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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 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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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 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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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 Scott Bernal, aOCPD detective, did not always see himself as a cop in Ocean City. He had followed his family down into what he calls good old boy country, where it's not at all easy to fit in.
#2 The love and respect that Joshua and Geney had for each other was clear from the pictures they shared online. They had met in 1999 and had lived together since April 2001...
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#1 On August 21, 2015, I was the CEO of a fast-growing media company called Yellowhammer, which began as my blog when I was a student at the University of Alabama. I focused on state politics and the behind-the-scenes machinations of lawmakers. My biggest weekly feature was Rumors and Rumblings, giving the scoop on what was really going on inside the Alabama State...
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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 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 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 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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#1 The Princess and the Popstar Barbies, the Melissa Doug Decorate Your Own Princess Mirror sets, and countless pink-spangled princess T-shirts are just a few of the items sold in conjunction with the princess culture.
#2 The fairy tale doesn't need to become the expectation by talking about real princesses and stopping turn their lives into fairy tales. Some real princesses...
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#1 I often think about my sister and best friend when I am experiencing something that would allow me to tug on a line that begins Remember when, and draws a seemingly ever-present past nearer.
#2 I grew up in Chicago's historic Bronzeville community, which was the center of the city's Great Migration. My family and neighbors have been working to secure opportunities for generations,...
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#1 There were sodomites in the navy who could be persuaded to join him for no price other than the promise of his predatory grin. He liked them the most because they had the most to lose if even a whisper of what he planned on doing to them got out.
#2 Carl was a creature of opportunity. He spent his life avoiding attention, hunching his shoulders to look smaller, and...
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