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13+ # 2026
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15+ ** To a Different Drum: an autobiography - Pauline Hamilton (1984)**
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17+ You can find it at the Internet Archive. I read it for a bookclub.
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19+ Easy reading. Goes through her life, from around 1939 to 1980, from a compelling opening story
20+ of attempting to commit suicide but, when thwarted 'by chance', eventually giving
21+ her life to God to serve as a missionary in China. Convicting dedication to prayer over
22+ a tough life of personal hardship. Inspiring, but I've been reading some amazing
23+ stories since joining this group (we do biographies of Christians) so this sits middle of
24+ the pack.
25+
26+ ** Apple in China - Patrick McGee (2025)**
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28+ Long. I did not make it to the end of this one, but list it anyways as it was very detailed
29+ and reveals a lot about Apple and China and how both have been able to expand into the
30+ powerhouses they are today. I never realized Tim Cook came along relatively early in the story.
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32+ # 2025
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34+ ** The Shortest History of AI - Toby Walsh (2025)**
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36+ Another insightful and easy-to-read book providing a solid background on how AI has
37+ evolved and how it works. Not prohitively technical; most people could read and understand it.
38+ Good.
39+
40+ ** The Trading Game - Gary Stevenson (2024)**
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42+ Great read about an Englishman from a poor upbringing landing a trading role at a massive
43+ investment bank. Extremely insightful into what goes on in those buildings. He becomes
44+ massively disillusioned about the whole scene and, I believe, now tours the world (on the
45+ money he made there) promoting governments to tax the extremely weathly 1% as much as
46+ possible.
47+
48+ ** Red Notice - Bill Browder (2015)**
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50+ Awesome read about an american financier who invested in businesses in Russia after
51+ the Soviet Union collapsed. Expanded my history and understanding how that all happened
52+ and what it meant on the ground. The corruption described is astonishing and is highly
53+ informative of what we see there today.
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1355# 2021
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1557** Funeral Rights - Robert Larkins**
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