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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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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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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 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 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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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 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 Eugenia's mother, Devi, was a Russian aristocrat who was constantly on the move. She was never tied to a place or a religion, and she taught Eugenia the importance of independence and pursuing your passion.
#2 When Eugenia's mother disappeared, that was agonizing. Sasha had always dreamed of becoming an actress, but her father found the idea of his daughter...
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#1 The night before Cook's voyage, James and Elizabeth Cook spent their last night together. They were married six years and were devoted to one another. They ached for those passionate, frantic nights of homecoming, but knew that his profession was one of the most dangerous on earth.
#2 The British were eager to explore the Southern Hemisphere, which included Antarctica....
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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 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 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 Wittgenstein was a PhD student at Cambridge in 1929. He had finished the book he had been writing as a prisoner of war in Italy in 1918, and he decided to turn his back on philosophy. He would support himself with honest work.
#2 The Tractatus is a book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, written in 1922, that attempts to draw a boundary between the propositions in our language...
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#1 The Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano had been sent to Japan to spread Christianity. He had brought along a large amount of guns and Catholic artifacts, which he believed would save millions of souls.
#2 The voyage was not all bad for Yasuke. He had gotten on well with the sailors and would miss their company. He had also eaten better than most aboard.
#3 The...
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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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