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Summary of Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow is the story of a Russian aristocrat-turned-waiter who lives 32 years of his life under house arrest at the Hotel Metropol in Moscow. Set in post-revolutionary Russia, the novel follows its protagonist, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, as he develops new friendships, family, and loves, all while confined within the walls of the Metropol.
Summary of Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing is a novel in stories about the Atlantic slave trade and its aftermath. The novel begins with the stories of two African half-sisters of the Fante and Asante tribes: Effia and Esi. Effia is born in the late eighteenth century in Fanteland on Africa's Gold Coast, on the night of a devastating fire near her father's compound. Her adoptive mother, Baaba, immediately resents her, because Effia is the daughter of her
...Summary of Kathleen Grissom's The Kitchen House is a coming-of-age story about Lavinia, an Irish immigrant who grows up at Tall Oaks, a tobacco plantation in antebellum Virginia.
When Lavinia's parents, who owe passage to Captain James Pyke, die en route to America, Lavinia is taken in by the captain and his family. She is put to work as an indentured servant and sent to live in the kitchen house with Belle, the captain's illegitimate daughter.
...Summary of Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls is a World War II-era novel based on real people and events. The novel tells the intertwined stories of three women: Caroline Ferriday, a New York socialite and philanthropist; Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish prisoner at the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women; and Herta Oberheuser, a Nazi doctor at Ravensbrück.
Buy now to get the main key ideas from Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Legendary Hollywood star Evelyn Hugo is getting old, and chooses Monique Grant to write her life story. Monique, who has just started her first major job as a journalist, is puzzled as to why someone so famous is requesting someone so unknown to do such an important task. Monique's personal life is not in the best shape,
...Summary of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale is a historical novel by writer Kristin Hannah. It tells the story of two French sisters, Vianne Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol, during the German occupation of France in World War II.
Fifty years after the end of the war, a recently widowed woman in a coastal town in Oregon is preparing to move to a nursing home because her cancer has returned. Her son, a surgeon, comes to help her and finds
...Summary of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is a novel about a group of fictional architects and their critics in the 1920s and '30s. Set mostly in New York City, the story follows Howard Roark, a young, preternaturally assured architect, and Peter Keating, his fair-weather friend and quasi-rival, through the ups and downs of their careers and personal lives...
Buy now to get the main key ideas from Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient
The Silent Patient is a psychological thriller by Alex Michaelides about a dedicated psychotherapist trying to help his patient recover after she refuses to speak following the murder of her husband.
Alicia is the woman who killed her husband in cold blood. She is a talented painter who apparently snapped that fateful night. She has
...Summary of J.D. Robb's Obsession in Death is a murder mystery by J.D. Robb that features homicide detective, Lieutenant Eve Dallas. This is the fortieth book in this futuristic crime series.
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called to the scene of a murder. Leanore Bastwick, a defense attorney, is the murder victim. A message to Dallas is written on the wall at the murder scene claiming it was done for Dallas and that justice has been served.
Dallas
...Summary of Han Kang's The Vegetarian tells the story of Yeong-hye, an ordinary woman who decides to stop eating meat. The novel—part satire, part surreal drama, part horror story—provides accounts of Yeong-hye's vegetarianism and eventual anorexia nervosa from the perspectives of her domineering husband, lecherous brother-in-law, and concerned sister.
In part one, titled "The Vegetarian," Mr. Cheong tells the story of his "unremarkable"
...Buy now to get the main key ideas from Amor Towles's The Lincoln Highway
The Lincoln Highway (2021) chronicles the adventures of two young Nebraskan brothers, Emmett and Billy, as they travel across America in 1954. Emmett is just back from juvie when two boys from the prison show up at his home with a wild tale of treasure in New York City. Emmett agrees to take the pair of escapees as far as Omaha, but they steal
...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 LeBlanc, who has been blind since childhood, lives comfortably in Paris with her father, Daniel, who is the key master for the natural history museum...
Buy now to get the main key ideas from Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me
Owen Michaels, father and husband, mysteriously disappears in Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me (2021). His wife, Hannah, finds only a note asking her to protect his teenage daughter Bailey, whom he leaves $600,000 in cash before vanishing without a trace. Now Hannah must try to find her husband while managing to comfort her stubborn
...Summary of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a classic science fiction novel named for the temperature at which paper combusts. The story is set in a futuristic United States, run by an authoritarian government, where nearly everyone's attention is preoccupied by mindless television and radio programs...
Buy now to get the main key ideas from Frank Herbert's Dune
In his classic science-fiction novel Dune (1965), Frank Herbert immerses readers into a futuristic fictional world with Arrakis—known as Dune—at the heart of it. Paul Atreides and his family move to Arrakis as the new governing entity over melange, a spice that sustains and prolongs life. The Harkonnens were the ruling family before the Atreides, and
...Buy now to get the main key ideas from Matt Haig's The Midnight Library
What if you had the chance to live out every version of your life that was ever possible? Would you still be wishing that you could have done things differently? Or would you be grateful for the turns you've taken in your root life?
In the fictional story The Midnight Library (2020), Nora Seed, a woman in her mid-thirties, experiences all
...Buy now to get the main key ideas from Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary
Out in the vast and endless darkness of space, after a thirteen-year journey, the last thing Ryland Grace expected was company.
Project Hail Mary (2021) follows the brave and jaw-dropping expeditions of the astronaut as he attempts to save Earth from an alien life form that threatens to consume its only heat source: the sun. Grace not only
...Buy now to get the key takeaways from Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
Sample Key Takeaways:
1) The definition of an investment is clear: it's an operation which, after careful analysis, promises safety of principal and adequate returns.
2) There are three parts to the process of investing. First, before buying a stock, you must make a thorough analysis of a company and the
...Summary of Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit is a thorough examination of several case studies about how habit formation and habit change impact daily life. It details the experiences of individuals, corporations, and organizations to illustrate how habits are made and why, how they can be changed, how habits of all kinds are used in businesses to attract customers or manage employees, and the devastating results of a poorly managed habit...
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