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This audio study guide for The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the objectification and subordination of women, controlling sexuality, and the cooptation of religion. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

Published in 2017, Little Fires Everywhere tells the story of the seemingly perfect Richardson family, the mother and daughter who enter their lives, and a custody battle that divides the town of Shaker Heights, Ohio. SuperSummary offers thousands of literary summaries and analyses in print at SuperSummary.com. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format.

Two hundred years after the events of the first book, Elementum; Zelkova has vanished and the world lost its connection with the elementals. Humans have long forgotten about the elemental gifts they once had. And whispers of shadowy figures start to circulate as a dark elemental makes its return to the world. The descendants of Zelkova's companions must take up the fight and reawaken their dormant elemental gifts. Will the legend return, or will darkness consume the world?

This is a collection of poems by S.L. Vaden. She started writing these at a young age and has written more than 50 poems over the years. These poems helped her through troubled and dark times in her life. Her hope is that you, the listener, will find healing in the words you are about to listen.

This audio study guide for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as ethics in scientific research, informed consent, and racism in medicine. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

Sara Mason and love interest, Huxley Keane, follow a trail of clues in an attempt to match a bullet-scarred key found in the Vietnam jungle. An apartment key was given to Rocky, Huxley’s brother, by his fiancée. If sweet Emma Ellis kept a matching key all these years, it would prove Rocky is not MIA, but deceased.

Sandra Mann's novel on the operation of female choice at midlife opens on the day Harmony, a 50-year-old 3D printed former prostitute, is left by her husband for a younger woman. In the aftermath, Harmony and her best friend, the transwoman Lydia, must find their way through a world in which women too long single and over 50 are encouraged to elect state-sponsored “compassionate release".

This audio study guide for Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as reinventing the familial unit, identity in times of war, and coming of age through trauma.