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#1 There were many different groups and individuals involved in the planning and execution of Operation Anaconda, from the American generals to the Afghan soldiers who fought on the Americans' side.
#2 The author would like to thank Captain Nathan Self, the commander of A Company, 1st Ranger Battalion, for his time and assistance.
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#1 On the evening of March 31, 1988, Carol Montecalvo reached into her dresser drawer for a pair of lightweight blue shorts, folded them neatly in half, and placed them inside her brown vinyl suitcase. She and her husband, Dan, were going on a trip to Hawaii.
#2 Carol, the winner of the company award, was planning the vacation with her husband. She believed that the...
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#1 On June 4, 1942, Wade McClusky was flying at 19,000ft in a Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless dive-bomber at the head of two squadrons of USS Enterprise dive-bombers, Scouting Six and Bombing Six. He was tasked with attacking the Japanese carrier striking force, Kido Butai.
#2 McClusky's sixth sense told him that the Japanese were not going too fast, but too slow. They must...
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Book Preview: #1 Jim Williams, a billionaire, lived in a mansion in Savannah, Georgia. He was not trying to fool anyone by living the way he did. He was showing visitors through the house, and one man took him aside and told him that his money was old.
#2 Jim Williams was a successful dealer in antiques and a restorer of old houses. He had been president of the Telfair Academy, the...
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Book Preview: #1 When I was 11, I learned that my grandfather had leukemia. I felt a deep sense of guilt because I knew he was going to die, and yet I had demanded to see him. I understood why I had been in such a panic to see him.
#2 I had a dream one week after my grandfather passed away. In the dream, I was an actress living in Australia. I felt beautiful, and suddenly felt...
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Book Preview: #1 I was in the Southern Inyo Hospital in Lone Pine, California, after surviving five days in the mountains. I had surgery to remove the blood clots, necrotic tissue, and bone fragments in my left buttock. It took several weeks to drain the fluids from my wound.
#2 I was with a handful of students on a warm autumn day in 1979 when I met Ken, who was on a trip to Jacumba...
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Book Preview: #1 The word ordinary never left my mind, because I realized that there was no forgetting it: the word was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event. I knew that the story had come from me because no version I heard included the details I couldn't yet face.
#2 I am a writer, and I have a sense that meaning is resident in the rhythms of words and sentences....
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Get the Summary of Frank McCourt's Teacher Man in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Teacher Man" recounts Frank McCourt's thirty-year teaching career in New York City high schools, beginning with his first job at McKee Vocational and Technical High School on Staten Island in 1958. McCourt, an Irish immigrant, faced challenges such as scarce resources, budget constraints, and the need to assert authority in the classroom....
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#1 In 1967, a Marine sniper named Carlos Norman Hathcock II took aim from a hill in Vietnam and shot a boy who was transporting weapons for the Viet Cong. He never wanted to kill children, but he knew that children in war grow up quickly, and Marines die as fast from bullets fired by twelve-year-old boys as they do from bullets fired by men.
#2 The American forces in...
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#1 I was seven years old when my sister told me she would give me five dollars to run upstairs and take a picture of my parents having sex. I had no idea what sex was, but I did know that I needed to step up my wardrobe to be taken seriously in first grade.
#2 I was the oldest child, and when I got home from school, I was greeted by my sister and father. My sister and...
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Get the Summary of Casey Maxwell Clair's An Only Child and Her Sister in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Casey Maxwell Clair's memoir, "An Only Child and Her Sister," recounts her turbulent upbringing and the complex dynamics within her family. Clair's early life was marked by her mother Eve's neglect and her father Eddie's favoritism, which led to a strained relationship with her sister Christine. At thirteen,...
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Book Preview: #1 I remember being fascinated with sex and romance from a young age, and I was constantly warned by my teachers and parents that if I showed too much interest in those things, boys would think I was easy, and girls would call me names.
#2 I was eventually caught kissing one of the boys, and my mother made me stop. Boys were quiet when you kissed them. They did not tease...
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#1 The sun broke over the gypsy wagon, as if it came from inside it, and Scabie Hans came out with bare chest and a wash basin in his hands. When he had poured the water over himself, he put out his hand for a towel and Pretty Lili gave it to him. They didn't say a word to each other.
#2 When my mother was dressed, she would stand in front of the mirror in the bedroom...
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Book Preview: #1 I was very fortunate in life, and as I lay in bed late at night, I was surrounded by beautiful things. But I was also very poor, and poverty didn't preclude gorgeous beaches and a climate like heaven.
#2 I grew up on Cat Island, and I was free to explore and play anywhere I wanted. I knew from observation that the sapodilla tree produced fruit, plump, grayish brown,...
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#1 I have married twice, and my sister three times. None of us set out for this. We meant to stick our landing on the first try, but we stumbled. My parents divorced when I was five, and my mother married Darrell when I was twenty-seven.
#2 The Three Fathers died in the order in which my mother had married them, and they died in the inverse order of their health. My father went first, even though he had made a religion of the elliptical trainer,...
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Book Preview: #1 Dorothy Kilgallen was a reporter who died in 1965. She was known for her sharp wit and bold personality. She was precocious, and she had an interest in the creative world from a young age.
#2 Kilgallen's father encouraged her to write letters to the newspaper editor, which she did regularly. She became associate editor of The Erasmian, her school's literary magazine,...
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#1 Joseph Banks, official botanist to HM Bark Endeavour, first clapped eyes on the island of Tahiti, 17 degrees South, 149 degrees West. He had been told that this was the location of Paradise: a wonderful idea, although he did not quite believe it.
#2 When the British landed on King George the Third's Island, they were met by some hundreds of the inhabitants, who gave...
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#1 The Yoders had a son, Adam, who was the practice's full-time office manager. He had a white towel slung over his shoulder as he made his way into the kitchen to rehydrate. His parents had gotten to know his girlfriend, Katie, fairly well as she immersed herself in the daily business of the practice.
#2 The Yoders began to divide their workweek between Mary and Bill,...
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Book Preview: #1 I was 14 when my stepfather died. I dropped out of high school after that and spent the year going to movies with my friends. I was into the movies, and I snacked on purses and shoplifted.
#2 My mother, who was divorced from my father, was very odd. She would ride her bicycle around our neighborhood, ignoring the stares of passersby. She was completely nonchalant...
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Book Preview: #1 I am shy. I've never asked a question in a large lecture hall. I've always rolled my shopping cart back to its place of origin if there's no more half-and-half on the counter at the coffee shop.
#2 I went to Stanford with my parents. I was dropped off near the Stanford bookstore, where on rainy days my mom had brought me for hot cocoa and madeleines. I drank whiskey...
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