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How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Steve Harvey's Jump by Instaread
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Jump by Steve Harvey, a well-known television personality, is an inspirational self-help book designed to motivate people to get out of their habitual ruts and take substantial risks to achieve their dreams. Too many people believe that leaving an unsatisfying job or relationship is too great a chance to take. They think that they can't start over or that they'll go broke and...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Robin Norwood's Women Who Love Too Much and NOT the original book.
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In Women Who Love Too Much (1985), marriage and family therapist Robin Norwood offers guidance for women with destructive relationship patterns. Though they might not realize it, "women who love too much" are addicted to their partners like an alcoholic is addicted to alcohol...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Gary Taubes's The Case Against Sugar by Instaread
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The Case Against Sugar argues that sugar is a toxic substance responsible for a wide array of health problems including diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. Author Gary Taubes recounts the history of how sugar came to be cultivated and ultimately refined into the cheap, ubiquitous substance that is eaten globally today. He takes on the American sugar industry...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Lawrence Levy's To Pixar and Beyond by Instaread Preview: To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History is Lawrence Levy's personal account of how he and Steve Jobs turned a struggling animation company into a filmmaking powerhouse. Levy is the former Pixar chief financial officer. When Levy arrived at Pixar in 1995 at the behest of CEO Steve Jobs, the animation company was struggling....
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Ryan Holiday's and Stephen Hanselman's The Daily Stoic by Instaread
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The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman is an introduction to the practical application of Stoic philosophy in the format of a daily devotional. Often derided as discouraging emotion, Stoicism is a philosophy that encourages discipline, fortitude, and control of perceptions. The greatest possession of a Stoic is reasoned choice,...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath by Instaread
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Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants is a book about perceived disadvantage. People with few resources or certain disadvantages may seem weak and unlikely to win. However, in many cases, the same factors that make underdogs seem weak gives them built-in advantages. Underdogs are much more likely to win than...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Chip Heath's & et al Made to Stick and NOT the original book.
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In Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (2007), educators and brothers Chip Heath and Dan Heath offer a guide for sharing ideas that stick with listeners. As a framework for their advice, they offer the acronym SUCCES, short for simple, unexpected, concrete, credible, emotional, and stories....
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to David Schwartz's The Magic of Thinking Big and NOT the original book.
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In The Magic of Thinking Big (1959), professor and leadership expert Dr. David Schwartz argues that the "size" of people's thoughts determines their success in life. Big thinking is categorized as positive and progressive and small thinking as negative and regressive...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Emma Donoghue's The Wonder by Instaread
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The Wonder by Emma Donoghue is a novel about Elizabeth "Lib" Wright, a British nurse whose wits, beliefs, and compassion are tested during an unusual assignment in rural Ireland circa 1859. Lib's charge is Anna O'Donnell, an 11-year-old who allegedly hasn't had a bite to eat in four months. Dubious of this so-called miracle, Lib has just two weeks to uncover her young...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Jodi Picoult's Small Great Things by Instaread
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Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult is the story of Ruth Jefferson, an African American labor and delivery nurse who is charged with the murder of the newborn son of white supremacists. The novel is also the story of Ruth's public defender, Kennedy McQuarrie, who learns to confront the criminal justice system's racial prejudice.
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Steven Levitt's & et al SuperFreakonomics and NOT the original book.
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SuperFreakonomics (2009) by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner is a follow-up to the authors' previous book Freakonomics (2005). Like the previous book, SuperFreakonomics describes research and innovative ideas in the field of behavioral economics for the casual reader...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Eric Berne's, M.D. Games People Play and NOT the original book.
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Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis (1964) by Eric Berne explores dysfunctional social behavior, which he describes as games people play in their interactions with each other.
Games are comprised of a series of transactions beyond simple rituals, social pastimes, and friendly conversation....
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Sam Walton's & et al Made in America and NOT the original book.
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Sam Walton: Made in America (1992) by Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton is an autobiographical account of how Walton, who came from modest means and grew up during the Great Depression, became the proprietor of the largest retailer in the United States. Walton's passion, ambition, and competitive spirit drove him to succeed...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Tony Robbins's & et al Unshakeable and NOT the original book.
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Unshakeable (2017) by Tony Robbins with Peter Mallouk is a concise guide to smart investing for both experienced and novice investors. Those without plenty of investing experience often lose out financially because they don't understand the complex rules of the financial market and make uninformed choices, some of which are driven by fear...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Vanessa Van Edwards's Captivate and NOT the original book.
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Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People (2017) by Vanessa Van Edwards is a collection of tips and tricks, or hacks, aimed at creating more meaningful and productive social interactions. Interpersonal skills are acquired, not innate...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Ross Sorkin's Too Big to Fail and NOT the original book.
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System-and Themselves (2009) begins in March 2008 when Richard S. Fuld Jr., CEO of Lehman Brothers, received a phone call from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Bear Stearns, the smallest of the "Big Five" Wall Street investment banks, would be sold or...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Chris Hayes's A Colony in a Nation and NOT the original book.
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A Colony in a Nation is Chris Hayes's treatise against police brutality, which persisted and continued to develop after Jim Crow laws were dismantled in the 1960s. This police brutality has been endured mostly by people of color...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Brad Stone's The Everything Store by Instaread
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon recounts the rise of Amazon since it was founded in 1994. Simultaneously, the book is a partial biography of the company's CEO and founder, Jeff Bezos, whose personality, values, and life experiences have had enormous influence shaping the company as it exists today. He is a much-feared but much-respected leader...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Amy Myers's The Thyroid Connection and NOT the original book.
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The Thyroid Connection by functional medicine doctor Amy Myers is a self-help book for people who suffer from thyroid dysfunction or suspect that they do. Myers took up her mission to help others understand thyroid conditions when she was in medical school and was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an autoimmune condition that results in hyperthyroidism,...