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Book Preview: #1 On October 24, 1960, a composer named Charles Dumont arrived at the Paris apartment of Edith Piaf with fear in his heart and songs in his briefcase. Piaf was one of the most famous entertainers in France and one of the best-known singers in the world. She had been in a coma due to liver damage three months earlier, but she remained notoriously mercurial and hot-tempered.
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#1 I had wanted to be a professional actor after college, but I had no plan how to achieve it. I had stumbled into an Art History 101 class at the end of my freshman year, and I found myself spellbound. Within three weeks, I became an art history major.
#2 The reward of jet lag is a new set of coordinates, a new language, and local delicacies. I was in Italy to study...
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Book Preview: #1 I was born in 1915, in a war-torn world. My parents were artists, and I inherited their integrity and their capacity for work and vision. But I also inherited their dissatisfaction with the world's condition.
#2 My father, Owen Merton, was a music master and a pious man who taught at Christ's College in Christchurch, on the South Island. He had a lot of energy and...
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Book Preview: #1 I first tried to meditate in 1973, between my sophomore and junior years of college, when I was working as a research assistant for a cardiologist at Boston City Hospital. meditation was given scientific credence by the work of Dr. Herbert Benson and his coauthor Robert Keith Wallace.
#2 I was happy to have a prestigious summer job working with Dr. Benson, who was...
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#1 The left has completely lost its mind. It is now authoritarian and puritanical, and it has replaced the battle of ideas with a battle of feelings. It has replaced honesty with outrage.
#2 I was a closeted gay man for twenty-five years, and it nearly broke me. I developed a habit of downing bottles of cheap red wine alone in my apartment. One day in September 2001,...
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Get the Summary of Jennifer Breheny Wallace's Never Enough in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Never Enough, award-winning reporter Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture, and finds out what we must do to fight back. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and an original survey of nearly 6,000 parents, she exposes how the pressure...
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#1 I moved to Iceland in 2003 when I was twenty-seven years old. I had been in graduate school at Oxford University in England, and I was the first Icelander to attend St. Antony's, one of the colleges there. I was attracted to Gudni, who was the first Icelander to attend St. Antony's.
#2 Gudni, who was the president of the student association, was also the first divorcee I knew....
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#1 I had won a championship that crowned me the top player of my class in EverQuest, a massive multiplayer online role-playing game. In the real world of my parents and friends, my win didn't mean much. But to my thirteen-year-old self, a nerd who always sucked at sports and never caught the attention of girls, it felt major.
#2 I was always late to catch on to things...
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#1 By the time Wayne and Kelly held their newborn sons in their arms, the couple had been married for five years. Kelly had suffered through multiple miscarriages and months of tedious and painful fertility treatments. Everything changed in 1997, when she got a phone call from her cousin Sarah, who was in trouble and didn't want to have an abortion.
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Book Preview: #1 I met Marco at the restaurant where we both worked. I was a waitress to make the money that did not seem to be materializing from my acting and modeling careers. Two years out of college, I had quit my job as an analyst at a hedge fund and decided to become a full-time actor.
#2 At the end of the training, we went to a local dive bar two blocks away. I sat next to...
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#1 I left Albania in 1994 for a new life in the United States. I had won a full scholarship to study at an American university. I was shocked when I received a letter congratulating me on winning a Fulbright scholarship to study advanced physics for one academic year at the University of Maryland in College Park.
#2 I had always wanted to be in the world of numbers and...
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#1 In America, we expect a bit more gravity than in other countries.
#2 I want to leave the doctor's office in tears, but instead I walk out feeling like a hypochondriac.
#3 I had my teeth implanted in a dentist's office in America. They were connected and were screwed in with a screwdriver. The pain wasn't bad, since I was already numb. The next day, I...
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#1 I began to experience a small pain in the back of my throat one spring day during my junior year of college. It gradually got worse over the next few months, and I began to visit other doctors. They all concluded there was nothing wrong with me. Yet my pain continued getting worse and worse, with no remedy in sight.
#2 I realized that I was at a crossroads. I could...
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Get the Summary of Eddie Jaku's The Happiest Man on Earth in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Eddie was beaten by SS thugs, arrested, and sent to a concentration camp with thousands...
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#1 I'm a thirty-something Virgo, living in Brooklyn, and I love Joan Didion. I'm also a single, thirty-something Virgo, living in Brooklyn, and I love writing. I'd kept a journal for twenty-one years and had published a book about the last decade of my life. I'd been writing for comparison's sake for most of my life. I'd graduated from journalism school decades ago,...
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