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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  ...

Summary of How to Be Here by Rob Bell | Includes Analysis   Preview: How to Be Here by Rob Bell is an inspirational self-help book on living an authentic life filled with meaning, purpose, and joy. The genesis of How to BeHere was a concussion that Bell, a pastor and motivational...

Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review   Preview:   A group of old school friends meet to catch up. They end up discussing the unexpected, unforeseen changes to their lives and one friend offers to tell a story about adapting to change....

Summary of Living Forward by Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy | Includes Analysis   Preview: Living Forward explains the importance of having a concrete Life Plan to prevent drifting from day to day and instead live a proactive life of success without regrets. The authors...

Summary of Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée A. Mauborgne | Includes Analysis   Preview:   Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant is the 2015 update to the classic business strategy...

Summary of Wild by Cheryl Strayed | includes Analysis   Preview: Wild chronicles Cheryl Strayed’s adventure of self-discovery in the wilderness. The books begins thirty-eight days into her three-month odyssey on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). Her too-tight boots were destroying...