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Private investigator, Bill Hodges, races to find another deranged killer in Finders Keepers, the second book in a projected trilogy by Stephen King. The first, Mr. Mercedes, won the 2015 Edgar Award for best mystery novel. Finder Keepers, while a strong, stand alone book, continues the themes of the first book by examining of the nature of obsession while also offering a close look at the relationship between literature and the real world.
In 1978,...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Avery Carl's Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth
Avery Carl's Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth (2021) teaches readers how to make money by investing in STRs: short-term and vacation rental properties. Carl shares the strategies that allowed her to make hundreds of thousands of dollars from investing in short-term rentals within five years. She highlights questions that all potential investors should ask and...
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Summary of Dan Ariely's Dollars and Sense introduces readers to the psychology of purchase decisions.
Consumers have difficulty calculating the value of the things they want to buy, particularly because comparisons between different types of costs can be challenging to comprehend.
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Summary of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion evaluates popular arguments for the existence of God. The idea that God is not an object that can be accessed and reviewed using human reason is rejected. Instead, evidence that proves with at least 51% certainty is presented to prove that God does, in fact, not exist, casting reasonable doubt on the efficacy and usefulness of belief in God.
Genuine curiosity as disciplined by a sound scientific method...
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Summary of Tara Westover's Educated is a memoir about how an uneducated young woman raised in the remote mountains of Idaho came to earn a doctorate from Cambridge University. Raised outside of society, in a violent household run by Mormon fundamentalists, Tara never saw herself as a person with choices or prospects...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time
Time is one of life's biggest mysteries. In The Order of Time (2017), physicist Carlo Rovelli dives into both simple and complex aspects of time. It is a concept that has been long studied by philosophers, artists, and scientists alike, and our understanding of it has gone through many phases. He explains the basic laws of physics, Einstein's relativity, quantum theory, and...
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Summary of Robert Greene's The Art of Seduction is a self-help book about manipulating people for personal gain. Seduction is not merely a matter of sex; it can be a way to make sales, gain political power, or generally persuade others in the service of one's own goals...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jane McLelland's How to Starve Cancer
In How to Starve Cancer (2018), Jane McLelland guides readers through her challenging experience with cancer and how she found alternative treatments far less harmful than conventional chemotherapy and radiotherapy. By chronicling her personal battle, she aims to assure cancer patients that they can take control of their destiny by following a cancer-suppressing approach...
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Summary of Irene Pepperberg's Alex & Me is an account of Irene Pepperberg's relationship with her African grey parrot, Alex, whom she studied in order to demonstrate that birds have sophisticated cognitive abilities. Pepperberg traces her childhood and the many hurdles she scaled in the scientific community...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from C.S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain
Throughout history, humanity has assumed that if God indeed was good and merciful, he would eradicate pain. In The Problem of Pain (1940), C.S. Lewis aims to disprove this belief and explain that evil, wars, and hunger do not refute the existence of a good, loving God.
The Problem of Pain is a mix of religion, wisdom, spirituality, and compassion. It tackles arguments most commonly...
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Summary of Tracy Chevalier's At the Edge of the Orchard tells the story of the Goodenough family. The year is 1838, and James and Sadie Goodenough are fighting about apple trees again. The couple has lived for nine years in Ohio's Black Swamp, a dank, moldy, muddy place where it's difficult to farm and live.
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Summary of Michael A. Singer's The Surrender Experiment is a spiritual memoir that chronicles Singer's quest to embrace whatever the universe presented to him at any given moment. Singer's experiment with surrender began in 1970, when he was enrolled in a graduate-level economics program at the University of Florida and realized that there was a voice inside his head, often critical and judgmental...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Allum Bokhari's #DELETED.
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1) In this day and age, censorship is taking over all forms of media. So much so that it even silences the ones it is meant to protect, with artificial intelligence (AI) systems failing to detect speech that is harming minorities.
2) Silicon Valley in California, the original hub of technology, is the originator of AI systems that clearly do not understand context...
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So much has been written about the late Steve Jobs that Brent Schlender and his co-author, Rick Tetzeli, wisely begin their biography with a prologue that explains why they wrote yet another biography of the Apple co-founder. Schlender, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Fortune, became close to Jobs over twenty-five years of interviews, and was one of the few journalists Jobs trusted.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Anna Lembke's Dopamine Nation
Today's culture is constantly becoming more insistent on avoiding pain or discomfort at all costs, at the price of chronic overconsumption of drugs, technology, and senseless pleasures.
In Dopamine Nation (2021) psychiatrist Anna Lembke explores humanity's ongoing battle with balancing pleasure and pain in everyday life. The release of dopamine, one of the neurotransmitters responsible...
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Summary of Robert Gates's A Passion for Leadership is an advice manual for those who want to enact reform from a position of leadership in a bureaucratic organization. It also examines the challenges of reforming public sector institutions in the United States and some of the related experiences of Robert Gates, the author.
For the determined leader, reform is possible in any organization, especially if a leader sets goals and applies a clear strategy...
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Summary of Mohamed A. El Erian's The Only Game in Town is a discussion of the role of central banks in confronting the current financial and economic dangers facing the world. Following the financial collapse of 2008, central banks pursued aggressive and innovative policies in an effort to stabilize the world economy. Policy makers have failed to enact the measures necessary to ensure growth, and so central banks have had to continue to innovate and...
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Summary of Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There generalizes from his personal experience as a business consultant to explain how successful leaders can diagnose and correct interpersonal problems that are holding them back at work. Using data-driven analysis and simple behavioral modification techniques, senior executives and other leaders can improve their relationships with employees by adopting an attitude of humility and...