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Told through the frame of a cross-country motorcycle journey, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance explores its characters' search for spiritual meaning and peace in a technological, automated age....

This audio study guide for Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and in-depth exploration of the book’s symbols, motifs, and themes such as oppression, class struggle, and the dialectical interpretation of history....

Part memoir, part call to action for the reform of the American criminal justice system, Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy is a work of nonfiction by the activist lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative....

This audio study guide for Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes....

This audio study guide for Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 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 importance of proverbs and fathers and sons....

This audio study guide for A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the play’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as dreams and dreams deferred, fatherhood, and Black masculinity....

This audio study guide for Women Who Run with Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as reclaiming one's true nature and cycles of life and mind....

This audio study guide for The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes....

This audio study guide for A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis 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 of God, love, and loss....

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 Forest People by Colin N. Turnbull includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter....

This audio study guide for The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as childhood trauma as a lifelong problem....

This audio study guide for Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes...

This audio study guide for It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such American totalitarianism and threats to liberal democracy....

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This guide for The Overstory by Richard Powers includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 12 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis....

A controversial best seller, American Dirt, combines elements of a commercial thriller, literary fiction, suspense, and romance. The title refers to the land comprising the geopolitical entity that is the United States of America....

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....

This audio study guide for Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as lacking meaning in one’s life, faith, and human decency....

This audio study guide for Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as over-consumption and the intersection of science and spirituality....

This audio guide for The Odyssey includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes. It also includes commentary on major characters, important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics....

This audio study guide for The Massacre at El Mozote by Mark Danner includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as credibility, the complexity of truth, and uncertainty....