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Summary of Tony Hsieh's Delivering Happiness is a business memoir that outlines the company's customer service-focused model. In 2009, when Zappos announced that larger retailer Amazon would be acquiring the company, Hsieh recalled that his first attempted enterprise was a worm farm when he was nine years old. ..
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Kati Marton's The Chancellor
The chancellor of Germany does not rule with sovereign power, but by persuasion and support of its political parties. That's what makes Angela Merkel's contributions to Germany, Europe, and the entire world during her 16 years as chancellor so remarkable.
Kati Marton's The Chancellor (2021) details this legacy from Merkel's humble beginnings in East Germany through her meteoric rise...
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Inspired after binge-watching Downton Abbey, a British television show about the relationship between a titled family and their servants, journalist Kate Andersen Brower decided to take a close look at the upstairs-downstairs dynamic of America's grandest home, the White House, in her book, The Residence…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Charles Schwab's Invested
In his memoir Invested (2019), Charles Schwab recounts the story of the brokerage firm that revolutionized the industry. Despite suffering from dyslexia and struggling through many financial crises, he managed to keep the Charles Schwab Corporation afloat and grow it into an industry giant. The key to his success was his client-oriented approach and constant implementation of innovative...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mike Lindell's What Are the Odds?
As a man with severe addiction to gambling, card counting, and cocaine, Mike Lindell made terrible life choices that ultimately cost him his wife, family, and financial stability. However, even as he was drowning in despair, God revealed himself in his life and showed him the miracles he could do, if only he had a flicker of hope.
What Are the Odds? traces the troubled chapters...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Danny Trejo & Donal Logue's Trejo
In Trejo (2021), actor Danny Trejo along with his collaborator and friend Donal Logue puts his hectic and action-filled life on display. Trejo's memoir covers a journey that started with a crime and drug ridden young adulthood and ended with an elderhood that's filled with fame, wealth, faith, and sobriety. Trejo's success story, as an American born with Mexican roots, can serve...
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Summary of Joe Biden's Promise Me, Dad recounts the grueling anxiety and fear he and his family underwent in the months leading up to the death of his son Beau. As Delaware's attorney general, Beau had crafted a promising political career and had gained popularity among his state's residents…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Amanda and Anna Kloots's Live Your Life
In Live Your Life (2021), Amanda Kloots, with the help of her sister Anna Kloots, narrates the story of how she loved her husband, actor-singer Nick Cordero, and tragically lost him to COVID. Amanda wants to preserve Nick's legacy and share it with the world. She wants her son to read it and know his father when he grows up. The book takes the reader beyond the journey...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Norm Macdonald's Based on a True Story
In Based on a True Story (2016), Norm Macdonald pieces together a tale of a once famed Canadian comedian who became a Saturday Night Live writer and presenter at the peak of his career. Norm merges together two plot lines, a main one led by himself, as he dives deeper and deeper into the world of gambling and morphine abuse, and a secondary one led by a fictional ghostwriter,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Rob Lowe's Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Most actors are artists who shape their lives and legacies through mixed and harsh experiences. They are constantly at the mercy of script writers, directors, producers, critics, and audiences.
In Stories I Only Tell My Friends (2011), Rob Lowe uncovers the burdens he endured as a child and the many ups and downs he experienced in building his acting career. He describes...
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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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Summary of Robert O'Neill's The Operator is Robert O'Neill's memoir about his service as a Navy SEAL from 1996 to 2012. O'Neill describes the years of grueling training, high-stakes missions, and dramatic rescues that led up to his team's top-secret raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart (2021) by Michelle Zauner is a memoir about her upbringing as a Korean American struggling with her identity and dealing with the untimely death of her mother from cancer.
H Mart is an Asian supermarket chain that provides Zauner and other transplanted Asian-Americans the tastes, smells, and products of their home countries and families. For Zauner, food was...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mike Duncan's Hero of Two Worlds
In Hero of Two Worlds (2021), Mike Duncan takes readers on a ride down history to discover the life of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French aristocrat and general who became an American hero. In his historical biography, Duncan highlights the political events that traced Lafayette's heroic life and how he profoundly contributed to the evolution of French and American society...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Casey Wilson's The Wreckage of My Presence
Casey Wilson is an actress, comedian, mother, and above all, lifetime fan of The Real Housewives of Orange County.
Wilson's book, The Wreckage of My Presence (2021), is her unflinching thoughts and feelings about a smattering of subjects, from cults and spin classes (which aren't all that different) to the reality of spiritual healers in Hollywood. But the book also...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from William H. McRaven's Sea Stories
Sea Stories (2019) is the autobiography of four-star Admiral William H. McRaven. As a five-year-old, McRaven would sneak around the American Officers' Club in Fontainebleau, France, and hide near the bar while his father sat with three other Air Force officers. Their tales of air-to-air combat, life on the front lines, and bold escapes fueled McRaven's yearning for adventure....
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Summary of George W. Bush's 41 offers an inside look at his father, George H.W. Bush, and the family that produced the forty-first and forty-third presidents of the United States.
On his ninetieth birthday, George H.W. made a parachute jump despite serious health issues. He said it was his second greatest birthday wish, after happiness for his family. Though his family worried, he had always been excited by a new adventure. When he landed safely,...
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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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