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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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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 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 Eichmann told me about the killings using engine exhaust gas in the gas vans, and how they had been used in the East until now. He wanted to find a gas that was easy to produce and one that would require no special installations. He returned to Berlin to report to Himmler.
#2 The killing of the Russian POWs was continued, but no longer in Block 11 because it took...
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#1 I was conscripted into the German Wehrmacht in February 1943. I was trained as a sMG gunner, and when I completed the training six months later, I was sent to the Eastern Front near Voroshilovsk, Ukraine.
#2 The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point for the German army. It marked the loss of 250,000 men with all their armament and equipment. The last hope was...
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#1 After World War II, my grandmother, Oma, was one of the first people in her village to emerge from the underground cellar. She and her children moved back into the family house. As women in the village waited for their husbands and sons to return, they became alarmed when stories began circulating that the Soviets were raping and killing German women.
#2 The Americans arrived in...
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#1 I had come with backup, a low-ranking cop formerly assigned to the Anti—Organized Crime Task Force in Saitama Prefecture. Chiaki Sekiguchi. He was a little taller than I, almost as dark, thickset with deep-set eyes and a 1950s Elvis haircut. He was mistaken for a yakuza a lot.
#2 I was ready to leave my job, but not like this. I had only enough information to have gotten me into...
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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 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 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 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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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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