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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 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 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 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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#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 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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#1 I was 11 in 1967, and I was playing the game with my brothers. We all started to feel strange, and my mother pulled me aside to talk. She understood the nature of drama.
#2 I had been teaching myself how to faint, and I wanted to show my mother. She was in the kitchen, cooking dinner, when I asked if she wanted to see me faint. She said no, and explained that fainting...
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#1 Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. , was the leading public face of the Navy, and he was quick to command a crowd. His peers during the war were disinclined to speak of their work, and thus secretive.
#2 The United States Navy ended World War II with nearly 1,200 combatant ships, 41,000 planes, and 3. 4 million personnel. It had 758,000 civilians on its worldwide payroll,...
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#1 John Boyd, a man who was loved and vilified for his character and integrity, died that week. He was a paragon of virtue who was loved by many in politics, business, and the military for his character and integrity.
#2 John Boyd's death in 1997 was the occasion for a large outpouring of tributes. Yet, he was unknown to most people outside of the military and government...
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#1 Romilda Garbo, the woman who would become my mother, met my father, Riccardo Scicolone Murillo, in 1933. They fell in love, and she became pregnant. But when he found out that she was pregnant, he grew cold toward her.
#2 I was born on September 20, 1934, in Rome, Italy. I was frail and not particularly pretty. My mother, Romilda, was terrified that I'd be switched...
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#1 The first dogfight was a introduction to the use of guns in earnest and the terrifying quality of air fighting. I was close to panic in the bewilderment and hot fear of that first dogfight.
#2 I was transformed, Walter Mitty-like, when I shot down my first enemy aircraft. I was so excited that I did not realize that I was flying the wrong direction toward the land....
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#1 I have a vivid memory of my father playing records in our house when I was three years old. I remember being scared of the mouse trap that was next to the turntable, but I also remember being fascinated by the final synthesizer sound that played when the mouse's neck was caught in the trap.
#2 I began to think about every record in the house as if it were more than...
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#1 You can't control everything in life. You can't control what happens to you. But you can control how you look and feel about yourself. When you look good, you feel good.
#2 I love getting a spray tan at the salon every few months. It gives me a nice all-over tan, except for the tricky spots like the armpits and the underboob area.
#3 I love, love, love superlong...
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#1 The Vidocq Society was filled with eccentric, moody geniuses who had thrown in their lot with Fleisher. Walter was the coolest eye on murder in the world, and he spoke with a clipped propriety that had earned him the nickname the Englishman.
#2 The team of detectives was made up of Walter Bender, the artist, and William Fleisher, the federal agent. They were blood...
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#1 Crosswicks is a typical New England farmhouse that has withstood the batterings of many storms over the years. It stands staunchly on the crest of one of the Litchfield hills in the northwest corner of Connecticut.
#2 I had a happy childhood, but my parents were planning to move to Europe after the Wall Street crash. They were planning to have the summer in the French...
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Book Preview: #1 My parents were very different in temperament. My mother was the one who looked back, fretted, and viewed with alarm. My father lived for the future, and he always hoped for the best.
#2 When my father and his family arrived in Concordia, they were greeted by two brothers, T and Erv Medlin, who told them they had never before seen a Jew who wasn't a peddler. When...
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