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Trisha McFarland, a nine-year-old baseball addict, adores her doll Mona, her closest friend Pepsi, and her Red Sox cap signed by relief pitcher Tom Gordon. Trisha lives with her mother, Quilla,...
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Middle schooler Doug Swieteck has two aggressive, troublemakers siblings, Christopher and Lucas, and an alcoholic father. Doug’s soul comfort is making his mother, an ardent homemaker and gardener,...
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Restart by Gordon Korman, best-selling children’s and young adult author, wrote the novel Restart in 2017. Korman, who published his first book in middle school, has written more than...
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Walter Mosley wrote Devil in a Blue Dress, a hardboiled mystery novel, in 1990. Mosley’s first published novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, is also the first installment in his series featuring...
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The book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate an historical novel set in contemporary Louisiana with flashbacks to post-Reconstruction Texas. In 1875, the Gossett Grove Plantation in Louisiana is...
Twenty Years Later is a crime thriller by Charlie Donlea. Avery Mason, a news anchor, takes over as host of American Events following the death of her predecessor. She intends to investigate the remains...
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The Housekeeper and the Professor is a work of literary fiction set in modern-day Japan. In March 1992, Akebono assigns the narrator to work for a former mathematics professor named Root....
The Lies I Tell
The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark is a psychological thriller novel that follows two women Kat, a journalist, meets Meg Williams, a con artist who shattered her life, during a political...
The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessera
The Perfume Collector Summary, Kathleen Tessaro’s novel, was published in 2013. The novel, a work of historical fiction, is divided into two independent...
In this Free will by sam Harris summary, Harris admits that the concept of free will is not only pervasive in society, but it is also baked into how civilization is structured; if science could prove that...
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All the Light We Cannot See Book summary by Anthony Doerr is a massive historical novel that tackles the overriding theme of lost and saved humanity in the closing stages of World War...
Twisted Love is the first book in Ana Huang’s popular Twisted series. It follows the tumultuous and complicated relationship between Alex and Wren, two high school seniors who share a dark secret...
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H.D. Carlton’s dark romance thriller, Haunting Adeline recap, tells a story of Adeline Reilly, a famous writer who relocates to her grandmother’s haunted mansion following her death....
OverviewThe book “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful” (2007) Marshall Goldsmith draws on his personal experience as a business consultant...
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The goal by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox’s book The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement outlines how to turn an underperforming manufacturing business profitable. It uses a fictional...
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When Breath Becomes Air is Paul Kalanithi’s memoir. It was published in 2016. Kalanithi narrates the account of his struggle with cancer while working as a neurosurgeon. The book is organized...
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The Reason I Jump is structured into a Preface and 58 brief segments based on the author’s responses to inquiries concerning autism. These answers are interspersed with seven...
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The compound effect summary by Darren Hardy learnt the value of hard work from his father, a strict disciplinarian who assigned duties and expected good grades at school. By his mid-20s,...
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Summary of the book The Art of War opens with a warning: war is extremely dangerous and must be studied carefully. Five major aspects influence the outcome of a war: the quality of the ruler,...
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The book the subtle art of not giving a f summary by Charles Manson is a self-help guide that focuses on acceptance and the pursuit of happiness. Manson’s tone is crude and over-the-top,...
A collection of parables set in ancient Babylon, “The Richest Man in Babylon Summary” offers timeless financial advice. The book is about Arkad, a man who lived in Babylon and was very rich; he shared...
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