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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing
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In Where the Crawdads Sing (2018), Delia Owens juxtaposes a coming of age story and a murder mystery. She reminds readers of the child that is within them, while also subjecting them to the violent yet beautiful secrets of nature.
Isolation influences behavior, and Kya, the protagonist, endures much mistreatment and abandonment by her parents, siblings,...
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Summary of DeVon Franklin & Meagan Good with Tim Vandehey's The Wait describes the ways a celibate mindset can impact various facets of life, including a person's relationship with God.
The Wait is a self-improvement strategy that has its foundations in delayed gratification, a challenging concept in a culture dominated by instant gratification. While The Wait is centrally focused on remaining celibate until marriage, its lessons in delayed gratification...
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Summary of Michelle Obama's Becoming recounts the familial, educational, romantic, and political experiences that culminated in her tenure as first lady of the United States between 2009 and 2017. A native of Chicago, Michelle was an ambitious student who grew into a driven adult...
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Summary of Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat is a non-fiction account of the remarkable life story of Joe Rantz. Rantz was a determined young man who overcame personal tragedy and hardship to win a gold medal at the 1936 Olympics as a member of the US rowing team.
When Joe was four, his mother, Nellie, died of throat cancer. His father, Harry, went to Canada. He sent Joe to Pennsylvania to live with his Aunt Alma while his older brother, Fred,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Marin Katusa's The Rise of America
Marin Katusa identifies the geopolitical and economic headwinds that we all face in The Rise of America (2021), so that we can make the best decisions for our portfolios and our lives.
The United States of America is deeply divided politically and socially, with the economy hanging on the edge of a cliff. The idea of a bleak future seems to be spreading widely in many sectors....
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Summary of Tony Hsieh's Delivering Happiness is a business memoir that outlines the company's customer service-focused model. In 2009, when Zappos announced that larger retailer Amazon would be acquiring the company, Hsieh recalled that his first attempted enterprise was a worm farm when he was nine years old. ..
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Fiona Hill's There Is Nothing for You Here
Fiona Hill has a unique perspective of the world, having spent time in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Russia. She has seen the good and bad of all three countries, and realized that the three aren't all that different.
In There Is Nothing for You Here, Hill explains the three countries' post-industrial struggles after World War II, framed within the contest...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from George Soros's In Defense of Open Society
In Defense of Open Society (2019) is a collection of essays, articles, and speeches by George Soros, an international philanthropist. Soros examines the many dangers facing open societies, from rising dictatorships to the growing threat of tech companies and artificial intelligence. He chronicles his journey to philanthropy in detail, telling how he survived Nazi Germany,...
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Inspired after binge-watching Downton Abbey, a British television show about the relationship between a titled family and their servants, journalist Kate Andersen Brower decided to take a close look at the upstairs-downstairs dynamic of America's grandest home, the White House, in her book, The Residence…
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Summary of Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire examines the intricate evolutionary relationship between plant cultivation and human desire. Author Michael Pollan explores this relationship by recounting the history of four plants that have been cultivated to meet four distinct human longings…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michael Shellenberger's San Fransicko
In San Fransicko (2021), bestselling author Michael Shellenberger tackles the problem of increasing homelessness, especially in the city of San Francisco. He argues that the root cause isn't the absence of accommodation, money, or social aid programs, but the principles embedded in the minds of some people who acquire them either by experience or by identity. As a result,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Emily Oster's Expecting Better
Pregnancy, without a doubt one of adulthood's most profound and meaningful experiences, can reduce perfectly competent women to, well, babies.
In Expecting Better (2013), award-winning economist Emily Oster applies scientific rigor to conventional pregnancy advice. Her goal is to empower pregnant women by providing concrete numbers and hard facts from trustworthy research.
Pregnancy,...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Eknath Easwaran's The Bhagavad Gita.
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1) The Bhagavad Gita serves as a personal guide. It offers questions and answers on how to successfully survive in a world full of obstacles and change. It is a map for life.
2) The central subject of the Bhagavad Gita is not the external war, but the war within. It tackles the fight for self-mastery that is present within every person, a battle that...
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Summary of Nadia Hashimi's The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Afghan American novelist Nadia Hashimi tells an intergenerational story of two Afghan women whose lives are different but connected. Rahima, a teenage girl, lives in twenty-first-century Afghanistan. In the wake of Taliban rule, Afghanistan's government is divided and the culture is fractured. Shekiba, Rahima's great-great-grandmother, lives in early twentieth-century Afghanistan, under...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Leah Guy's Overcoming Toxic Emotions
Leah Guy's Overcoming Toxic Emotions (2021) teaches you how to create positive change, live happier, and have better relationships with yourself and others for years to come through your own resources, determination, and spirit. Change is constant, regardless of our past, and making the choice to acknowledge change brings opportunities along with the unknown. Guy provides...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jane McLelland's How to Starve Cancer
In How to Starve Cancer (2018), Jane McLelland guides readers through her challenging experience with cancer and how she found alternative treatments far less harmful than conventional chemotherapy and radiotherapy. By chronicling her personal battle, she aims to assure cancer patients that they can take control of their destiny by following a cancer-suppressing approach...
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Summary of James Patterson's Private Vegas deals with serial rapists, car bombings, murderous gold-diggers, a frame-up against his friend, an evil twin, and the disintegration of his love life in the fast-paced days that make up Private Vegas.
On a sunny afternoon in Los Angeles, Lori Kimball races home from her boring job, trying to break her personal best time. In a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, a Sumarian diplomat, Gozan Remari, and his...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Avery Carl's Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth
Avery Carl's Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth (2021) teaches readers how to make money by investing in STRs: short-term and vacation rental properties. Carl shares the strategies that allowed her to make hundreds of thousands of dollars from investing in short-term rentals within five years. She highlights questions that all potential investors should ask and...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Richard Campbell's Dark Psychology
Have you ever had a bad gut feeling about someone that's been close to you for your entire life?
In Dark Psychology (2019), Richard Campbell dives into the sinister side of humans. People are not always who they say they are, and it could be useful to know how to spot a liar, a manipulator, or even a psychopath. You will realize the numerous ways you have been taken advantage...