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Book Preview: #1 The two men were looking for a schooner that was small enough to be handled by four sailors, but strongly built as well. They wanted the ship to be cheap, since they had little funding for the ambitious venture they planned.
#2 The two men, François Raynal and Thomas Musgrave, were looking for a ship to take them on their adventure. They found the Grafton, a coal...
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Get the Summary of David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1946, Günther Quandt-patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW-was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his archrival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him....
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Get the Summary of Michael Lewis's Flash Boys in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post—financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they...
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#1 The mood in the helicopter was upbeat, especially from Ronnie Means. He had taken a job building concrete silos before joining the Army, and he looked like he was giddy. I didn't hit it off with him until we spent five hours together on a bus.
#2 I had always known cold and snow in December, but here, the air was so thick and muggy that I struggled to take deep breaths....
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Get the Summary of Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over 15 years - a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population.
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#1 The Cement Lady Bulldogs were a high school basketball team in southwest Oklahoma. They were battling their rival, the Fletcher Lady Wildcats, for the district championship and the right to play in the regional tournament. Doll Harris was a senior forward who made almost half of the field goals she attempted and nearly all of the free throws.
#2 When Doll heard someone...
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#1 I left the ship with 13 other crew members and set off on foot toward Franz Josef Land, in search of an inhabited shore. We were icebound for a year and a half off Franz Josef Land, unable to advance or retreat, at the mercy of the winds and tides.
#2 I asked to leave the ship, and the crew agreed. I was only glad that the others were leaving voluntarily, and...
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#1 Porta Pia is one of the least attractive corners of central Rome, but it brings together within a few hundred square meters tangible allusions to the bits of history of which Italians are proudest: the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, and the Risorgimento.
#2 Italy has a long and rich history, but the country is also home to many cultural treasures that are...
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#1 When the Civil War began in 1861, Raphael Semmes hoped to become a captain of a ship. He was not a native-born Southerner, but he had wartime experience and was a passionate supporter of the Confederacy. He was not too old to be a seafaring captain.
#2 The life of a midshipman was difficult, to say the least. They were the lowest ranking officers, yet they...
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#1 The Titans were the first gods, and they were supreme in the universe. They were of enormous size and incredible strength. The twelve great Olympians were their descendants, and they ruled over the other gods.
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#1 Remus sold himself to Imogene Holmes. He would handle her divorce, and she didn't have to worry about his fee; in fact, he would pay the rent on her apartment and spend more time with her than he did with his wife.
#2 Remus had always enjoyed confrontation, and he fought with the plumber who had disturbed his wife. He was eventually acquitted. His wife, Lillian, filed...
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#1 In 1928, Egon Richter,17, and his father, Gerhard, traveled to the Hunsrück in Germany to hunt wild boar. When they came across an old boar that had challenged them, Egon shot him. His father told him not to, but Egon felt he had to.
#2 The B-24 bomber was sent to Benghazi, Libya, to join up with a small bomber force already in place there. The reason for their...
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Book Preview: #1 Poisoning is the act of administering a poison to another person. It is a very morbid fascination, and the methods of poisoning are varied and strange. The words poison and toxin are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing.
#2 The four routes of poison delivery are ingestion, respiration, absorption, and injection. The actions of poisons reveal...
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#1 The Medici family of Florence, Italy, had humble farming roots, but through hard work and incredible business and political acumen, they rose to heights of power and gained riches and influence that was rare to find at the time.
#2 The Roman Empire fell to the tribes of northern and central Europe in the late 400s, and the first Germanic king, Odoacer, became the...
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#1 Because of the political slander and bile that marred Washington's two administrations, the first president soon came to be regarded as a demigod.
#2 George Washington was born in 1732, the first President of the United States. He was taught by his family and friends, and he was a man of hands rather than brains. He was, however, extremely practical.
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#1 Svetlana, the wife of Farewell, was able to give us a lot of information about her husband. She was able to tell us about his character and his inner motivations, which made the suspenseful, sensational side of the story much more believable.
#2 Vladimir Vetrov was born on October 10, 1932, in Moscow. He was raised by his mother, Maria Danilovna, and his father, Ippolit...
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In the inspiring tradition of Black Hawk Down, this is the riveting real-life story of how an Australian SAS signalman's courage under fire saved more than 80 lives. It is an enthralling eyewitness account of the war on terror.
Jock Wallace was pumped. It was the start of Operation Anaconda, the U.S.-led military...
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Get the Summary of Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell is a historical novel set during the Viking Age, primarily focusing on the life of Uhtred of Bebbanburg. The story begins with the Danes conquering Northumbria, where Uhtred's father is killed, and young Uhtred is captured and raised by the Danish Earl Ragnar. As he grows, Uhtred learns...
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Book Preview: #1 The city of Peru-nefer, in the Nile delta of Lower Egypt, was excavated by the Austrian archaeologist Manfred Bietak and his team. It was a Minoan city that had been conquered by Thutmose III around 1477 BC. The city had been known as Avaris, capital city of the Hyksos, until it was captured by Thutmose's ancestor Kamose around 1550 BC.
#2 The Hyksos were a group...
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#1 Columbus brought pigs from Cuba to Florida, which may have been descendants of the pigs Queen Isabella had enjoined Columbus to take with him on his second voyage.
#2 In 1565, the Spanish attacked Fort Caroline, France's first settlement in the Americas, near present-day Jacksonville. They easily overwhelmed the small fort, killing 132 soldiers and civilians. The...
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