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Get the Summary of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Be Useful in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.
Arnold's stratospheric success...
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Book Preview: #1 I was sick on my birthday, and I drunkenly dialed my therapist to tell her about it. She thought I should go to the hospital, and I was so confused about why she was so worried.
#2 I am, in fact, stable now, and on a perfect day, when I am drinking a latte and wearing a feather-light, perfectly layered Zara scarf, I am joyful. I have a schmancy job in comedy that...
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Get the Summary of Michael Finkel's The Art Thief in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession" recounts the astonishing tale of Stéphane Breitwieser, a notorious art thief, and his accomplice and girlfriend, Anne-Catherine Kleinklaus. Breitwieser, driven by a passion for beauty rather than financial gain, meticulously plans and executes the theft of...
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Book Preview: #1 I drop two classes and get put on academic probation. I meet some kids from Foothill College at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting off campus. I change my major from biology to history and psychology.
#2 The Game was a method of getting through the hardened defenses of drug addicts, similar to AA, but it was actually a form of brainwashing. It lasted days, sometimes...
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Get the Summary of Nancy Sprowell Geise's Auschwitz 34207 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Auschwitz 34207" by Nancy Sprowell Geise tells the harrowing story of Joe Rubinstein, a Jewish man from Radom, Poland, whose life is irrevocably changed by the Holocaust. The narrative begins with Joe's early life in Radom, filled with family love and Jewish tradition, before shifting to the brutal reality of Nazi occupation....
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#1 I had intended to spend the first act of 1776, a musical about the Declaration of Independence, ignoring the stage and staring at Abraham Lincoln's box from my balcony seat. But I was sucked into the play, and I spent the second act in the Lincoln Museum basement.
#2 The play gives the audience a sense of the anguish, embarrassment, and disappointment Adams and Jefferson...
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#1 Amanda Palmer is a complex person. She is passionate about her art, but she is also passionate about her fans and friends. She is inseparable from her music, art, and blog, and she can't be separated from them.
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Book Preview: #1 The climb up Lhotse was terrifying, but I was able to get over it and focus on the ropes. They turned into velvet ropes that led me toward a mysterious, exclusive nightclub.
#2 I have learned to make do with the jumar, which is an extension of me. I respect the jumar and bow to it every time I feel its steel teeth bite down on rope.
#3 At elevations like this, time...
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#1 The hearing was held in the Law and Justice Center in Chehalis. There were more media present than spectators. The waiting area was full of people, some appearing for their own trials, and some whose presence there I could not pinpoint.
#2 Everyone hopes for a warm and loving gathering of family and friends, but there is always a subliminal fear that someone we love...
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Book Preview: #1 We were introduced one by one. The chairman of the department, Dr. John Harding, gave a brief history of orthopedic surgery at Mayo, and said we were lucky to be starting in orthopedics now. We were going to spend four years here, two as junior residents and two as senior residents.
#2 I was assigned to be the junior resident surgeon with Dr. Harding. I was scared...
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Book Preview: #1 I borrowed a VCR and struggled with the puzzle of plugs and cords. I pushed one tape in, and it started with Christmas in 1984. I saw a four-year-old girl in a velvet dress, her little neck swallowed by an enormous white lace collar. She had thick, straight-across bangs and braided pigtails.
#2 My father was a brilliant man who had spent his life immersed in tropical...
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#1 Rene Enriquez, better known on the streets as Boxer, was a full-fledged member of the Mexican Mafia. He had participated in at least ten murders and had personal knowledge of seven more.
#2 Boxer's criminal career was a demonstration of the lifestyle of the Mexican Mafia, which did not care if its members were caught or went to prison. They adapted and became creatures...
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Book Preview: #1 I was very fortunate in life, and as I lay in bed late at night, I was surrounded by beautiful things. But I was also very poor, and poverty didn't preclude gorgeous beaches and a climate like heaven.
#2 I grew up on Cat Island, and I was free to explore and play anywhere I wanted. I knew from observation that the sapodilla tree produced fruit, plump, grayish brown,...
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#1 When Columbus and his crew landed on Friday, October 12, they were greeted by the island's inhabitants, the Taínos. The Taínos were a widely distributed ethnic group who were skilled at cultivating corn and yams, and making pottery.
#2 When the ships approached the shore, the hostages escaped one by one, and Columbus realized he had been deceived. He would have...
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Book Preview: #1 When I was 11, I learned that my grandfather had leukemia. I felt a deep sense of guilt because I knew he was going to die, and yet I had demanded to see him. I understood why I had been in such a panic to see him.
#2 I had a dream one week after my grandfather passed away. In the dream, I was an actress living in Australia. I felt beautiful, and suddenly felt...
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Book Preview: #1 I was in the Southern Inyo Hospital in Lone Pine, California, after surviving five days in the mountains. I had surgery to remove the blood clots, necrotic tissue, and bone fragments in my left buttock. It took several weeks to drain the fluids from my wound.
#2 I was with a handful of students on a warm autumn day in 1979 when I met Ken, who was on a trip to Jacumba...
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Book Preview: #1 The city of San Francisco is bouncing down the hill, and thousands of people are looking at the crazed truck that is carrying Kesey and his friends. They are terrified of the law, and they are sitting up in plain view of thousands of already startled citizens.
#2 I knew little about Kesey at the time, other than that he was a highly regarded 31-year-old novelist and...
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Book Preview: #1 The word ordinary never left my mind, because I realized that there was no forgetting it: the word was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event. I knew that the story had come from me because no version I heard included the details I couldn't yet face.
#2 I am a writer, and I have a sense that meaning is resident in the rhythms of words and sentences....
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