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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Cal Newport's How to Become a Straight-A Student
There are many guides out there for college students that completely misrepresent what modern college life is like, or fail to provide them with the tools they need to succeed.
Cal Newport's How to Become a Straight-A Student (2006) sets the record straight on how to enjoy your college experience while also getting the grades you want. One of the main keys to Newport's...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Kayleigh McEnany's For Such a Time as This
If someone had told Kayleigh McEnany when she was in college that Donald Trump someday would ask her to become the White House press secretary, as a pandemic ravaged the world, she wouldn't have believed it.
In For Such a Time as This (2021), McEnany traces her remarkable path from college into the media and politics. As she chronicles her time in the White House, she...
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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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Summary of Jon Krakauer's Missoula is a close examination of the cause and effect of a series of alleged sexual assaults in a Montana college town.
Missoula is the second largest city in Montana, and the Missoula-based University of Montana (UM) Grizzlies football team is a source of significant local pride. In December 2010, a scandal began in which four members of the football team were accused of gang rape, but were not charged with a crime. A...
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Summary of Hillary Rodham Clinton's What Happened is a memoir of Clinton's experience running for president of the United States in 2016. In the November general election, she won the popular vote by more than 3 million votes but won fewer delegates to the electoral college, which elects the president of the United States…
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Summary of David Ramsey's The Total Money Makeover is a financial self-help book that aims to revolutionize how you think about money and inspire you to escape debt and live the life you have always wanted. Ramsey details seven steps you can take to turn your financial situation around. The steps include admitting you have a problem, budgeting, eliminating your debts, starting an emergency fund, planning for retirement and your child's college education,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Laurence J. Kotlikoff's Money Magic
Most people make the mistake of treating their finances like someone else's problem. In Money Magic (2021), economist Laurence J. Kotlikoff teaches you how to handle your own finances and take back power over your life. He tells the secrets of benefiting from Social Security, retirement plans, and college loans to the maximum, while also tackling marriage, divorce, and even...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Tarana Burke & Brené Brown's You Are Your Best Thing
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1) Jason Reynolds, an award-winning author, and his brother Allen were raised in Washington DC, after their parents and grandparents moved there from South Carolina for better work opportunities.
2) When he was 17, Jason's mother was diagnosed with cancer in her bladder. During the period of her therapy, Jason had to juggle hospital visits,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Robert T. Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens
Conventional wisdom says you have to graduate from college in order to get a good job and start making money. But what if you start your financial journey as a teen?
Robert T. Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens (2004) contains all the financial knowledge from his best-seller Rich Dad Poor Dad (1997) restructured for teenagers who want to start their financial...
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Summary of Eli Sanders's While the City Slept is a journalistic work portraying the series of events that led up to a sexual assault and homicide in an outlying neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The victims were Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper, who lived in a peripheral neighborhood called South Park. Isaiah Kalebu was convicted for the murder.
Teresa grew up in a family of ten other siblings in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents were very religious....
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Summary of Amy Poehler's Yes Please is a humorous memoir that combines anecdotal essays, memories of the past, poetry, photos, and bits of poignant advice from her life. It begins with her childhood growing up in the Boston area and explores her career in improvisational comedy, writing, and acting in Chicago, New York, and Hollywood.
When, as a child, Amy Poehler portrayed Dorothy in the fourth grade production of The Wizard of Oz, she learned that,...
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Summary of Sejal Badani's Trail of Broken Wings is a novel by Sejal Badani. The novel follows the story of a family who immigrated to California from India, focusing mainly on three sisters who suffered incredible abuse at the hands of their father, Brent. When Sonya, the youngest, arrives home shortly after her father falls into a coma, the three women and their mother are forced to confront the abuse and the ways in which it altered their lives.
Upon...
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Summary of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm is neurosurgeon Henry Marsh's memoir, with a particular focus on his mistakes and regrets.
Marsh admits that he grew up privileged. He began his college career studying English, but quit school due to an unrequited love. He took a job working in a mining town hospital, an experience that inspired him to become a surgeon. He returned to Oxford to finish his degree and then attended the Royal Free Medical School in...
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Summary of Amanda & Gina DeJesus With Mary Jordan & Kevin Sullivan's Hope, the story of two of the three young women held captive by Ariel Castro, is a graphic and gripping account of a decade of abduction, assault, and abuse in a rundown house on Seymour Street in a rough section of Cleveland.
Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, the two youngest of the three captives, wrote their stories together because they wanted everyone to know the truth, not only...
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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 Terry McMillan's I Almost Forgot About You, a novel by Terry McMillan, follows protagonist Georgia Young as she reevaluates her life between the ages of 53 and 55. An African American optometrist in the San Francisco Bay area, Georgia is a single woman who is in a dating rut. Bored with her work and tired of rattling around her big empty house, she is inspired by the news of a former paramour's death to make some changes in her unhappy...
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Summary of Bob Woodward's The Last of the President's Men is a nonfiction work about Alexander Butterfield, an aide in the White House during President Richard Nixon's first administration, written by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Bob Woodward. This is the fifth book Woodward has written about the Watergate scandal.
In 1968, Colonel Alexander Butterfield was an officer in the US Air Force stationed in Australia. Previously he served in Vietnam where...
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