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Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic by Ace Atkins: Conversation Starters
This 2018, New York Times bestselling author Ace Watkins releases his latest novel in his Robert B. Parker series. Watkins writes the suspense novel about Boston Private Investigator Spenser and his investigation of the art scene in the black market. He sets out to investigate a cold case that has been on the shelf for decades. This crime is dangerous beyond measure. Decades...
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Americanah: by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Conversation Starters Americanah, speaking of race issues in the United States, through the eyes of the protagonist, Ifemelu. It also shows some insight into the problems of immigrants and racial issues in the United Kingdom through the eyes of Ifemelu's first boyfriend, Obinze. The book also deals with the economic problems in Nigeria due to corruption and the lack of will of the government and the wealthy...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Henrik Ibsen, the foremost playwright of the nineteenth century and the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare. Titles in this study guide include Brand, Peer Gynt, A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, Pillars of Society, Rosmersholm, and John Gabriel Borkman.
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The Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp Conversation Starters
With the combined knowledge of a child development specialist and pediatrician, "The Happiest Baby on the Block" offers parents a five-step plan for calming restless babies, that is easy to follow and realistic. The author, Harvey Karp, M.D., uses his personal experience fused with cutting-edge medical research to write this book that has already sold over 1 million copies worldwide....
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Girl in Snow: A Novel by Danya Kukafka: Conversation Starters
When Lucinda Hayes is found dead in the snow, the small town of Broomsville, Colorado is shaken. Who could have killed the town's beloved "golden girl"? Is it Cameron, the mentally unstable boy who obsessed about her? Or could it be Jade who hated Lucinda for taking away from her everything she loved? As the town wrestles with the truth, Russ, the police officer tasked to solve the murder...
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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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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Edward Albee
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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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*A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, a fictional novel based on a sledding accident in Lenox, Massachusetts.
As a book of the early-twentieth-century, Ethan Frome contains a new form of fiction, as it contains extensive metaphors, intricately placed by Frome. Moreover, Wharton notably used some of her own personal experiences to convey her themes. This Bright Notes Study...
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American history is defined by the fight for racial justice, and the activism and resistance that were involved in its historical past. Black Lives Matter is a continuation of the unceasing work for justice to prevail. Author DeRay Mckesson cites that there is an ongoing conversation about resistance, activism, and justice that needs to be discussed. The movement called Black Lives Matter grew out of the protests organized by Mckesson and his friends....
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, one of the best American plays of the twentieth-century.
As a play of the twentieth-century, Long Day's Journey into Night dives into universal themes of loneliness and love. Moreover, it masterfully displays integral human emotions in a way that pulls on the heartstrings of all audiences. This Bright Notes Study Guide...
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott: Conversation Starters
Entrepreneur Kim Scott is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling book Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. In this book, she shares how people with the best intentions can become bad bosses. They can make the people around them and under them miserable. In the process, they restrain the growth...
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Sense and Sensibility (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Jane Austen
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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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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Andre Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Titles in this study guide include The Immoralist, The Notebooks of Andre Walter, Urien's Travels, Strait Is The Gate, The Counterfeiters, The Pastoral Symphony, Isabelle, Robert and Genevieve, The Vatican Swindle, Fruits of the Earth, Prometheus Misbound, Corydon, and excerpts from his personal...
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Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law by Preet Bharara: Conversation Starters
After many years of observing and participating in the legal system, making efforts to improve on it, and prosecuting those who try to defy it, US Attorney Preet Bharara writes a book about his legal work. He asserts that as American citizens, people must work to protect the rule of law. They also need to accept the flaws inherent...
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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Sue Johnson: Conversation Starters
Her parents deeply loved each other but could not overcome their differences and eventually got divorced. Then she studied psychology and counseling and eventually made the realization that love and marriage are more about emotional bonding rather than rational bargains.
Hold Me Tight is hailed by the New York Times and Time magazine as a highly effective...
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Robert Browning's Poetry (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Robert Browning
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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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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown: Conversation Starters
I'm Still Here, Austin Brown's debut is an eye-opening book about how some people in the United States still struggle for acceptance. Brown's book shows her own journey to find self-worth amongst gilded diversity mission statements in various organizations for both her gender and her skin color.
I'm Still Here by Austin Brown has been praised...
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Enemy of the State by Vince Flynn Conversation Starters
Enemy of the State, by Kyle Mills, is the latest chapter about CIA member, Mitch Rapp. President Alexander gets word that a member of the Saudi Arabian Royal Family is giving money to ISIS. President Alexander enlists the help of Mitch Rapp. Rapp is the only man the president knows he can trust to do this job. However, sending a message to Saudi Arabia will be tricky because of a secret deal...
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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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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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