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Samara and Cornelius James are two children growing up too fast on the streets of Old Baltimore. The only thing they know for certain is that their lives and their deaths are to be used as Lord Legion deems fit. Escape is impossible. Rebellion is futile. Hope is a fairy tale. Until the day a stranger is spotted on the streets of the city, and the world they know starts to shift.

Jack in the Box is the tale of a boy growing up in the American comic book culture of the 1940s and 1950s. Jack in the Box was the original title. It was reissued as Book of Love to coincide with the movie.

Brightness Falls isn't just the name of the TV show that womanizing man-child Andrew Ware has been painstakingly creating for the last couple years, it's also his hometown. A town that he loves as much as he hates. By request of no one, Andrew returns home to help his sister separate from her husband, only to become sidetracked by a beautiful woman. A few drinks and few compliments later the woman is dead, killed in a tragic oral sex accident. In which Andrew would have lost his own life if it weren’t for the dapperly dressed, antler-headed, human skeleton named Doug.

This audio study guide for All Souls by Michael MacDonald includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as silence and loyalty, family, and abandonment. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as free will versus obedience, identity, consciousness, and the self. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for A Separate Peace by John Knowles includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as competition, rivalry, and the loss of innocence. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as white resistance to race and complicity in a systemic system. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Son of the Revolution by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as how political upheaval destroys families and the danger of blind obedience. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business by Harold Livesay includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the old world versus the new and ethical dilemmas in 19th-century capitalism. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

When Harold becomes the guardian of a beautiful, handcrafted kaleidoscope with mysterious powers, his world spins from black-and-white boring into technicolor chaos. Along with Pepper, their journey becomes a life-threatening race to save the 'scope from falling into the wrong hands.