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Get the Summary of Trevor Noah's Born a Crime in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Trevor Noah's Born a Crime (2016) recounts the comedian's childhood in South Africa during and after apartheid, focusing in particular on his relationship with his mother, Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah, whose own independence and character shaped Noah's perceptions and choices.
When Patricia was 22, she decided...
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Get the Summary of Michael Eric Dyson's Jay-Z: Made in America in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: JAY-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael Eric Dyson's decade of teaching the work of one of the greatest poets this nation has produced, as gifted a wordsmith as Walt Whitman, Robert Frost and Rita Dove. But as a rapper, he's sometimes not given the credit he deserves for just how great...
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#1 Paul McCartney has a natural affability that makes him easy to talk to. He is not obsessed with questions of image, and he has a good understanding of how he appears to the outside world.
#2 Paul McCartney is an affable, easy-to-talk-to rock star. He is not obsessed with questions of image, and he has a good understanding of how he appears to the outside...
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Get the Summary of Matthew McConaughey's Greenlights in 20 minutes.
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Original book introduction: I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to...
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Get the Summary of Chrissy Metz with Kevin Carr O'Leary's This Is Me in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When This Is Us debuted in fall 2016, a divided America embraced a show that celebrates human connection. The critically acclaimed series became America's most watched-and most talked about-network show, even building on its fan base in the drama's second season. As Kate Pearson, Chrissy...
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Book Preview: #1 Mary Davies was born in London in 1665. She was the heiress to what would become some of the most valuable land in the world. She was married at the age of twelve to a Cheshire landowner nine years her senior.
#2 Mary's great-great uncle, Hugh Audley, was a lawyer who made his fortune as a usurer. He died in 1662, and six months after the birth of his daughter,...
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#1 I am not a celebrity, and I have never been recognized out of costume. I have a simple life and no ambitions beyond it.
#2 I've done a lot of cool stuff. I've been in love with a married woman, and I don't like alcohol. I can't read music, and I can't remember the last time I had a bad meal.
#3 I am not a celebrity, and I have never been recognized out...
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Get the Summary of Michael J. Fox's No Time Like the Future in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
In No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality. Thoughtful and moving, but with Fox's trademark sense of humor, his...
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