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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Bret Baier and Catherine Whitney's Three Days in Moscow
In Three Days in Moscow (2018), Bret Baier of Fox News and his co-writer Catherine Whitney tell a story of patriotism, courage, and ambition, about a man who went to the full extent for the sake of his nation, without ever compromising democracy.
This political biography focuses on President Ronald Reagan's agenda during his final years in office, before...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me
Owen Michaels, father and husband, mysteriously disappears in Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me (2021). His wife, Hannah, finds only a note asking her to protect his teenage daughter Bailey, whom he leaves $600,000 in cash before vanishing without a trace. Now Hannah must try to find her husband while managing to comfort her stubborn new stepdaughter, who lost her...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Shomari Wills's Black Fortunes
Journalist Shomari Wills's great-great-uncle, John Mott Drew, was a millionaire. His father had been a slave, and his story made Shomari realize that African Americans' early achievements are often little known. At the time, it was revolutionary for an African American to become rich. In Black Fortunes (2018), Shomari tells the success stories of America's first black millionaires,...
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Listen now to get the insights from Stephen A. Schwarzman What it Takes. Sample Insights: 1) Stephen Schwarzman was born in 1947. His parents owned a curtains and linens shop in Philadelphia. Schwarzman asked his father to expand the business when he was young. His father refused because he didn't want to take risks. 2) Being a manager and a leader is different than being an entrepreneur.
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Summary of Stephen Covey's First Things First is a time-management book that asks readers to examine their most deeply held values. When people center the things in life that are most important, whatever those may be, triaging a busy schedule becomes an easy exercise instead of an ongoing nightmare...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Will Bulsiewicz's Fiber Fueled
Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome (2020) is a self-help health book about restoring balance to our gut microbiome, which is essentially a diverse community of microorganisms that coexist inside our body and serve a very important purpose – to keep us healthy. Dr. Will Bulsiewicz explains that...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Dane C. Ortlund's Gentle and Lowly.
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1) Gentle and Lowly introduces you to Christ, who he really is, and how he feels about you. It answers necessary and legitimate questions through biblical text.
2) Thomas Goodwin, Richard Sibbes, and John Bunyan have given us insight on what the Bible beholds, and these Puritans are what drove Gentle and Lowly to fruition.
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Listen now to get the insights from Gary Zukav's The Seat of the Soul. Sample Insights:
1) The evolution taught in educational institutions is evolution in its physical form. A creature is hence more evolved if it is more complex than others. Thus, evolution is often used to refer to the gradual development of organizational complexity.
2) A definition of evolution remains unsatisfactory if it does not include, at its very basis, an understanding...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Adharanand Finns's Running with the Kenyans
Kenyans have been dominating the world running scene for decades. In Running with the Kenyans (2010), Adharanand Finn tells how he and his family left England for an adventure in Kenya, the land of running. Finn was always a natural runner, and he was fascinated by the superiority of Kenyan runners. In Kenya, he met many talented runners and formed a team with them....
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Sam Quinones's The Least of Us
Sam Quinones's The Least of Us (2021) is an in-depth analysis of drug use and addiction in America, and how it has been exacerbated by Mexican smugglers, drug traffickers, and pharmaceutical companies. Quinones chronicles the American opioid epidemic and explores the far-reaching damage generated by the meth and fentanyl crises. This follow-up to his bestseller Dreamland is a powerful...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jason Fung, Eve Mayer & Megan Ramos's Life in the Fasting Lane
Intermittent fasting is becoming more and more popular. Life in the Fasting Lane (2020) is a dive into every aspect of fasting for weight control and overall health. Eve Mayer offers her personal experience with fasting, Jason Fung explains the science and debunks the myths, and Megan Ramos chimes in with tips that have worked for her patients. Both...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Lara Doherty's The Mighty Book of Motivation Magic
If you feel like you've lost purpose, The Mighty Book of Motivation Magic (2021) can change your life. Humans tend to get stuck in patterns and habits, and major change frightens them. This is why motivation coach Lara Doherty walks you through baby steps toward change. Doherty offers tips and tricks as easy as buying a plant or drinking a glass of water, with...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michael Easter's The Comfort Crisis
In The Comfort Crisis (2021), Michal Easter explains why it's so important to shut down the outside world and reconnect with nature, for all the benefits it provides for our relationships and our physical and mental health.
The world we live in today is embedded in comfort, routine, and fake pleasures. It tries to shift our priorities and alter them, by keeping us focused...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Newt Gingrich's Beyond Biden
The 2020 presidential election was one of the most divisive in American history. While Joe Biden came out victorious, the extremely small margin of victory demonstrated the large portion of Americans who wanted to return to conservative values.
Newt Gingrich is one of those people, and as he explains in Beyond Biden, the conservative electoral base has nothing to fear - following...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Devora Zack's Networking for People Who Hate Networking
Typical networking books are aimed at extroverts who already are familiar with the concept and enjoy going out and making connections. These how-to books, however, tend to feel like gibberish to introverts who want nothing to do with networking. In Networking for People Who Hate Networking (2010), Devora Zack reaches out to introverts and outlines effective...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Fiona Hill's There Is Nothing for You Here
Fiona Hill has a unique perspective of the world, having spent time in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Russia. She has seen the good and bad of all three countries, and realized that the three aren't all that different.
In There Is Nothing for You Here, Hill explains the three countries' post-industrial struggles after World War II, framed within the contest...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Quint Studer's The Busy Leader's Handbook
Being a great leader starts by getting the fundamentals right and practicing the little things. In The Busy Leader's Handbook (2019), Quint Studer addresses leaders willing to make the change necessary to take their companies to the next level. He gives simple and straightforward tips about engaging employees, recreating cultures, and building a high-performance company....
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Summary of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People is a classic self-help book. It instructs readers on ways to improve their standing with others and convince others to do things using strategic courtesy, conversational techniques, and proven methods of motivation.
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Gregg Olsen's If You Tell
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1) Shelly's father, Les Watson, had three children with his first wife, Sharon. After Les remarried in 1960, two of them, Shelly and Chuck, were dropped off for his new wife, Lara, to care for. Paul, the third one, was picked up after Sharon was murdered in 1967 at a motel.
2) They lived in Battle Ground, Washington. Lara began noticing that the kids were odd....