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Trail of Broken Wings: by Sejal Badani | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: Trail of Broken Wings is the debut novel of Sejal Badani, an American of Indian origin. The novel deals with child abuse and how it affects everyone in the family. Brent, the main character, moves from India...

The A Thief of Time Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

In his debut essay collection, Nicholas Belardes uses today’s pop culture and self-deprecating humor as a filter for discussing personal stories of family, writing, gender, art, and race. He dives into the Harry Potter play and discusses his cursed childhood home. He tells coming-of-age tales of Dungeons...

Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the aesthetics of the written word. Now, the best and most important of his work is collected in one volume. There are essays on Plato, Hobbes, James, Joyce, Beckett, Stein,...

Created by the most respected American publisher of dictionaries and supervised by the editor Philip Gove, Webster's Third broke with tradition, adding thousands of new words and eliminating "artificial notions of correctness," basing proper usage on how language was actually spoken. The...

AVANT-PROPOS.      VIE DE RABELAIS.      LIVRE PREMIER.      DEUXIÈME LIVRE.      SUITE DE LA VIE DE RABELAIS.      INTRODUCTION AU TROISIÈME LIVRE     TROISIÈME LIVRE.     ...

1 Contenant en peu de lignes l’histoire d’une famille française depuis 1789 jusqu’à nos jours     2 Où l’on trouvera des renseignements utiles sur une bibliothèque dans laquelle s’accompliront bientôt des événements étranges  ...

SUR LES COUVENTS DE FEMMES     DE L’ENTRETIEN QUE J’EUS CETTE NUIT     AVEC UN FANTÔME     SUR LES ORIGINES DE L’ALPHABET     SUR LE MIRACLE     CHÂTEAUX DE CARTES     AUX CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES     LE PRIEURÉ

The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara | Conversation Starters “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” is the culmination of Michelle McNamara’s life’s work of investigating the legend of the Golden State Killer. It’s a journal,...

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris | Conversation Starters “The Deepest Well” is the culmination of Dr. Nadine Burke Harris’ extensive research in and experiences with how childhood trauma affects brain development and can lead...

The Ways of Seeing Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of Ways of Seeing by John Berger. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

In this book on shaping a meaningful and ethical life, the renowned, Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores how character, courage, and human and moral understanding can be fostered by reflecting on the lives of others, through stories. Based on Robert Coles’ legendary course at Harvard, this...