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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 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 My family has its origins in the Netherlands. My grandfather, William H. Vanderbilt, had an unmerited reputation for indifference to the welfare of others. However, according to a friend of the family, Mr. Vanderbilt said, the public be damned.
#2 My grandmother, Maria Louisa Kissam, was the daughter of a clergyman of the Dutch Reformed Church. She had eight children,...
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#1 The fire in Venice happened on Monday evening, January 29, 1996. Archimede Seguso, an 86-year-old man who lived in Ca' Capello, a sixteenth-century house in the heart of Venice, waited patiently at the dinner table before joining his wife in the living room to lower the curtains.
#2 The Seguso family had been glassmakers since the 14th century. Archimede Seguso was...
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#1 The mountains are as bad as it gets. Everything you need to live, you carry with you. You need food, so you discard all the things you can do without and stuff dry rations for five days into your backpack.
#2 After the luxurious flats of Grozny, the barn the Chechens were staying in seemed pitiful. It had clay walls, an earth floor, and a small window that barely...
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Book Preview: #1 This book is the story of Wilma Mankiller, but it is also the story of the Cherokee people and their indomitable courage. The chapters weave together the story of one Cherokee woman with the history of all the people of the Cherokee Nation.
#2 Wilma Mankiller, the woman of the house, is barefoot and wearing a brightly colored dress. She sips a mug of coffee on the...
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#1 The British War Cabinet was meeting in May 1940 to decide whether Britain should fight the Nazis or not. They were close to calling the war quits in 1940, but they decided to fight instead.
#2 The news from France was not just bad, but it was unbelievably bad. German forces were lunging towards Paris, and it seemed as if they belonged to some new military master race,...
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#1 The dark ages were not weird, but they were not normal either. They were a time of magic and miracles, of superstition and making offerings to spirits. The people who survived the age were pragmatists and keen observers of their world.
#2 The first English king to be a martyr, Oswald ruled Northumbria for eight years, from 634 to 642. He was the overlord of almost...
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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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#1 Before Herodotus travels to many different places and sees many different things, he will appear in a lecture on ancient Greece delivered twice weekly to the first-year students in Warsaw University's department of history. He will just as quickly disappear.
#2 The Histories of Herodotus, a book written about two and a half thousand years ago, was translated into...
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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 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 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 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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