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The Marriage of Opposites: by Alice Hoffman | Summary & Analysis Preview: The unusual family of French Impressionist master Jacob Abraham Camille Pizzarro takes center stage in The Marriage of Opposites. The book is set in the early to late 1800s, focusing on the artist and his equally...

When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde | A 15-minute Summary & Analysis Preview: When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde is a moving and emotional novel that speaks to the power of unconditional love and how that love in one person can change the life of another. The actions of...

At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen | Summary & Analysis   Preview: At Water’s Edge, a novel by Sara Gruen, takes place in the waning days of World War II. Maddie Hyde’s dissolute husband, Ellis, decides to search for the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. What Maddie learns...

Summary of Trail of Broken Wings by Sejal Badani | Includes Analysis   Preview: Trail of Broken Wings is a novel by Sejal Badani. The novel follows the story of a family who immigrated to California from India, focusing mainly on three sisters who suffered incredible...

Summary of Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner | Includes Analysis   Preview: Secrets of a Charmed Life is the story of how two young sisters survived World War II in London. In 2015, at Stow-on- the-Wold in the English countryside, Kendra Van Zant, a...

Summary of In the Garden of Beasts: by Erik Larson | Includes Analysis   Preview: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson explores several crucial years in Berlin through the eyes of the US ambassador and...

Summary of American Girls by Nancy Jo Sales | Includes Analysis   Preview: American Girls, by journalist Nancy Jo Sales, is the result of a two-and-a-half-year investigation into how social media is shaping the development of girls in America today and, by extension, what...

Summary of The Big Picture by Sean Carroll | Includes Analysis   Preview:   The Big Picture by Sean Carroll is a scientific exploration of many essential questions of humanity, such as the meaning of life and the origin of the universe, considered from a poetic-naturalist...

Summary of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson | Includes Analysis   Preview: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption is a legal memoir by Bryan Stevenson. It is set in the 1980s and early 1990s and follows Stevenson’s legal career as an advocate for Alabama prisoners...

For the Love: by Jen Hatmaker | Summary & Analysis   Preview: For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards by Jen Hatmaker is a self-help book about women’s pursuit of perfection. In the modern world, most women have the opportunity to do and be...

Summary of Super Genes by Deepak Chopra & Rudolph Tanzi | Includes Analysis   Preview: Super Genes by Deepak Chopra and Rudolph Tanzi is a scientific and spiritual overview of epigenetics, a field that studies the environmental factors that change the expression of genes. For...

Summary of The Longevity Book by Cameron Diaz and Sandra Bark | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Longevity Book by Cameron Diaz and Sandra Bark is a nonfiction book that explains how women can embrace the latest science of aging to live more fully in optimal health and emotional...

Summary of SPQR by Mary Beard | Includes Analysis   Preview: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard is a single-volume history of Ancient Rome. The book covers Roman history from its semi-mythical origins in roughly 753 BC, to the decision by the Emperor Caracalla in 212...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary of the book and NOT the original book.    Summary of Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey | Includes Analysis    Inside this Instaread Summary: • Overview of the entire book • Introduction to the important people in the...