers for nonprofits. But if you gave them each a glass of pinot noir and a cushy ottoman, they would regale you with stories of the time they went bonkers.
#2 Ari was always thoughtful and protective. He was also extremely seductive, and I became increasingly dependent on him. He proposed to me in a castle in Ireland,...
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#1 I was told that my son was the one who had murdered another boy. I had to accept that it was no more than a phantom I had created to protect my son.
#2 Jeff did everything alone and in secret. No one was to blame but him, and there was no question but that I had to accept that fact. The police told me that something inside of him was dead, and that he was dead too....
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#1 In 2004, I was part of the US Army National Guard and was deployed to Iraq with my platoon. We drove a jerry-rigged Humvee in a convoy to Camp Anaconda, northwest of Baghdad. It took us two days to get there.
#2 Camp Anaconda, where I am stationed, becomes the most dangerous place in Iraq. The hospital, one of the largest in Iraq, overflows with casualties, mostly...
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#1 The Nazis were on the march and had to be stopped. If they continued their conquest of Europe, the United States would be obliged to join the war effort. Scientific breakthroughs could be needed to stop them.
#2 Wheeler was one of the world's foremost experts in nuclear fission, and he would likely be tapped for his knowledge in the case of American entry into the...
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Get the Summary of Matt Hay's Soundtrack of Silence in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Soundtrack of Silence" by Matt Hay is a poignant memoir chronicling his life with Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2), a rare genetic condition causing progressive hearing loss and tumor growth on his auditory nerves. Hay describes the social and emotional challenges of deafness, from the strategic planning required to engage in conversations...
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#1 I was ten when I started shaving my legs. My dark shin fur was hard to ignore in shorts weather, and my mother gave me a box from the Modess company. It was a my first period kit, and inside were samples of pads and panty liners.
#2 I had menarche in 1981 when I was ten years old. I was very sympathetic, but I was also a little baffled. I had read the pamphlet How...
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