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Get the Summary of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Be Useful in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.
Arnold's stratospheric success...
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Book Preview: #1 I was sick on my birthday, and I drunkenly dialed my therapist to tell her about it. She thought I should go to the hospital, and I was so confused about why she was so worried.
#2 I am, in fact, stable now, and on a perfect day, when I am drinking a latte and wearing a feather-light, perfectly layered Zara scarf, I am joyful. I have a schmancy job in comedy that...
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Book Preview: #1 When we arrived in Rome, we were taken to a refugee camp where we were lodged with other asylum seekers from all over the world. It was a temporary safe space for us until we could be processed and assigned a new country to live in.
#2 At the Hotel Barba, I had the chance to meet many different grandmothers and grandfathers from all over the world. I learned how to...
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Book Preview: #1 I drop two classes and get put on academic probation. I meet some kids from Foothill College at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting off campus. I change my major from biology to history and psychology.
#2 The Game was a method of getting through the hardened defenses of drug addicts, similar to AA, but it was actually a form of brainwashing. It lasted days, sometimes...
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Book Preview: #1 I grew up with the living embodiment of the strength, devotion, and intelligence Laura Ingalls Wilder described in her books. My mother, Frae Ella Berry, was a one-room-schoolhouse teacher who married a man who was a devoted partner but whose restlessness also challenged all her strength.
#2 My mother's story was that she and her sister Edith, her big sister, grew...
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Get the Summary of Nancy Sprowell Geise's Auschwitz 34207 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Auschwitz 34207" by Nancy Sprowell Geise tells the harrowing story of Joe Rubinstein, a Jewish man from Radom, Poland, whose life is irrevocably changed by the Holocaust. The narrative begins with Joe's early life in Radom, filled with family love and Jewish tradition, before shifting to the brutal reality of Nazi occupation....
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Book Preview: #1 I was a bright, playful child, too young and energetic to understand fear. I spent a lot of time in front of the hallway mirror, examining my eyes to discover where the fear was hiding. I was three generations living in the same house: Baba-jan and Nanah-jan, their four daughters, my aunts Kurbra, Hajar, Zahra, and Azizah, my uncles Naseer and Basheer, and me.
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#1 The hearing was held in the Law and Justice Center in Chehalis. There were more media present than spectators. The waiting area was full of people, some appearing for their own trials, and some whose presence there I could not pinpoint.
#2 Everyone hopes for a warm and loving gathering of family and friends, but there is always a subliminal fear that someone we love...
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Book Preview: #1 After a lifetime of being an accessory to men, Brooke Astor hungered for meaningful work and the chance to be valued on her own merits. She became a philanthropist and a social arbiter. Her ability to dispense millions made her popular and powerful.
#2 Mrs. Astor was very loyal to her inner circle, but she did have a habit of moving on, replacing dour faces with young...
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#1 The FDA received a copy of the Lancet study, which showed that HIV-infected material could be sucked back into waterlines and expelled via a dental handpiece. They sent a letter to every dentist in the United States and every possession of the United States instructing them to heat-sterilize their handpieces after every patient.
#2 The CDC had changed its guidelines...
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Book Preview: #1 I want to acknowledge those who believed in this crusade: Jack Canfield, co-author of the bestseller Chicken Soup for the Soul, for his kindness and opening a big door, Nancy Mitchell and Kim Wiele at the Canfield Group for their enthusiasm and guidance, Peter Vegso at Health Communications, Inc., for his honesty and professionalism, and the Art Department for their...
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Get the Summary of Danielle Prescod's Token Black Girl in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Token Black Girl" is a memoir by Danielle Prescod that delves into her personal experiences of growing up as a Black girl in predominantly white spaces. She recounts her childhood in Westchester County, where she attended white private schools and felt disconnected from her own community. Her family rarely discussed race,...
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#1 I had been to Iowa City once before in June to find a place to live. I was looking for two apartments then, one for myself and one for Lucy Grealy, who I had gone to college with. I got a note from Lucy not long after receiving my acceptance letter from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She said that initially she was sorry because she had wanted to be the only student from...
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Book Preview: #1 I am shy. I've never asked a question in a large lecture hall. I've always rolled my shopping cart back to its place of origin if there's no more half-and-half on the counter at the coffee shop.
#2 I went to Stanford with my parents. I was dropped off near the Stanford bookstore, where on rainy days my mom had brought me for hot cocoa and madeleines. I drank whiskey...
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Book Preview: #1 I had been hiding under the stairs when I decided to walk. I'd read “Five Hundred Mile Walkies”, the story of a man who walked the South West Coast Path with his dog. Moth was squeezed in next to me, his head on his knees, his arms wrapped around in self-defense, and pain, and fear, and anger.
#2 We had no choice but to walk away from our old lives and start anew....
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Book Preview: #1 Ben Souther, my mother's friend, arrived with a dozen freshly killed squab. The Southers followed my parents' lead and had a cocktail together.
#2 My mother, who was a chef, would prepare the dinner. She had been coming to this town on Cape Cod since she was a young girl. She had a major renovation done when she bought this house, and the kitchen had the best views.
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#1 I grew up in a castle. It was a six-bedroom house with gables, turrets, and lead-paned glass windows. It was built in the early twentieth century by a wealthy industrial baron. My father was a well-respected neurosurgeon in Boston, and my uncle was a combat veteran and adjutant general of Connecticut.
#2 I had always had an itch for adventure and independence, despite...
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#1 I was born in 1938, the first Turner born north of the Mason-Dixon line. I was showered with love from my parents and extended family. My earliest memories are of holding the screen door open for my great-grandmother on my mother's side.
#2 I was a energetic child, and I spent much of my time in the backyard and at the creek that ran through a little vacant lot down...
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#1 The grift has a gentle touch. It takes its toll from the verdant sucker by means of the skilled hand or the sharp wit. It never employs violence to separate the mark from his money.
#2 The three big-con games are the wire, the rag, and the pay-off. They have taken a toll from a gullible public for over 40 years. They are locating and investigating a well-to-do victim,...
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Book Preview: #1 I have never liked Christmas. In my family, there were happy Thanksgivings and tolerable Easters, but Christmas was a holiday we failed at with real vigor. I blame this on my parents' divorce.
#2 Christmas was a bad day for expectations and heart's desires. My father's presents were always the saddest because they were so consistently wrong. I never liked the presents,...
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