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PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary of the book and NOT the original book.    American Sniper by Chris Kyle - A 20-minute Summary   Inside this Instaread Summary:    Overview of the entire book  Introduction to the important people in the book...

Summary of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Includes Analysis   Preview: Chapter 1 Marguerite was three and her brother, Bailey, four when they arrived in Stamps, Arkansas. They were to live with their grandmother, Momma Henderson, because their parents...

Summary of Down the Rabbit Hole by Holly Madison | Includes Analysis   Preview: Down the Rabbit Hole is the memoir of former Hugh Hefner girlfriend and former star of The Girls Next Door, Holly Madison. By 2002, Holly was Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend at the Playboy Mansion, but...

Summary of Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham | Includes Analysis   Preview: Chapters 1-4   Take My Virginity (No, Really, Take It) Dunham did not come close to having sex until her sophomore year of college. That year, she hosted a party in her...

Summary of Red Platoon: by Clinton Romesha | Includes Analysis   Preview:   Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor by Clinton Romesha is a memoir of the October 2009 Battle of Kamdesh, in which hundreds of Taliban insurgents attacked Keating, the most remote American...

Legends and Lies by Bill O’Reilly and David Fisher | Includes Analysis   Preview: In Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies: The Real West, each chapter is a standalone account of the life of an individual who was in some way notorious or iconic and lived their life during what...

Blackout by Sarah Hepola | Summary & Analysis   Preview: In her memoir, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, Sarah Hepola examines how she drank, why she drank, how others responded to her, and the misfortunes that occurred during her journey to sobriety. Sarah...

Summary of John Adams by David McCullough | Includes Analysis   Preview: David McCullough’s John Adams is a biography designed to establish Adams’s place beside, or even above, better known figures such as Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington in the...

Summary of Valiant Ambition: by Nathaniel Philbrick | Includes Analysis   Preview: Nathaniel Philbrick’s Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution focuses on the treachery of Benedict Arnold as it plays out against the wider...

Summary of The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan | Includes Analysis   Preview: Timothy Egan’s The Immortal Irishman is a biography of Thomas Meagher: Irish revolutionary, convict, and Civil War general. The book also offers a broad portrait of theexperiences of the Irish...

Killing Reagan: by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard | Includes Analysis   Preview: Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency is a book by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The book is a biographical depiction of President Ronald Reagan, including a look...

Summary of Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman | Includes Analysis   Preview: Preview of the earlier Chapters: Chapter 1 In 1993, twenty-four year old Piper Kerman was at the Brussels airport, waiting for her suitcase after arriving from Chicago...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: by Rebecca Skloot | A 15-minute Summary & Analysis Preview: Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, chronicles the life, death, and immortality of Henrietta Lacks, a young black woman whose cervical cancer...

Summary of Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand | Includes Analysis   Inside this Instaread Summary: -Overview of the entire book -Introduction to the characters in the book -Summary and analysis of all the chapters in the book -A Reader's Perspective  ...