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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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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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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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#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 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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Book Preview: #1 Poachers had been the scourge of our lives since we bought Thula Thula, a game reserve in central Zululand. They had been targeting us for almost a year now. I couldn't work out who they were or where they were coming from.
#2 I learned that the izinduna were right: someone was operating within the reserve, and they were not local tribesmen and scrawny dogs. They...
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#1 I began professional auditioning in 1996, ten years after I began to play the tuba. I was invited to audition for the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and I scraped together money for the plane ticket, the overweight luggage fee, and the oversized luggage fee to fly my two tubas in their hard cases.
#2 I had gone from homeless on the Baltimore streets to studying for...
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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 In Washington, D. C., Katharine Chinn-Harris thought of her son, Bill, a Marine officer and a grown man, and smiled. She knew he could look out for himself, but he was still her son.
#2 Field's husband, Billy, was a marine general who had been sent to plan the Pacific War. He had become an aviator in 1929, and though she had enjoyed Pensacola, his new fascination...
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#1 Roy Wahlberg was a polite and respectful boy, until he started experimenting with drugs and Satanism. He became argumentative, paranoid, and violent under the influence of LSD. His girlfriend, Roxanne Ahlstrand, endured his rages every week.
#2 Roy was supposed to attend a party with his girlfriend, Roxanne, that evening, but he was already drunk and high when he...
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#1 When Morgan was a toddler, she would hear voices that echoed inside and outside of her skull. She became friends with a boy named Sev who resembled an anime character, with dark bangs and opalescent gray eyes. When she pressed her hand against his chest, she felt his heartbeat. She was never lonely because she had her pets and her imaginary friends.
#2 At age sixteen,...
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#1 My childhood was wonderful. I had a father who was a bookseller and a mother who was a librarian. I had a large library of Jewish books, and I thought I was the luckiest girl alive because I was given samples of the beautiful dolls my father was selling.
#2 My father was a successful businessman, and because of this, my family was able to live a comfortable life....
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#1 I had a wonderful childhood, but I was raised in a wartime mentality. I was never hungry, but I remember my father teaching me to ride my bike to the library every week and get a new book.
#2 I grew up in San Diego in the 1940s and 1950s without any racial prejudice. My parents were always arguing about money or some lifestyle problem, and I grew up putting my pillow...
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#1 On July 22, 2008, EMT Cory Showalter was the first responder to the Roseboro house. He noted that the husband appeared calm, breathing normally, and not gasping for air. He was not dripping wet.
#2 Firestone noticed several tiki torches around the pool, and the entire area was well lit by spotlights from the house. Roseboro was standing nearby, dressed only in red...
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#1 I was born two weeks late, because I didn't want to leave the womb. When they finally kicked me out, I was like, oh hell no. I've been trying to get back there ever since.
#2 I was always trying to fill my internal holes with external stuff. I was trying to sate the existential fear of what the fuck was going on here. I was sucking my mother's nipples, but there wasn't...
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