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#1 On the evening of March 31, 1988, Carol Montecalvo reached into her dresser drawer for a pair of lightweight blue shorts, folded them neatly in half, and placed them inside her brown vinyl suitcase. She and her husband, Dan, were going on a trip to Hawaii.
#2 Carol, the winner of the company award, was planning the vacation with her husband. She believed that the...
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#1 Carol Neulander was a successful businesswoman and mother of three who had begun a bakery right out of her home oven. She had expanded it over the course of a decade to the point where it was a full-fledged bakery chain with two growing retail stores in the neighboring New Jersey towns of Audubon and Voorhees.
#2 Fred Neulander, the rabbi of M'kor Shalom synagogue,...
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Get the Summary of Mary Rodgers & Jesse Green's Shy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Shy" is the memoir of Mary Rodgers, co-written with Jesse Green, chronicling her life from a musically enriched childhood to her multifaceted career as a composer, author, and arts philanthropist. Mary grew up in a household where her father, a dedicated composer, and her mother, a creative inventor, nurtured intellect and music...
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Get the Summary of Liza Mundy's Code Girls in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Recruited by the US Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than 10,000 women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of codebreaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless...
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#1 I met Juan López, my second husband, at El Farallon nightclub in Lynwood, California. I was a Realtor to support my three children and myself, while music was secondary. I didn't want to be alone, so my sister and friend came with me when I went out for a music gig.
#2 I was a loner after my husband was incarcerated, and I would spend time with the girls I'd met...
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#1 Asexuality is not a complex, a sickness, or a behavior. It is not the result of a decision, and it is not a chastity vow. We are not automatically religious. We are not anti-straight, anti-gay, or anti-any-sexual-orientation.
#2 Asexual people do not all look down on sex or people who have sex. We do not avoid romantic or emotionally close relationships, and we are...
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#1 The community of La Mora is made up of approximately forty families, and they are all extremely diverse. They include breakaway Mormon fundamentalists, polygamists, Mormon-born worshipers who identify as independents, mainstream Mormons, and even some agnostics and hippies.
#2 Another group of American Mormons emigrated to Mexico in the 1950s and settled in the neighboring...
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Get the Summary of Cade Metz's Genius Makers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Original book introduction: Long dismissed as a technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence was a project consigned to the fringes of the scientific community. Then two researchers changed everything. One was a sixty-four-year-old computer science professor who didn't drive and didn't fly because he could no longer sit...
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#1 When Pearl Harbor was bombed in a surprise attack in 1941, Billy Waugh knew more about war than most twelve-year-old boys. He was astounded by the boldness of the paratrooper unit, and vowed to go to war one day.
#2 In May 1942, two British-trained assassins, Jan Kubiš and Josef Gabčík, were sent to kill Reinhard Heydrich, a Nazi general. The existence of a British commando...
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#1 Flying was expensive in 1972, so most Americans took car trips instead. My parents were no exception. They always took car trips to visit my father's relatives in Indiana.
#2 I was 10 years old in 1967, and I was excited to visit Expo 67 in Montreal. My mother, however, was terrified of the bridge collapse and the island sinking, so we didn't go. I was ready...
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#1 Murder is the most heinous form of criminal homicide. It is defined as the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. In English, murder is legally defined as the willful murder of a human being.
#2 In Victorian London, even in a place as crime-ridden as Lambeth Marsh, the sound of gunshots was a rare event. The marsh was a dark and sinister place,...
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#1 I loved to run as a child, and I was always trying to outrun everyone. I was also born in 1958, which meant I grew up in a family defined by music. My parents launched their own small business directly tied to their passion for music.
#2 My parents began buying old pianos and restoring them, then reselling them. Their business grew rapidly as satisfied customers spread...
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#1 In 1913, London was a far more commanding presence in the world than it would be on the cusp of the Second World War. With over seven million people living in London, it was larger than the municipalities of Paris, Vienna, and St. Petersburg combined.
#2 Gillies was a high achiever who had always been able to achieve whatever he set his mind to. He was a man who had...
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#1 Iñigo de Loyola, a devout Basque nobleman, arrived in Paris in 1528. He intended to pursue a degree at the university, but instead he became friends with six other students who vowed to travel to the Holy Land together to live where Jesus lived and work for the good of souls.
#2 The Society of Jesus was founded in 1540. It grew at a rapid pace, and by the time Ignatius...
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#1 To understand Claire Chennault, you must trace his roots to the backwoods of northeast Louisiana. His father, John, was a cotton farmer who had built the house with his own hands in 1905 when Claire was a boy. Claire wanted to escape from his seemingly inevitable fate as a cotton farmer like his father.
#2 In 1910, Chennault attended the Fifth Annual Louisiana State...
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#1 The Tsuchimikado mansion is beautiful in autumn. The voices of the priests who are reciting sūtras all night long are more impressive as they continue throughout the night. The moon has clouded over, darkening the shadows under the trees.
#2 The blending of the incense balls was finished on the twenty-sixth of the ninth month. Her Majesty distributed them to her...
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#1 Ruzka Korczak grew up in Poland during the Holocaust. She was a very smart and lively girl, but extremely shy. She spent most of her time alone. When she was fifteen, her father took her out of school to help the family, and she began working at a bakery. She vowed to make her way to Palestine.
#2 Ruzka was 18 when she left to go to Warsaw to join a Zionist youth...
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#1 On June 7, 2008, George Herbert Walker, a 39-year-old second cousin of then President George W. Bush, and head of Lehman's Investment Management division, was celebrating his marriage to Nancy Dorn, a 31-year-old hedge fund analyst from Texas. The couple had exchanged their vows at New York's City Hall a few weeks earlier.
#2 The party was held to celebrate...
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Get the Summary of Marsha M. Linehan's Building a Life Worth Living in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In this remarkable and inspiring memoir, Linehan describes how, when she was eighteen years old, she began an abrupt downward spiral from popular teenager to suicidal young woman. After several miserable years in a psychiatric institute, Linehan made a vow that if she could get out of...
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Book Preview: #1 Marriages are in dire straits all over the world. Christian marriages are no exception. You may feel as if you are in a D-minus marriage and have no idea what to do. I have help for you.
#2 Anna's marriage is not destructive, but it is disappointing and painful for her. She's not sure how to continue or even if she wants to. Yet she knows to end her marriage for these...