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Book Preview: #1 The first time I was touched by war was when I was twelve years old. I left home with my brother and friend Talloi to go to the town of Mattru Jong to participate in a friends' talent show. We were introduced to rap music during one of our visits to Mobimbi, a quarter where the foreigners who worked for the same American company as my father lived.
#2 I had learned...
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#1 My father, Floyd Delafield Crosby, was the son of Frederick Van Schoonhoven Crosby and Julia Floyd Delafield. He was born in 1899 in New York City. He served with honor in the second of two world wars that occurred in his lifetime.
#2 Floyd was 42 when I was born. He had already lived through events like the deadly influenza epidemic of 1917. In the 1920s, he went...
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Get the Summary of Jonathan Blitzer's Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis" by Jonathan Blitzer provides a comprehensive examination of the complex relationship between the United States and Central America, focusing on the political, social, and humanitarian crises that have shaped the region...
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#1 The majority of people have regrets about their lives, not about what they've done with them. The sages said that when we die, we will be called to account for all the permissible pleasures in life we could have enjoyed but didn't.
#2 We are constantly waiting for something to happen in our lives. We are waiting for the right man or woman, for children to grow up,...
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Get the Summary of Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" is the culmination of Michelle McNamara's life's work of investigating the legend of the Golden State Killer. It's a journal, it's a true crime file, and it’s a tale too gruesome to be true. The man McNamara christens The Golden State Killer raped and/or killed...
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#1 The two sides of the tower visible from our position never changed their appearance: the front was a wide expanse of black and twisted window frames, the southern side a concrete Emmental of shellholes from tanks. The Serbs shot it to ribbons the next morning.
#2 I knew if I went to Bosnia, I would not have much money with me, so I asked the Serb restaurant...
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#1 Writing a book is not a democratic process, but it is not a solitary one either. It is the result of the combined efforts of many people, from my agent to the people I interviewed for the film.
#2 I owe a huge thank you to the Baffler, where I first tested out and published some of the material that made it into this book. I never doubt Riva Hocherman's judgment,...
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#1 Before you can have a steadfast faith for the healing of your body, you must be rid of all uncertainty concerning God's will in the matter. You can only have a steadfast faith if you know and act on God's Word.
#2 The Word of God is the seed that can heal. It is the Gospel, which is the power of God for salvation in all its phases, both physical and spiritual. The...
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#1 Incomes are getting lower every year. This will never stop, and relying on college, a job, promotions, security, and stability is a thing of the past. Meanwhile debt has gone straight up.
#2 The basic equation of all economics has been reversed. Supply is almost infinite, and demand has gone down. The rich are getting richer because of this.
#3 The rich get richer,...
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#1 I was born in 1945, after my mother had been divorced for her adultery. My sister, Sylvia, was born in 1947, and this event provided my mother with the grounds to finally divorce my father for his adultery.
#2 I grew up in a small town in Scotland, surrounded by cold and hostility. I was raised by my mother, grandmother, and aunt, who were all very religious. I was...
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#1 I had received an email from Huby asking me to meet him in Paris on a life and death matter. He had never exhibited any melodramatic tendencies, so I was both worried and intrigued. I decided to enjoy the dinner while it lasted.
#2 I had never told Huby about my work with a European foundation and select individuals in Syria, code-named Project Bistar, toward a negotiated...
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#1 The FBI lost two of its sources inside the Soviet embassy in Washington, DC, in 1986. The year was 1986. The FBI quickly created a six-person team to try to determine what had gone wrong. Meanwhile, the CIA was losing dozens of agents inside the Soviet Union.
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#1 The impact of the figure of Jesus has gone far beyond explicit or exclusive portrayal of Jesus the Lord or Savior. In art, he may stand for universal humanity, while in literature, there are countless Christ figures with enough family resemblance to be recognized as such.
#2 There are a wide variety of images of Jesus, and they all reflect the relevance that he was...
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#1 New York in 1999 can't offer the gift of loneliness and privacy, the way it did in the book. It's hard to feel private in the surging daily crowds at the Metropolitan Museum of Art or lonely on a side street packed with gridlocked traffic.
#2 The loss of the sense of separation and connection that New Yorkers once felt with their resident celebrities is a major loss....
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#1 I had to call the police to report a homicide. The body was at least 30 feet high, and I couldn't imagine how anyone could have arranged it. The corpse was weighed down by a large log, which must have gone deep into the ground because the man was 225 pounds.
#2 I had a feeling that the authorities were dealing with something strange, so I didn't report anything to...
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#1 I had no desire to write a novel for the past five years, but out in the desert, between the notes calls and the fear tamped down by Xanax and tequila, the first paragraph of a novel began to take shape. It centered around the bone-white Emser Tile sign situated on a rooftop at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Holloway Drive.
#2 I've gone five or seven...
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Get the Summary of Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, teamed up to write this most convincing and readable guide, which illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith's capitalism and the free society. They show how freedom has been eroded and prosperity undermined through the rapid growth of governmental...
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#1 Christmas wreaths are hung up in Arlington. But it will be a difficult Christmas for Frank. His brother-in-law, Harry Gray, worked at Olmsted-Flint, and last summer he made a model of a boat for his young son.
#2 Harry's father died in December of heart failure. His family was able to put aside a little money, but not much, and after that was gone, they were on their...
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Get the Summary of Corey Mintz's The Next Supper in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In the years before the pandemic, the restaurant business was booming. Americans spent more than half of their annual food budgets dining out. In a generation, chefs had gone from behind-the-scenes laborers to TV stars. The arrival of Uber Eats, DoorDash, and other meal delivery apps was overtaking home...
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