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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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#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 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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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 crew of the 220-ton brig Commerce set sail in 1815. They were headed first to New Orleans, and if the peace held, they would cross the Atlantic to Gibraltar and partway down the west coast of Africa to the Cape Verde Islands for salt to bring back to Connecticut.
#2 The Connecticut River, which flows through the center of the state, had been blocked by the British...
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Get the Summary of Ben Rhodes's After the Fall in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they had worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in America, Rhodes decided to look outward. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians,...
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#1 Charles Francis Hall, a solitary figure, had been pacing the corridors in the Capitol all day. He had been preparing for the Arctic for the past ten years, and he was about to leave for the Far North.
#2 Hall's energetic one-man campaign generated enough interest that he was invited to lecture in the nation's capital on his Arctic experiences. He did not tell the...
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Get the Summary of Amitav Ghosh's Smoke and Ashes in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Smoke and Ashes" by Amitav Ghosh explores the historical and cultural significance of the opium trade between India and China, and its global impact. Ghosh's interest in Chinese history was sparked while researching for his novel "Sea of Poppies," leading him to investigate the deep-rooted connections between India and China, particularly...
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Get the Summary of Rory Carroll's There Will Be Fire in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: There Will Be Fire is the gripping story of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Thatcher, in the most spectacular attack ever linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles. Journalist Rory Carroll reveals the long road to Brighton, the hide-and-seek between the IRA and British security services,...
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Get the Summary of Christopher R. Browning's Ordinary Men in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis...
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#1 Soleyman the First, Sultan of Turkey, was seventy years old in 1564. He had just taken the decision to attack the island of Malta in the spring of the following year. His had been a life of unparalleled distinction from the moment when he had succeeded his father, Selim, at the age of twenty-six.
#2 The Knights of Malta had been an irritation for the Sultan for a...
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#1 The development of civilizations was based on the progress in agriculture. When only part of the population was required to work in the fields to produce food, the rest could inhabit towns and palaces, performing a variety of specialty functions.
#2 The first civilizations were developed in areas where it was possible to practice intensive agriculture, which involved...
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Get the Summary of Mary Grabar's Debunking the 1619 Project in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: According the New York Times's "1619 Project," America was not founded in 1776, with a declaration of freedom and independence, but in 1619 with the introduction of African slavery into the New World. Ever since then, the "1619 Project" argues, American history has been one long sordid tale...
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#1 The train that transported the Orient Express passengers left from the Gare de l'Est just after 18:30 every Tuesday evening. The train's sixteen elegant wagon-lits were pulled by a steam-powered locomotive. The train's attitude of optimism was widespread in the early twentieth century.
#2 The Orient Express crossed the French frontier at Strasbourg, and passengers...
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#1 The heir to one of the richest aristocrats of the twentieth century, Billy de Meuron Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, was classically good-looking. He had a brilliant hunting and polo playing skills, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a MP for Wakefield from 1895 to 1912.
#2 The true identity of Billy Fitzwilliam is the first of the Wentworth mysteries....
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#1 The start of human history is 50,000 years ago, when behaviorally modern man had evolved into anatomically modern man. This is an eminently reasonable starting point, as humans at this time were still inept at hunting and unable to travel far. But around 50,000 years ago, humans began to develop a more advanced toolkit.
#2 Human coordination was achieved via language,...
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Get the Summary of Steve Jackson's Monster in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Monster" by Steve Jackson recounts the chilling tale of Cher Elder, a 20-year-old whose life was cut short by a brutal murder. Detective Scott Richardson, a dedicated Lakewood police officer, takes on the case, uncovering a web of lies spun by Cher's boyfriend, Byron Eerebout. Richardson's investigation leads him to Tom Luther, a suspect...
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#1 In Australia, the capital city, Sydney, was experiencing such bad air quality that just breathing the city's air for a day was the equivalent of smoking two packs of cigarettes. The Ryder Cup was set to be played in ten months in Wisconsin, but many American players saw the Presidents Cup as a tune-up for the big show.
#2 In the fall of 1999, a few thousand miles...
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Get the Summary of Mike Duncan's Hero of Two Worlds in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over 50 incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a soldier, statesman, idealist, philanthropist, and abolitionist.
As a teenager, Lafayette ran...