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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 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 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 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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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 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 completely unknown before I was famous. It was much more fun. I did open-mic comedy in a Las Vegas casino, and when a local stripper wanted me to beat her senseless while I fucked her poorly, I considered myself to have been discovered.
#2 I did a show for nobody. The loudspeakers in the casino were announcing free comedy at eight p. m. every five minutes or...
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#1 I was born in 1964. My mother, Diana Ellen Judd, was 17 years old and beginning her senior year of high school when she found out she was pregnant with me. She was a beautiful, smart, popular girl. She could have gone anywhere and accomplished anything.
#2 I was so excited to be flying to Kentucky to visit my Mamaw and Papaw. I was four years old when I flew alone...
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#1 I was a tomboy, but when games turned official under the auspices of the Fleetwood Elementary Phys-Ed Department, I transformed into a spaz. I knew in my heart I had great potential, but my knowing didn't translate into hitting the ball that was coming my way.
#2 I had a toothache that afternoon, and I was sure that the dentist was going to have to take my tooth....
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#1 I have carried this spirit with me my entire life. I was imbued with the strength and moral fiber of the Jewish people, as well as the physical strength and wisdom of my grandfathers.
#2 The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 was the beginning of the violence between Palestinians and Jews in Palestine. I was a child on the kibbutz during this period, and I remember watching...
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#1 On December 27, 2011, Russ Faria went to game night at Mike Corbin's house with his friends. He was going to pick up his wife, Betsy, who was getting a ride home from Pam Hupp. She had some news to share with him at home.
#2 Russ's red 2002 Chrysler PT Cruiser hadn't been running well, so he left it in the garage and took the blue 1999 Ford Explorer. He drove east...
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#1 The Air Force was able to produce 3,500 pilots in 1967, and I entered the service in 1966. My road to an F-4 cockpit began in 1966, my final year at the University of South Carolina, where I was enrolled in the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps.
#2 I had passed the five specific areas of the Air Force recruiting test: pilot, navigator, academic aptitude, verbal,...
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#1 I had agreed to two speaking engagements. In the morning, I spoke to one hundred fifty undergraduates on selective infanticide. In the evening, it was a convivial discussion of assisted suicide. I was the token cripple with an opposing view.
#2 I am in the first generation to survive to such decrepitude. Because antibiotics were available, we didn't die from the childhood pneumonias...
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#1 On June 14, 1962, the stock market fell sharply for the fourth consecutive day. However, this was nothing compared to the scene in Boston that day, as Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. , the nation's first astronaut, received a New England Aero Club award and was guest of honor on Boston Common.
#2 Mrs. Slesers, a divorced woman, had come to Boston with her son and daughter...
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#1 I was sent to the Republic of South Vietnam in 1968, and I had every intention of spending my last dime sucking up every deranged fantasy I could while I was still breathing. By the time I got to Oakland, I didn't have enough body fluids left to sweat properly.
#2 The 14-hour flight to Vietnam is a boring drudgery or drunken binge, depending on if you have money or...
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