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  Tales of Space and Time

  H. G. Wells

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  A collection of three short stories and two novellas written between 1897 and 1898. All the stories had first been published in various monthly periodicals and this was the first volume to collect these stories. It contains:
   
  
  
  "The Crystal Egg",
  "The Star",
  "A Story of the Stone Age",
  "A Story of the Days To Come",
  "The Man Who Could Work Miracles".

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  The Egg and I - Life on a...

  Betty MacDonald

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  "The Egg and I" took first America by storm in 1945, selling over 1,000,000 within ten months of it's original publication. Betty MacDonald's first book about her adventures as a young wife on a chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state was a breath of fresh air to a world that, in the wake of WWII, sorely needed it. Betty lived with her first husband near Chimacum, Washington - a newlywed doing her best to adjust to and help operate their small chicken farm, from 1927 to 1931. MacDonald was a keen observer of the people around her, and she calls a spade a spade, "and there were a plenty of spades." The Egg and I was adapted for stage, radio and screen, with the movie version starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. The movie version also introduced the world to Ma and Pa Kettle, the eccentric country bumpkins portrayed by the inimitable Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride, who were so popular that a string of spin-off movies was made about their adventures. Betty MacDonald wrote three other memoirs, as well as the still popular Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series for children, and is recognized by many as an important America humorist. In her MA thesis, The Egg and Us: Contextualization and Historicization (2014), Samantha Hoekstra writes:"Some scholars credit MacDonald with having inspired Shirley Jackson, Erma Bombeck, and other purveyors of domestic humor, but perhaps the most appropriate inheritor of the MacDonald tradition is the contemporary writer David Sedaris. ... One of the most significant similarities is that the lack of conventionality in both families is presented as normal and worthy of respect. Even as they make fun of their families’ foibles, the authors convey an undeniable warmth, affection, and acceptance. In a sense, they challenge the very notion of a ‘normal’ American family." This is why MacDonald's writing is still relevant and funny today.

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  Summary of Dark Money - The...

  Readtrepreneur Publishing

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  Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer Book Summary Readtrepreneur 
  (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original bookm but an unofficial summary.) 
  If you care about the future of American democracy, you must mark this book as "must read". Dark Money on top of its awesome title, offers an in-depth analysis of the current political/economic status of the United States of America. It mainly focuses on the economic inequality that has overwhelmed the country and the negligent decisions disregarding the environment's well-being. 
  (Note: This summary is wholly written and published by Readtrepreneur. It is not affiliated with the original author in any way) 
  "Without the rigorous peer-reviewed standards previewed by prestigious academic publications, the Olin Foundation was able to inject into the mainstream a number of works whose scholarship was debatable at best." — Jane Mayer 
  In Dark Money, Jane Mayer debunks a common belief about the reason behind the economic and political state of the country. With a large amount of evidence, she showed how a network of incredibly wealthy people played a big role on bending the American political system to their will. At the end of the book, you will learn a large array of things you thought you knew and learn so much about politics and economics along the way. 
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  Disclaimer Once Again: This book is meant for a great companionship of the original book or to simply get the gist of the original book.

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  Leadership in Turbulent Times

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

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  From a Pulitzer Prize–winning presidential historian, “Leadership should help us raise our expectations of our national leaders, our country and ourselves” (The Washington Post). 
   
  Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson—to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entries into public life, we encounter them at a time when their paths were filled with confusion, fear, and hope. 
   
  Leadership tells the story of how they all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to shatter forever their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged ready to confront the dilemmas of their times. At their best, all four were guided by a sense of moral purpose. At moments of great challenge, they were able to summon their talents to enlarge the opportunities and lives of others. Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader? 
   
  “Doris Kearns Goodwin leads the league of presidential historians” —USA Today 
   
  “Inspiring.” —Christian Science Monitor 
   
  “Insightful, readable, compelling.” —The Boston Globe. 
   
  “Written in the companionable prose that makes Goodwin’s books surefire best sellers.” —The New York Times Book Review 
   
  “A bravura performance.” —Washington Independent Review of Books 
   
  “If ever our nation needed a short course on presidential leadership, it is now.” —Seattle Times 
   
  “Doris Kearns Goodwin has prepared a marvelous banquet with four leaders whose lives provide lessons for all of us. Pull up a chair.” —Warren Buffett

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  Gangster's Paradise - The much...

  Jared Savage

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  The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand. 
    
  Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money. 
  A gang which took over a small rural town. A police officer shot and killed in a routine traffic stop. A port-worker who helped a gang whisk a shipping container off a wharf in the middle of the night. A crew of corrupt baggage handlers smuggling meth into the country during Covid lockdowns. A shooting inside a 5-star hotel in broad daylight. Turf wars, retaliation, and retribution: new gangs like the Mongols and Comancheros have brought with them better connections with international syndicates, challenging the established gangs like the Head Hunters - so dominant for many years - who have had to up their game in response.  
  Jared Savage's bestselling book Gangland was about the evolution of gangs in New Zealand. Gangster's Paradise is about the deadly escalation.   
  HarperCollins Australia 2023

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  Summary and Analysis of The Boys...

  Worth Books

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  So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Boys in the Boat tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Daniel James Brown’s book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.   This short summary and analysis of The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown includes:  Historical contextChapter-by-chapter summariesDetailed timeline of key eventsProfiles of the main charactersImportant quotesFascinating triviaGlossary of termsSupporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work  About The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown:   No one expected a ragtag crew team from the University of Washington to rise to the top of their sport—much less go to the Olympics in Germany. It was the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression and the dawn of the Nazi party’s ascendance to power, and the school had never been able to beat the Ivy League teams, but coach Al Ulbrickson had big ambitions—he just needed the right athletes.   Over the next few years, the boys of the UW rowing team endured grueling days of training and countless setbacks. In the end, it was their collective dedication that brought them to compete in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin—and beat the team rowing for Adolf Hitler.   A New York Times bestseller and the inspiration for the PBS documentary The Boys of ’36, Daniel James Brown’s The Boys in the Boat is a celebration of the human spirit and a compelling biography of a unique rowing team that brought home Olympic gold.   The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.

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