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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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#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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#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 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 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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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 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 hesitant to write a book about myself, but I realized what a golden opportunity it was to finally come out. I was extremely famous, and this book would allow me to finally present myself to society.
#2 I have been called a little mutant freak by some extreme right-wingers, who believe that I've been hired by Nancy Pelosi and the DNC to push their agenda. This...
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#1 I was transferred from the Keck Observatory at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab to the computer center in the basement of the same building. I was to fake enough computing to impress astronomers, and maybe pick it up fast enough that my co-workers wouldn't catch on.
#2 I was given the task to find a bug in our accounting system. I found that the system recorded each time...
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#1 Stoicism is a philosophy that helps you deal with whatever stormy weather life throws at you. It will prepare you to deal with whatever stormy weather life throws at you.
#2 The Stoics were particularly concerned with applying philosophy to everyday life. They saw themselves as veritable warriors of the mind, and the primary reason to study philosophy was...
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Book Preview: #1 The sea was a constant in the life of my family. We were English, and we had our own ways of thinking and living that were very different from those of everyone else in the locality.
#2 I had a difficult childhood, and was constantly thrown together with my brother Dominic. We were not made to feel different especially, we just were. We spent much of our free time...
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#1 I could see the mischievous, giggly faces of my cousins as I drove down the path of my memory. I could smell the smell of a feedlot, which brought back memories of my datt's cattle and sheep barn that eventually went to nothing.
#2 I was excited to be spending the night with my sisters, but I was also nervous about getting caught with the truck. I was sure that my...
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#1 I didn't experience a idyllic childhood like most people in small-town America in the 1960s and 1970s. I remember my brother Ronnie, who was paralyzed from the neck down after being attacked in gym class, coming home to us.
#2 I have never asked my brother about the day in gym class or what they did to him in the hospital. I see no point in rehashing those painful...
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#1 I have always been driven by some distant music. I was going to conquer the world. When the war was won, I knew the triumph of standing victorious over my own dead body, for there among the vanquished, I found a woman lying at my feet.
#2 I have always been a nester, and I have always had a nest to which I could retreat. I was never able to share my rapture with a...
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#1 I was born on January 3, 1952, in Fort Bragg, California. My parents had been high school sweethearts. They had me eight months later, after they had gotten married and fled their hometown of Westville, Oklahoma. I was small when I was born, and my parents decided to drive 2,000 miles to get away from it all.
#2 I had a lot of friends who hosted sleepovers, but they...
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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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