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Summary of J.D. Robb's Obsession in Death is a murder mystery by J.D. Robb that features homicide detective, Lieutenant Eve Dallas. This is the fortieth book in this futuristic crime series.
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called to the scene of a murder. Leanore Bastwick, a defense attorney, is the murder victim. A message to Dallas is written on the wall at the murder scene claiming it was done for Dallas and that justice has been served.
Dallas and her...
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Summary of John P. Kotter's Leading Change, long-time Harvard business professor John P. Kotter outlines his influential process to establish and secure permanent changes that will make any organization more efficient, successful, and competitive.
Bringing change to an organization often entails high stakes. Success can revitalize a business and unlock new potential, but failure can doom a firm to years of stagnation…
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Co-authors Melissa Hartwig and her husband, Dallas Hartwig, have backgrounds in nutrition and physical therapy. They have used information gleaned from their own clinical practices and from studying medical research to design an eating program that will improve participants' energy levels, help them lose weight, and make improvements in their overall general health. Their book, It Starts with Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected...
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Summary of Willie Nelson's It's a Long Story is country singer Willie Nelson's memoir. The book chronicles his life as a musician, songwriter, and social activist and delves into his turbulent personal life and internal emotional struggles.
On April 29, 1933 in Abbott, Texas, Willie Nelson was born to Ira and Myrle Nelson, a fiddler and singer respectively, two years after his sister, Bobbie. Willie's parents divorced when Willie was six months old....
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Summary of David Goggins's Can't Hurt Me is a memoir about the author's unlikely rise from a boyhood plagued by violence and poverty into the elite ranks of the US Navy SEALs and high-endurance athletics. By mastering his fear, and pushing his body past its perceived limits, Goggins has achieved more than he ever thought possible...
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Summary of Martin Ford's Rise of the Robots describes the ways automation and rapid advances in technology are shaping the global economy, as well as the profound consequences these technological changes will have for future workers. The role of technology in production has evolved. No longer a mere means of increasing the productivity of human workers, technology has developed methods for replacing workers entirely...
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Summary of Mark R. Levin's Plunder and Deceit calls a threat to the United State's experiment with democracy. At the heart of the threat is an executive branch of government that is running amok. Its leaders are well meaning, but they are trying to transform the US into a utopia by throwing trillions of dollars at the country's social problems. The result is a national debt that has passed $18 trillion and continues growing. The soaring increase in...
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The repressed bitterness, anger and disappointment simmering for years inside the Lee family finally erupt in Everything I Never Told You after daughter Lydia, her parents' favorite, disappears on May 3, 1977. It is a fine spring day in northern Ohio, where the family lives in Middlewood, a town an hour outside Toledo.
James and Marilyn Lee first look for their daughter among her friends, but they discover that Lydia has been maintaining an elaborate...
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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 Shankar Vedantam's The Hidden Brain explores the unconscious inclinations and pre-formed judgments that shape human behaviors. In public policy and in other disciplines that attempt to explain and predict how and why people act, the common assumption is that people make decisions consciously, referring to the facts they know and privileging reason over their emotions...
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Summary of Joe Dispenza's Becoming Supernatural guides readers through the steps of developing their full potential, which is far beyond what most believe is possible. Bridging science and spirituality, Dispenza outlines principles and practices that can help ordinary people harness the power inside themselves to achieve remarkable outcomes in their daily lives, including drastic improvements in health, mood, finances, and relationships…
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Summary of Lawrence Wright's Going Clear is an in-depth examination of the founding, principles, and scandals of Scientology using eyewitness interviews and original document research. The Church of Scientology was founded with the publication of the book Dianetics in 1950 by science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard.
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Summary of Michael A. Singer's The Untethered Soul chronicles the spiritual journey an individual can take to explore consciousness, achieve enlightenment, and enjoy a happier and more fulfilled life. Readers are encouraged to delve into the relationships they have formed with themselves, others, and the world around them to find ways of relieving stress, negative mental habits, and inner turmoil on the route to inner peace…
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Summary of Chris Matthews's Bobby Kennedy chronicles the life of Robert F. Kennedy, the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and a political force in his own right. The Kennedy brothers were third-generation Irish-American Catholics from a wealthy Massachusetts family…
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Summary of Erik Larson's Dead Wake is a non-fiction account of the German Unterseeboot, or U-boat, sinking of Lusitania, a British merchant vessel belonging to Cunard Line, on May 7, 1915 and its aftermath.
On the night of May 6, 1915, Captain William Thomas reassured the passengers in the first-class lounge as the ship approached the 'area of war' off the southern coast of Ireland.
The Great War, later known as World War I, had been raging in France...
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Summary of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm is neurosurgeon Henry Marsh's memoir, with a particular focus on his mistakes and regrets.
Marsh admits that he grew up privileged. He began his college career studying English, but quit school due to an unrequited love. He took a job working in a mining town hospital, an experience that inspired him to become a surgeon. He returned to Oxford to finish his degree and then attended the Royal Free Medical School in...
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Summary of Daniel J. Siegel's Aware is a comprehensive guide to cultivating attention, awareness, and intention through mindfulness. Siegel developed the Wheel of Awareness, a visual metaphor designed to help anyone cultivate heightened awareness and focused attention…
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Love is not the same for all people, neither is passion, sex, or intimacy. Sometimes what one person finds thrilling, another can only hope to understand. These are the lessons learned from the experiences of Anastasia Steele after meeting Christian Grey in the now famous Fifty Shades of Grey series. In this book, the motivations, thoughts, and introspections of the man who introduced Ana to the world of bondage and discipline, Christian Grey, are...
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David Axelrod was the son of Joseph Axelrod, who left Eastern Europe at the age of eleven, and his wife, Myril Davidson, also a daughter of Jewish immigrants. Joseph became a psychologist with a small practice that insisted on charging patients a minimal fee. He also occasionally administered psychological tests at settlement houses. Myril, on the other hand, rose to the top on Madison Avenue as an advertising executive. Their marriage ended by the...