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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and NOT the original book. Preview: Set in South Korea, The Vegetarian by Han Kang tells the story of Yeong-hye, an ordinary woman who decides to stop eating meat. The novel—part satire, part surreal drama, part horror...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Terry McMillan’s I Almost Forgot About You and NOT the original book. Preview: I Almost Forgot About You, a novel by Terry McMillan, follows protagonist Georgia Young as she reevaluates her life between the ages of 53 and 55. An African American...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Tracy Chevalier’s At the Edge of the Orchard and NOT the original book. Preview: At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier tells the story of the Goodenough family. The year is 1838, and James and Sadie Goodenough are fighting about apple trees...

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - A 15-minute Summary & Analysis   Preview of this Instaread: The lives of two teens, a French girl and a German boy, improbably intersect at the end of World War II in All The Light We Cannot See. Before the war, Marie-Laure...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Stephanie Dray’s & et al America’s First Daughter and NOT the original book. Preview: America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie is the story of Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph, a daughter of Thomas Jefferson. Based...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Anna Quindlen’s Miller’s Valley and NOT the original book. Preview: Miller’s Valley is a coming-of-age story set in a fictional town in Pennsylvania. There, Mimi Miller and her family live under the constant threat of flooding from severe rainstorms...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Jennifer Close’s The Hopefuls and NOT the original book. Preview: The Hopefuls, a novel by Jennifer Close, follows a married couple, Matt and Beth Kelly, and their best friends, Jimmy and Ash Dillon, through five years of their lives. As young...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Nick Hornby’s Funny Girl and NOT the original book. Preview: Funny Girl is a novel by writer Nick Hornby set in Blackpool, England in 1964. It tells the story of twenty-one year old Barbara Parker, a beautiful blonde, who wants to become a comedic...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Nicholas Sparks's Two by Two and NOT the original book. Preview: Two by Two by Nicholas Sparks is a novel about a 35-year-old husband and father, Russ Green, whose life is upended by circumstances that are alternately within and beyond his control....

World Order by Henry Kissinger - A 30-minute Instaread Summary   PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary of the book and NOT the original book.  Inside this Instaread Summary:  Overview of the entire book  Introduction to the important people in the book ...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See and NOT the original book. Preview: The lives of two teens, a French girl and a German boy, improbably intersect at the end of World War II in All The Light We Cannot See. Before the war, Marie-Laure...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Maria Konnikova’s The Confidence Game and NOT the original book. Preview: The Confidence Game is a nonfiction examination of con games. It considers both the minds and methods of con artists and the minds and weaknesses of the people who fall victim...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Bob Woodward’s The Last of the President’s Men and NOT the original book. Preview: The Last of the President’s Men is a nonfiction work about Alexander Butterfield, an aide in the White House during President Richard Nixon’s first administration,...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Candice Millard's Hero of the Empire and NOT the original book. Preview: Candice Millard’s Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill is an account of future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s...