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This audio study guide for A Separate Peace by John Knowles includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as competition, rivalry, and the loss of innocence. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the failure of democracy, the rise of tyranny, and the anti-democratic practices of an American president. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Son of the Revolution by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as how political upheaval destroys families and the danger of blind obedience. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business by Harold Livesay includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the old world versus the new and ethical dilemmas in 19th-century capitalism. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

When Harold becomes the guardian of a beautiful, handcrafted kaleidoscope with mysterious powers, his world spins from black-and-white boring into technicolor chaos. Along with Pepper, their journey becomes a life-threatening race to save the 'scope from falling into the wrong hands.

In the Post-Break World of superpowers, every town has a story, and Mobile, Alabama, is no exception. In Mobile, the waters have finally receded, but the streets run red with blood. For the past few years, the city's been the domain of the Melendez brothers: crime lords, murderers, and would-be kings. Charity is forgotten. Compassion is a lie. Weakness is death. Until the day an electric motorcycle rolls into town carrying a lone rider in black. They call her the Queen of Smiles, and she has a job to do.

This book examines the history of poor decision making by NBA general managers. It analyzes the NBA Draft over the last 20 years with some interesting findings and takeaways for improving the player evaluation process. The Rock Star GM label was meant for a guy like Daryl Morey, and the book examines his transacting style as a general manager for the Houston Rockets. It delves deeply into his draft record, trades and free agent signings to evaluate him as a general manager from a methodology and strategy standpoint.

Jack in the Box is the tale of a boy growing up in the American comic book culture of the 1940s and 1950s. Jack in the Box was the original title. It was reissued as Book of Love to coincide with the movie.

Brightness Falls isn't just the name of the TV show that womanizing man-child Andrew Ware has been painstakingly creating for the last couple years, it's also his hometown. A town that he loves as much as he hates. By request of no one, Andrew returns home to help his sister separate from her husband, only to become sidetracked by a beautiful woman. A few drinks and few compliments later the woman is dead, killed in a tragic oral sex accident. In which Andrew would have lost his own life if it weren’t for the dapperly dressed, antler-headed, human skeleton named Doug.

There is a ghost penis monster and a giant hell spider in this book - you've been warned! In 1982, Moe killed a man while defending his son. The next day the man came back. In 1982, Moe went missing. The man continued to come back. In 2014, events are repeating themselves. In a race against time, reason and more time, Shane has to unwind mysteries of the past in order to save his friend Jason who has gone missing. Ugh...that sounds heavy. While all the above is true, this book also has a ghost dick monster.