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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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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 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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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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Book Preview: #1 In 1846, Sarah Barrows was about to leave her home in Illinois for California. She was in love with a young man who played the violin, and she was about to get married to him. But her mother and father and siblings were about to leave for California, and she would never see them again.
#2 When Sarah broke off the engagement and chose to follow her family, she had...
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#1 In the 1970s, Baron Empain was the head of an industrial empire that comprised 174 companies and employed 136,000 workers in fields ranging from mining and metallurgy to banking, heavy construction, shipbuilding, armaments, and nuclear energy.
#2 France was experiencing a decade of political transition. The turmoil caused by the Paris-centered student uprising of...
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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 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 Great War, which saw two and a half million Germans die and four million wounded, left a discernible line in the sand between the victors and the vanquished. For Germany, the vanquished, losing the war left the turmoil of economic uncertainty, unbridled violence, and boiling resentment.
#2 In the 1930s, the German government passed increasingly harsh laws against...
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#1 In the jungle-clad hills of Northwest Burma, Billy Williams, delirious with fever, began to regain consciousness. He was riding an elephant through the raging Yu River, and he had never been sicker. He was grateful and believed in Bandoola, his elephant, who could navigate the crossing safely.
#2 The order Hmit! was given, and Bandoola sank down, back legs buckling...
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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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#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 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 By summer 1943, it was clear that the war was not going the way Hitler had predicted. The Allied landings on Sicily brought the threat of invasion closer to home. Mussolini needed to persuade Hitler that his power was tenuous, so he could receive reinforcements.
#2 Mussolini's call for a meeting of the Grand Council on July 24 to discuss the progress of the war was...
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#1 Gino grew up in Ponte a Ema, a town in Italy that was a laundry town. The orchards outside town were ideal for any pastime that involved hiding and chasing, and he and his friends would frequently play games of tag or cops and robbers in the fields.
#2 Gino's father, Torello, was the primary breadwinner of the family. He was a quiet, old workhorse who moved with the...
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