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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Alice Walker. Titles in this study guide include The Color Purple, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, The Third Life of Grange, Revolutionary Petunias, Once, Meridian, and In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women, Good Night Willie Lee, and I'll See You in the Morning.
As a world renowned, author of African American literature, Walker established...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Robin Sharma's The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari and NOT the original book. Preview: In The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny (1997), life improvement and leadership expert Robin Sharma uses a fable to make the case that the world needs mental and spiritual transformation. Sharma explains through his story's protagonists, John and Julian, that this transformation...
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Sold on a Monday: A Novel by Kristina McMorris Conversation Starters
In 1931, a mother wrote the sign: Children for Sale on their farmhouse porch. It is her last resort. During this time, this sign could be found anywhere. There were endless bank runs, breadlines, and broken dreams. The sign meant that the mother faced impossible choices between her children and their welfare. Ellis Reed was a struggling reporter during this time. When she saw this...
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The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy by Jean Kennedy Smith: Conversation Starters
The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy" is a memoir by ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the eighth of the nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald. In her book, she looks back at a time long ago when she and her siblings (including future President John F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy...
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Its amazing the fun you can have with children with a little planning, some materials from the dollar store, and a healthy dose of imagination.
No School? Enjoy a Fun "Theme" Day gives you help with all three. You’ll find more, than two dozen themes that elementary-aged children would enjoy. The best part is that they (and you) will also, have fun enjoying the themes, which include lunch ideas, physical activity, snacks, games, and more.
For instance,...
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Thomas Hardy
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provide: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis
*Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
*A review quiz and essay topics
Lively and accessible, these guides...
68) Summary of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean: Conversation Starters
James McGill Buchanan was an economics professor at George Mason University who died in 2013. He was a Nobel Prize winner whose political ideas could very well be the primary cause behind the political divisiveness that the United States is going through. His teachings directed America's billionaires to adopt an agenda that...
69) Summary of Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking
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Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits by Reese Witherspoon: Conversation Starters
Academy Award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon publishes her first book Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits. She invites you into her world in a southern style. She infuses the style she grew up with into her parties and traditions. She loves all...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Othello, the inspiration behind many operas, films, and literary adaptations.
As a tragedy of the seventeenth century, Othello's performance continues today due to the timeless themes of racism, love, jealousy, betrayal, revenge and repentance. Moreover, Shakespeare was, inspired by English, French, and Italian works, but Othello was primarily,...
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Heads You Win: A Novel by Jeffrey Archer: Conversation Starters
Alexander Karpenko's father is assassinated. He and his mother Elena have to flee Russia and they find themselves at the dock, with two cargo ships in front of them, one leaving for New York and the other is heading to London. Mother and son decide to toss a coin and let fate decide which ship to take. Living parallel lives, Alex and Sasha reestablish themselves in a new country. But...
72) Summary of The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermin
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The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture by Heather Mac Donald: Conversation Starters
American universities are in crisis for undermining humanistic values that further cause divisions among its citizens. The ideologies against racism and sexism are promoted on college campuses as professors overlook Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, and American history in favor of identity politics and ideology....
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How Bernie Won: Inside the Revolution, That's Taking Back Our Country-and Where We Go from Here by Jeff Weaver: Conversation Starters
Bernie Sanders overcame big challenges and earned the respect and admiration of many when he ran the presidential race. He won the race. He ignited a movement that inspired millions of Americans. His presidential campaign manager explains how the 2016 race showed the conflict that was happening within the Democratic...
74) Summary of Drive
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink Conversation Starters
The common belief that most people have is that the best motivation for anyone is the carrot-and-stick approach of offering rewards like money. The bestselling author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others Daniel H. Pink says that this is a big mistake. In his bestselling book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,...
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The Sun Also Rises (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Ernest Hemingway
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.
Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:
*Chapter-by-chapter analysis
*Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
*A review quiz and essay topics
Lively and accessible, these guides are perfect...
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Smile by Raina Telgemeir Digest & Review. Raina Telgemeier is the author of the #1 New York Times Best Seller "Smile". Her striking memoir "Smile" started as an episodic internet comic and is now available from GRAPHIX imprint by Scholastic. The book is the factual story of Riana's own persistent dental work, but it rapidly develops in to something more than that. Though, certainly not being just a simile for difficult teenage years, Riana conveys...
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle: Conversation Starters
Knopf publishing house releases the last book of the late veteran author Peter Mayle entitled My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now. Mayle is known for his books on his life in Provence. This book is the final volume that offers his memories of the life he lived in the South of France for the past twenty-five years. He and his...
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Nervous Conditions (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:
*Chapter-by-chapter analysis
*Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
*A review quiz and essay topics.
Lively and accessible, these guides are perfect...
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber: Conversation Starters
Bullshit jobs are spiritually and morally corrosive and make people extremely unhappy. If people are denied meaningful jobs that enable them to somehow contribute something to the world, they become mad or deeply miserable. They hold jobs that have no real usefulness except to justify careers. These jobs won't be missed if they suddenly disappear in the workplace. How do you deal with...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Gustave Flaubert, the prime influencer of French realist literature.
As a leading exponent of literary realism, Flaubert's work, illustrates elaborate devotion to style and aesthetics. Moreover, he emphasizes the psychology of his characters and their role in the logical development of his works, which marked the beginning of a new age in French...
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