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Wonder, by R. J. Palacio, is a children's novel about a bright, kind, intuitive 10-year-old who has severe facial abnormalities. August "Auggie" Pullman was born with a rare genetic disorder. He has endured a lot in his short life, including 27 surgeries and the cruelty of strangers who recoil from his unusual appearance. But nothing could quite prepare him for the challenge he must now face: his first year of middle school.

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore is a gruesome account of the effects of radium on young women who worked with radium-based paint in the first part of the twentieth century. Centering on two exploitative radium plants in Orange, New Jersey and Ottawa, Illinois, the sad story follows the lives and deaths of female workers who became known as the radium girls.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s Extreme Ownership includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and a detailed "about the author" section. Extreme Ownership: How US Navy SEALs Lead and Win is authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s guide to approaching leadership in such a way that listeners can walk away with a sense of ownership and control over what happens under their watch.

p> The 48 Laws of Power, written by Robert Greene and published in 1998, claims to offer listeners the secrets to amassing power within the confines of contemporary society's rules, regulations, and norms. In the book's preface, Greene argues that, at least on the surface, the quest for power has been demonized, the end result of a culture that frowns upon those who seem too eager to get too far ahead in life.

When the little girl from Haiti entered Mitch Albom’s life, everything changed. When she left, her legacy of joy, family, courage, and overcoming left the world richer for her being in it, however brief. Chika Jeune was a Haitian national sent to the same orphanage that Mitch Albom found himself managing in 2013. They were devastated when she was diagnosed with DIPG months later. The couple took Chika into their home in America, caring for her, and shouldering her medical bills. There is more to the story than the birth of a family, though.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Gary John Bishop's Unf--k Yourself: Get out of Your Head and into Your Life includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section.

Please note: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Mark Manson, a massively successful dating advice and travel blogger, has written The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F--k to address what he perceives as a major gap in the self-help market.

Daniel Levitin’s Successful Aging is a relatable and expertly written guide to the scientific, social, and emotional process of aging, buoyed by the latest research into what we can do to increase not just our lifespan, but our active, healthy years. This is a summary, analysis, and review of the book, and not the original book.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Eric Barker's Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong includes a summary of the book, review, analysis, and key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker examines the science behind success.

Holly Whitaker's first book is a seamless blend of personal narrative, science, spirituality, and self-help aimed at creating a new dialogue around alcohol in America, getting rid of the term "alcoholic" for good, and helping anyone who wants to, create a better, sober, more fulfilled life for themselves. Quit Like a Woman is more than just a self-help book on sobriety. It is a call to action for all of America - and the world - to realize how poisonous alcohol is, and just how much it is truly affecting our lives.

In Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn take a personal and harrowing look at the pervasive problems of poverty, drug abuse, and rising death rate in America through the stories of the people in America's forgotten towns. What they discover is a problem that goes far beyond unemployment or personal choice: they discover America's great social depression.

Please note: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Murder on the Orient Express is a murder mystery featuring the famous detective Hercule Poirot. Poirot is on a cross-European train ride when a wealthy American passenger is killed in his cabin by a series of twelve knife blows. It turns out that the passenger was a notorious kidnapper.

Please Note: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero is a loose set of instructions about how to be happy. There was a time when Sincero felt dissatisfied with her choices and her financial situation, but she managed to turn things around by examining different areas of her life with an open mind. She knows that you can, too.

Please note: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon is the true story of a British explorer, Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, who became obsessed with finding a lost civilization in the Brazilian jungle.

Start Publishing Notes’ Summary, Analysis, and Review of Lysa TerKeurst's Uninvited includes a summary of the book, a review, analysis and key takeaways, and a detailed"about the author" section. Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely is an inspirational Christian book. Author Lysa TerKeurst discusses her own experiences with rejection, and urges listeners to turn to faith for comfort and love.

This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story includes a summary of the book, a review, analysis and key takeaways, and a detailed "About the Author" section.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "about the author" section.

Dr. Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air is an autobiographical account of his experience with Stage IV lung cancer. Part memoir, part guidebook, and part philosophical investigation, the book is the story of his life, his work, and the difficult - but ultimately rewarding - process of coming to terms with his own death. It is difficult to separate When Breath Becomes Air from the circumstances surrounding its publication.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, a former star, amateur wrestler at Harvard who went on to become an award-winning astrophysicist, might be the most well-known science communicator in the United States since the late Carl Sagan. Tyson, who has served as the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City since 1996, had published a dozen books prior to Astrophysics for People in a Hurry; all of them have been aimed at a popular audience. In spite of that, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is probably his most accessible and scaled-down work to date.

Please note: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal gives the audience a comprehensive look at the author's life as a businessman. It is divided into three sections. The first section offers a detailed look at a single Trump workweek, the second section lists the business principles to which Trump adheres, and the third section contains Trump's autobiographical reflections on his early life and most notable business ventures.