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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review Preview: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (2011) by Marie Kondo helps readers discard unnecessary items, reorganize their possessions,...

Wreckage by Emily Bleeker | Summary & Analysis Preview: A plane crash shatters the lives of two families, raising complex issues of love, loyalty and loss, in Wreckage, the debut novel by Emily Bleeker. Lillian Linden takes a much-needed vacation to Fiji with her mother-in- law, Margaret,...

Summary of In Trump We Trust by Ann Coulter | Includes Analysis   Preview:   In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! is conservative pundit Ann Coulter’s wholehearted endorsement of Donald Trump in his bid for the presidency in 2016. While Coulter acknowledges that Trump...

Summary of The Girl on the Train: A Novel by Paula Hawkins | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Girl on the Train is a psychological thriller that tells the story of three women and how their lives intersect. Rachel Watson is an alcoholic. Rachel often drinks to excess and...

Summary of Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee | Includes Analysis   Preview: Jean Louise Finch tries to go home again and finds tiny Maycomb, Alabama grappling with the emerging civil rights movement in the mid-1950s. Set nearly twenty years after the events in To Kill a Mockingbird,...

Summary of The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a coming-of-age novel narrated by 14-year-old Lily Owens, a young white teen who runs away from home. In equal parts fleeing her abusive father and pursuing...

Summary of Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty | Includes Analysis     Preview:   Truly Madly Guilty, a novel by Liane Moriarty, flashes back and forth in time between the afternoon of a traumatic barbecue and its aftermath. The story, which unfolds in Sydney,...

Summary of The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende | Includes Analysis Preview: The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende is a novel that chronicles a forbidden but passionate romance that grows between two people over time, and how this relationship touches the lives of others over the course...

Summary of Written In My Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon | Includes Analysis   Preview: Written in My Own Heart’s Blood is the love story of time-travelers Claire and Jamie Fraser, as well as the people whose lives they touch. It takes place in the United States in 1778...

Summary of The Bourbon Kings by J.R. Ward | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Bourbon Kings sets up a rip-roaring family saga that twists and turns through money, murder, a myriad of affairs, and more. So much more, in fact, that two sequels are planned to sort it...

Summary of Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom | Includes Analysis   Preview: Glory Over Everything: Beyond the Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom is the sequel to the author’s debut novel, The Kitchen House (2010). Set in 1830, it is the story of 33-year-old James...

Summary of Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb | Includes Analysis   Preview: Set in 2060, Obsession in Death is a murder mystery by J.D. Robb that features homicide detective, Lieutenant Eve Dallas. This is the fortieth book in this futuristic crime series. Lieutenant...

Summary of Me Before You by JoJo Moyes | Includes Analysis   Preview: Chapter 1 Louisa ‘Lou’ Clark, a member of a working class family in a small English village, has just lost her job. Although both Lou’s father, Bernard, and her sister, Treena, work, neither...

Summary of The Vacationers by Emma Straub | Includes Analysis    Inside this Instaread Summary: -Overview of the entire book -Introduction to the characters in the book -Summary and analysis of all the chapters in the book -Reader's Perspective...