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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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#1 I had three siblings: Bunch, who was seven years old, me, who was three, and now Jonathan had arrived, making me the middle child. Our home at 98 Cheney Walk was a tall London house with lots of stairs. The nursery was at the top and our windows overlooked the Thames.
#2 I had a childhood filled with ordinary ambitions. I was a happy-go-lucky child with no great ambitions....
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#1 I was a single mother in 2000. I had to re-form my own perception of the significance of the title. I was teaching my daughter to remain static even if unhappy, and I realized that if I did not show her the way, she would be unlikely to find it.
#2 I received a long, chatty email from a man named Will Allen. He was 6'1 and mixed race with curly hair and brown eyes....
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#1 Billy Stephenson, the future partner of FDR and Churchill, was born in 1896 in Winnipeg, Canada. He grew up on the prairies of western Canada and was always restless and inquisitive. He loved boxing.
#2 During World War I, Stephenson was commissioned in the field and went straight to the trenches. He saw men die in convulsion or lose sight and mind. He was crippled...
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#1 The legend of the Bell witch is a tale of sadness and brutality, as well as one of redemption. Mary Bell was a child who had been hurt so deeply, that it seems pain was the only thing she had to give others.
#2 The objective of this book is not to excuse Mary's actions. She was a small child who understood right from wrong, but she chose to do wrong. It is difficult...
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#1 In 1975, the CIA admitted doping Olson with LSD that led to his suicide, and they settled out of court with the Olson family for $750,000 precluding further investigation.
#2 The death of Olson was a clear-cut case of National Security homicide. He had been interviewed by Military Intelligence, and he had informed his boss that he was quitting his job. He was drugged...
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#1 Mike Babich was a wealth manager at Northern Trust, a Chicago banking institution, who was offered a job by a high-net-worth individual in the pharmaceutical business. He didn't know much about his client, but he accepted the offer.
#2 Kapoor was a pharmaceutical industry mogul who made his fortune by developing generic medications. He was the largest shareholder...
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#1 I was one of fourteen men assigned to SEAL Team One, detachment Golf, Juliett Platoon. Out of the two officers and twelve enlisted men, only five had completed one or more tours of duty in Vietnam. The other nine would be in-country for the first time.
#2 The members of Juliett Platoon were Seaman Weber, Seaman Panella, Seaman Reeves, Torpedoman Grimes, Radioman Seaman...
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#1 I had been depressed for several years, and I hadn't taken any steps to get help. One day, I saw a post on social media from a high school friend who had begun running. I was shocked by the joy in her posts, and I began to wonder if running could be the solution to my depression.
#2 I tried running, and although I was able to do it for 60 seconds, my deep animal instinct tried...
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Book Preview: #1 The Colonel, the owner of Doc Fiddler's, was a great military historian and patriot. He had become unhappy with the news reports about the war, and he organized a parade up Sherman Avenue to raise awareness of the soldiers who were being sent to Vietnam.
#2 Inwood had already buried 28 brothers, cousins, and friends who had been killed in Vietnam by late 1967. People...
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#1 Lori Norene Cox was born on June 26, 1973, in Rialto, California. She was the fifth child of Barry and Janis Cox. Her family was well-off, and Lori grew up spoiled. She and her best friend, Rose Vaughan, always had everything they wanted.
#2 When she was in fifth grade, Lori won the Trapp Elementary School spelling bee. She was also a popular student who always got...
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