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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Fatal Vision tells you what you need to know before or after you read Joe McGinniss’s book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.    This...

Unlock the more straightforward side of Mein Kampf with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, which was written during Hitler’s incarceration in Landsberg Prison and contains a detailed expression of his political...

Unlock the more straightforward side of Secondhand Time with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, a collection of personal testimonies from people who lived through the demise of the Soviet Union...

In this clear and detailed reading guide, we’ve done all the hard work for you!The Just Assassins by Albert Camus is a play written in 1949 and set in the context of the Russian revolution of 1905. At a time when political troubles were brewing in Europe and World War II was still very present in everyone’s...

This is a Summary of Ron Chernow’s Washington: A LifeCelebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president of the United States. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one volume biography of George Washington, this...

ABOUT THE BOOK Lt. Col. Dave Grossman’s book On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, is a soldiers account of how one person learns, right or wrong, to kill another. The Pulitzer Prize nominated work documents the mental preparations and emotional trauma...

This is a Summary of Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The Romanovs 1613 - 1918The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did...

ABOUT THE BOOK Life Upon These Shores tells the story of the evolution of life for African-American people in America, starting with the first known Africans to land in the New World in 1513 and concluding with the election of President Barack Obama in 2008. In creating...

Unlock the more straightforward side of A Game of Thrones with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin, which introduces readers to the powerful families at war for the Iron Throne in the A Song of Ice and...

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Black Masstells you what you need to know—before or after you read Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill**’s book.** Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...

ABOUT THE BOOK Jane Eyre, first published in London in 1847 under Charlotte Brontes pen name Currer Bell, is a classic three-volume novel that exemplifies the tenets of both Gothic and Romantic fiction. Though popular on both high school and college required reading lists, it has also been...

Following Common Core Standards, this lesson plan for Harper Lee’s, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the perfect solution for teachers trying to get ideas for getting students excited about a book. BookCaps lesson plans cover five days worth of material. It includes a suggested reading schedule,...

ABOUT THE BOOK James Joyce was most definitely an artist ahead of his time; and, as is so often the case with prophetic characters of any sort, his ideas and works were met with some resistance by the general public. This is particularly true of Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses....

Unlock the more straightforward side of The Thief’s Journal with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet, in which the author draws on his own fading memories of his youth to create a rather singular...