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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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#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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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 end of March 2002 will be etched in my memory forever. I was out riding with the Queen when she suddenly asked me if I would live in suburbia. I accepted the house in the Great Park at Windsor, near Royal Lodge, the weekend retreat of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
#2 I had been a Woman of the Bedchamber to my aunt since 1991, and in her final weeks I went...
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#1 The family had moved to Bamberg eight months earlier, and Frantz had already accompanied his father to several executions in the city and nearby villages. He was testing his son on the most difficult and honorable form of execution, death by the sword.
#2 The local dog slayer, or knacker, had assembled a few stray canines and brought them in his ramshackle wooden...
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#1 In 1807, merchant James DeWolf looked out his window and saw ships loading and unloading their cargos. He was one of the wealthiest and most influential people in Bristol, Rhode Island.
#2 The Triangle Trade was the slave-based commerce between North America and western Africa that flourished from the early 1700s to the early 1800s. It was largely funded by New Englanders,...
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#1 My family has its origins in the Netherlands. My grandfather, William H. Vanderbilt, had an unmerited reputation for indifference to the welfare of others. However, according to a friend of the family, Mr. Vanderbilt said, the public be damned.
#2 My grandmother, Maria Louisa Kissam, was the daughter of a clergyman of the Dutch Reformed Church. She had eight children,...
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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 Princess May of Teck was considered as a suitable bride for Prince Eddy, who was the second heir to the British throne. She was eventually chosen to be the Queen Consort of England.
#2 The young woman was chosen to be the Queen Consort of England. She was the daughter of a morganatic marriage, and her father was penniless. Before their marriage, the Duke of Teck...
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#1 I was the Emperor apparent of the Ch'ing Dynasty. I refused an imperial summons from the Forbidden City delivered by the Grand Councillor. My family was humiliated by my refusal to obey the imperial edict. However, I was told several years later that it was agreed to waive all protocol and allow my wet nurse to carry me to the palace.
#2 The first year of my reign...
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#1 The unholy alliance between the United States and Nazis began in 1945 with the meeting between Allen Welsh Dulles, the top American spy in Switzerland, and Nazi general Karl Wolff. They spoke in German, and Dulles hoped to use Wolff's soldiers to fight the Russians once Germany had surrendered.
#2 Allen Dulles, the head of all American spy agencies in Europe, was...
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#1 I must tell my son why I can't simply say, I didn't abandon you. I must explain to him why I can't find the words. I must tell him my story.
#2 My father, Park Seong-il, was a tractor-excavator operator. My mother, Ro Eun-sook, had worked in the same factory as him, but after they married she chose to become an ajumma, or housewife. My father had spotted her early...
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#1 Mengele was a doctor who was assigned to the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was near the center of a brave new world, and as the camp began to dismantle, he was moved to the margins. He became both the personification of the Holocaust and its most notorious author.
#2 I was assigned to the international investigation to locate Mengele and bring him before a court...
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#1 I had taken two trips to Russia, traveled 15,000 miles, and left my infant son and his mother to be here. I was extremely eager to find the location of the tent where nine hikers died in 1959.
#2 The Dyatlov hiking group tragedy is still unexplained after more than 50 years. The group died from an unknown compelling force, and their bodies were found half-dressed in subzero temperatures.
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#1 I wake up around ten, make two cups of tea, and take them into the bedroom. I place one on each side of the bed. I sip thoughtfully, and in three easy stages, within fifteen, twenty minutes of waking, I am on my way.
#2 I have read books written by people who obviously love football, but that's a different thing entirely. This is for the rest of us, and for anyone...
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