Susan Murphy

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to John C. Maxwell’s Developing the Leader Within You and NOT the original book.Preview:John C. Maxwell’s Developing the Leader Within You (1993) is a guide to forming the necessary traits required of a leader. A...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Michael Pollan’s Cooked and NOT the original book.Preview:Cooked (2013) by Michael Pollan is a journalistic study of cooking in the modern world, where convenience foods have rendered the need to cook and the...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma and NOT the original book.Preview:The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) is a serious examination of four approaches to food production in the United...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Paul Van Der Merwe’s Lucky Go Happy and NOT the original book.Preview:Author Paul van der Merwe follows an unlikely journalist on an adventure to define happiness in Lucky Go Happy: Make Happiness Happen! (2014)....

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad and NOT the original book.Preview:Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad (1997) is an educational story that contrasts the mindsets of the rich and the poor. The Poor Dad is the main...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Sandor Ellix Katz’s Wild Fermentation and NOT the original book.Preview:In Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods (2003, updated and revised in 2016), Sandor Ellix Katz expresses...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Seth Godin’s Purple Cow and NOT the original book.Preview:Seth Godin’s Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable (2003) is a short book about marketing remarkable products. Godin argues that marketing...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Sheryl Sandberg’s & et al Option B and NOT the original book.Preview:Option B (2017), coauthored by Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and organizational psychology expert Adam Grant, explores how to...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Vanessa Van Edwards’s Captivate and NOT the original book.Preview:Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People (2017) by Vanessa Van Edwards is a collection of tips and tricks, or hacks, aimed at creating more...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things and NOT the original book.Preview:Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (2012) is a collection from the popular advice column that novelist and...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife and NOT the original book.Preview:The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story (2007) by Diane Ackerman is the strange but true tale of a couple who took advantage of their unique...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jason Fung's MD The Complete Guide to Fasting and NOT the original book.Preview:Jason Fung’s The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day and Extended Fasting promotes fasting as...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Julia Baird's Victoria the Queen and NOT the original book.Preview:Julia Baird’s Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire (2017) is a biography of Victoria, who reigned as queen of...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and NOT the original book.Preview:In Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Malcolm Gladwell argues that first impressions are often surprisingly accurate. Having less...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Olivia Fox Cabane’s & et al The Net and the Butterfly and NOT the original book.Preview:The Net and the Butterfly (2017) by executive leadership experts Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack is a nonfiction book that...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus and NOT the original book.Preview:Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2017) argues that human beings have come to a fundamental turning point in history. The...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Alice Hoffman’s Faithful by InstareadPreview:Faithful by Alice Hoffman is a novel that follows a young woman, Shelby Richmond, through her slow, incremental recovery from a traumatic experience. Shelby and her best friend...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a Summary, Analysis & Review of the book and NOT the original book.Preview:The Thyroid Connection by functional medicine doctor Amy Myers is a self-help book for people who suffer from thyroid dysfunction or suspect that they do....

Preview: The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna “Jo” Gaines, with Mark Dagostino, is the true tale of how the husband-and-wife team, stars of the HGTV show Fixer Upper, built a life together in Waco, Texas. Starting with their first date, which was...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder by InstareadPreview:The Wonder by Emma Donoghue is a novel about Elizabeth “Lib” Wright, a British nurse whose wits, beliefs, and compassion are tested during an unusual assignment in rural...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Gary Taubes’s The Case Against Sugar by InstareadPreview:The Case Against Sugar argues that sugar is a toxic substance responsible for a wide array of health problems including diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease....

PLEASE NOTE: This is a Summary, Analysis & Review of the book and NOT the original book.Preview:Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult is the story of Ruth Jefferson, an African American labor and delivery nurse who is charged with the murder of the...

My Own Words is a collection of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's public writing and speeches. It includes biographical information and a discussion of her intellectual interests and positions.Ginsburg was born in 1933 in Brooklyn to a Russian Jewish immigrant...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Stephanie Dray’s and Laura Kamoie’s America’s First Daughter by InstareadPreview:America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie is the story of Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph, a daughter of Thomas...