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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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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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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 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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#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 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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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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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 love of books as a child. I would spend hours leafing through a book, and I would spend my spare time browsing the bouquinistes' old, damp cases of books. When I returned to Paris after the first war, everything had been taken away.
#2 I began to see the importance of a book's reader. I would place the book I thought was appropriate down close to a reader,...
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Book Preview: #1 I learned to keep my back to the wall and my eyes on my mother at all times. She was constantly angry and would sometimes throw things at my father to get his attention.
#2 I wished I could go back in time and fix my parents' marriage. I imagined they had been happy, but their marriage was already curdling. Their disagreements had multiplied and spread like a cancer,...
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#1 I was born in 1939, in Bielitz, a town close to the Czechoslovakian border. When I saw people deserting my town, I realized how close we were to the Czechoslovakian frontier.
#2 On September 1, the day the war began, I was in my parents' bedroom watching them. The red glow of the fires outside made Papa look strange and unfamiliar. He spoke to me, telling me to call...
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#1 To become great, you must go through hell. So ignore everyone and listen to your heart, and embrace the suck. It's not easy to see out through the windshield. Your eyes try to focus, looking past the grime and muck as your shitbox Ford Fiesta races down a dirt road toward town.
#2 You want to enlist in the Navy, and you want to join the SEALs. The recruiter smiles...
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#1 I love having no clothes on me. I feel everything better that way. I feel a shivery-good sensation in my legs. I come up out of the sand and walk out of the way by the naupaka bush to pee.
#2 I loved swimming. I would spend hours in the ocean, and when I was done, I would lie in the sun and feel warm fingers all over my skin. I would help my mom dig a hole in the...
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#1 The death of your sister is a great sorrow, but it is nothing compared to the sorrow you feel for her loss. You must remember that you are all alone in this world, and that you have no one else to lean on but God.
#2 Galileo's daughter, Virginia, was the first of his children to mirror his brilliance and sensibility. She was born in 1600, the same year as the astronomer...
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#1 The Englishman born to rule, George Nathaniel Curzon, epitomized this concept. He was the eldest of four brothers and six sisters, and he was born in 1859. He was passionate about Kedleston, and he sought to improve it.
#2 George's back pain affected his entire life, and it was reflected in his stiff-necked attitude and prejudices. He was a member of the coterie...
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Book Preview: #1 In 1945, the American heavy bombers came to German city of Straubing and destroyed a third of the city. The Americans then handed out food stamps to the German citizens, who were mostly silent.
#2 As Franz walked down the street, he saw people standing in line to get work. The brickyard was farther down the street, and the veteran he had seen every day for the past...
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#1 I was with my brother when we were surrounded by six to eight wrestlers. I did not understand what was happening, but I knew we were in trouble. I tried to follow Bill, but the banditry of Murphy Homes made them legendary.
#2 I had to see the wrestlers live. But that meant going through my father, who only cared about his work. He worked seven days a week. I thought...
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#1 The scandal surrounding the man behind the princely title and its ramifications for Britain as a nation is well documented. Behind the scenes, the duke has become one of Britain's most influential royals since Prince Philip's retirement from public life in 2017.
#2 By this time, the opposing sides of the Epstein case had split into a who's who of America's establishment....
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#1 Jefferson had a lifelong fascination with trees. He thought of them as his favorite type of plants, and he went to great effort and expense to place those he liked best around Monticello.
#2 Monticello faced west, and if you looked straight across the estate, you could see all the way to the Blue Ridge Mountains. But today, this is no longer the case. The trees have...
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#1 The Borja family, which originated from the remote hill town of Borja, Spain, had royal blood. They believed that the Borgias were the descendants of kings and were destined to become kings once more.
#2 Alonso de Borja was the king's secretary and was in charge of overseeing his affairs and duties. He was also required to undertake diplomatic missions, which he did...
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