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    "title": "Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology",
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    "annotation": "<p><strong>The outspoken actress, talk show host, and reality television star offers up a no-holds-barred memoir, including an eye-opening insider account of her tumultuous and heart-wrenching thirty-year-plus association with the Church of Scientology.</strong><br /><span>Leah Remini has never been the type to hold her tongue. That willingness to speak her mind, stand her ground, and rattle the occasional cage has enabled this tough-talking girl from Brooklyn to forge an enduring and successful career in Hollywood. But being a troublemaker has come at a cost.</span><br /><span>That was never more evident than in 2013, when Remini loudly and publicly broke with the Church of Scientology. Now, in this frank, funny, poignant memoir, the former&nbsp;</span><em>King of Queens</em><span>&nbsp;star opens up about that experience for the first time, revealing the in-depth details of her painful split with the church and its controversial practices.</span><br /><span>Indoctrinated into the church as a child while living with her mother and sister in New York, Remini eventually moved to Los Angeles, where her dreams of becoming an actress and advancing Scientology&rsquo;s causes grew increasingly intertwined. As an adult, she found the success she&rsquo;d worked so hard for, and with it a prominent place in the hierarchy of celebrity Scientologists alongside people such as Tom Cruise, Scientology&rsquo;s most high-profile adherent. Remini spent time directly with Cruise and was included among the guests at his 2006 wedding to Katie Holmes.</span><br /><span>But when she began to raise questions about some of the church&rsquo;s actions, she found herself a target. In the end, she was declared by the church to be a threat to their organization and therefore a &ldquo;Suppressive Person,&rdquo; and as a result, all of her fellow parishioners&mdash;including members of her own family&mdash;were told to disconnect from her. Forever.</span><br /><span>Bold, brash, and bravely confessional,&nbsp;</span><em>Troublemaker</em><span>&nbsp;chronicles Leah Remini&rsquo;s remarkable journey toward emotional and spiritual freedom, both for herself and for her family. This is a memoir designed to reveal the hard-won truths of a life lived honestly&mdash;from an author unafraid of the consequences.</span></p>",
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