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Book Preview: #1 The last day, Elizabeth Packard woke up in a handsome maple bed, body covered by a snow-white counterpane. She was surrounded by her six children, who were the sun, moon, and stars of her life.
#2 Theophilus had always tried to control Elizabeth, and she had always resisted him. But he had never before gone through her things at night, and she was shocked by his behavior.
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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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Get the Summary of Viola Davis's Finding Me in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Finding Me" is Viola Davis's memoir, chronicling her journey from a challenging childhood to becoming an acclaimed actress. Born into a family with a history of abuse and poverty, Davis faced bullying and racism but found strength in her defiance and resilience. Her mother, a survivor of abuse and advocate for welfare reform, and her...
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Get the Summary of Julia Fox's Down the Drain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Down the Drain" by Julia Fox is a raw and unflinching memoir that chronicles the author's tumultuous life from her childhood in Italy and New York to her adulthood navigating the complexities of relationships, identity, and self-discovery. Julia's early life is marked by familial instability, homelessness, and emotional neglect, which...
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Get the Summary of Kerry Washington's Thicker than Water in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Thicker than Water" is a deeply personal narrative by Kerry Washington, chronicling her life from her early days on the set of "Scandal" to the complexities of her family history. Washington shares her experiences filming her final scene as Olivia Pope, reflecting on her character's evolution and her own sense of liberation....
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Book Preview: #1 You prepare for battle that morning. You apply makeup like someone who is about to war. You wear wedge boots, leggings, and a sheer kimono top. You want him to know that you are not a child anymore.
#2 You and David sit down with the prosecutor, Jon, and the co-prosecutor, Paul. You address them by their first names, as you do everyone in the courtroom. The prosecutors...
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Book Preview: #1 The Dream House is a real place. It is next to a forest and at the rim of a sward. It has a foundation, though rumors of the dead buried within it are a fiction. Every room can be a bedroom: you only need a bed or not even that. Your actions are mightier than any architect's intentions.
#2 I lived with John and Laura, a couple from Florida, in Iowa City. They were...
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Book Preview: #1 Elizebeth was interviewed by the NSA in 1976, and she kept referring to the events of Riverbank Laboratories as if they were still recent. She explained that she was the last person who might remember the crags of things.
#2 Elizebeth Smith was a twenty-three-year-old woman who went to the Newberry Library in Chicago in 1916 to look for a job. She was met by George...
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#1 When we feel, we will act. When we act, we will change the world. When we feel the emergency, we will stop all the suffering.
#2 The two examples I use to demonstrate the intensity of male hatred for women are the Chinese footbinding and the persecution of the witches. The former is a crime equal in horror and sadism to the extermination of Native Americans and the...
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Get the Summary of Azam Ahmed's Fear Is Just a Word in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Azam Ahmed's "Fear Is Just a Word" chronicles the harrowing journey of Miriam Rodríguez, a mother whose life is upended when her daughter Karen is kidnapped by the Zeta cartel in San Fernando. Despite paying a ransom, Karen is not returned, and Miriam embarks on a relentless quest for justice. She uncovers evidence, confronts...
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Get the Summary of Karrine Steffans's Confessions of a Video Vixen in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Karrine Steffans' "Confessions of a Video Vixen" is a memoir chronicling her journey from a troubled childhood to her rise and fall in the entertainment industry. Born in St. Thomas in 1978, Steffans faced neglect and abuse, leading to a search for love through early sexual encounters. Moving to Florida, she endured...
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Get the Summary of Christopher C. Gorham's The Confidante in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Anna Rosenberg's life is a testament to the power of political engagement and the impact of a single individual on American history. Born in Budapest, she moved to New York City with her family after her father's business failed. Embracing her new American identity, Anna became a high school suffragist and U.S. citizen,...
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#1 I was twelve hours from death when I called the surgeon who had removed my cervix. I was loath to cry wolf again, but my apartment looked like a crime scene. I was crying medium-sized dog, possibly rabid.
#2 I was grateful for my escape from a toxic and lonely marriage, but I've been as alone as I've ever been. My eldest has been living with his girlfriend in Bangkok,...
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#1 Focus on your own needs, and not those of others, if you want to have a lean, strong body. Exercising is the best way to help your loved ones, as well as yourself, in the long run.
#2 You should make time for yourself to exercise, as exercise is critical to your health and well-being. However, gyms are also guilty of exploiting the belief that women like exercising...
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#1 In chapters 4, 5, and 6, you'll learn how to apply the Cycle Syncing Method around diet, fitness, and time management. This is where biohacking meets self-care. You'll learn how to use food to support your hormones during each phase of your cycle, reveal the secrets to getting better results with less sweat, and introduce you to planning tools that will help you achieve...
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Book Preview: #1 Your body is capable of so much more than pain, exhaustion, blame, and confusion. When you understand your own biology, you are able to help your body heal and use that body to achieve the life you want.
#2 Trust me when I say that taking care of your body not just to get well, but to have the most fulfilling life you can have, is a sweet deal. It doesn't matter what...
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#1 Your sexual self is as varied and colorful as your personality. Your sexual preferences are influenced by your past experiences, your relationships, the culture in which you live, and the biochemical reactions in your bodies. No two women share the same experience of desire or even the same orgasmic pattern.
#2 Take the quiz, and then read the discussions. The answers...
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#1 The Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of medical discourse attributed to Hippocrates of Kos, the Greek physician known as the father of medicine, from the Classical era, fourth and fifth centuries BCE, revolutionized medicine. He taught that ill health arose from imbalances in the body, and he invented the patient case study.
#2 The Hippocratic Corpus, which was written...
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#1 The gastrointestinal tract is the engine of the body. It is a complex and specialized system that extracts nutrients from food and transfers them to the cells of the body. Bloating is one of the earliest and most common signs that there may be a problem.
#2 The upper GI tract includes the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and the first part of the small intestine called...
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