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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 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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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 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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#1 I had thought I was the link between my children's Asperger's and their diagnoses, but it was actually my husband who had the condition. It didn't matter anyway, because I wasn't a total failure at being human.
#2 The last year had been difficult for me. My best friend had been diagnosed with aggressive, stage IV breast cancer. My daughter had been a Make-A-Wish kid...
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#1 My parents, Hermann and Betti Jalowicz, were married in 1911. My father, who had been to law school with Zirker, had gone into partnership with him and Heilbrunn. He had a desk job and attended to the day-to-day work of the practice.
#2 My grandparents on my mother's side had both died before I was born. After that, my aunt Grete took over the apartment at 44 Rosenthaler...
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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 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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#1 Charles Wintour and Nonie Baker married in 1940. They were both excited to be together, but the war was disheartening, and neither of them knew where Charles would be sent now. Soon pregnant, Nonie stayed on for a few months before returning to Boston.
#2 After the war, Charles began another affair. He was stationed in the Trianon Palace Hotel at Versailles, resplendent...
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#1 When George's brother, Lawrence, died of tuberculosis, he left him two small parcels of land. But for George, now twenty years old, gaining a few parcels of land did not begin to fill the void left by the loss of his brother.
#2 George Washington, the young man from Virginia, is now on the road to fulfill a destiny greater than he could ever imagine. Nothing...
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Get the Summary of Joyce Meyer's Battlefield of the Mind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Worry, doubt, confusion, depression, anger and feelings of condemnation: all these are attacks on the mind. If readers suffer from negative thoughts, they can take heart! Joyce Meyer has helped millions win these all-important battles. In her most popular bestseller ever, the beloved author and...
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#1 I have a problem that has been ongoing for a long time: I don't know how to dress myself. I did a Google search for myself, and the word worst plus dressed and got over 18,000 hits. As a control, I did a Google search for myself and the word best plus dressed and got over 18,000 hits as well.
#2 I am fine with my style, so I do not see it as a personal flaw. But if...
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#1 The contrast between the two men is clear. St. Francis was a lean and lively little man, while St. Thomas was a massive and silent figure. Francis's life was full of plunges and scampers, while St. Thomas's was full of contemplation and study.
#2 St. Thomas was a huge heavy bull of a man, fat and slow and quiet. He was shy, even apart from the humility of holiness,...
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#1 Bellevue Hospital is the oldest hospital in the country, and it is also the most famous public hospital in the United States. It was also the first maternity ward, first pediatric ward, and first C-section.
#2 I was a physician at Dartmouth College for seventeen years, and I was ready to be back in New York and in public health. I had no choice. I loved everything...
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