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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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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 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 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 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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#1 In 1916, Arno Dosch-Fleurot, a seasoned journalist working for a popular US daily, had arrived in Petrograd fresh from a grueling stint covering the Battle of Verdun. He was excited to be in Russia, but he had preconceived ideas about Russia that were based on reading Dostoievsky's Crime and Punishment, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and George Kennon's Darkest Siberia.
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#1 I came to Hawaii at the end of July and have been running every day since. I'm aiming at increasing the distance I run, so speed is less of an issue. As long as I can run a certain distance, that's all I care about.
#2 I began living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the end of May of this year, and running has been the mainstay of my daily routine ever since. I'm seriously...
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#1 In 1976, a student at Roseville High School, Cynthia Cadieux, was murdered. Her mother, Wanda Nelem, said she and her stepfather did not expect her home that Thursday night, as they thought she was going to stay with her friend and attend school with her in the morning.
#2 On February 15, 1976, Mark Douglas Stebbins, 12, disappeared while walking home from the American...
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#1 I was returning to the United States, and I felt out of place in the white-dominated airplane. I thought about the political climate in America, which was also turbulent. I knew that the air in America was no less turbulent than in Ghana.
#2 I had started making plans to go back to America to work with Malcolm. My friends and colleagues began treating me...
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#1 The online drug dealer 9THWONDER on the marketplace Evolution was ripped off by its customers in January 2015. The apology and confession were unusual, but the scam wasn't. The unlisted websites where contraband is bought and sold over confidential web browsers have been rife with frauds from the start.
#2 I have been collecting fraud stories for years, because they are a sort...
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#1 I was flying on a practice mission at four in the morning. I was zipped in my flying coveralls, fleece-lined boots, and leather fleece-lined pants. I had my navigation kit, two bags, and five #10 grocery sacks.
#2 The crew of Blakely's plane was getting ready. I was in charge of the lead crew, which meant I was in front. I was not a lead navigator. On all my missions...
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#1 Richard Byrd, the man who would kill George Floyd, was a police officer and a member of the Hudson Valley Balsa Busters, a local radio-controlled model airplane club. He was good friends with the club's president, Fred Andros.
#2 Fred was a friend of Byrd's, and they had built several planes together. Byrd had been waiting on several parts to be delivered, and he...
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#1 My father, John Phillips, was a rock star, the leader and songwriter of the Mamas the Papas. He was fabulously rich and famous. After school on Friday, a cavernous Fleetwood limo would transport us to either his mansion in Bel Air or his mansion in the Malibu Colony.
#2 My parents' lives were completely different. My father was always surrounded by a noisy, outrageous,...
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#1 Washington is a state separated into two distinct and dissimilar zones by a spine of rugged mountains, the dramatic, volcanic Cascade Range. The climate is milder and considerably wetter in the lower elevations west of the Cascades.
#2 On January 31, 1974, Lynda Healy went out with her roommates to Dante's, a nearby college bar. She was home by 9 p. m. , but her roommates...
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#1 I met my wife, Jen, at work. We would often make out on the promenade outside of her office, and her phone would drop out of her pocket mid-kiss. She was mortified.
#2 A pseudonym is a name that you use to publish your work that is different from your real name. Jen's pseudonym is Allen Ginsberg, but she has never shared it with family or friends, which is maddening...
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