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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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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 police radioed that a cop had shot a civilian. Someone from Civil Rights made the scene. They'd done a lot of these investigations together, too many, and too often in the middle of the night.
#2 After the walk-through, Smyth went straight to the jail and demanded the tape from the 911 dispatchers. He had a strong feeling that the tape would be important, and...
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#1 I was sworn in as a marine in January 1942. The captain who swore me in reduced the ceremony to a jumble. We all held up our hands, and when he lowered his, we guessed we were marines. The gunnery sergeant who became my shepherd made sure I understood what was expected of me.
#2 The boy next to me, a handsome blond from south Jersey, turned out to have a fine high...
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#1 Theodore Roosevelt was the main attraction of the Progressive Party's last major rally of the 1912 presidential campaign. He had been criticized for leaving the Republican Party and running as a third-party candidate, but he hoped that this rally would help swing the vote in his favor.
#2 The crowd for the election was massive. More than a hundred thousand people...
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#1 The disciples began to quote Psalm 110, which described the coronation of a king, and Psalm 8, which explained the wonders of creation, to the pilgrims. They explained that Jesus had been raised to a glorious life in the heavenly world, fulfilling the prophecy in Psalm 8 that the Lord would raise up a king for his people.
#2 The titles lord, son of man, and son of...
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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 I went to Dartmouth intending to go to med school. But I ended up majoring in the classics. I didn't understand what I, at age 22, could be consulted about. I wanted to be a warrior.
#2 I had family who had served in World War II, and my father had enlisted in the Army in 1968. The Marine Corps promised nothing, but they asked if I had what it took. If I was going...
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#1 I had a bad feeling about the cigarette deal, and I was right. Luigi called me two more times to insist that I come to him because it was raining, but I refused. I knew he was itching to use violence inside or outside the organization to make a point.
#2 I was in a tight spot. I couldn't go into Luigi's neighborhood, but there were too many risks to our overall operation...
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#1 On November 7, 1942, the press was invited to the White House. They were locked in, and fifteen minutes later, the President's secretary came in with news that the troops had landed.
#2 The Battle of the Coral Sea was a mess, but it was the best I had ever seen. I was afraid I would get fat from all the exercise I was taking. I gave everyone a simplified directive...
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#1 Louise would become a symbol of resistance because the struggle for freedom pulsed through her veins. The blood of her ancestors carried with it messages of liberation, while the land that held her whispered tales of revolutions it had witnessed over the years.
#2 Louise heard stories of resistance to colonial rule from her grandparents, who had been Liberated...
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