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Summary of Brian Grazer's A Curious Mind is an examination of the impact of curiosity on Grazer's life and movie production career. In a memoir style, he describes how his curiosity gave him the opportunity to leave law school for a law clerk position with Warner Bros. He used his position to meet with famous people and encourage them to speak to him on a variety of topics, meetings he would later refer to as "curiosity conversations". He later embarked...
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Summary of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks chronicles the life, death, and immortality of Henrietta Lacks, a young black woman whose cervical cancer cells became one of the most important factors in bringing about important scientific and medical advancements in the twentieth century. Her family, however, did not know until much later that researchers were using Henrietta's cells in their experiments. When the family learned...
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Enlightenment, a feeling of awareness, peace, and joy, comes from within a person, not from outside sources. Enlightenment is an end to suffering and a feeling of connection to a person's own true self and to the world. Enlightenment is being aware of a person's own deepest self or Being. People have difficulty experiencing Being because of their identification with their own minds. Their own thoughts keep them from finding the stillness needed to...
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Summary of John Green's Paper Towns is a coming of age story set in Orlando, Florida. It focuses on Quentin, a young man about to embark on his adult life, and the adventure he and his friends, Ben and Radar, have their senior year that centers on the disappearance of their classmate Margo Roth Spiegelman. Quentin lived next door to Margo his entire life and has a crush on her. He calls living so close to her a miracle and basks in the glory that...
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Summary of Neil deGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang's Accessory to War is a meditation on the history of space research and its interdependence on military research and warfare. The narrative contextualizes discoveries such as the compass and adaptive optics in order to evaluate the present global state of space diplomacy...
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Summary of Steven Brill's Tailspin details the decline of government efficiency and equal opportunity in the United States in the latter half of the twentieth century. Journalist and lawyer Steven Brill examines how a national focus on merit as a means of achieving success led to the creation of an aristocratic caste whose children are buoyed not by inheritance, but by their access to superior training and education...
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Summary of Lisa Gardner's Crash & Burn is a psychological thriller that tells the story of Nicky Frank, a woman who cannot escape the memories that reside inside her head. After suffering two previous concussions, Nicky has problems with night terrors, migraine headaches, and haunting memories from the past. These become worse when she suffers a third brain injury in a car accident.
Nicky Frank's car crashes into a ravine in rural New Hampshire. She...
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Summary of Nick Hornby's Funny Girl is a novel by writer Nick Hornby set in Blackpool, England in 1964. It tells the story of twenty-one year old Barbara Parker, a beautiful blonde, who wants to become a comedic actress like Lucille Ball.
Barbara wins the Miss Blackpool beauty pageant. Barbara wants more than anything to get out of Blackpool. When she realizes the title of Miss Blackpool commits her to a year of hospital visits and charity events,...
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Summary of Gary Zukav's The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav's first book about spirituality, describes how humans in the late twentieth century began evolving into more intuitive, soulful beings. Truly evolved people attune their faculties so they can perceive phenomena beyond the material world-that is, beyond what they see, hear, smell, touch, and feel...
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Summary of Heidi Murkoff & Sharon Mazel's What to Expect When You're Expecting a best selling, step-by-step guide to pregnancy, covering everything from before a woman starts trying to conceive to six weeks after the birth. Over the course of that time, a woman's body undergoes numerous changes, as does her personality and her relationships with her partner, doctors, and colleagues…
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Summary of Gretchen Rubin's Better Than Before is a successful self-help book writer, lifestyle blogger and bestselling author. In her latest book, Better than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives, she unveils methods and approaches to maintain habits that can improve people's lives.
Rubin roots the book in personal experiences with her own family and friends while using relevant data and studies to streamline her ideas. She also references...
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Summary of Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jethá's Sex at Dawn details how the courtship habits of humanity's closest primate relatives, the lives of early humans, and the sexual rituals of nomadic tribes all shed light on the true urges underlying human sexuality. Many anthropologists assert that monogamy comes naturally to humans; to support their thesis, they point toward relationship customs that have existed in various civilizations for centuries......
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Summary of Emily Bleeker's Wreckage, a plane crash shatters the lives of two families, raising complex issues of love, loyalty and loss, in Wreckage, the debut novel by Emily Bleeker.
Lillian Linden takes a much-needed vacation to Fiji with her mother-in-law, Margaret, who won the trip in a contest sponsored by Carlton Yogurt. Lillian has two young sons and a busy life in Missouri, so she relishes the break. However, Margaret can often be overbearing....
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Summary of Amanda & Gina DeJesus With Mary Jordan & Kevin Sullivan's Hope, the story of two of the three young women held captive by Ariel Castro, is a graphic and gripping account of a decade of abduction, assault, and abuse in a rundown house on Seymour Street in a rough section of Cleveland.
Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, the two youngest of the three captives, wrote their stories together because they wanted everyone to know the truth, not only...