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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 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 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 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 The Pattle family was torn apart when World War I broke out. Jack Pattle, who was a military magistrate in South Africa, went off to fight against the Kaiser's troops in South West Africa. It was four long years before he was able to see his children again.
#2 The brothers were sent to the local school in Keetmanshoop, and for the first time in their lives, they were...
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#1 The German battlecruiser Scharnhorst was sunk in the last action of its life, by a group of British ships led by Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser. The German admirals were easily depressed, as they were constantly being urged onwards to victory for Fuhrer and Fatherland, while at the same time being cautioned against taking any risks with their ships.
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#1 The fleet that sailed to Constantinople in 1203 was the largest ever assembled. It consisted of over 450 warships, merchant ships and transports. The backbone of the fleet was 50 galleys, while behind them came hundreds of transports and merchant ships.
#2 The Fourth Crusade was a papal attempt to escape the lay motive, and attempt to establish the old direction of...
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#1 I was a precocious snoop. I lived in Kigali, Rwanda, and was a regular child. I was nicknamed Cassette. I repeated everything I saw or heard, including that my sister Claire, who was nine years older than me, wore shorts under her skirt and played soccer instead of doing family errands after school.
#2 I wanted to be fed ice cream and pineapple cakes. I wanted to...
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Book Preview: #1 In the early twentieth century, the United States had around 5,000 vaudeville theaters. They were controlled by a small group of moguls who were extremely wealthy and sought only to maximize profit. They intimidated their competitors into submission.
#2 The Orpheum circuit had been Keith-Albee's largest competitor, with theaters in Calgary, Champaign, Davenport, Decatur,...
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Get the Summary of Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta's Nightmare Scenario in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Since the day Donald Trump was elected, his critics warned that an unexpected crisis would test the former reality-television host-and they predicted that the president would prove unable to meet the moment. In 2020, that crisis came to pass, with the outcomes more devastating...
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#1 The first Europeans to go south of the equator expected to find a sort of looking-glass world, backward but recognizable, like people who resembled them but walked on their hands. However, they were met with a different heavens and a different air.
#2 I arrived in Paihia, the jewel of the Bay of Islands, and got off the bus. I stood on the pier and stared out at the...
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#1 I wrote a letter to the FBI explaining how I wanted to help them keep my father locked up forever so that he could get the psychological help he needed. I was not looking to break up the mob. I just wanted to help the FBI keep my father locked up.
#2 I had to decide between doing nothing and cooperating with the Feds. I knew that if I did nothing, my father and I...
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#1 I had come to Portsmouth that morning from San Diego, where I had been advanced in rank to radioman, first class. I had put in for the Seawolf when I learned she was being built, and they had told me that if I was selected, I'd sail under Lieutenant Commander Frederick Warder.
#2 I was transferred to the Wolf, and I was to be her radio and sound man. I was to learn...
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#1 The Egyptian Nile is born of the confluence of two great rivers, the Blue Nile which rises in the highlands of Ethiopia, and the White Nile which is fed by Lake Victoria. It flows northwards for a thousand miles until it reaches the sea.
#2 The Nile has always been a source of wonder for Egyptians. They have always been aware of their unique environment, and have...
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Get the Summary of Eric Fisher's Mighty Storms of New England in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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The New England landscape has long been battered by some of the most intense weather in the United States. The region breeds one of the highest concentrations of meteorologists in the country for a reason. One can experience just about anything except a dust storm. Snowstorms, floods, droughts,...
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#1 I was reading about Africa's history when I came across the Congo, and what I read shocked me. I had always thought of Africa as a continent with a lot of different countries, but I realized that they all share the same problems: stasis, or stagnation.
#2 The Congo was the site of the world's bloodiest war in the 21st century, but the loss of life there hardly made...
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#1 The American submarine commander, Captain Roy Hunter, heard the sibilant beat of ships' screws and saw the masts of hull-down Soviet warships through the raised periscope. ESM intercepts of radar and radio transmissions had confirmed the presence of several ships and ASW helicopters.
#2 In the spy game, there were rules that were violated if you painted another submarine...
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#1 The Tsuchimikado mansion is beautiful in autumn. The voices of the priests who are reciting sūtras all night long are more impressive as they continue throughout the night. The moon has clouded over, darkening the shadows under the trees.
#2 The blending of the incense balls was finished on the twenty-sixth of the ninth month. Her Majesty distributed them to her...
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