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Get the Summary of The Weaver's Legacy Olive Collins's The Weavers Legacy Olive Collins in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In 1937, Lucy O'Neill-Levingston is shocked to learn her father, Lorcan O'Neill, is alive after being presumed dead for 30 years. The story then traces back to 1865, when the O'Neill family, including a young Grainne "Goldie" O'Neill, travels westward, seeking a new life in South Dakota. They...
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Get the Summary of Ellie Midwood's The Child Who Lived in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Child Who Lived" by Ellie Midwood unfolds in a courtroom where Judge Brodbeck presides over the Stroman couple's divorce. Heinrich Stroman accuses his wife, Lore, of infidelity and bearing a child with another man during the war. Lore, indifferent to the proceedings, admits to her actions and recounts her past, including...
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#1 I am blessed among men. I was encouraged by my daughter, Maggie, and my wife, Ellen, while writing this book.
#2 My father, Malachy McCourt, was born in Toome, County Antrim. He grew up wild, in trouble with the English, or the Irish, or both. He fought with the Old IRA and for some desperate act he wound up a fugitive with a price on his head. When I was a child,...
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Get the Summary of Greg Steinmetz's American Rascal in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: American Rascal shows Gould's complex, quirky character. He was at once praised for his brilliance by Rockefeller and Vanderbilt and condemned for forever destroying American business values by Mark Twain. He lived a colorful life, trading jokes with Thomas Edison, figuring Thomas Nast's best sketches,...
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Book Preview: #1 iSight Partners, a private intelligence firm, had a team that specialized in software vulnerability research. In 2014, they discovered a secret security flaw in Microsoft Office that allowed hackers to break out of the confines of the software application and begin to execute their own code on a target computer.
#2 iSight's Ukrainian staff found the email, and Hultquist,...
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Get the Summary of Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Silk Roads" by Peter Frankopan explores the historical significance of the trade routes connecting Asia, Europe, and Africa. It begins with the early civilizations of Babylon and Mohenjo-Daro, highlighting the Persian Empire's influence and the spread of trade during the Han dynasty. The book details the exchange of goods,...
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Get the Summary of Robert Kaplan's The Loom of Time in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Loom of Time" by Robert Kaplan delves into the complex history and future of the Greater Middle East, a region stretching from Europe to China, known for its arid climate, political upheaval, and lack of consistent ruling authority. The book examines the region's history of tribalism and religious divisions, the establishment...
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Book Preview: #1 The order to abandon ship was given at 5 P. M. For most of the men, however, no order was needed because by then everybody knew that the ship was done and that it was time to give up trying to save her. They accepted their defeat almost apathetically.
#2 The dog-team drivers had made a canvas chute down to the ice alongside the ship. They took the forty-nine huskies...
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#1 I had a career because the all-male board at my junior-year college decided to replace our brilliant but decidedly masculine headmistress with a woman who was in the process of eclipsing her in the affections of her lover.
#2 Benji, a journalist, was 19 years old when he was assigned to cover the story of an all-male college board's decision to replace its headmistress...
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#1 The end of March 2002 will be etched in my memory forever. I was out riding with the Queen when she suddenly asked me if I would live in suburbia. I accepted the house in the Great Park at Windsor, near Royal Lodge, the weekend retreat of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
#2 I had been a Woman of the Bedchamber to my aunt since 1991, and in her final weeks I went...
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#1 I was the Emperor apparent of the Ch'ing Dynasty. I refused an imperial summons from the Forbidden City delivered by the Grand Councillor. My family was humiliated by my refusal to obey the imperial edict. However, I was told several years later that it was agreed to waive all protocol and allow my wet nurse to carry me to the palace.
#2 The first year of my reign...
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#1 I had taken two trips to Russia, traveled 15,000 miles, and left my infant son and his mother to be here. I was extremely eager to find the location of the tent where nine hikers died in 1959.
#2 The Dyatlov hiking group tragedy is still unexplained after more than 50 years. The group died from an unknown compelling force, and their bodies were found half-dressed in subzero temperatures.
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#1 I was born in the village in the summer of the last year of the First World War. I had never been so close to grass before, and I wept. I was lost and didn't know where to move. I was alone in a world whose behavior I could neither predict nor fathom.
#2 The house was finally furnished on that first day. The sisters spent the rest of the day eating currants and bread,...
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#1 Grief is a painful reality that cannot be fixed. You need someone to acknowledge your grief, because it can't be made better.
#2 When out-of-order death or a life-altering event enters your life, everything changes. You are no longer certain of what's important to you, or what you're supposed to do with your life.
#3 Grief is a natural extension of love. It is a...
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#1 Nine years ago, Richard Alpert, an assistant professor in clinical psychology at Harvard University, nearly flunked out of college. But he was the one who wanted to be a psychologist, not his father. He was accepted into medical school, but he refused it. He wanted to be a psychologist.
#2 Richard Alpert, the author, was a professor at Stanford University. He...
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#1 The United States underwent a political and economic movement in the late nineteenth century called the Trust Movement, which called for the reorganization of the American and world economy into a new form: the giant, monopoly corporation.
#2 The Trust Movement's economic arguments were that monopolies like Rockefeller's and Morgan's were saving the economy from ruin....
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#1 Mengele was a doctor who was assigned to the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was near the center of a brave new world, and as the camp began to dismantle, he was moved to the margins. He became both the personification of the Holocaust and its most notorious author.
#2 I was assigned to the international investigation to locate Mengele and bring him before a court...
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#1 Thomas Cromwell was the most powerful man in England during the Tudor dynasty. He was born in 1485, which was fitting since it was in that year that the Tudors came to power. His family were not originally from Putney, but from Norwell in Nottinghamshire.
#2 The Cromwell family had owned a fulling mill at Putney for fifty years. Walter also owned a hostelry, an Anchor,...
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#1 In December 1939, an 11-year-old German boy named Paul von Mende was evacuated from Berlin to Norway with his mother. They waited for a message from his father, who was part of a department that had no official name or organizational structure.
#2 The boy was a spy, in the language of espionage. He visited a woman's apartment and talked about the books he was given...
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#1 The debate between Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke was over who had discovered the Source of the Nile River. Burton claimed it was Lake Victoria, while Speke claimed it was Lake Tanganyika.
#2 The public was excited to see Burton and Speke, as their encounters with Livingstone had been a balm for the wounds of the Crimean War, the ill-fated Charge of...
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