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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 Matthew McConaughey's Greenlights in 20 minutes.
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Original book introduction: I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to...
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#1 The modern parent struggles to raise children who are not as respectful and disciplined as they were when they were children. Many parents feel as though they are not making any progress with their children, and they are growing more and more frustrated.
#2 The gap between children and adults has never been bigger. We struggle to live up to our image of what parenting...
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Get the Summary of Brene Brown's Dare to Lead in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential.
When we dare to lead, we don't pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions....
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Get the Summary of Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch's The JFK Conspiracy in 20 minutes. Before John F. Kennedy's inauguration, Richard Pavlick, a retired postal worker, planned an attack that could have ended his presidency before it began. The JFK Conspiracy (2025) by bestselling authors Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch details this little-known first assassination attempt. Meltzer and Mensch recount Kennedy's wartime heroics in the Pacific and explore the...
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Book Preview: The human heart has much more love in it than it can possibly give out in a lifetime. Psychotherapist David Richo's “How to Be an Adult in Relationships” (2002) lays out a strategy for realizing that limitless potential of love through the five A's: Attention, Acceptance, Appreciation, Affection, and Allowing.
Intimate love is mysterious and demanding; many of us...
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Get the Summary of Jonathan Eig's King in 20 minutes. King (2023) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., from his humble beginnings in Georgia to becoming a civil rights icon. Bestselling biographer Jonathan Eig highlights King's leadership in pivotal events like the Montgomery Bus Boycott, his philosophy of nonviolence, and his opposition to the Vietnam War, culminating in his assassination in 1968. He examines King's personal...
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Get the Summary of Mark Wolynn's It Didn't Start with You in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains-but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. The latest...
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Get the Summary of Morgan Housel's The Psychology of Money in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Summary of Morgan Housel's "The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness". Chapter Zoom provides a detailed look at Morgan Housel's popular book "The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness", so you can appreciate the book even more....
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Get the Summary of Liane Moriarty's Apples Never Fall in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?
This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.
The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They're killers on...
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Get the Summary of Ryder Carroll's The Bullet Journal Method 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future (2018) introduces a simple, effective organizational method that uses only a pen and notebook to improve productivity and enhance introspection.
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Get the Summary of Robert Greene's The Laws of Human Nature in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: If you've ever wondered about human behavior, wonder no more. In The Laws of Human Nature, Greene takes a look at 18 laws that reveal who we are and why we do the things we do. Humans are complex beings, but Greene uses these laws to strip human nature down to its bare bones. Every law that...
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Get the Summary of Mary Claire Haver's The Galveston Diet in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Why is the scale moving in the wrong direction even though I haven't changed my diet or exercise habits? Time and again, this is the question Dr. Mary Claire Haver's patients asked. At first, a practicing OB/GYN, she'd dutifully advise what she'd been taught in medical school: eat less and work...
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Get the Summary of Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism - and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human...
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Get the Summary of Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions, we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage,...
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Get the Summary of Jerold J. Kreisman & Hal Straus' I Hate You - Don't Leave Me in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: After more than three decades as the essential guide to borderline personality disorder (BPD), the third edition of I Hate You-Don't Leave Me now reflects the most up-to-date research that has opened doors to the neurobiological, genetic, and developmental roots of the disorder,...
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Get the Summary of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library in 20-minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within...
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Book Preview: #1 A traditional diet, which restrict calories, sends your body the message that it needs to be prepared for times of famine. As a result, your resting metabolism decreases, which means you'll eventually need to eat more to maintain your weight.
#2 The second reason we gain weight after dieting is because most diets are built for the general public, not for people in...
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Get the Summary of W. Timothy Gallwey's The Inner Game of Tennis in Chernobyl in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: With more than 800,000 copies sold since it was first published thirty years ago, this phenomenally successful guide has become a touchstone for hundreds of thousands of people. Not just for tennis players, or even just for athletes in general, this handbook works for anybody...
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Get the Summary of Anthony William's Medical Medium Liver Rescue in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Medical science and research are yet to truly understand or even scratch the surface of what causes many of the health issues currently plaguing humans.
Anthony William seeks to educate the reader on steps to take towards understanding various disorders as well as how to embark on recovering...