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Get the Summary of Barbara Kingsolver's Small Wonder in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Small Wonder" by Barbara Kingsolver is a collection of essays that delve into the author's reflections on humanity, nature, and the political landscape of the early 2000s. Kingsolver shares a miraculous story of a child saved by a bear, contrasting human violence with an act of cross-species compassion. She explores themes of...
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Get the Summary of Pattie Boyd's Wonderful Tonight in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Pattie Boyd's memoir "Wonderful Tonight" recounts her life from a tumultuous childhood to her marriages with George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Born during World War II, Boyd's early years were marked by her parents' strained marriage and her stepfather's strict discipline. Her modeling career took off in the swinging London of...
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#1 Fireflies are a great example of how species can be affected by human activity. They don't glow in sync all night long anymore, and they are still out there, but they fly or rest on grass blades in visual silence.
#2 I will always search for fireflies, even though they are becoming harder to find. They blink on and off, a lime glow in the summer night air, as if to...
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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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Get the Summary of Bruce McCandless III's Wonders All Around in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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It's one of the most powerful and popular images in the history of space exploration: an astronaut in a snow-white spacesuit, untethered and floating alone in an expanse of blue. Bruce McCandless II is the man in that spacesuit, and Wonders All Around: The Incredible True Story of Astronaut...
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#1 The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is going to feature a lot over the next twelve months. He is the most important figure in classical music, and his influence is felt in music today as it ever was.
#2 The two-minute piece called Polonaise Brillante is a study written by Frédéric Chopin for his piano students. It is a melodic and harmonic exploration of the possibilities of the...
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Book Preview: #1 I was in London with the other airmen, doing PT, when we were told to run around the park. I was shocked at how quickly I was getting tired. It was not far now, the corporal said, but it felt like it.
#2 I was billeted in a block of flats in St. John's Wood. I was used to syringes, but the sight of them was too much for many of my friends. We ate in the London Zoo...
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Book Preview: #1 My roots are in Brittany, the tip of France. I grew up hearing my ancestors speak Breton, a Celtic language that is difficult to understand today. I always sensed that I was a daughter of a rugged, cragged land and the mysterious ocean.
#2 My mother, Anne Le Théo, was the only daughter in her family. She was bright and successful in her studies, and she grew up into...
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