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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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#1 The Memphis orphanage I visited was very different from the one in Georgia's story. It was long gone, replaced by a rectangular structure housing the offices of the Baptist Brotherhood.
#2 It was difficult for adoptive parents to admit involvement with a criminal, and few did. Many claimed they were unaware of the desperate, futile habeas corpus suits that were reported...
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#1 I was able to find shards of porcelain in the dirt near the farmer's house. They were the base of a twelfth-century wine cup, a fine tapering stem holding a jagged bowl, a thumb's breadth across. It was impossibly thin.
#2 The kilns were long gone, but the bricks were used for a shed or pigsty, and the slopes were useful for building into. The bamboo and these long...
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#1 After the disappointing conclusion to the 1995—96 NBA season, Jerry West knew things needed to change. The executive vice president of the Los Angeles Lakers liked his coach, the steady if unspectacular Del Harris, and believed the front office personnel were skilled, wise basketball men capable of rebuilding a dynastic brand. But he saw problems with the roster.
#2 In 1996,...
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Get the Summary of Amor Towles' The Lincoln Highway in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention...
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Get the Summary of Hayden Crabtree's Skip the Flip in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: This useful and informative guide will break down all the barriers you have to get started investing in real estate. Skip The Flip teaches you the fundamentals you have to know to be a successful investor.
The system is broken. What was once great advice of going to school, getting good grades, saving...