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Summary of While the City Slept by Eli Sanders | Includes Analysis   Preview:   While the City Slept by Eli Sanders is a journalistic work portraying the series of events that led up to a sexual assault and homicide in an outlying neighborhood of Seattle, Washington....

Summary of The Body Book by Cameron Diaz | Includes Analysis   Preview: Actress, Model, and author, Cameron Diaz shares health information she uses to live her life. The book is separated into three parts: nutrition, fitness, and mind. Reminding the reader throughout the book...

Summary of A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold | Includes Analysis   Preview: In her memoir A Mother’s Reckoning, Sue Klebold struggles to come to terms with her son Dylan’s role in the infamous Columbine High School shooting. Writing 16 years after...

Summary of The Allergy Solution: by Leo Galland and Jonathan Galland | Includes Analysis   Preview:   The Allergy Solution by Leo Galland and Jonathan Galland is a self-help book for people who want to understand the root causes of allergies, how they manifest biologically,...

Summary of A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard | Includes Analysis   Preview:   A Stolen Life is a memoir by Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped at age 11 and held captive in a hidden backyard compound in Antioch, California, for 18 years.   On June 10, 1991, in...

Summary of Washington: by Ron Chernow | Includes Analysis   Preview: Ron Chernow’s 2010 biography Washington: A Life is a Pulitzer Prize-winning account of George Washington’s life from birth to death. It is based on newly available archival material from the most recent...

Summary of Journey to Munich by Jacqueline Winspear | Includes Analysis   Preview: Journey to Munich is the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series. Set in 1938, the novel tells the story of private agent Maisie Dobbs’s dangerous mission to Munich to recover...

Summary of Vinegar Girl: by Anne Tyler | Includes Analysis   Preview:   Vinegar Girl, a novel by Anne Tyler, is a loose retelling of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Set in modern-day Baltimore, it follows twenty-somethings Kate and Pyotr as they plan...

Summary of The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close | Includes Analysis   Preview:   The Hopefuls, a novel by Jennifer Close, follows a married couple, Matt and Beth Kelly, and their best friends, Jimmy and Ash Dillon, through five years of their lives. As young politicians, Matt’s...

Summary of Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey | Includes Analysis   Preview: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is a dating advice book by comedian and radio personality Steve Harvey. As aman, Harvey has insight into how men think and what they...

Summary of The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane | Includes Analysis Preview : The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane is a book in the self-help genre that instructs the reader on how to develop and maintain a charismatic persona in business and personal life. The stereotype is that...

Summary of Bare Bones: by Bobby Bones | Includes Analysis   Preview: In his memoir Bare Bones: I’m Not Lonely If You’re Reading This Book, country music radio personality Bobby Bones, whose birth name is Bobby Estell, looks back on his life so far. Bobby, who was 36 at the...

Summary of  A Common Struggle by Patrick J. Kennedy and Stephen Fried | Includes Analysis   Preview: A Common Struggle by Patrick Kennedy is a memoir chronicling his struggles with mental illness and addiction. Patrick uses himself and his family as an example of the stigma...

Summary of Switched On by John Elder Robison | Includes Analysis   Preview: Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening by John Elder Robison, a man with Asperger’s syndrome, describes the emotional awakening John underwent after his experience with transcranial...