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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as dreams, omens, and fear. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the nature-human continuum and the dichotomy between White and indigenous life. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as self-blame in response to death and talking as a way of processing trauma. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

Ordinary Men explores the actions of a group of German police officers — Reserve Police Battalion 101 — that repeatedly carried out mass murder in Nazi Germany. Browning's text explores how seemingly average men became capable of committing horrific atrocities. This audio study guide presents the same expert content — written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars — in an easy-to-access audio format.

This audio study guide for Son of the Revolution by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as how political upheaval destroys families and the danger of blind obedience. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the failure of planning and life-and-death decisions. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business by Harold Livesay includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the old world versus the new and ethical dilemmas in 19th-century capitalism. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix 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 spiritual elevation of money, rules of engagement in coded spaces, and communication and language barriers. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as communication versus silence, pride, and the tension between the past and modernity. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as cancer as the disease of the atomic age and success through medical failure. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics

This audio study guide for All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brandon Kiely 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 challenges of combating systemic racism, what it means to be "all American", and the power of protesting. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as inequality, segregation, and equity versus liberty. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Savage Inequalities is a work of nonfiction that explores ethnic and racial prejudice in the American educational system, as well as the divide in educational access between rich and poor.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for When Breath Becomes Air by Dr. Paul Kalanithi 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 meaning of death and the doctor-patient dichotomy.

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.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book's multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as family relations, kinship, and tradition versus innovation. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman includes a detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as fear of the other, the distance between official rules and what’s right, and the distrust of technology.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 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 division of labor and the invisible hand of the market. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Killers of the Flower Moon by David Gann 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 effects of racism, the connection between past and present, and the corrupting power of money.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as order and chaos, the centrality of art, and loss and recovery. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as political conservatism and the attack on radicalism. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.