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Book Preview: #1 The two men were looking for a schooner that was small enough to be handled by four sailors, but strongly built as well. They wanted the ship to be cheap, since they had little funding for the ambitious venture they planned.
#2 The two men, François Raynal and Thomas Musgrave, were looking for a ship to take them on their adventure. They found the Grafton, a coal...
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Get the Summary of David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 1946, Günther Quandt-patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW-was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his archrival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him....
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Get the Summary of Michael Lewis's Flash Boys in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post—financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they...
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#1 The mood in the helicopter was upbeat, especially from Ronnie Means. He had taken a job building concrete silos before joining the Army, and he looked like he was giddy. I didn't hit it off with him until we spent five hours together on a bus.
#2 I had always known cold and snow in December, but here, the air was so thick and muggy that I struggled to take deep breaths....
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Get the Summary of Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over 15 years - a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population.
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#1 I had been working for Network Plus since May 1994. I didn't plan on that, but I had been living in northern New Jersey all my life, so I wanted to be closer to home. The company was expanding.
#2 I had reached my personal goal of becoming the sales manager of an office. That was big for me. I was disappointed to find out that Network Plus already had a sales manager...
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Imagine if you received personal letters from God? In VanWingerden's book, "Love Letters From God" is the experience that every modern Christian will need for their walk with God. These devotionals will help deepen your relationship with God and inspire to live your life to the testament of his love.
A collection of fictionalized letters based on the truths that we find in God's Word. Imagine if you received personal letters from God. This is one...
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#1 In 2001, the Taliban were still extremely fierce. They drove into the heart of the enemy camp, inside the high walls and inner courtyards of the Qala-i-Janghi, the House of War.
#2 I was among a group of Western journalists who jostled forward as the Taliban car door opened.
#3 In 2001, the Taliban had come close to achieving their goal of establishing...
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#1 Levon Brooks, a charming and optimistic man, had been working as a night guard at the Santa Barbara Club in Macon, Mississippi. The early '90s were the club's heyday. Old school blues musicians still played at the more established juke joints, but the Santa Barbara lacked authenticity.
#2 Brooksville, Mississippi, was a quiet old prairie town with old-fashioned homes...
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#1 The photos showed fields, forests, and winding country roads, and seemed innocuous. But they showed missile trailers, which could carry nuclear warheads, next to a launcher erector.
#2 The Cuban missile crisis began when Kennedy received an initial intelligence briefing. His national security adviser, McGeorge Bundy, knocked on the door of his bedroom, on the second...
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#1 The Romans were not the only ones to adopt a polytheistic religion. The Jews in the West and the Zoroastrians in the East rejected these ideas about the gods, and instead adopted a morally demanding monotheism.
#2 Despite worshiping many gods, societies were not religiously diverse. The primary mission of pagan temples was to ensure that the gods favored...
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#1 The Jefferson Market Garden in Greenwich Village was a prison for incarcerated women, which I visited as a child and now can't look at without hearing Jay Toole's voice describing the brutal physicals that doctors had inflicted upon her there.
#2 Prisons are not just places of violence and control, they're also places of queer history and community.
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#1 When Franklin Roosevelt was nominated for president in 1932, some doubted whether he had the strength to lead the country out of the worst economic depression in its history. But his physical courage buoyed his worried listeners, and he enjoyed himself on the campaign trail.
#2 Eleanor Roosevelt was not involved in the political discussions that took place around...
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Get the Summary of Tracy Kidder's Rough Sleepers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Tracy Kidder has been described by The Baltimore Sun as a "master of the nonfiction narrative." In Rough Sleepers, Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story of Dr. Jim O'Connell, a gifted man who invented ways to create a community of care for a city's unhoused population,...
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#1 New York was a city that had made up its mind that whatever existed was dispensable and replaceable, as long as some more profitable use could be found for it. The past was not New York's concern; its concern was the future, and Progress.
#2 While New York was building taller and taller buildings, it was also suffering from a poor self-image. The city lacked the exuberance...
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#1 Sydney Bowles was fourteen years old when she first set eyes on David Freeman Mitford. He was seventeen, classically handsome, and with luminous blue eyes. She felt all the natural frustration of a teenager wanting to look older to impress him, but she was miserably aware that her outfit labeled her a child.
#2 David Mitford, the second son of Lord and Lady Redesdale,...
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#1 The first thermonuclear bomb was tested on May 8, 1951. It was a small prototype device, known as George, that was exploded three months later. Then, on November 1, 1952, the first true thermonuclear test weapon, known as Mike, was detonated.
#2 The islands that would be used for the test were first spotted by an English seafarer named John Marshall in the eighteenth...
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Get the Summary of Spencer Ackerman's Reign of Terror in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Reign of Terror will show how these policies created a foundation for American authoritarianism and, though it is not a book about Donald Trump, it will provide a critical explanation of his rise to power and the sources of his political strength. It will show that Barack Obama squandered an opportunity...
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#1 On May 27, 1978, twenty-six-year-old Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle was brutally attacked and murdered in her home on South Lemacks Street in Walterboro, South Carolina. She had babysat for her friends the night before she was murdered, and her roommate and friend Billy O'Bryant rushed her to the police station. She had been severely beaten and possibly sexually assaulted.
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