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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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#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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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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Get the Summary of Isaac Arnsdorf's Finish What We Started in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Finish What We Started" by Isaac Arnsdorf delves into the political landscape post-2020 U.S. election, focusing on key figures like Steve Bannon and Dan Schultz. Bannon, a former White House strategist, now a podcast host, promotes the "Precinct Strategy" to reshape the Republican Party from within. Schultz, inspired by...
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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 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 Sarah Simms Edge was expecting another child in August 1945 and was waiting anxiously for a letter from her husband, U. S. Navy commander Lawrence Lott Edge. She was sure that the war would soon be over, and that her husband would be coming home soon.
#2 The letters continued to arrive from Guam before his seventh war patrol, and after his return in late May. Something...
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#1 Vera Maria Rosenberg was a British woman who was born in Romania. She was a friend of the Rothschild family, and she was awarded the highest rank in the Legion of Honor by the French government. She died in 2006, and her life was opened up to the public.
#2 Vera's mother, Hilda, was a daughter of Heinrich Etkins, who had fled from the Russian anti-Semitic pogroms...
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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 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 Augustus was an icon and a mystery. He ended a century of revolution and brought down the Roman Republic, and replaced it with the empire of which he was the first emperor. He found the perfect number two: a partner to serve as his general and administrator without threatening his power.
#2 Octavian was born in 63 BC. His father, Gaius Octavius, came from a family...
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#1 I have experienced similar defeats in my attempts to respond to other searches for unique identification. I have never been able to answer the question what is your favorite food. because I love them all, but I would not like to live on any one of them as my only food.
#2 My family was living in the city of Dhaka when I was born in 1933. I was not born there, but...
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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 Three individuals, all from different civilizations, but all living in the same century, insisted that the distinction between their civilizations and the surrounding barbarism must be reinforced by moral education.
#2 Socrates was a philosopher who lived in Athens around the time of Ezra. He was the first classless person in history, and he believed that education...
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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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