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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.
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Book Preview: #1 I was a bright, playful child, too young and energetic to understand fear. I spent a lot of time in front of the hallway mirror, examining my eyes to discover where the fear was hiding. I was three generations living in the same house: Baba-jan and Nanah-jan, their four daughters, my aunts Kurbra, Hajar, Zahra, and Azizah, my uncles Naseer and Basheer, and me.
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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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Book Preview: #1 My roots are in Brittany, the tip of France. I grew up hearing my ancestors speak Breton, a Celtic language that is difficult to understand today. I always sensed that I was a daughter of a rugged, cragged land and the mysterious ocean.
#2 My mother, Anne Le Théo, was the only daughter in her family. She was bright and successful in her studies, and she grew up into...
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Book Preview: #1 I got sick the way Hemingway says you go broke: gradually and then suddenly. I had been intermittently unwell since I graduated from college in 1997, and now I was getting steadily worse. I was met by turns with cutting skepticism but also genuine concern from clinicians, friends, and colleagues.
#2 There is a silent epidemic of chronic illnesses that are often marginalized,...
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Book Preview: #1 My mother was against me writing a book about myself. She had tried to talk me out of it, but now that the book was actually a thing, she had changed her mind. She gave me her blessing, but insisted that I burn the book after I was done with it.
#2 I had always been Jewish, but when I asked my mother if I had ever had a conversion ceremony, she said she didn't remember....
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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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Book Preview: #1 I grew up with the living embodiment of the strength, devotion, and intelligence Laura Ingalls Wilder described in her books. My mother, Frae Ella Berry, was a one-room-schoolhouse teacher who married a man who was a devoted partner but whose restlessness also challenged all her strength.
#2 My mother's story was that she and her sister Edith, her big sister, grew...
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#1 I was born in 1954 in a small village in Rwanda. I was the ninth child of my parents, and I was an island in time's river, separated by six years from my older sister and five years from my younger brother. I got a lot of attention from my mother because of it.
#2 I grew up in Rwanda, and as I was a middle child, I was often in charge of the family. I had rows of...
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Book Preview: #1 I took my dog to the vet, who found that he had a violent cough. The vet decided to do an X-ray to see if something was stuck in his windpipe. The nurse gave him a shot to knock him out, because he was not a good boy and did not want to behave.
#2 I had always wanted to believe in something like dogs bringing out the best in us, but I couldn't picture it with an old,...
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#1 Chuck Kleveland, age 44, was a truck driver who lived in Chester, a small town near Hebron. He was on his way to the barber in Hebron when he saw a dead body in a cornfield. He knew it was a girl, dressed in a blue one-piece blanket sleeper, and her hand was glazed over with ice.
#2 Kleveland, the owner of a truck stop, had seen enough. He did not move closer to the...
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#1 In 1967, a Marine sniper named Carlos Norman Hathcock II took aim from a hill in Vietnam and shot a boy who was transporting weapons for the Viet Cong. He never wanted to kill children, but he knew that children in war grow up quickly, and Marines die as fast from bullets fired by twelve-year-old boys as they do from bullets fired by men.
#2 The American forces in...
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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 I have married twice, and my sister three times. None of us set out for this. We meant to stick our landing on the first try, but we stumbled. My parents divorced when I was five, and my mother married Darrell when I was twenty-seven.
#2 The Three Fathers died in the order in which my mother had married them, and they died in the inverse order of their health. My father went first, even though he had made a religion of the elliptical trainer,...
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#1 The sun broke over the gypsy wagon, as if it came from inside it, and Scabie Hans came out with bare chest and a wash basin in his hands. When he had poured the water over himself, he put out his hand for a towel and Pretty Lili gave it to him. They didn't say a word to each other.
#2 When my mother was dressed, she would stand in front of the mirror in the bedroom...
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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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#1 I was seven years old when my sister told me she would give me five dollars to run upstairs and take a picture of my parents having sex. I had no idea what sex was, but I did know that I needed to step up my wardrobe to be taken seriously in first grade.
#2 I was the oldest child, and when I got home from school, I was greeted by my sister and father. My sister and...
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Get the Summary of Casey Maxwell Clair's An Only Child and Her Sister in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Casey Maxwell Clair's memoir, "An Only Child and Her Sister," recounts her turbulent upbringing and the complex dynamics within her family. Clair's early life was marked by her mother Eve's neglect and her father Eddie's favoritism, which led to a strained relationship with her sister Christine. At thirteen,...
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Book Preview: #1 I remember being fascinated with sex and romance from a young age, and I was constantly warned by my teachers and parents that if I showed too much interest in those things, boys would think I was easy, and girls would call me names.
#2 I was eventually caught kissing one of the boys, and my mother made me stop. Boys were quiet when you kissed them. They did not tease...
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Book Preview: #1 Dorothy Kilgallen was a reporter who died in 1965. She was known for her sharp wit and bold personality. She was precocious, and she had an interest in the creative world from a young age.
#2 Kilgallen's father encouraged her to write letters to the newspaper editor, which she did regularly. She became associate editor of The Erasmian, her school's literary magazine,...
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