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Summary of The Black Count by Tom Reiss | Includes Analysis    Preview: The Black Count is the Pulitzer Prize winning biography written by author Tom Reiss. The book traces the life of Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, also known as Alexandre Dumas, a black...

Summary of Lights Out by Ted Koppel | Includes Analysis   Preview: Lights Out by Ted Koppel is a journalistic report on the potential consequences of a cyberattack on the United States. Koppel emphasizes the likelihood that a cyberattack against US power grids will...

The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale | Key Takeaways & Analysis   Preview:   The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale explains how positive thoughts and faith can change people’s lives for the better. Taken in the context of fostering...

Summary of How Not To Die by Michael Greger, M.D. with Gene Stone | Includes Analysis   Preview: How Not to Die by Michael Greger is primarily focused on the use of diet and lifestyle to help prevent the most common causes of death. Greger’s grandmother had experienced...

Summary of The Autoimmune Solution by Amy Myers | Includes Analysis Preview: The Autoimmune Solution is a self-help book for people who are or know someone who is struggling with an autoimmune disorder. It offers readers the tools they need to overcome their illnesses by treating such...

Summary of The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: by Vishen Lakhiani | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Code of the Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani is a self-help book for people who want to shift from an autopilot existence to a way of life that is intentional and extraordinary....

Summary of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi | Includes & Analysis Preview: The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Afghan American novelist Nadia Hashimi tells an intergenerational story of two Afghan women whose lives are different but connected. Rahima, a teenage girl, lives...

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande | Includes & Analysis Preview: The Checklist Manifesto is a non-fiction investigation of human fallibility in high-stakes environments, such as medical surgeries, airline flights, and skyscraper construction. It explains how the introduction...

Summary of The Field of Fight by Michael T. Flynn with Michael Ledeen | Includes Analysis   Preview:   Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and its Allies presents Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn’s assessment of where the United States...

Summary of The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown, is a non-fiction account of the remarkable life story of Joe...

Plunder and Deceit: by Mark R. Levin | Includes Analysis   Preview: Plunder and Deceit is about what author Mark R. Levin 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...

Summary of Rising Strong: by Brene Brown | Includes Analysis   Preview: Rising Strong: the Reckoning, the Rumble, the Revolution by Brene Brown is a book about the importance of people getting back up after they have fallen. But it is also a book about the way they should bounce...

Summary of The Innovators by Walter Isaacson | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Innovators by Walter Isaacson is a detailed and comprehensive guide to the people who contributed to the digital revolution. The history that leads up to the present-day computer and the Internet...

Summary of The Emperor of All Maladies: by Siddhartha Mukherjee | Includes Analysis   Preview: Scientist and physician Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies, calls his book a biography of cancer rather than simply a history. The author explores a wide range...