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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Amanda and Anna Kloots's Live Your Life
In Live Your Life (2021), Amanda Kloots, with the help of her sister Anna Kloots, narrates the story of how she loved her husband, actor-singer Nick Cordero, and tragically lost him to COVID. Amanda wants to preserve Nick's legacy and share it with the world. She wants her son to read it and know his father when he grows up. The book takes the reader beyond the journey...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Rob Lowe's Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Most actors are artists who shape their lives and legacies through mixed and harsh experiences. They are constantly at the mercy of script writers, directors, producers, critics, and audiences.
In Stories I Only Tell My Friends (2011), Rob Lowe uncovers the burdens he endured as a child and the many ups and downs he experienced in building his acting career. He describes...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Norm Macdonald's Based on a True Story
In Based on a True Story (2016), Norm Macdonald pieces together a tale of a once famed Canadian comedian who became a Saturday Night Live writer and presenter at the peak of his career. Norm merges together two plot lines, a main one led by himself, as he dives deeper and deeper into the world of gambling and morphine abuse, and a secondary one led by a fictional ghostwriter,...
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Summary of Holly Madison's Down the Rabbit Hole is the memoir of former Hugh Hefner girlfriend and former star of The Girls Next Door, Holly Madison. By 2002, Holly was Hugh Hefner's girlfriend at the Playboy Mansion, but she felt that she had sold her soul for a piece of fame. She was miserable, even borderline suicidal, as she played the role of girlfriend to a demanding tycoon old enough to be her grandfather. Life inside the mansion turned out...
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Summary of George W. Bush's 41 offers an inside look at his father, George H.W. Bush, and the family that produced the forty-first and forty-third presidents of the United States.
On his ninetieth birthday, George H.W. made a parachute jump despite serious health issues. He said it was his second greatest birthday wish, after happiness for his family. Though his family worried, he had always been excited by a new adventure. When he landed safely,...
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Summary of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog is Phil Knight's memoir about founding his first company, Blue Ribbon; the creation of the Nike sportswear brand; and the lead-up to the initial public offering of Nike, Inc.
In 1962, at 24 years old, Knight decided to pursue a business idea he researched in a Stanford University business class: introducing Japanese running shoes to the United States to compete with dominant European brands. This would require a trip...
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Summary of Chris Hadfield's An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth tells the Canadian astronaut's life story and offers practical life advice based on this professional experience. Focusing on his training and his third and final mission to space, Hadfield demonstrates how the unusual way in which astronauts work is surprisingly applicable to everyday life…
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Summary of Chris Matthews's Bobby Kennedy chronicles the life of Robert F. Kennedy, the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and a political force in his own right. The Kennedy brothers were third-generation Irish-American Catholics from a wealthy Massachusetts family…
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So much has been written about the late Steve Jobs that Brent Schlender and his co-author, Rick Tetzeli, wisely begin their biography with a prologue that explains why they wrote yet another biography of the Apple co-founder. Schlender, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Fortune, became close to Jobs over twenty-five years of interviews, and was one of the few journalists Jobs trusted.
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Edith Eva Eger's The Choice.
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1) Edith Eva Eger was born in 1927 to a Jewish family in Košice, Czechoslovakia. She had two older sisters, Klara and Magda. Their mother, Ilona, who lost her own mother at age 6, never lived a day of childhood, and their father was a well-known tailor.
2) At 14, Edith met her first love, a Jewish boy named Eric, at a book club. Their love was profound, not...
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Summary of Dan Lyons's Disrupted is a memoir about Lyons's experiences as a middle-aged career journalist who takes a job in marketing at a startup. For years, Lyons wrote for Newsweek about technology and was well-known for starting a popular satirical blog about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. At age 51, he lost his job in the magazine's downsizing. He started looking for another job right away to support his young children and his wife, who had just...
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Summary of J. B. West's Upstairs at the White House chronicles his career at the White House and gives an inside look at the six first ladies he served, first as an assistant and then as the chief usher, or general manager, of the dozens of housekeepers, maids, cooks, butlers, gardeners, plumbers, handymen and other staff it takes to keep the White House running. The chief usher manages the household budget, sees to the housing and comfort of guests,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Carol Shaben's Into the Abyss
Carol Shaben found out about her father's plane crash two days after it went down on October 19, 1984, in Alberta, Canada. Six people were killed and four survived, including Larry Shaben, the provincial housing minister. The other survivors were the pilot, Erik Vogel; a criminal, Paul Archambault; and his accompanying cop, Scott Deschamps. All four were deeply changed by their...
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Summary of Bobby Bones's Bare Bones whose birth name is Bobby Estell, looks back on his life so far. Bobby, who was 36 at the time of its 2016 publication, reflects on his successful and storied career, which has spanned three radio stations. He also explains how his difficult childhood has had an ambivalent legacy in his adult life: it has fueled his near-superhuman work ethic and severely stunted his personal relationships.
Bobby was raised by his...
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Summary of Antonio Garcia Martinez's Chaos Monkeys is a memoir of Antonio Garcia Martinez's time working as a coder at Goldman Sachs, as a startup employee and founder, and as a product manager at Facebook.
Martinez began working at Goldman Sachs after college as a pricing quant, which is industry slang for a programmer who builds models for pricing credit derivatives. Quants had low status at the firm and Martinez became disillusioned with employees'...
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Summary of Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk is a memoir by Helen Macdonald. Macdonald had a life-long fascination with birds of prey, especially falcons, and the goshawk, a large wild bird of prey, is well known to bird enthusiasts as being the hardest to train. The book tells of her efforts to train the bird and process her grief over the loss of her father…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Reeves Wiedeman's Billion Dollar Loser
Billionaire entrepreneur Adam Neumann co-founded WeWork with the hope of changing the business market and paving the way for a conglomerate unlike anything the world had ever witnessed.
In Billion Dollar Loser (2020), Reeves Wiedeman chronicles the hectic rise and chaotic fall of WeWork under Neumann. Over ten years, Neumann wasted billions of dollars in investment funds...
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