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A memoir of great power and emotional honesty. To read this book is to be in awe of Spraggan's strength in writing it.' Elizabeth Day
By the age of twenty, Lucy Spraggan had already experienced more extraordinary things than many do across a lifetime. Growing up in a creative household, surrounded by artists, alcohol and raucous parties, by her late teens she had played pubs, clubs and festivals, fallen in love with an older woman on a US road trip,...
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For fans of Really Good Actually and I'm Glad My Mom Died
'A deftness that catches your breath' - Fern Brady
'An incredible piece of writing' - Brett Goldstein
'Interrogates moments of trauma with insight, kindness and humanity' - John Robins
This is a book about mistakes. And why we should de-flower shame in all its messy, complicated glory...
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I've poured my heart and guts on to the page and shared my soul in this...
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An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice.
Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don't know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive theory, Khodi Dill breaks down how white supremacy functions in North America and gives readers tools to understand how racism impacts their lives. From dismantling...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jason L. Riley's Maverick
Throughout history, the world has witnessed discriminations, hostilities, and injustices. It seems that no matter how much human beings evolve, racism will always be manifested in societies, and the fight against it is far deeper and more complicated than what activists, movements, and organizations like to acknowledge.
In Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell (2021), Jason L. Riley...
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Summary of James Andrew Miller's Powerhouse is an oral history of Creative Artists Agency, one of the most powerful talent agencies to emerge in the entertainment industry over the past 40 years. Miller interviewed agents, actors, musicians, and executives who worked at or with CAA. He arranges excerpts from their interviews to provide a narrative of CAA's history from its beginning to 2016.
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Tamika D. Mallory's State of Emergency
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1) Black oppression and slavery in America dates back to 1619, when the British brought the first ship carrying slaves to the colonies.
2) Although America has progressed over time, the Trump administration revived a bloody strain of racism that Black people had assumed had died out years ago.
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Summary of Sue Klebold's A Mother's Reckoning, Sue Klebold struggles to come to terms with her son Dylan's role in the infamous Columbine High School shooting. Writing 16 years after the shooting, she reflects on when and where things went wrong for Dylan-and how she and her husband, who were loving parents, could have missed the warning signs.
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What do we do when diagnosed with a debilitating disease? How do we cope and heal when our life revolves around perfectionism and control? What journey do we take with our pain?
Susan Montgomery invites readers to wander through the beautifully cultivated metaphorical garden in her memoir. As she deals with severe ulcerative colitis and navigates the challenging terrain of two colorectal surgeries, Susan discovers the resilience within her spirit.
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Summary of Marcus Luttrell's Lone Survivor is a gritty and compelling narrative that recounts what happened when four
United States Navy's Sea, Air, Land Teams (SEALs) fought against a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. Only one of them survived the ordeal.
Marcus Luttrell and the other members of his Navy SEAL team were sent to the mountains of the Hindu Kush between Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were on a reconnaissance mission to locate and kill...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Bret Baier's To Rescue The Republic
In To Rescue The Republic (2021), Bret Baier of Fox News and his co-author Catherine Whitney offer a complete inside look at the life of one of America's most important Civil War era figures, Ulysses S. Grant. Using historical sources and references, they trace his journey to becoming the Union's top general and ultimately president of the United States. To Rescue the Republic...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Stephanie Land's Maid
Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid simply to keep a roof over her daughter's head. She chronicles her life as an overworked and underpaid American in Maid (2019), shedding light on the reality of what it is like to work for upper middle-class America. The work was physically and mentally grinding. Land faced verbal abuse and discrimination from people who looked down on her, while...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild
Chris McCandless is a name that resonates with those looking to find the answers to everyday life in the boundless beauty and mystique of nature. And yet, his unfortunate death at age 24 proves that nature can never fully grant you everything you want.
Jon Krakauer looks into the strange yet inspiring existence of McCandless in Into the Wild (1996), from his comfortable, upper middle-class...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Adam Schiff's Midnight in Washington
In Midnight in Washington (2021), Adam Schiff reflects on the actions of Donald Trump that compromised the very nature of democracy in America. Narrating key moments of his life up to the point he became a congressman, Schiff gives the readers insights on his ideologies and upbringing. He argues that Trump committed unlawful acts against the nation, chronicles the first and...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Brad Stone's Amazon Unbound.
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1) Amazon's buildings in Seattle's developing South Lake Union neighborhood, which the company moved into in 2010, were unremarkable physically. There was no conspicuous signage revealing the existence of a renowned online firm with almost $35 billion in yearly sales, at the request of its CEO, Jeff Bezos.
2) Bezos had advised colleagues that nothing beneficial...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michael Wolff's Landslide
In Landslide (2021), Michael Wolff documents the workings of the inner Trump circle during the 2020 presidential election and its aftermath. Wolff puts readers among Donald Trump's teams and inside the walls of the White House, detailing events from the perspective of a Trump insider. He finds that the last days of the Trump administration were nothing more than an amplified version...
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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 Michelle Obama's Becoming recounts the familial, educational, romantic, and political experiences that culminated in her tenure as first lady of the United States between 2009 and 2017. A native of Chicago, Michelle was an ambitious student who grew into a driven adult...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Brandi Carlile's Broken Horses
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1) Brandi Carlile was born in a poor family. Her mother was a hostess and her father a breakfast prep cook. During her childhood, her family underwent multiple evictions, leading to recurrent moves around Washington State.
2) At age 4, Brandi contracted meningitis. Her illness put her into a coma, but she woke from it shortly after being admitted to the hospital....
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Jeff Benedict's Tiger Woods.
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1) On Friday, November 27, 2009, Tiger Woods's life changed forever. His downfall would be one of the harshest ever witnessed.
2) On that night, while he was sleeping, his suspicious wife went through his phone and discovered he had been cheating on her. He woke up to her screaming and fled his house, barely dressed.
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Summary of Walter Isaacson's Benjamin Franklin is an account of Benjamin Franklin's different lives, as a statesman, satirist, and scientist. The book traces Franklin's journey from his modest beginnings as a printer in Philadelphia to the pivotal role he played in the American Revolution...