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Book Preview: #1 When you're pregnant, you think that life will be different once you have a child. But five months into the pregnancy, I realized that the feeling of being weighed down by adulthood wasn't going to get any better any time soon.
#2 When we moved to Paris, we had no idea where we would end up, but we were sure that we would be living outside of the United States. We...
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Get the Summary of Andrew McCarthy's Walking with Sam in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Walking with Sam" is a memoir by Andrew McCarthy that recounts his pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago with his son, Sam. The journey begins in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France, and is filled with minor mishaps and McCarthy's anxieties about fatherhood and masculinity. He hopes the walk will transition their relationship into...
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Get the Summary of Roman Dial's The Adventurers Son in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Roman Dial's memoir, "The Adventurer's Son," chronicles his life from childhood to the harrowing search for his missing son, Cody Roman Dial, in the Costa Rican wilderness. Raised in a family that valued independence and exploration, Roman developed a passion for adventure and the natural world. He pursued this love through climbing,...
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Get the Summary of Rich Paul's Lucky Me in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Lucky Me" chronicles the life of Rich Paul, who was born to Peaches and Richard Paul in Cleveland, Ohio. Peaches, a tenacious entrepreneur with a knack for cooking and sales, struggled with addiction, while Richard was a respected businessman and community figure. Rich grew up in the challenging environment of his father's store, learning...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.⍾⍾Book Preview:In his new memoir, “Act Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me” (2021), Oscar-winning actor and musician Jamie Foxx opens up about his childhood in Texas, trying to make it in the entertainment industry, and his numerous pitfalls raising his two daughters.⍾⍾He recalls how he was brought up by his strict tough-loving grandparents, who...
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Get the Summary of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Though set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the book's debut, the novel is infused with the sensibilities of Hermann Hesse's time, synthesizing disparate philosophies–Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism–into a unique vision of life as expressed...
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Get the Summary of Joey Coco Diaz's Tremendous in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Tremendous" chronicles the tumultuous life of Joey Coco Diaz, from his troubled youth in New Jersey to his rise as a stand-up comedian. Orphaned at sixteen, Diaz's early life was steeped in drug abuse, crime, and violence, influenced by his Cuban immigrant mother's illegal gambling operations and his stepfather's criminal background....
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#1 I was very apprehensive about being a stepmother. I knew that the house I was living in was not a normal house, but rather a shrine to the past. The bedroom did not have a door or a wall to put it in, allowing anyone on the first or second floor to hear everything going on up there.
#2 The majority of women who become stepmothers experience difficulties, and these...
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Get the Summary of Keenan Thompson's When I Was Your Age in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Kenan Thompson's memoir, "When I Was Your Age," chronicles his journey from a child growing up in Georgia to a celebrated comedian on "Saturday Night Live" (SNL). Thompson shares anecdotes from his unconventional childhood, his early admiration for Nickelodeon, and his breakthrough in show business with "All That." He recounts...
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#1 Modern theologians have had a difficult time finding a way to speak about God. They have attempted to find a new language for speaking about God, but they have failed to realize that God has already revealed himself in both nature and Scripture.
#2 The Christian faith is not established on some abstract deity or on some god. We do not confess, I believe in the numinous....
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