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Get the Summary of William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he...
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Book Preview: #1 Louise Robinette was first attracted to David when he was seventeen and she was ten. They had secret hand-holding during fiery Pentecostal services at the Church of God in Princeton, West Virginia. She would later say she would marry him and have twelve children.
#2 King Turpin Jr. had a religious experience in Kentucky that led him to become a preacher, and he moved...
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Get the Summary of Lindsay C. Gibson's Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you probably still struggle with anger, sadness, resentment, or shame. As a child, your emotional needs were not met, your feelings were dismissed, and you likely took on adult...
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Book Preview: #1 In 1978, I was asked to teach a thirteen-week course on marriage at my church. The topic was: what must a couple do to stay happily married. The book that resulted from this course, His Needs, Her Needs, was a bestseller and continues to be one of the most popular books on marriage today.
#2 The beginning of the end of the traditional nuclear family in America was in 1960, when I was 19 years old. I had been trying to become a marriage...
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Get the Summary of Natalie Franke's Built to Belong in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Many of us feel more alone than ever despite living in the most connected society in human history. We need to belong in the same way that we need oxygen—our physical bodies require it. We perform better and have greater successes as individuals when we are connected to the collective.
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Book Preview: #1 When we become parents, we bring with us issues from our past that influence the way we parent our children. These issues can easily get triggered in the parent-child relationship, and our responses toward our children can be strong emotional reactions, impulsive behaviors, or distortions in our perceptions.
#2 I had similar experiences as a parent, and found that...
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Get the Summary of T.A. Williams' A Little Piece of Paradise in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Having worked in Rome for four years, Sophie's excited to revisit to Italy, even if it reignites memories of a cheating ex who soon learns of her return and wants to rekindle their spark. Sophie realises that distance does indeed make the heart grow fonder — but for her friend back home,...
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Book Preview: #1 You've been working on your relationship, hoping that love would be enough. But you've been agonizing over whether or not to stay. Now you're ready to make the choice that's been weighing on your heart.
#2 Leaving your relationship means finally freeing yourself from the confusion and pain that comes with it. It means getting on with a new and better life. Until now,...
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Book Preview: #1 When you're pregnant, you think that life will be different once you have a child. But five months into the pregnancy, I realized that the feeling of being weighed down by adulthood wasn't going to get any better any time soon.
#2 When we moved to Paris, we had no idea where we would end up, but we were sure that we would be living outside of the United States. We...
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#1 I eventually managed to visit Christoph and told him that my mother wanted to visit me. He took a photograph of me standing next to the café owner, smiling and holding some cups on a tray. The next day, he gave me a print of the photo and said, Put it in your bag. You can show it to your mum when she comes.
#2 I was excited to see my mother again, and I was excited...
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#1 I want to give my kids the confidence to dream out loud. I want to show them that ridiculously good things do happen, even if they seem completely unbelievable. I was given the opportunity to do something with my creativity and passion, and I want to give that to my kids as well.
#2 When you articulate a new dream, you should receive a response similar to Philip's....
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#1 The first few months of a baby's life are a period of great emotional and physical upheaval, and parents are often left distressed by the baby's crying. But health professionals have been saying for years that crying for prolonged periods is normal in the first 16 weeks and won't hurt the baby.
#2 Crying in the first few months of a baby's life is normal and won't...
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#1 My new housemate is 85 and widowed. She likes to garden and talk about paintings. I'm not fussed by her idiosyncrasies, as long as I can keep my distance from her.
#2 I live with a very old and very peculiar woman named Winnie who doesn't like to cook, but who is surprisingly easy to live with otherwise.
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#1 Toxic people are difficult to identify, because their toxicity is not easy to discern. They are often good at hiding it, and they can be difficult to deal with because we're always dealing with a two-to-five-year-old in an adult's body.
#2 Toxic people cannot tolerate consideration of others. When trying to have a conversation with them, they are self-referential...
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#1 I remember my grandfather having a heart attack and being extremely despondent about his health and the future of the farm. My mother and father stayed because of this, despite my grandmother dying and my father being offered a job in Bloomington.
#2 My grandfather, who had been a full-time hobby farmer, suddenly became very ill. He was rushed to the hospital, where...
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#1 I was moved again, this time to a house with my sisters Camille, Gi, and Norm. We were wards of the state, and our mother had abandoned us. We were all very skinny because we were constantly hungry.
#2 I was the eldest of three girls, and we had survived a lot in our short lives. We had seen and experienced a lot, but we rarely cried. Until that day, when my sister...
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#1 I grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family, and I was expected to marry a rich Jewish man when I was eighteen and have lots of children. The fact that I had different goals caused a rift in my relationship with my grandfather.
#2 The importance of men was illustrated to me when my brother Lee was born on May 23, 1945, three days before my fifth birthday. My parents brought...
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#1 I began working as an escort, and every day I had sex with between six and eight men. Jak always went with me in a taxi to drop me off at their homes or hotel rooms. Then he would wait for me in a café to take me to the next job. I hated it.
#2 I was 14 when I got pregnant. I was ecstatic, but Jak seemed pleased about it. I had two regular clients who didn't use...
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#1 The mother myth is so strong that if your mother was unloving, you'll inevitably run into a wall of resistance from external forces that defend her. You may be met with skepticism, sharp criticism, and counterproductive advice.
#2 The pain of having an unloving mother is intensely lonely and isolating. It is common for even a well-meaning friend or relative to discount...
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