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A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas: Conversation Starters
This 2018, Sarah J. Maas releases A Court of Frost and Starlight, a companion tale to the New York Times bestselling series A Court of Thorns and Roses. Set several months after the conclusion of A Court of Wings and Ruin, Feyre, Rhys and their companions are rebuilding Velaris and the Night Court. Winter Solstice is coming. It is Feyre's first as High Lady. In spite of the festive...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper's Wife and NOT the original book. Preview: The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (2007) by Diane Ackerman is the strange but true tale of a couple who took advantage of their unique situation living in a bombed-out zoo to hide some 300 Jews from the Nazis who terrorized Warsaw during World War II. As active members of the resistance, Jan and Antonina Zabinski used the abandoned zoo grounds...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Homer's The Odyssey, possibly the most famous epic poems in history.
As an epic poem of ancient Greece, it is the second oldest surviving work in Western literature. Moreover, this work has achieved a title as a Western classic. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Homer's classic work, helping students to thoroughly, explore the reasons...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust, one of West's great novels that comments on the social and cultural properties of American life.
As a novel of the post-Great Depression era, The Day of the Locust depicts the failure of one popular conception of the "American Dream." Moreover, West's novels highlight and intensify aspects of American life to show what it...
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10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse by JJ Smith Digest & Review. Are you tired of looking bulky all the time? Are you getting frustrated by useless dieting routines and not seeing any positive weight-loss results? Do you feel tired most of the time? Well then, get ready to look slimmer, and sexier, and to feel healthier by following J.J. Smith's The New York Times bestselling 10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse. It will jump-start your weight loss, increase your...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by notable Italian poet Niccolò Machiavelli. Titles in this study guide include The Prince, Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius, Mandragola, The History of Florence, and The Art of War.
As a poet of the Renaissance, Machiavelli is known for critiquing and discussing philosophy and human behavior. Moreover, his controversial political...
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Discover rare and interesting facts about The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker! The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philip Sendker is an inspiring love story that takes place in Burma. After her father's unexplained disappearance, Julia finds a love letter that he wrote to a Burmese woman a long time ago. Looking for answers, she heads to a village in Burma to find this mysterious woman from her father's past. On her journey, Julia...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, considered a literary classic due to the novel's religious themes contradicting the religious ideas of the time period.
As an early nineteenth century play, Major Barbara provides political commentary on the matter of whether it is morally right or wrong to obtain something that is used for a good cause from death and destruction....
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Discover rare and interesting facts about Making the Case by Kimberly Guilfoyle! At the age of eleven, Kimberly Guilfoyle's mother passed away from leukemia. With the support of her dad, she strove to become a self-empowered woman. While growing up, she was trained by her dad on how to make a solid case for things she wanted to achieve, which honed her into the fearless, self-empowered woman that she is today. Making the Case combines life and career...
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When the Legends Die (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Hal Borland
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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 topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for the best-known English Romantic poets, including William Blake, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and John Keats. As defenders of imagination and spirituality, these celebrated poets are recognized for their collective protest against the principles of the English Neoclassical period.
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, the poetic drama that establishes Goethe as a renowned Romantic author.
As a play written in poetic verse of the Romantic era, Faust is a universally meaningful story of man's attempts to gain knowledge, wisdom perfection, and of the eternal frustration of this striving. Moreover, the character of Dr. Faust has inspired literature...
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Go Set a Watchman: A Novel by Harper Lee: Conversation Starters
Go Set a Watchman is a novel that discusses race in the American context. A grown-up Scout (Jean Louise) returns to her hometown in Alabama and confronts a growing unease about how it has irretrievably changed over the years. A partially disabled father, whom she adored, turns out to be handicapped in more ways than one. When Jean Louise has to confront the fact that all the people she...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the bestselling of Twain's work.
As a novel written in 1876, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer follows the antics of a young boy during his childhood on the Mississippi River. Moreover, Twain examines the carefree spirit of children, manipulation, and race in this lighthearted novel, through the use of imagery and symbolism. This...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by J.K. Rowling
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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
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to David Schwartz's The Magic of Thinking Big and NOT the original book. Preview: In The Magic of Thinking Big (1959), professor and leadership expert Dr. David Schwartz argues that the 'size' of people's thoughts determines their success in life. Big thinking is categorized as positive and progressive and small thinking as negative and regressive... Inside this companion to the book: • Overview of the Book • Insights...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime, published the year the Vietnam War came to a close in 1975.
As a work of historical fiction, Ragtime uses a turn-of-the-century America as a pedestal to showcase issues such as freedom, identity, and justice. Moreover, Doctorow was one of the first to use magic realism to discuss and dissect the nature of change. This Bright Notes Study...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Burdick and Lederer's The Ugly American, with commentary on Nationalism, Communism, foreign policy, and diplomacy across America, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
As a classic account and document of America's role in French Colonialism, The Ugly American was frequently referenced by Presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in their conversations on foreign policy,...
99) Summary of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order: Conversation Starters
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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee: Conversation Starters
Artificial intelligence will pose challenges to nations, including loss of jobs and loss of self-worth as a result of people being replaced by machines in the workplace. Kai-Fu Lee gives a vision of a world filled with smart machines. Global inequality will be exacerbated as technological power will be confined to the two superpowers, the United States...
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Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen: Conversation Starters
Why Liberalism Failed is the latest political philosophy book by Patrick Deneen. Throughout the twentieth century, there were only three, main political ideologies. These ideologies were liberalism, communism, and fascism. Of those three, Deneen writes that only liberalism is left standing. In the opinion of Deneen, people have started to forget that liberalism is only an ideology....
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