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Get the Summary of Prince Harry's Spare in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: For Harry, this is that story at last.
Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. He struggled at school, struggled with anger, with loneliness-and, because he blamed the press for his mother's...
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Book Preview: A lot has been written about World War II: the triumphs, the
tribulations, and the horrors. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down
(2021) includes all three, as he covers the incredible story of
Joseph "Joe" Moser, an American pilot who survived his stay
at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Buchenwald is one of the most infamous German
concentration camps, not for its sheer...
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#1 The Bible tells the story of how God brought judgment on the world due to the lawlessness and violence of humanity. Only Noah, a righteous man, and his family were spared.
#2 The first book of the Bible is about God and his continuing relationship with his creation, including his disappointments and the actions he takes to overcome obstacles.
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Book Preview: #1 You can make some money by launching your own Some Place Special for toddlers. Your payout will depend on how many underage boarders you take in, as well as how risky this endeavor may be to your homestead.
#2 Turn over the couch cushions and check under the rug for spare change. If you're lucky, you might find some change that isn't already in the bank.
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Get the Summary of Symon He & James Svetec's Airbnb For Dummies in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: You've got that spare tower, mansion, apartment, couch, or perhaps even treehouse (really-there are more than 2,400 treehouses listed on Airbnb). You're a polite, clean, and tolerant host. And you want to make some money. Congratulations, you're fully qualified to become part of the Airbnb...
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Get the Summary of Sam Harris's Lying in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption, even murder and genocide, generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie.
In Lying, bestselling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris...
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#1 Jerusalem, where Christ was crucified, buried, and resurrected, was the center of pilgrimage in the fourth century. In the 330s, Constantine the Great ordered the construction of the Holy Sepulchre, a massive temple complex over the site of Christ's burial.
#2 The Seljuk Turks rose to power in Afghanistan and eastern Iran in the 1040s, and invaded Syria. They called...
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Get the Summary of Josh Kaufman's The First 20 Hours in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What's on your list? What's holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills-time you don't have and effort you can't spare?
Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to...
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Book Preview: #1 On August 6, 1888, London was a carnival of wondrous things to do for as little as pennies if one could spare a few. The bells of Windsor's Parish Church and St. George's Chapel rang all day. Ships were dressed in flags.
#2 Walter Sickert was a master of greasepaint and wardrobe. He was able to completely transform himself into someone else, and he was known for his...
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Get the Summary of Jada Pinkett Smith's Worthy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Jada Pinkett Smith was living what many would view as a fairy-tale of Hollywood success. But appearances can be deceiving, and as she felt more and more separated from her sense of self, emotional turmoil took hold. Sparing no detail, Worthy chronicles her life-from a rebellious youth running the Baltimore...
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#1 Warren Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the third wealthiest person on the planet, and his net worth is $82 billion. In 2017, he won a bet with one of his investment managers that he could outperform any professional money manager selecting a set of five or more hedge funds over a ten-year period. The winner donated a million...
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#1 The classic experiment done by Darley and Batson in 1973 proved how seemingly incidental contextual factors have a significant, but under-appreciated, influence on behavior. The situation, not the person, determines the behavior.
#2 The truth is that consumers have not changed at all since 1973. The more agencies try to convince us that everything is changing, and...
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#1 The amphibious invasion taking place off the jetties and docks of Inchon was led by General Douglas MacArthur, and his name would forever be associated with it. But the officer most directly responsible for executing the details of the initial landing was in many ways MacArthur's opposite: Oliver Prince Smith, commander of the First Marine Division.
#2 General Smith...
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#1 I was in a nether land of a feverish dream, and I slowly began to realize that I was in a spare bedroom in Jay's house in Ayer, with the décor of a military surplus warehouse crossed with a speed shop. I remembered that the raccoon's name was Rocky.
#2 I had just processed out of the army, with my illusions shattered and a bad taste in my soul for the future. I was...
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#1 I had a love of books as a child. I would spend hours leafing through a book, and I would spend my spare time browsing the bouquinistes' old, damp cases of books. When I returned to Paris after the first war, everything had been taken away.
#2 I began to see the importance of a book's reader. I would place the book I thought was appropriate down close to a reader,...
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#1 Tolkien had a very different childhood from what he would have had if he had been a healthier child. He was born in 1892 in Bloemfontein, one of the two Boer republics that had won independence from British rule in South Africa. His father died from rheumatic fever in 1896, and his mother took the boys back to England.
#2 Tolkien had a flair for calligraphy, which...
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#1 I was the US chief of protocol for the 2012 G20 global economic summit in Los Cabos, Mexico. I was tasked with making sure that every interaction between the presidents went exactly as planned. I was preoccupied with policy details and protocol checklists, but I was also nervous because this was diplomacy at its most intense.
#2 I loved arranging the room, and I...
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Get the Summary of Marsha M. Linehan's Building a Life Worth Living in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In this remarkable and inspiring memoir, Linehan describes how, when she was eighteen years old, she began an abrupt downward spiral from popular teenager to suicidal young woman. After several miserable years in a psychiatric institute, Linehan made a vow that if she could get out of...
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#1 The Netherlands was the most logical place to build an ark. With more than a quarter of the country lying below mean sea level, canals, rivers, and lakes were almost as common as trees.
#2 The Netherlands is a country that was built on land that was reclaimed from the sea. The country is known for its flatness and its windmills, which were used to pump fields dry....
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#1 In the summer of 2008, a thunderstorm hit the small town of Prescott, Arizona, and drenched the thirsty pines, scrub oak, and manzanita. It was a emotional cleansing for the Kennedy family, who were finally starting to get along again.
#2 Carol was a gentle, loving and openhearted soul. She was a devoted mother and therapist, and she taught courses such as Yoga...
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