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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Dane C. Ortlund's Gentle and Lowly.
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1) Gentle and Lowly introduces you to Christ, who he really is, and how he feels about you. It answers necessary and legitimate questions through biblical text.
2) Thomas Goodwin, Richard Sibbes, and John Bunyan have given us insight on what the Bible beholds, and these Puritans are what drove Gentle and Lowly to fruition.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mike Lindell's What Are the Odds?
As a man with severe addiction to gambling, card counting, and cocaine, Mike Lindell made terrible life choices that ultimately cost him his wife, family, and financial stability. However, even as he was drowning in despair, God revealed himself in his life and showed him the miracles he could do, if only he had a flicker of hope.
What Are the Odds? traces the troubled chapters...
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Summary of Esther Perel's Mating in Captivity draws on observations made during her decades of experience as a practicing psychotherapist. The book explores the ways sexual passion and long-term security are often at odds and highlights important issues couples face as they navigate committed relationships.
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Summary of Mitchell Zuckoff's 13 Hours is a narrative recounting of the events surrounding the militant attacks on the Benghazi diplomatic compound and the nearby CIA annex on September 11 and 12, 2012. These attacks resulted in the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, State Department communications expert Sean Smith, and two CIA Global Response Staff (GRS) members, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
A similar attack had occurred on June 5, 1967,...
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Summary of Dick Morris & Eileen McGann's Armageddon is an attack on 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and an enthusiastic endorsement of Republican nominee Donald Trump. The book argues that Clinton is corrupt and will destroy the country if elected. By contrast, Trump is a strong, brave, noble politician.
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Clint Pulver's I Love it Here
It is completely possible for your employees to say positive things when asked about their company - if their concerns are being heard and answered. As Undercover Millennials, workforce expert Clint Pulver and his team spoke to countless employees and gathered valuable information about what they need from their managers. In I Love It Here (2021), Clint details how you can build...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Will Bulsiewicz's Fiber Fueled
Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome (2020) is a self-help health book about restoring balance to our gut microbiome, which is essentially a diverse community of microorganisms that coexist inside our body and serve a very important purpose – to keep us healthy. Dr. Will Bulsiewicz explains that...
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Summary of Jessica Knoll's Luckiest Girl Alive is a dark and gripping novel that reveals the traumatic past of TifAni FaNelli, a writer for a popular woman's magazine. This book shows how the strong desire to belong and to be liked makes people do things they would not ordinarily do.
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Summary of Chris Anderson's TED Talks is a comprehensive handbook for learning the now-famous TED talk style. TED is a world-renowned conference series founded by Ricky Wurman and Harry Marks in 1984. The book provides tips, tricks, and practical advice to readers who wish to become proficient in delivering effective speeches. The skills described in the book can be applied to a work presentation in a small conference room or a lecture in front of...
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Summary of Joe Biden's Promise Me, Dad recounts the grueling anxiety and fear he and his family underwent in the months leading up to the death of his son Beau. As Delaware's attorney general, Beau had crafted a promising political career and had gained popularity among his state's residents…
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Summary of Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, & Al Switzer's Crucial Conversations is a nonfiction book that offers simple yet effective tools for engaging in productive, healthy dialogue, even in the most emotionally and politically charged situations. The authors, organizational performance researchers, set out to learn about what they call "crucial moments": times when people's actions disproportionately affect their organizations, their...
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Summary of John Grisham's Gray Mountain is a legal thriller by John Grisham that is set during the recession of 2008. The book begins when associate lawyer, Samantha Kofer, is furloughed, or laid off, due to the recession, from a New York City law firm. Samantha is hired by Mattie Wyatt, a lawyer and the executive director of the Mountain Legal Aid Clinic in Brady, Virginia, as a volunteer at the clinic.
Samantha meets Mattie's nephew, Donovan Gray,...
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Summary of David Perlmutter's Grain Brain is an urgent appeal for people everywhere to reconsider their beliefs regarding the cause of increasingly common brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, dementia, and other neurodegenerative disorders. Author David Perlmutter issues a call for his readers to recognize that human fate does not decree that each of us reach the end of life in a fog of dementia as the brain naturally declines with age…
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Andrew Henderson's Nomad Capitalist
In Andrew Henderson's Nomad Capitalist (2018), you can learn how to use the entire world to your advantage by adopting a globalized lifestyle. Just because you're born somewhere, doesn't mean you need to stay there forever – especially when so many places around the world may suit your needs better. If you are a business owner paying a lot of taxes, and you still think tax...
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Summary of Carmine Gallo's Talk Like TED offers essential guidance for delivering an effective, original, and moving presentation. Gallo's book incorporates discussions of the psychology behind compelling keynote speeches, interviews with TED presenters, and insights gleaned from analyzing more than 150 hours of TED talks, representing approximately 500 speakers...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from John Eisenberg's The League
In The League (2018), John Eisenberg traces the tumultuous path of the National Football League, focusing on its first five owners. Pro football became a multibillion-dollar business through the efforts of these five visionaries who believed the game had a bright future and would change American sports forever. Starting from the 1920s, Eisenberg studies their backgrounds and highlights...
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Summary of Karyl McBride's Will I Ever Be Good Enough?, Karyl McBride uses her extensive experience as a family therapist to offer a guide to recovery for adult daughters of narcissistic mothers. The program is designed to help these women overcome a vicious cycle of dysfunctional parenting patterns, banish the haunting emptiness that results from feeling unlovable, and quell anxiety resulting from feeling they were never good enough for their mothers…...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants
This Is Your Mind on Plants (2021) is a personal inquiry into three types of molecules and the extraordinary plants that produce them: the morphine in the opium poppy, the caffeine in coffee and tea, and the mescaline produced by the peyote and San Pedro cacti. American author Michael Pollan explains that we humans strive to vary, intensify, and sometimes transcend...
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Summary of Rana Foroohar's Makers and Takers argues that finance has become an increasingly dominant force in controlling the organization of the US economy. This has weakened American business and created growing inequality.
The argument against the growing power of finance capital is not an argument against capitalism itself. Rather, finance must be reined in so that capitalism can proceed efficiently. Healthy competition is undermined when banks...