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Get the Summary of Ron Howard's The Boys in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Ron Howard's memoir details his early life and career, shaped by his parents, Rance and Jean Howard. His father's acting career and mother's support led to Ron's early acting roles, including "The Andy Griffith Show." Despite his father's conservative values and the family's financial prudence, Ron pursued acting and later directing. His...
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#1 The Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers were a fascinating mix of men, and they were not the most successful team in baseball. They were incredibly good, but they lost the World Series twice to the New York Yankees.
#2 The Brooklyn Dodgers were a baseball team that was owned by the Brooklyn Trust Company. It took a succession of winning teams to rescue the franchise...
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#1 The Bedfords were a family of seven boys who all joined the local National Guard unit together in 1938. They were all very young, and the brothers enjoyed the attention their uniforms brought them.
#2 The Stevens brothers, Roy and Ray, were extremely competitive. They learned to box as children and by the mid-thirties were regularly fighting each other to earn a few...
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#1 The day I was born, I was tested to see if I was right about being special. I was not only barefoot but also had not changed out of my nightgown. The woman who came to take me home was so tall and regal that we all thought she was auditioning for the job.
#2 I was the youngest of the four siblings, and I was very shy. When I was introduced to Helen Gaspard, I tapped...
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#1 Aviation High School is a great example of how a school can help students become engaged and interested in learning. The school is all about structure, and students are kept so busy that they have neither the time nor the desire for antics.
#2 There are very few visits from American officials to Aviation High. The school is 85 percent male, and the women students...
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Get the Summary of William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he...
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Get the Summary of Limor Regev's The Boy From Block 66 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Boy From Block 66" by Limor Regev is a poignant memoir that chronicles the life of Moshe Kessler, a Jewish boy from Carpatho-Russia, whose life was upended by the Holocaust. Born into a region with a shifting national identity, Moshe's early life in Berehovo was marked by a rich Jewish cultural and educational heritage....
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#1 My father was a big, wild Irishman, and my mother was a German princess. They met in London when he was with the UN army, and they fell in love. They had a marriage of international proportions, like Germany marrying Ireland.
#2 My father, a drinker, would visit our house and turn off all the lights. He would point at someone if they were in the room and say, What...
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#1 For the first time in the history of Austria, the leadership of the state required an open commitment to the homeland. The country was divided on whether to remain independent from German tyranny or not.
#2 The Karmelitermarkt was the main market in Vienna, and it was here that Tini Kleinmann bought her supplies for the week. The marketplace was full of stalls owned...
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Book Preview: Children subjected to unspeakable cruelty and neglect are deeply impacted by such trauma, which in turn affects their growth and behavior. In “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog” (2017), psychiatrist Bruce D. Perry and his co-writer Maya Szalavitz approach childhood trauma following a hands-on method. Based on Perry's clinical experience, they explore cases of trauma...
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#1 The woman is in a girl, and a girl is in a girl. The woman is in a boy, and a boy is in a boy. The boy is in a boy, and the boy is in a boy. The woman is in a woman, and the woman is in a woman. The first syllogism states that the woman is in a girl, and a girl is in a girl. The second states that the man is in a boy, and a boy is in a boy. The third states that the...
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#1 The survey respondents chose MacArthur Park as the worst song, followed by Yummy Yummy Yummy and Love to Love You Baby.
#2 If you want to hear the best version of it, go buy a CD put out by Rhino Records.
#3 There was a mining disaster, and all the men were killed. The company sent the boys to their new homes in ships, and the lads were all fond of each other. They...
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#1 I was brought in to help find the burial sites of the boys who had died at the reform school. I had no idea how difficult this would be.
#2 I met with Glen Varnadoe, a man who believed his uncle was buried on the Dozier property. He had spent forty years working for a chemical company in Central Florida, and he was well-off. He hired a lawyer to stop the sale of the...
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#1 The boy was disgusted with himself for falling asleep and his anger turned to the soldier. How can a man like that be in the army but I can't join.
#2 The boy, who was born a mute, was hoping to join the Roman army and become a burdenless soldier. However, the general told him that the army needed an execution guard, and the pay was not much.
#3 The Roman method...
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#1 The boys set a fire at the Gerrity Lumber Company in Boston, which was investigated by the police. They targeted a large, tall single-story brick building. The pair walked to the front of the structure, where they found the large overhead door open. They entered the building and planted two devices.
#2 The fire was visible from a half-mile away, and flames were soaring...
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#1 There were sodomites in the navy who could be persuaded to join him for no price other than the promise of his predatory grin. He liked them the most because they had the most to lose if even a whisper of what he planned on doing to them got out.
#2 Carl was a creature of opportunity. He spent his life avoiding attention, hunching his shoulders to look smaller, and...
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#1 The boy, Jeremy Guillory, is six years old. His mother, Lorilei, is not working at the moment, so she and Jeremy are staying with her friend Melissa and her boyfriend Michael. The baby in the house is two years old, and he wants to play with the boy.
#2 One afternoon, Jeremy's mother, Lorilei, comes to visit him. She is three months pregnant. She asks Ricky if he has seen her son....
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#1 The world was covered in darkness, and there were no sun or stars. The perpetual night had no moon or stars. The two tribes of creatures were the birds and the beasts. The birds wanted light admitted, but the beasts repeatedly refused. The birds made war against the beasts, and the beasts were armed with clubs.
#2 The boy was hunting the dragon one day, and when his...
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Book Preview: #1 I was a bright, playful child, too young and energetic to understand fear. I spent a lot of time in front of the hallway mirror, examining my eyes to discover where the fear was hiding. I was three generations living in the same house: Baba-jan and Nanah-jan, their four daughters, my aunts Kurbra, Hajar, Zahra, and Azizah, my uncles Naseer and Basheer, and me.
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#1 Jim and his best friend Daryl, who was 19, were going on a vacation to Florida. They had planned the trip for months and were excited. Faye, Jim's mother, was not concerned about their safety. She thought it was a good idea for the boys to go on their vacation.
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