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The mystery and beauty of modern-day Vietnam is skillfully unveiled in The Beauty of Humanity Movement, a fourth novel by Camilla Gibb, which takes its title from a short-lived group of artists and intellectuals who spoke out against Ho Chi Minh s policies, following the liberation of Vietnam from colonial rule. Set in the recent past, amidst the vibrancy of Hanoi, and with a cast of young characters who long for the status of American consume...

A resource for students and educators of literary fiction. It contains sections including: literary interpretation, writing style and structure, themes and focus points, characterisation, historical information, novel summary, author information, images, symbols and metaphors, and, important quotes.

A resource for students and educators of literary fiction. It contains sections including: literary interpretation, writing style and structure, themes and focus points, characterisation, historical information, novel summary, author information, images, symbols and metaphors, and important quotes.

A resource for students and educators of literary fiction. It contains sections including: literary interpretation, writing style and structure, themes and focus points, characterisation, historical information, novel summary, author information, images, symbols and metaphors, and, important quotes.

On December 17, 1996, fourteen MRTA revolutionaries stormed the Japanese embassy in Peru in the middle of a party celebrating the Japanese Emperor's birthday. The siege was deadlocked for 126 days. Ann Patchett has fictionalized this dramatic and true event in her novel, Bel Canto. Bookclub-in-a-Box shows how Ann Patchett sets the stage and has the players act out the drama of this hostage-taking incident. What should be narrated as a tense an...

While many novels explore the human experience in all its complexity, all Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion guides help to interpret the authors' approach to that human experience. The Bookclub-in-a-Box guide to Alice Sebold's novel, The Lovely Bones Bones is no exception. In Sebold's Story, fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon is murdered. Many readers might stop reading right there, but that would mean missing Sebold's unique perspective on life and de...

Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's favorite narrator, is at it again, and Bookclub-in-a-Box is right by his side. After you read this fascinating book, read the Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion guide and discover Roth's genius as a writer. If one is already a fan of Philip Roth, they will be thrilled with this discussion, if they are not yet a fan, they will become one with the help of Bookclub-in-a-Box.

A useful resource for students and educators of literary fiction. It contains sections that include: Literary Interpretation, Writing Style and Structure, Themes and Focus Points, Characaterisation, Historical Information, Novel Summary, Author Information, Images, Symbols and Metaphors, and Important Quotes.

Discusses the novel, "The Poisonwood Bible

Suitable for students and educators of literary fiction, this guide provides sections that include: Literary Interpretation, Writing Style and Structure, Themes and Focus Points, Characaterisation, Historical Information, Novel Summary, Author Information, Images, Symbols and Metaphors, and, Important Quotes.

Making a decision is always emotionally difficult, but when the decision means giving up a child, it becomes life altering. David Henry, as a doctor, oversees the births of his twin children, a boy and a girl. While the boy is completely healthy, the girl is born with Down syndrome. At this time in the 1960s, keeping a child at home with such a condition was rare. Edwards novel deals with the trauma, secrecy, and the consequences of David Henr...

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The Queen finds a strange van in her driveway that turns out to be a travelling library. She enters and borrows a book. One book leads to another and the Queen discovers the joys of reading for pleasure.

If the "Sarajevo Haggadah" could speak, what extraordinary stories it would tell. It now rests in the National Museum in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The author has created a distinctive story recounting the chronicle of this very special book.