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Each study guide includes essays, an in-depth chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quiz. Study guides are available in PDF format.
Each study guide includes essays, an in-depth chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quiz. Study guides are available in PDF format.
“Children of Time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky, is a novel that falls into the genre of science fiction. The very successful novel is an exploration of the religious themes, humanity and its imperfection set in, typical for the genre, space setting.
The...
Borne is VanderMeer’s latest science fiction novel, which received global recognition because of its creativity and touching narrative. The Fourth State (UK) first published the novel in April 2017 in the United Kingdom. VanderMeer's early life...
Hold Back the Stars is a debut science fiction novel by Katie Khan, published by Simon and Schuster Publishers (U.S.) in 2017. The Penguin Random House also published the same novel in the United Kingdom in the same year and translated it into 21...
“The Ninth Metal” by Benjamin Percy is a science fiction novel with elements of thriller mystery. It is a part of the “Comet Cycle” trilogy, and the opening sentence of the novel goes: “It begins with a comet.” Therefore, it is safe to assume that...
“The Book of Joan” by Lidia Yuknavitch is a science fiction novel set in a dystopian world. Lidia Yuknavitch is an award-winning writer, who is not only known for her fiction, but also her nonfiction work and the book called “The Misfit’s...
“Time Salvager” is a science fiction novel written by Wesley Chu. The novel is set in a dystopian world and explores the theme of time travel. It is part of a series of the same title.
The novel follows James, an almost retired cronman, who is...
Ninth House is an occult fantasy novel by Israeli-American author Leigh Bardugo, famously known for the Shadow and Bone trilogy. It was published in 2019 by Flatiron Books. The cover was designed by art director Keith Hayes.
Set in Connecticut,...
Young Mungo is a queer coming-of-age novel written by Scottish-American author Douglas Stuart. It is set to be published on 5th April 2022 by Grove Press and on 14th April by Picador. As a follow-up to the Booker Prize winner and New York Times...
Sea of Tranquility is a Sci-Fi novel by Canadian novelist Emily St. John Mandel. Published in 2022 by Knopf Publishing, the novel explores humanity's exploration and colonization of space for a period of three centuries. Beginning on earth in the...
Black Leopard Red Wolf is an epic fantasy novel by Jamaican author Marlon James. Released as the first installation in the planned Dark Star trilogy, the novel was published in 2019 by Riverhead Books. The second novel in the trilogy is titled ...
Moon Witch, Spider King is a fantasy novel written by Jamaican author Marlon James. It is set to be published by Riverhead Books on February 15th, 2022. The novel is the second installment in the Dark Star trilogy that was preceded by National...
Olga Dies Dreaming is a domestic fiction novel by Xochitl Gonzalez, set in New York in 2017 and written in the third-person perspective. Gonzalez is an American writer born in 1977. She is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in creative...
To Paradise is a sci-fi novel by American author Hanya Yanagihara. Published in 2022 by Doubleday, the novel explores a parallel New York City in three different centuries. In this alternate world, same-sex marriage has been legal since the...
Out of My Heart is a middle-grade novel written by New York Times bestselling author Sharon Draper. It was published on November 9, 2021, by Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. It is the sequel to Draper’s 2010 novel Out of My Mind continuing the story...
Pax, Journey Home is a coming-of-age novel by American author Sara Pennypacker. Published in 2021 by Balzer and Bray, the novel is the second book in the Pax series. It explores how the power of love and healing manifests in different settings...
Pax is a coming-of-age novel by American author Sara Pennypacker. It was published in 2016 by Balzer and Bray as the first book in the Pax series. Initially planned as a one-off novel, the sequel titled Pax, Journey Home was published in 2021.
Set...
Ain't Burned All the Bright is a book by American author Jason Reynolds. It was published in 2022 by Atheneum and Caitlyin Dlouhy Books. The three-part poem and visual illustrations explore the struggles of an African-American family coming to...
Destined to become the epicenter of misguided debate, The 1619 Project: Born on the Water is a picture book with verse designed to take the concepts and ideas of the original 1619 Project and make them accessible to readers in grades 2 through 5....
Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race is a nonfiction novel about the “human computers” who performed the calculations that launched humanity...
Among director Wong Kar-wai's most critically acclaimed films, In the Mood for Love (2000) is a tale about two Shanghainese transplants who, after becoming next-door neighbors in Hong Kong, learn that their spouses are having an affair. Instead of...
The Cellist of Sarajevo is a novel published in 2008 by Canadian author Stephen Galloway. It takes place against a backdrop of war in Sarajevo during the years of the Bosnian War.
The novel is not an historical report of the Siege of Sarajevo but...
"Wild nights - Wild nights!" is a three-stanza poem by Emily Dickinson, composed in 1861 and published in 1891 as part of the second posthumous collection of her writing. Dickinson never titled her poems, so they are commonly referred to by their...
Margaret Atwood's novel The Penelopiad was published in 2005. it tells the story of Penelope, Odysseus's wife in Homer's The Oddysey. In the novel, Penelope tells her life story, including her version of the events discussed in The Odyssey. While...
Don Paterson: Selected Poems is a collection of poems by Scottish poet Don Paterson. Published in 2012 by Faber & Faber, the collection is made up of twenty years worth of poems already published by the poet.
Paterson's most famous and...